What Crosses My Mind

  • Addicted to Social Media

    It’s funny and a little disturbing how easy it is to scan back and forth the pages of social media. From your cell phone to opening pages on your computer repeatedly it’s pretty evident a lot of time is lost with the practice. I would be willing to admit that I may very well check…

  • Ignorance

    Hello social media, do you still like me, or should I run in circles and wander about with relentless worry. Oh wait there’s a post I want to respond to I should I could I would though I’m afraid I don’t know what I’m talking about. Dammit, I forgot what I was going to say,…

  • The Problem with Guns, Pranks & Kids

    Recently, the school district I work in experienced a social media crisis when kids posted pictures of themselves with the message — ‘Don’t come to school’ as we prepare to return to the classroom after the winer break. The problem is the students are holding what appear to be weapons — automatic rifles and revolvers — all of which have since…

  • When Once We Stood Together

    Today I remember then, only when I cannot quite comprehend. I know it was with intrigue I wondered about time, was this perhaps the proper sign. I would look to wonder each new design a telling of a simple future. Seems we all have a memory whereby we might all recall sweet passion was most…

  • To Write a Wrong

    Clever we are given allowance with our word an opportunity to state simply the absurd. ~ Yet today with vast swift lines of hyper-space so often our word becomes a shadowed face. ~ We slap one another gladly with the aim of syntax always apparent, forever feeling no hidden tax ~ Unlike some childhood when…

  • When We Last Spoke

    That incident in the hallway, seemed a thing of the past, I thought we were moving forward, didn’t think their strength would last. When we last spoke, you smiled and said good-bye, the same way you had since we met in second grade. ~ High school coming to an end, the next chapter, so many…

  • Life Today – A Sonnet

    When long in mind I rather call your name please tell me then you knew me well ahead. Today I might recognize well the game that fortune of hindsight you kept instead. If when I speak the world is newer heard, than as a child when words remained in sand is it well today we…

  • Read My Words

    Please, let’s not forget we used to do this all the time We’d speak and listen look into each other’s eyes. Recognize inflections, by the tension in your shoulders, the manner by which your hands relax; Listen to my words, and help me let go of the constraints, social media, perhaps the devil’s playground. Know…

  • Selfie!

    I am compelled To follow trends That in today’s well, Life of pretend Reality quite often we record With a smartphone snap A thousand masks Each one driving home A current identity That speaks to our need Our quest Our validation ~ Remember polaroids We had to wait with anticipation To see our reality If…

  • Social Media Construct

    Used to carry a pencil Then a pen A pager; then a brick that dialed numbers. A typewriter That suddenly had a scrolling banner ~ One day while sitting in a café With a notepad and my pencil I kept looking your way Wondering if you might … ~ Today, there is little romance in…