What Crosses My Mind

  • Distance Learning

    So, I imagined this happening, the wave of the virus, would shut us down, remove our access to the classroom.   A part of me appreciated the break, I could still with students, have a dialogue in the distance, never contemplated the reality.   Then the news, the overbearing sentence of every teacher, every student,…

  • Stuck

    when a person cannot fathom a universe without meaning. when having a tomorrow will bring a fearful Speculation. when knowing the truth seems miles away safely tucked inside a dream filled with forgotten keys … When! ©️ Thom Amundsen 2019

  • the ‘august’ of my childhood

    for I remember when only as a child I would on a hilltop nearby cry out my fears alone at the edge of gravel a pathway held my dreams and my sanity for alone I could scream without being known, only I might be the wiser in a world so overthrown as some confusion, the…

  • Suicide and Circumstance

    I wonder sometimes, what little difference remains, when the human spirit begins their slow decline. Are we that easily fallible we would sacrifice everyone, is it just that selfish misery, that creates desire to be gone. Lost passion, lost desire, a careful scrutiny blends our knowledge of a fire ignites what we aspire. Yet circumstance…

  • Slipping Further

    We know the mist when in a morning of indecision, glance further, hope for a sign, yet we walk in wander seeing the same. On an occasional daybreak, we recognize fog, a surreal enveloping storm of breeze, teasing the ground, to allow our mind to imagine, a surreal perhaps spiritual mystique. Speak of its beauty,…

  • All About the Tears

    Someone told me the other day seems an easy line to say, they really did though, spoke those words what the suggestion means one doesn’t know can only imagine perhaps use a visual trigger when everything we do creates a shockwave effect that rings a bell countries away, that wouldn’t actually make a noise if…

  • Enduring Purpose

    ( – for Belinda ) *** We have our heart and soul Tested at every walk of life For some we might bestow Always a sense of vocal strife ~ Though that seems the easy road There are many who choose to endure We are magnificent to behold When our humanity can be clear ~ I look…