What Crosses My Mind

  • Listen to the World

    They are out there you know, people with real lives, ones that matter Tonight’s news after the snow while detailing drives windswept clatter A story ran about a father shot in the face by his younger son in the garage where bother Seldom sheds such grace on a quiet neighbor. We listened while our country endured…

  • Society in War

    Is there a fair alliance we live in this hate can we appreciate any everyman’s pain together Our stakes seems to be in a constant state always in the news, a new tragedy unfolds across the world, outside my back door, doesn’t really matter anymore, we are alone, inside our own sort of acid driven nightmare,…

  • Hearts Will Cry

    Lives are always lost, that’s nothing new, we just go on again, face a new day, let the sunlight brighten our lovely sunroom. Just don’t turn on the news, stay away from the internet, water your flowers, hold court with your pets, read a newspaper … wait, only the comics today. Stay away from the…

  • Killing Our Selves

    Wake up to another morning in sunlight brilliance look about a world of passion, beauty, resilience. ~ The news, what we read; our beautiful children too, can we not forget the one hundred and thirty two, ~ kids, smiling faces with pure innocence abound, they knew childlike pain, seeing upheaval all around, ~ their villages, their…

  • When Hope takes Holiday

    The park seemed so attainable, safe, reachable, nothing sharp, or piercing, only the equipment that satisfied my eyes, always, morning through night, hours of fun she said, and insisted, and prayed that I might, then understand. ~ Before the storms arrived, I knew my ground, wished for fairy tale dreams, while searching the skies as…

  • War Overdrive

    We live in a world drawn by the impact of modern technology every news cast is sure to alarm you, bodies and limbs at 8 minute intervals we’re told the devastation is awful yet we watch anyway, we are told there are gruesome stories yet we listen anyway we are told again that immigration is…

  • Stop the Conversation

    A lot of theory being tossed around about who is responsible, what monster is bombing our children yet, no answers being readily made, only accusations, shallow theories, don’t hold a candle to the shallow graves our children are laying in. Day after day the reports are grim, we can’t turn on the tube without analysis,…

  • Vintage Concern

    When I was a child, my mother, whose influence upon me, lasted for many years, still does, when I think about what I want to say. She didn’t believe in war, didn’t understand Vietnam, when I asked her one day what the fight was about, I was ten, she said, ‘sugar cane’ Seemed rather simple…

  • Peace Alone

    When I walk outside today I will see blue skies perhaps a touch of gray, possible thunderstorms. I won’t see blood and carnage, I will not experience the loss of limb my world ‘today’ does not contain a cease fire to prevent ripping human lives apart both physically and mentally. When I walk outside today,…

  • Young Man Eyes

    When then there was glory I read those words in books saw pictures of all of them all of the men that ‘sacrificed their lives’ for the common good for liberty and justice peace. These are the words I read the pictures I was given to look at. Funny, when I remember the protests, people…