The catalyst responsible for the beauty of winter, a season dreaded by many but loved by some. Brings focus to the beauty of the season.
Winter’s Silver Lining
Category: Poetry
Surprise Christmas Gifts
A young girl receives a Christmas surprise.
Misandroid 2.0
Words drop, disconnect and die
as the babbling blather breaks.
Love Poem
Conveys a desire to coalesce with love in its purity.
I like to be unpredictable too!
Come over here.
A little closer.
Naturally
Death has long been one of the foundational pillars of poetry throughout the ages and this poem carries on this illustrious tradition.
Choreia*
Why can’t anyone sympathize with her wish to dance?
A Locked Door Being Tried
Mediates on the endless retreat into the self of someone who’s experienced the violent loss of their parents.
War winter
I left America, where gun violence is endemic. Europe seemed safer. Russia invaded Ukraine. Europe still seems safer.
Reflection
Reflection on writing and mortality.
Diné Deliverance
Loren was a member of the Diné nation who came on occasion to talk. Diné is alternative nomenclature for Navajo.
Reflections at Age Ninety-nine
Bunny Moon reflects on her life as she approaches her 100th birthday.
In Solidarity With The Fall
Travel from physics to the physical reaction of our mindwork.
Battles Unseen
There are so many unseen battles going on behind the eyes of people who say they are fine. Let’s all be a little kinder today…
The Necessary Angel
This poem is about a necessary angel telling a young man with mental health problems the truth he needed to hear.
Booked to Heaven
I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.
Private Passageway
A poem about aging, reflection and lost opportunities. However, dreams in retrospect provide a way to rewrite history.