Poetic License

But I learned – the very hard way – that if you never consider yourself, eventually you have nothing left with which to care for anyone else.

xenophobes yawp zealously.

always, boldly choose diversity

“You therefore must be perfect” just like God

“You therefore must be perfect” just like God / It’s there in letters red and hot as blood

People of The Books

a priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar…

I felt

Are you okay / With him being gay?

Eternity it Stretches Forward.

Now as Lost Days have passed me by, Eternity it stretches Forward.

me/Me

mechanically mesmerizing / to be A me you want see…

I’ve Found My Place

I’ve found my place; the place is peace, / Though tangled tempests tip the ship.

Start. again. anew.

start. again. anew.
transformed again by some truth

Mystery Meal

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “product/produce.” Use one, use them both, use them any way you’d like. … More

again.

the body count
mounts /

again.

Let no one tell you how to live

Let no one tell you how to live;It’s on that day you die a bit.Love is yours to take and … More

Sonnet XLIV – Plans Best Laid

Perhaps if heaven hinges on Our Plan,
That paradise designed may need a tweak.

what will the waves do with their fury?

Paint the scene now, before ship takes a dive.

This is How Love Is

For in the end,
Love Runs to Us,
Grasps Us,
And Refuses to Ever let Us go.

No Shovel Required

Snow falls and then melts

Fractured Faces

Safe
in our certain
Somethingness…

Obscured

I see you… Rising above the cloudswhich obscurewhere your building began. You continue to riseIn spite of the clouds, And … More

Then I Will Bring a Boat

It seems my friends have Sorrows fit to Drown;
They’ve just enough Pure Joy to stay Afloat.

and.

This is how it will always be.