Think about it, and think again:What story do you want to tell When night reveals the starry hemAround the silent cosmic well? What story do you want to weave Into its ever growing reach?A dream that lovers would conceive, A tale to learn, or one to teach? Make up the one you want to hear,Take extra care with [...]
Lust is life remembering play, Shouting YES! when mind says pay First your dues to time and age Locked up in a golden cage Where each answer has its place In the homo sapiens race. Lust is going for the kill Every fear inducing pill Tries to feed me in the name Of unworthiness and [...]
Back to the garden, back to the source, Back to the only desirable force Love calls to witness all daughters and sons Held in the infinite arms of the One. Back to the forum, back to the ring, Back to the pendulum's perpetual swing Drawing us closer, then drawing us back In constant pull twixt [...]
This, you could count on- that the church bell every quarter hour meters out Day and night. Singing metal claimed from within the sheltering hills around town By men, poor and plain, with nothing but the sigh of a light the size of a matchbox, Three hundred years ago. How did they find what [...]
As of yesterday The weight of the world has increased by Untold secrets Careless speaking Held grudges Blatant judgment Missed opportunities Unspoken apologies Wounds unattended Unremitting shame. This measurement is proportional to the radius two people could comfortably inhabit with outstretched arms multiplied by seven billion But don't.
We had it all wrong. The battles, the stories, the justifications Yellowed pages in a history book we're embarrassed to admit we once committed to memory. This is the curse of the still living in tailored black suits lined up at the grave. The role of the villain, the saint, the victim, the convict [...]
They said the sky was blue with no trace of a cloud Drunkenly pure A sea of summer prayers. They also say as above so below As the Father the Mother heavenly, an unbreakable promise joined at the heart. Who can blame us then, the surviving, for making up stories that suit our [...]
Another vignette I wrote for the Halloween Enchantment Festival of 2014. It's the story of the Night Weaver. (Night Weaver stands at a big loom with long drapes of black cloth.) 1 What a busy time of year it is for me, the night-time weaver! I need to make long yards of cloth to fill [...]
I wrote this vignette for a Halloween festival at my daughters' school in 2013. It's the song of an overworked gnome who is put in charge to write a lullaby for the plants to go to sleep as fall is coming. (Gnome sits on desk with paper and quill composing, crumpling up papers and throwing [...]
