The Observer
I did not want to write this piece this morning, I was leaning toward a descriptive nature work, but my
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Year: 2017
Closed Door
Ever since the day, there was a closed door on our love, my heart keeps leading me – back to
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What You See…Depends on Your Perspective
What do you see, frozen in the chill of night, shaking from the effects of malnutrition, the disdain of harsh
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Deprivation
Deprivation Violence stricken, trachea gurgles. This horror story is real yet runs in circles, like a dog on a hog
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Human History
Human History Sacco and Vanzetti, Guthrie and Bulosan, four good men a long time gone. Then there’s you and me
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Overnight Girl
Overnight girl… If her mood and the price is right Revolving doors at the seedy hotel Or run down apartments
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Baby Charlie – Who Decides When a Terminally Ill Patient Must Die?
Who decides? When a terminally ill patient should die No one’s fooled when the plug is pulled It’s tragic and
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Outward and Inward
Pristine clouds, strewn in patterns, like cotton balls stretched or comet tails etched within the blue, and eyes perceive the
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The Blue…My Contradiction
The blue creeps slowly invading my life, glossy viscous trails that cover and suppress all beneath it, and I feel
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Twilight Descending and the Finality of Night
Twilight descending… Sunlight, The remains of another day Once golden, but now changing, Yellow fading to orange and then pink,
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Awakening a Mind to Endless Life
The awakening of day is akin to a bloom unfurl, in rapture of the sun’s warm breath, and each day
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Australia, the Land That I Love
Australia, the most beautiful, deadly, diverse and unique country on earth, bids all to visit our sunburned country, where space
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World You Make Me Smile
World you make me smile, as I look all around, a baby’s chubby face, a friendly glance. watching playful
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People in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones – Unless They Want Them Sorted
I’ve gathered up the thrown stones Deftly stepping among the ones still flying Almost believing they were aimed at me
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Feeding for the Beast
Hectic, the scratching arrhythmic movement of rabid transmutation, arched back and yellow-eyes piercing, clawed fingers and teeth raring, growling
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Night Time Explosions
Night Time Explosions I sat with friends to watch the fireworks, Independence Day, Fourth of July, We hear the loud
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A Tincture For Life
Tincture…my recipe A tincture for compassion, void of the impurities of doubt, a remedy for dark selfish lives, to coax
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Within the Soul of Us, Music
Music touches the soul as no other, in the sway of its beauty, intricacy and heart we are transported, colors
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The meaning of her smile
When a woman smiles … Maybe it’s just me although I don’t know after all these years yet can it
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Rancid Beliefs, the Souls of Thieves
Diaphanous veils, a many, twisted plights assail unwary souls, truths so smeared and blurred to hold a mind in crimson
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Steamboats on the Mississippi
Oh to experience the thrill of steamboats, on the mighty Mississippi.. They came one by one chugging down the river
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Superlative
How pensive the falling sky, orange ribbons strewn like flighted fans on high, and I breathe the moist failing light,
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I will hear your voice
Your slim articulating fingers draw across strings of gold and a melody draws me near and nearer yet I came
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