listen – Reaching Joy

What If

What do you do when you love someone so much but you don’t know how to tell them so that they truly hear it? What if that person is yourself? August 26, 2016

Whatever comes naturally– that is the “right” thing that is the “wrong” thing well, it’s just a “thing.” Perhaps it’s “nothing.” This feeling of trying to reach out and grasp an answer out of thin air I’ve been chasing it for a long, long time, but not as long as I have been breathing, kicking,Continue reading “Things”

The Human Condition

Alone in my head how did this happen again? Afraid of myself more than anyone else afraid of my mind’s tricks like the devil part of me runs, part of me nourishes. External realities versus internal dimensionality my vulnerability got me everything good and everything bad trust my mind– it is strong, then flies outContinue reading “The Human Condition”

Teacher

In times of good and bad I let nature be my teacher. One leaf sways as gently as a summer song, not so I can sing along– but to remind me that I belong in these last pieces of greenery, they are not simple scenery they are our home a good climb upon a hill doesContinue reading “Teacher”

A Poem

Sometimes, it’s not enough to write a poem. ………………………………………. “Feel it on your back,” she told me from the church cellar. “Know it by name,” he whispered through the garden; he chased the snake but only I could tell. “Let it loose,” she sang, leading the students to the edge, bird cage inContinue reading “A Poem”

A Lesson on Father’s Day: Listen and Love

For the first time in what feels like a while, I am taking a break from poetry for this lovely Sunday. I am currently reading an appropriately enlightening book (one that many of you might already know), Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. From what I have taken away fromContinue reading “A Lesson on Father’s Day: Listen and Love”