Mortal Chords 10 17 2014 Rhythm and RhymeThere is No PathOther ThanNo Path In Time I Chose PathsOut of No Paths That ContainedPoverty, Injustices, and LossesI Hid InsideTo Be Free Still……… KINDNESSES Fed Rivulets of Connections OPPORTUNITIESFed Rivulets of Desires WORKFed Rivers of Identity SONGFed Spirits of Love QUESTION????Freedom OR Belonging? A Dance I Have […]
The Desert Doesn’t Cry The desert doesn’t cry It needs all the moisture it can get Just to stay alive. Every drop of tears Can be sucked out Leaving skeletons To tell their stories. Needles dare you To reach in And steal their juice. The ground beneath your feet Can burn your soles If you […]
You Mother, You Father, I light a candle in my heart for you today. A candle that includes all eight of us children, born from you yet left to find our own lights almost from the day of our births. You had your childhoods as well. Childhoods that did not serve you either. I cannot […]
We think of snow And we think old man winter. Today I was with snow, A different tune this March. I’ve been in wet, heavy flakes falling on already frozen ground, the silence opening up spaces for reflection just ripe for fireside wine. Today the sounds reverberated everywhere, distant thunder… plops of wet snow on […]
Different Poems within the Timelines of my Life Rhythm and Rhyme; The Blossoming of Images through Dreams; Beginning in Recent Time; Some Full in Front & Center Space; Others Still Hidden; Hazy in the Weaving of Lace; Shreds of Memories; of Days Long Ago. Watershed years I didn’t remember came so early in […]