Night pours down dripping dark off the steeple and running shadowy rivulets in the rain gutters on the sloped roof. But a deep river of brightness floods the walk, and shadowy beings hurry in, tripping to the sound of music, toward hope, and always two by two. Inside it is…
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Revolution
One mile, a last hazy stretch of dark road, ominous hedges. The last mile. All around me are dark things, a circle of black-clad men and the scent of gunpowder. They see me through the fog, and to them I am a gray outline, a pencil sketch. From afar, they…
A Magical Cure for Anxiety
Whether or not one believes in Heaven, or in God, or in god, there is simply no arguing that life for a single being on this earth comes once, and then only briefly. At the end of a person's life, his heart stops beating and his eyes fade. His family…
YAR!
Rarely does one have the chance to plunder In this modern world of rulers and laws. Nor can one oft sail endlessly under the black pirate flag with her favorite outlaws! Sometimes a girl simply must get away. Sometimes she hides from her work and her school. Donning hat, grabbing…
And then there's my love poem...
I started to think about love poetry. And then I started to think about how long it had been since I'd really written a poem. And then I was depressed because it's sad that I don't take the time to be poetic. So, to jump start myself I wrote a…
A Wise Man's Love Poem
Last year, a man published a book that most of us never heard about: The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden . Stanley Kunitz was 100 years old at publication. Throughout, the book is interspersed with his wisdom and insight about poetry, both writing it and…
Witching Hour
Unholy whispers swivel through the air I hear them, I hear them. Ghosts and spirits whisk in the shadows, studying me. They scrape in the gutters with the dry, dead leaves. It's time to lock my windows, my doors, to crouch on the floor, and look up at the coal-black…
Pink Ribbons
Breast cancer doesn't just affect Women. in the U.S. alone two-hundred thousand women will be Diagnosed with breast cancer this year and nearly forty-thousand will Die. Sadly they won't be the only casualties consider the families and friends who Survive them. October is Breat Cancer Awareness Month. Whether you…