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What Is True Is You
You have no idea What I feel for you I don’t know, even now If what is true is true What I can say – the best I can – can be an awful mess But it is true If I know true And I know truthfulness If I know one thing in my life… Read more
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Her Beatific Smile
Her beatific smile falls on me like rays from the sun Warming and illuminating Her smile is an umbrella against the rain A coat against the cold A counterweight to loneliness Her smile is knowledge and its opposite: The wisdom that there are some things I will never know Read more
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I Cried To The Moon
I cried to the moon: “Can’t you feel my love?” She said that she might but not quite She said that the sun gives me warmth that she can’t But I tell her: “You’re closer So much closer” Artwork by Anna Bronwyn Foley Read more
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Marie Jeannotte Enger – Rest In Peace
People die Of course We all will But the loss of some people is harder to take than others. To a child, the world is filled with a confusing array of people – those who are like us are called kids, and those who are not like us are called adults. Then there are people… Read more
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Respect Others
Go Slowly The sign says “Respect Others.” It sounds easy enough but that all depends on how you define “others.” This is not the first time a direction that sounds easy in theory becomes difficult in practice. Do you feel disrespected? A lot of us do, for a simple reason: We are disrespected. Most of… Read more
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Take A Walk
Over the last century our species figured out, finally, how to overcome the force of gravity and take to the skies, and even to the great mysterious space beyond our atmosphere. With the internal combustion engine we already had motorized transportation that we measured in horsepower. In the centuries before the last we built chariots,… Read more
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