Weird dreams that
Make me uncomfortable
with myself
Disjointed thoughts
floating in my head,
calmly resting
in the basement of my consciousness
Lazily resting but
needing to be addressed,
they … Read more...
Yesterday will be a day marked as one of the best in my life. We went to see Hamlet last night and I remembered how much I loved the theatre. … Read more...
You always have things that happen to you in life, you can decide for yourself how you want to see the situation. It is so hard to see others go … Read more...
Tom read “I am Too Alone in the World” by Rainer Maria Rilke
To me, Rilke’s poem seemed to speak to the desire for some “fully authentic” life experience that … Read more...
The sky, a placid ocean
Slumbers dim in the night. My Memories are,
Stars, sunk in an eternal well in the blue, I’ll
join them soon enough. First
Flash to … Read more...
I love stories of grandfathers. They instantly take me back to being small, waking up sleeping-eyed just to crawl into my grandfather’s lap while he sipped on morning coffee in … Read more...
I’ve never seen a great bird of prey dead in nature. Where do their bodies hide? Do they fall out of the sky in a sudden feeling of faint flight? … Read more...
I am trying to leave my comfort zone and where my roots are from.
I’m here where there’s no one I knew. I’m using a different language which I used … Read more...
There was no chain link fence years ago, but you like to think you can hop it and come Home, smells returning and cracked pavement sealing. Shivering metal is singing … Read more...
What Do You Do?
What do you do with these things…that time has left behind?
Ride by in a car? Walk to and explore with a friend?
Corn cribs, barns … Read more...
Fear of entrapment
I’ve felt this in school
I’ve felt this in toxic relations
Maybe it’s self-imposed
Just all in my head
There’s lots to be scared of
The greatest … Read more...
Tangled limbs of man’s burden reach within its own pool of riches. Extracting all the needs they require. Fiber by fiber these limbs will dig till they have reached their … Read more...
I wonder when breakfast is going to be ready. The seductive scent of sizzling sausage is stirring my mind in a frenzy. I can’t resist that symphony of sounds that … Read more...
I have to pull in my ambitions; my vision,
chased across canvas
with color and line, that
firmness I wish
for my weak body,
[movies]
[socializing]
[travel]
that girl at … Read more...
We are not allotted an even share of hardships, and we do not deserve pain or happiness. Pain is a season, and happiness is a gift we give to others, … Read more...
VI.
Like the fall of rains
Through the cloud of ash
Of one of our pyroclasms,
I was scared, falling
Sideways (through the layers)
With all the blurry
Angels like … Read more...