An empty page is better than an empty heart or head. So an unkind word unspoken is better than one said. But what of words of truth and beauty, that wax recalcitrant? No matter how you reason, re-arrange, or coax. they remain instead entrenched. (Like some way back, aching tooth, and you’re the fumbling dentist Shemp.) With unrelenting effort… Continue reading Empty Pages (Little trials in a world full of suffering)
Category: Poems
Glowing worms
Glowing worms go flowing by what did I just see? A slithering slipstream of living vapor with names of thoughts that light when thought. A living stream of light and thought and thought and light and so I’m mindful of a mind full of thought. Am I awake? A dream? A dream! That gorgeous instant… Continue reading Glowing worms
Clever words
All my clever words are running out on me there they go like grains of sand out to the sea or in an hourglass to the globe below I watch them fall away those clever words those clever biting words we say when we want to score off somebody to show we’re smart to show we’re… Continue reading Clever words
Hello Beautiful
Hello Beautiful, shining from the inside. With a heart like the face of Hedy Lamarr. By the kindly words you speak and the loving things you do you refresh, you comfort, you encourage. Such is the beauty that you choose.
A weird tattoo
Hot summer sun beating on your skin brings beads of moisture while within it’s beating out some weird tattoo. What’s that on your thigh, a butterfly? Pardon me, not that kind of tattoo, but the percussion kind; about which Jerome Kern knew and so Fred Astaire crooned to Ginger Rogers in Swing Time too. Where I… Continue reading A weird tattoo
Good Word (A Word of Encouragement)
How beautiful is a word of encouragement: a soothing sound to a distressed spirit; a refreshing draught of living water to a mind parched and weary from rancor, tumult, and vitriol. So goes the world. As for me, I will lift you up as far as I am able. I will choose a good word… Continue reading Good Word (A Word of Encouragement)