Thursday, April 3, 2025

Watching / Writing

Watch your thoughts as they pass
Let them go
Release them
No feeling is final
You are water

There is always much to learn
and relearn over and over
Life is made of endless lessons
Even ones you have lived through
must be lived again
Learn new ways to see
Learn new ways to think
Find strength in hardship
We are brave
We are strong
to have come this far
There is goodness
There is kindness 
which lives in you
Reach into that 

Think of your Mother
Think of your Father
What they have sacrificed
What they have made
against all odds
What they have given
Such gifts give life

What do you desire
To find your place
To be of use
To help
To give a hand 
as you have been
Reach out to help
Reach out to receive
You are human
You are no island
Remember this
There is no shame
in asking for help
There is no shame in 
expressing emotions
You are human
Joy and despair
Hope most of all
beating within

These early mornings
Watching the darkness
turn away to light
So it must always be
















Saturday, March 29, 2025

Saturday Morning in Early Spring

After darkness comes morning

Smalls acts of our ordinary lives

A plate of breakfast

Branches aching to burst

Friday, March 28, 2025

Two Pieces

Is the view from here always so clear
How far can we see
Can we look into forever
Sun and breeze flowing 
This is the feel of life
Let it fill each breath


Do memories haunt or do they linger
Are they welcomed 
or are they interlopers
What is the lesson
What is the gift
they wish to bestow
Ask them
Expect no response
Figure it out yourself

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The View

What matters most comes into view
When you see it you will know
It is what you have been searching for
When it is here you will make choices
you had long delayed 
When it is here the difficulty will fall
away into acceptance 
Then the work begins anew

Building

Can we build together?
What are we building?
A life. Everything.
Building with each passing day.
Building with words,
building with actions,
building with kind looks,
building with kisses,
building through hardship,
building through success,
building with every moment.
Let us create that which endures.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

What do we wake from?
What do wake into?
What is the space between?

Saturday, March 1, 2025

We are who we have

We will give everything

We are who we have


Monday, February 24, 2025

The music is coming through you
I can hear it in your voice
What will you do with your song
I will listen if you let me near
Soft notes filling air and ears
A song called into being

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Snow is melting 

Your heart gladdens

Sun needn't be a memory

Monday, February 10, 2025

Winter Hour

Where are the deer at this hour in winter?
Where do they go for warmth?
Do they feel this cold as we do?
They have not all disappeared.
I wish to know but I must settle
for in complete knowledge
at least for know
We are not meant
to know all. 

Saturday, February 1, 2025

For You and Danny

I sent you a message
You called me right away
I didn't expect
to hear your voice so soon
You asked if it was intuition
or if I had heard the news
I said intuition
You told me your brother
died last night in hospital
That all of you were 
by his side as he transitioned
Tears, disbelief, relief
all gave way to one another
and back again
You said he had been ill
He had been worsening
I could say nothing
He was only in his fifties
He was young
You are mourning
the loss of a future
You told your children
and they cried too
Your daughter said
it was a sad Friday
and you said yes it was
I'm writing this 
the morning after
our conversation
in the dark just before 
the sunrise 
A million more things
I could say 
But I told you
I love you
and you said it back
and 

Monday, January 27, 2025

Para Mi Esposa

Yes I love you
How long we have loved
and endured
What is a lifetime

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Still the noise of this world 
Guide your heart to a place of rest
Let silence overtake you

Friday, January 24, 2025

Strings Singing

I hear the bowing of the cello
as strings sing 
Waves crest and trough 
through my heart
Does happiness take work
When I listen it comes
When I close my eyes
I see it before me
Are you breathing
Don't hold your breathe
Don't clench that jaw
Listen listen listen
over and over 
as much as needed
Listen listen listen

Saturday, January 18, 2025

What is time and distance
with memory alive
to bridge the gaps 
between us

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Hooves

It has been snowing overnight
I've woken late
The night yet lingers
Are there hoof prints in the snow?
Somewhere 
Somewhere

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Cello

What dream is this
to wake to a cello
playing Bach 
in the forest
How strange
This is no dream
Fingers moving
over the neck
Bow angling
back and forth
What patience
What mastery
You have wished
to learn to master
What secret dream
There is yet time

Sunday, January 5, 2025

A Friend

What has changed over these many years?
Many things, if not everything.
This desire, so stubborn, so bullheaded,
yet remains.
To sit here, to ponder, to wonder,
to watch the branches of the trees,
and dream of others places, 
other people, and other times. 
To find the words as they venture forth
and give them form and life.
Or is it the other way around?

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Tea Leaf Fortune Teller

Steam is escaping the kettle.
The cup waits in anticipation.
The tea is indifferent.
Life is changing states.
What comes next
is entirely predictable.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Un Autre An

we are still here
walking the path
looking everywhere
feeling everything
breathing

are you

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Dance With Me

I can't dance and 
it shouldn't matter

If the rhythm has 
gotten your heart

move with it 
across the floor

Feel yourself
alive 

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

This You

You grow older
You remember things
You forget things

Your childhood hangs onto you
Your childhood feeds your present
Your childhood shapes your future

You grow older
You change the story
You change yourself

You forgot your conception
You forgot your birth
You know you are here

You remember
You wonder
You wonder

Sunday, December 8, 2024

I'm listening to the words of a dying man
He lived enough to know the truth we avoid
Voice of a prophet but he never preached
Raising his voice to song I listen
Can I heed his warnings

Monday, December 2, 2024

To Be

All the love in the world is here 
You contain everything you ever wanted
How can this be so
There doesn't have to be a reason
No logic needs to exist
for something to merely be
Accept this as truth
Bask in your newfound knowledge

The Writer

This old habit 
standing by my side
Faithful old friend
How many people
have we been
How many more
will we become
An answer will be
some other day

Start of December

Waking to a cold Fall morning
The Sun still rests
Do the deer sleep?
Do their ears perk 
at the slightest sound? 
What is the silence
sitting between us?
Shall we give it a name?

Saturday, November 23, 2024

What is dawn
What is beyond the horizon
The sky rests heavy
You wake and wonder

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Through Everything

You are still here
Through everything
How strong you are
How loved you are
Why do you forget 
such simple things?
Don't let worry 
carry away the future
You are creating it now
You are still here
Through everything 

Monday, October 14, 2024

Dark Spaces

Dark spaces linger in memory

You sat up after being pleased

I laid back for you

We closed our eyes

as the light was swallowed

in the dark

Who were we then

What did they need

What was never enough


Friday, October 11, 2024

falling

brown yellow orange

falling 

            falling

softly

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Willing

I see faces

I hear their words

I remember what I've forgot

Other lives

Other days

Still here

Still alive

Still willing

Thursday, September 12, 2024

How do you measure distance?
By feet, kilometers, or miles?
Or do years make more sense
to see the passing moments again?

Saturday, September 7, 2024

What is today
Today is now
Does it need
to be anything
but itself?

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Lifelong

This ongoing habit
has never let go

So many
mornings

afternoons

nights

So many
moments of 

peace

worry

darkness

and light

It takes my hand

Guides it


Sunday, August 4, 2024

Sieve

Don't begin with artifice

Tell me something real

The pain in your wrist

Your belly full of tea

The empty cup

The silence of the room

Thoughts that do not come

Your mind a sieve

until a pebble 

comes to rest

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Summer Rain

Rain falling in darkness


A flash through the trees


A distant rumbling


Trembling

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Transmission

All these words

merely drops

of thought

from one life

to another,

in another time,

in another place,

in another world.

Consumption

I must hold a small space 
for myself
if I am to see you 
past tomorrow

Does water dream
when it has frozen?

What must it be like
to change form
endlessly 
through countless
eons of existence

I close my eyes in bed
and wait for night
to consume wholly
once more

Small Reminders

I give myself small reminders

to unclench my jaw

to stretch my fingers

move my legs

listen closely

look for small details

hold her hand

kiss her while she sleeps

tell everyone

I love them

These days

are only now

and that's 

all life will ever be

Hooves

You marvel 
at something 
as mundane
as time

Listening
to the rain
to the wind
to the leaves

Have you 
ever heard
the sound
of a deer
stepping
through
forest?

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Feeder

Sit and wait for your guests 

They flutter in on wings
of different shades

They twitter about 
and leave when
they've had their fill

If only all guests 
were so well behaved
Why do you
wait and wait
to do that
which is 
your salvation?

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Antonyms for Salvation

Ocean waves inhaling
exhaling 
                a field of roiling darkness
Sitting in warmth of our company
Relief and joy
Mutual salvation
Taste of flowers 
on our tongues
In the mirrors
lights approach
and halt

Clarification

The page is laughing and so am I
Raise a glass and give a toast
Are we not amused
Are we not paying attention
Open your words
Says your lips
Utter utterance
Leave no doubt

Rivers

You can't go back
It isn't the same
The river changed
The waters are new
Moment to moment
are you not the water

Meaning?
What's the point 
of the question?
There's no answer
Make up and decide
what makes sense 

* Beep *

No one is watching 
No one is home
Please leave a message
at the tone

Molting

This is fine
This is normal
This is how everyone feels
How long can this go on
Has it always been so
Are we such anxious creatures
    we can't handle the world remade
        in our own image
Now you sit in the screen glow
as I do
            unsure of anything
sure that everything
is aching and growing
into something
                         we cannot
yet define

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Acts of Translation

I am listening for the ghosts.
Their sighs fill the spaces 
of the moments of our lives.
Listen in order to hear.
What does your heart say?
What is the meaning 
taken from this interpretation?
Does translation only 
approximate the meaning?

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Oh

Yes
it has always been
Yes 
know you know
what you always
felt

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Ashen World

From a distance it nears

Falling in silence 

Quiet breath overpowers

Snow at this time of year

I touch the softness

resting upon the ground

It does not melt