Life’s Ordinary Glories

You are who you are. This life is your life. If you can't find happiness where you are You won't find happiness elsewhere. Joy is a state of being - It's a revelation - It's a taking off of the veil - An opening of your eyes for the millionth time. The taste of honeysuckle …

Language is a Song

Language is a song Which rolls like grace off the tongue. A love song watered down into other uses And sung each day unenthusiastically. I wonder how exciting it was for Adam To hear the first words sung by Eve, And how melodically eloquent They were to his lonely soul. Those words, The realization and …

The Night Is Full Of Storm Clouds

The night is full of storm clouds. Overhead the wild geese are frightened, And cry out with anxiety in the murky darkness. The ice hills are covered with dense fog. The only thing visible Is a beautiful shadow on a gleaming gauze window curtain. Above the clouds the white moon is cold. Under the clouds …

She Smokes The Cigarette of Futility

She counts the trains Going by outside her window Like the minutes of her life And the love which Walked out her door So many times before. She smokes the cigarette of futility And wets her pillow with regret Waiting in the darkness For a man she will never see again. ........... Watched a movie …

2AM

2AM And the drunks are stumbling into each other As they leave the bars. I slouch in my trusty chair, Legs up against my loyal desk With my journals and books And poems of long dead friends. These early hours Have become so dear to me Through the years. Reading hungrily Whatever poems I could …

Parking Lot Philosophy

Parking lot philosophy Steel table science Cool breeze spirituality And a forest fire religion ......... Flame does not catch On concrete and steel and glass How cold and safe we live Tearing out the beauty Before it has a chance to grow In fear it might move us To a place slightly more dangerous ......... …

Looking Back: 12 Months of Poetry

Here are Poems that I wrote in the last 12 months or so (not as many poems as you may think) and have been in posts on this blog and on facebook. So for those of you that haven't read my poetry, here is a ton of it in one place to get a feel. …

The Everlasting Man – God and Comparitive Religion – G.K. Chesterton

Below is an entire chapter from the book The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton. It is profound and talks of the emergence of paganism in the ancient world... I know it doesn't sound riveting but it is. Read it, you will not be disappointed.  He writes so clearly, and has a very unique take on …