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Archives — 2007
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2007 — the good, the bad, the active and the
The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.
TITLE: Wintermind
DATE: 2007 Mar 4
earth dreams of spring
in her winter slumbers
she dozes on and off —
then trembles wide awake
a silent green earthquake
TITLE: Spring awake
DATE: 2007 Mar 4
NOTES: revised
Life is not always fair — sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.
TITLE: Asperum
DATE: 2007 Jan 14
NOTES: revised
Spring translates earth's happiness into colorful flowers.
DATE: 2007 Feb 26
Purple is the soul-lifter
Red, the flame of passion
Yellow, the light of warmth
Green, vibrant stem of life
Pink, a whisper of beauty
Orange beckons, take a chance
Blue is the sea tide in us all
TITLE: Listen to the colors
DATE: 2007 Jan 7
Nature remembers every injury but forgives by going on.
TITLE: Hatchets, shoetread, storms, & disdain
DATE: 2007 Jan 27
Each morning begins with the triumph and celebration of waking to a new day and the blessing of being able to get out of bed. What better way to start the day than with a success like that?
DATE: 2007 Nov 17
Dying ain't pretty. Death is beautiful.
TITLE: A final breath in winter
DATE: 2007 Jan 26
The death of a loved one is a sudden silence — one of those deafening silences that leaves ringing in your ears.
DATE: 2007 Jan 26
NOTES: revised
late June, monsoon — kaboom!
patter, splatter, fat drops gather
splats, taps, windowpane raps
wind whips, swish, whish —
summer's rumbling thunder
flash, crash, lightning dash
plash, splash, sky unlashed
TITLE: Summer wonder
DATE: 2007 Aug 4
LOCATION: PҺoenᎥᶍ ArᎥɀønα
Tear up your frustrations into confetti dreams.
TITLE: Lighten the heavy
DATE: 2007 Jun 10
Flowers rewrite soil, rain, and sunshine into petal'd poetry.
TITLE: The graceful and beauteous
DATE: 2007 Mar 11
NOTES: revised
graves are not limited
to the cemetery —
they lurk in our minds,
and buried in our hearts
lie garlanded stones
marking loved ones lost
TITLE: Inscribed
DATE: 2007 Mar 17
Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.
TITLE: Mind own secrets
DATE: 2007 Mar 26
The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
TITLE: Emotion sickness
DATE: 2007 Jun 11
...the sweet wildflower breath of spring...
DATE: 2007 Feb 4
The tougher you are, the more fragile.
DATE: 2007 Feb 26
Literature lights the ages.
DATE: 2007 Jan 5
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2007 Jan 1
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.
DATE: 2007 Jan 6
Grief is your emotions composing a goodbye letter to your loved one.
DATE: 2007 Jan 28
Death is not warden of life, not thief, nor enemy — but Life's most equal partner.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.
DATE: 2007 Jan 5
Death: the longest of our long-term goals.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
The past falls away in wilted petals,
New things will come, probably nettles.
DATE: 2007 Feb 26
My younger passions are still listening as I age.
DATE: 2007 Oct 11
A sold poem loses half its meaning.
DATE: 2007 Mar 1
Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
DATE: 2007 Mar 2
buried with love and starshine—
a grave ever glowing with memories
DATE: 2007 Jan 29
NOTES: revised
Our souls are infinitely swirling colors of stardust and hope.
DATE: 2007 Jan 1
Don't let your anger take the shape of fists.
DATE: 2007 Jan 3
Pleasure and self-discipline must stay close friends.
DATE: 2007 Jan 13
NOTES: revised
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.
TITLE: The real
DATE: 2007 Mar 3
Earth is a sunny success.
DATE: 2007 Jun 12
NOTES: revised
When we fear death, we are letting him wrap his bony hands around our necks during the best times of our lives, choking us with imaginary threats and preventing us from breathing the pure air of now.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
Death is not poison but merely life's final remedy.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
All of life runs through the veins of death.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
rain and wind speak
of more than just
water and air —
rain patters hope
wind whispers let go
DATE: 2007 Mar 22
NOTES: revised
The elation of flying is worth the pain of sprouting wings.
DATE: 2007 Oct 3
Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes.
DATE: 2007 Aug 19
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
DATE: 2007 Mar 19
We learn to wield our own strengths, and fear flips over — dead!
TITLE: Getting along, stopping not
DATE: 2007 Nov 10
She was beautiful because she always had the glow of grace.
TITLE: Tears gliding down regret
DATE: 2007 Jan 26
It's easier to write poetry on a bad day, when your heart has been halved and emotions bleed out through the pen.
DATE: 2007 Mar 17
Literature — a lighthouse to lost souls.
DATE: 2007 Jan 5
the warm seed of life
the green stem of living
sweet carpe-diem flowers
DATE: 2007 Jan 5
Action battles doubt.
TITLE: The sword of doing
DATE: 2007 Mar 16
Shall we compare our hearts to a garden —
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain —
and most importantly, seeds.
TITLE: Rich soil
DATE: 2007 Jan 1
when
it's a glorious day
i pray
and
it's a glorious day
when
i pray
DATE: 2007 Jan 5
You need special shoes for hiking — and a bit of a special soul as well.
DATE: 2007 Jan 23
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.
DATE: 2007 Jun 16
An evening walk gives the body and mind a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of the day, to shed the rubbish and mental clutter before retiring for the night.
TITLE: Walk it off
DATE: 2007 Mar 24
NOTES: revised
foggy heavy-gray teary-eyed low-hanging
snow-stuffed melancholy winter clouds
impulsive wayward turbulent thick-swift-dark
tempestuous hail-angered storm clouds
sprinkling lighthearted fanciful breeze-drifted
rainbow-nestled April-hued springtime clouds
enormous white-fluffy fairydust-fringed
frolicsome sun-illumed carefree summer clouds
thunderous intense restless rain-soaked
lightning-streaked July-dyed monsoon clouds
azure-skylit sunglow-slanted edge-gleaming
white-silver billowy contemplative autumn clouds
vivid vibrant blissful dawn-lit joy-beamed
daybreak-florid sunrise-tinted morning clouds
aimless airy midday-lazy wandering listless
mountaintop-floating leisurely afternoon clouds
amber-ablaze day’s-end-pink ephemeral-amethyst
evening-welcome smoky-embered sunset clouds
lambent star-flanked luminous moon-halo’d
glowing shadow-painted skygazers’ night clouds
TITLE: Sky-happy
DATE: 2007 Aug 3
NOTES: revised
The flowers of the past are dead — but their wilted beauty and potpourri aroma enrich the present with memories.
DATE: 2007 Feb 4
the glow from
one magical kiss
lights several years
DATE: 2007 Jul 30
NOTES: revised
The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers.
TITLE: Helping freely
DATE: 2007 Apr 8
Art is faith that our souls may be made visible.
DATE: 2007 Apr 30
Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.
DATE: 2007 May 4
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.
DATE: 2007 May 4
A poet is inmate, and warden, to his own mind.
DATE: 2007 May 4
A clock is ticking
in my living room —
I never even noticed
that it makes noise —
my mind is ticking,
my heart is ticking.
Everything quiet
is audible at 3 a.m.
TITLE: Blaring quiet
DATE: 2007 May 5
NOTES: see also "Tempus nunquam dormit," 2006
Give your stress wings and let it fly away.
DATE: 2007 Nov 5
When I get stressed out, I am rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"
DATE: 2007 Jan 23
NOTES: revised
Pretty is the queen that rules our land, o'er
hard-working peasants known by Substance.
DATE: 2007 Jan 16
Spring breezes drift and tiny May birds chirp in morning's
DATE: 2007 May 1
Greens feed our souls, refresh our minds, nourish our grateful bodies.
TITLE: Ascending
DATE: 2007 Nov 16
I dig old books.
DATE: 2007 May 3
NOTES: The Quote Garden tagline
Poetry staggers, drunken but wise, amongst the stars.
Philosophy plots its own steady course to the sun.
TITLE: Mindpaths
DATE: 2007 Nov 10
Poetry staggers amongst stars, drunk on the night.
DATE: 2007 Nov 10
Death marches on — an army inexorable, its tireless soldiers obeying orders of fate.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
our heart dies with us
but our soul lives on
born into weightless spirit
becoming colors of the dawn
DATE: 2007 Jan 27
NOTES: revised
For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we bring some balance back to the scale.
DATE: 2007 Mar 25
Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist.
TITLE: In progress
DATE: 2007 Jan 5
Some stand on tiptoe trying to get closer to talk with God. Drop to your knees and listen — he will hear you better that way.
DATE: 2007 Jan 4
NOTES: revised
...a soul flowering with spirituality...
DATE: 2007 Jan 3
Sons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.
DATE: 2007 Jan 8
NOTES: revised
When an illness knocks you down, stay and relax a while before trying to get back up.
DATE: 2007 Jan 14
NOTES: revised
Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper their preferred method of transport. Same with artists, dancers, singers — all the same urges with differing transportation.
DATE: 2007 Feb 3
NOTES: revised
flowers don’t open to the clock
but to the sunshine spontaneous—
for modern humans that manner
of instinct is now extraneous
TITLE: Clock work
DATE: 2007 Feb 8
There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother.
TITLE: Brotherlove
DATE: 2007 Apr 2
DEDICATED TO: Doug & Steven
Leaves, questioned by winter, fall.
DATE: 2007 Nov 26
Poetry treks through our souls and tells us in rhyme of the adventure.
DATE: 2007 Dec 3
Happiness is breathlessly chasing you.
DATE: 2007 Dec 3
The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer. If I wake after it's already light out, I feel that the world has started without me — I slept right past the solitude.
TITLE: Early riser
DATE: 2007 Feb 18
NOTES: revised
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessèd world.
DATE: 2007 Apr 19
Poetry touches upon the entire spectrum,
from lost to found —
and sometimes back again.
DATE: 2007 Mar 26
Why throw trash into the treasure-house of your body?
TITLE: Junk food curse
DATE: 2007 Apr 9
Water, sunshine, soil —
essential for growing flowers;
but would they not flourish
all the better with a
sprinkling of poetry?
TITLE: Nourishment
DATE: 2007 Apr 9
No matter the path you're on, action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.
TITLE: At the helm
DATE: 2007 Nov 27
NOTES: revised
Grief is a burden
but also a friend—
It is not grief that
wounds your heart
but it is grief that
heals your heart.
DATE: 2007 Apr 13
Listen to the earth with your feet.
DATE: 2007 Feb 18
Put in 5 % more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.
TITLE: Five percent
DATE: 2007 Nov 30
Chaos is the pulse of the universe.
DATE: 2007 Oct 1
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.
TITLE: Spirit moves
DATE: 2007 Jul 7
Hate cages all the good things about you.
TITLE: Bound
DATE: 2007 Jul 5
Under the stars we are none of us foreigners.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
Spring is being blessed and happy,
with blooming flowers.
Summer is being blessed and hot,
with abundant sunshine.
Autumn is being blessed and reflective,
with colorful leaves.
Winter is being blessed and chilly,
with sparkling snow.
TITLE: Year-round gratitude
DATE: 2007 Aug 14
Wellbeing starves addiction.
DATE: 2007 Oct 12
Summer plays beneath the sultry sun,
Autumn brings lots of work to be done.
TITLE: Harvest
DATE: 2007 Aug 8
In the grief of losing someone,
Why do I feel like the lost one?
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
Prose is too coarse, too heavy for romance —
We need poetry for love & all things of chance.
DATE: 2007 Oct 4
Winter is the gray, bare shell of spring.
DATE: 2007 Dec 22
Shhh. Your soul is humming its tune. Listen well.
DATE: 2007 Dec 22
When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
Tea elevates our minds so that we can see our problems from a distance — through the fine mists of contemplation.
DATE: 2007 Nov 10
Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.
TITLE: Reflections on hope
DATE: 2007 Nov 10
The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
Old Books and fresh Flowers
Hot Tea, “thought in cold storage”
Brief the Verse, Reverie on hours
Poetry—her Mind's sweet forage.
TITLE: Old books & fresh flowers
DATE: 2007 Mar 26
NOTES: quoted text is Herbert Samuel
Angels in disguise are flitting about everywhere, but hospice workers are the pure light of angels unmasked.
TITLE: Jane
DATE: 2007 Jan 23
Somehow among all our use of antibiotic medicine and antibacterial soap our souls are becoming sanitized as well — don't let it happen to you!
DATE: 2007 Feb 12
the sweet aroma of dawn
our daily opportunity
to smell untouched time
to breathe in fresh hope
each morning being
a new beginning —
DATE: 2007 Feb 18
NOTES: revised
A critic would sacrifice the entire rose to find fault with the thorn.
DATE: 2007 Apr 11
Some kind of tragic loss happens somewhere between kitten and cat, between child and adult, between innocence and ego.
DATE: 2007 Oct 4
People flourish better when splattered with creativity.
DATE: 2007 Apr 9
Many words: boring
Few words: stimulating
DATE: 2007 Feb 11
Death is just a final breath.
DATE: 2007 Jan 27
I hear the passing echoes of winter and feel the warming springtime sun.
DATE: 2007 Feb 5
LOCATION: PҺoenᎥᶍ ArᎥɀønα
Money is a headache, and money is the cure.
DATE: 2007 Apr 7
Sunbeams shine through the clouds,
Faith shines through all my doubt.
DATE: 2007 Jan 31
NOTES: revised
Tea is a magical calming elixir — kind of like if coffee had a therapist.
TITLE: Calm in a cup
DATE: 2007 Apr 9
I'm not sure if I've had too much coffee, or if it's had me.
DATE: 2007 Apr 20
Time strode with the swiftness of spring blossoms.
DATE: 2007 Feb 7
Stress flails itself down trying to block our every path of happiness.
DATE: 2007 Feb 21
Wailing, bearing flowers
and collapsing to her knees,
her hot tears fall upon me—
But I remain unmoved,
stone-faced, above it all—
her face etched with grief
and mine with the years,
weathered with past life—
Gently she touches my face
and presents me the flowers—
I’ve seen her cry many times
but it is my nature to be
rough and cold, grounded
in reality I know nothing else—
Still she keeps coming back to me
and though I cannot give her love
I will always guard hers.
TITLE: Stone-faced
DATE: 2007 Apr 23
Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.
DATE: 2007 Jun 23
Prayer lights our souls through dark times.
DATE: 2007 Nov 21
A writer is successful not because he writes paragraphs but because he writes emotions.
TITLE: Conduit
DATE: 2007 May 14
An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa.
DATE: 2007 Apr 27
Age is a prison
we cannot escape
but only by death
into another world
DATE: 2007 Jun 27
NOTES: revised
Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.
DATE: 2007 Jun 30
Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but in the long run nature always wins.
DATE: 2007 Jun 8
NOTES: revised
Have you hugged someone your appreciation today?
DATE: 2007 Jun 16
Paws carry heart and fur,
Whiskers and vibrato purr.
DATE: 2007 Oct 27
Let grief and guilt stay not too long as houseguests.
DATE: 2007 Oct 28
Writing—
a race to the typewriter keys
before that brilliant idea flees
TITLE: In a nutshell
DATE: 2007 Nov 18
I like people who don't need a lot on the outside because they know there's so much good on the inside.
DATE: 2007 Nov 30
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
DATE: 2007 Jun 17
Stardust sails endless distances through the silent ages until,
TITLE: Love at first sight
DATE: 2007 May 18
Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.
DATE: 2007 Jun 6
The best cure for writer's block is insomnia.
DATE: 2007 Oct 12
NOTES: revised
If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful.
DATE: 2007 Jun 29
Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.
DATE: 2007 Jun 23
No one understands you and yet there's hope — then finally one day you find someone who does and no matter what, life will always be good thereafter.
TITLE: Not alone
DATE: 2007 Oct 19
NOTES: revised
Proverbs generalize the verdicts of the world.
DATE: 2007 Jun 20
My soul lives somewhere between silence and the moon.
DATE: 2007 Nov 30
An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.
DATE: 2007 Jun 16
Leadership is often nothing more than doing the right thing and inspiring others to the same.
DATE: 2007 Apr 12
Dreams grow like wildflowers in her soul.
DATE: 2007 Dec 1
...wildflower dreams blooming in her soul...
DATE: 2007 Dec 1
Every day is a new opportunity to be grateful, and enjoy the world, and improve it — in our own little ways.
DATE: 2007 Nov 9
NOTES: Yep, it's a bit too E. B. White, isn't it.
Winter stars blaze in silent joy.
DATE: 2007 Dec 14
Your soul is a trouper. If you find you're stronger than you thought, don't waste a moment being surprised by it — use that strength and get going on whatever it is you've been holding yourself back from doing!
DATE: 2007 Nov 10
Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world, sometimes even worse than pain. It is its own kind of pain.
DATE: 2007 Nov 11
On the internet, even private is public.
DATE: 2007 Nov 6
I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.
DATE: 2007 Apr 12
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.
DATE: 2007 Feb 3
I've had secrets come out of my typewriter in invisible ink.
DATE: 2007 May 19
Heartache awaits the next love as a seed awaits the spring.
DATE: 2007 Dec 9
Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.
DATE: 2007 Oct 12
My childhood smells like a box of Crayola® crayons.
DATE: 2007 Apr 13
I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in morning.
DATE: 2007 Feb 18
Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would.
TITLE: In the tank
DATE: 2007 Jun 1
in Phoenix
summer is
the title,
the refrain
and every
other verse
TITLE: Poems in heat
DATE: 2007 Jun 5
two burning stars collide and spark a fire of fate
two blazing spirits meet — enkindled soul mates
DATE: 2007 Oct 19
Tea is the symbol of and antidote to civilization.
DATE: 2007 Dec 8
My body and spirit are the only things that truly belong to me.
DATE: 2007 Dec 8
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains — Nature composes, why shouldn't we?
DATE: 2007 Feb 3
NOTES: revised
Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.
DATE: 2007 Dec 10
Advertising is only another form of statistics.
DATE: 2007 Jun 2
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe.
DATE: 2007 Jun 2
We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America.
DATE: 2007 Jun 5
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.
DATE: 2007 Jun 5
Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones.
DATE: 2007 Feb 4
Death has its own treasure map with different riches than Life.
DATE: 2007 Jan 29
Necessity is the mother of not only invention but death.
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
Love accepts death not as an ending but as a way to title and bind each life's book, so that we who are left behind can read it in memory again and again. The author's own work is done, yet the life of the afterstory has just begun.
TITLE: In Memoriam
DATE: 2007 Feb 24
NOTES: revised
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, perhaps your soul has never been in bloom.
TITLE: Bright in bloom
DATE: 2007 Mar 4
When your inner and outer energies radiate in harmony, you are blessed and spiritually magnetic.
TITLE: Glowing health
DATE: 2007 Mar 1
A nap on a warm day, in the shade, with a breeze, is one of the great pleasures of being.
TITLE: Siesta
DATE: 2007 Mar 4
The mind spells 'healing'
DATE: 2007 Mar 27
If something is written in the stars, can't it also be inscribed in the fiery light of our souls?
DATE: 2007 Mar 5
Spirit flows. If your heart is feeling good, it spreads the word and before you know it your whole body feels great.
DATE: 2007 May 12
We all have fog on our path at times — but clarity comes from within.
DATE: 2007 Sep 29
antique well-loved books
bookworm-angel nooks
pages curled and dusty
old authors most trusty
clever timeless Shakespeare
flanking poets of yesteryear
TITLE: Heaven's Library
DATE: 2007 Sep 19
The front door to springtime is a photographer's best friend.
TITLE: Cephalophyllum
DATE: 2007 Mar 4
Is soul the stem and
body the blossom —
or body our stem, with
soul its indigenous bloom?
DATE: 2007 Apr 4
Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone.
DATE: 2007 Dec 21
Turn the energy of fear into the energy of living.
DATE: 2007 Aug 23
They say that time heals all wounds, but all it's done so far is give me more days and nights to think about how much I miss you.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
NOTES: revised
I don't know why they call it heartbreak — my mind, body, and spirit all feel broken too.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
NOTES: revised
Trees quiet without the birds,
My heart quiet without you.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
Grandma always called her vegetable garden the Chapel — it brought her closer to God, was full of miracles, and fed the hungering of others.
DATE: 2007 Aug 25
Poetry cries melodic tears of verse.
TITLE: Well cried
DATE: 2007 Jul 23
Her poetry cries crimson roses
and laughs in sprightly daisies.
TITLE: Pen & trowel
DATE: 2007 Jul 23
Poetry wrapped
around my heart
like a cozy blanket
Quills in my brain
ink running through
gray matter rivulets
Dead authors ghosting
through my soul...
DATE: 2007 Jul 29
My joy was skipping
around our love —
it tripped.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
July-sky billowy wind-gusty
dust-tinged glowing-rust-edged
thunderous electric
tempestuous mercurial
storm-grey rain-heavy
blazed wet desert-wild
lightning-dancing monsoon clouds!
TITLE: July clouds
DATE: 2007 Jul 23
LOCATION: PҺoenᎥᶍ ArᎥɀønα
She clawed her way into my heart and wouldn't let go.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
My heart has cried a deep red grief since you've been gone, pulsing crimson pain.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
A poet builds his nest in the springtime tree of wild reverie, and ends up staying the year.
TITLE: Falling out of a poet's nest
DATE: 2007 Feb 26
Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad.
DATE: 2007 Mar 9
Sometimes we're as different as clouds and concrete.
DATE: 2007 Jul 10
Kiss me and my soul-storm thunders.
DATE: 2007 Jul 30
Now is the flickering flame of a single candle,
Forever—the endless light of a galaxy of stars.
DATE: 2007 Jul 31
With a single candle, night burns into infinity.
DATE: 2007 Jul 31
We spend all our lives building wings of faith so that we can fearlessly fly off into another world.
DATE: 2007 Oct 4
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.
DATE: 2007 Jun 16
colossal magnificent billowing glowing-grey rust-fringed monsoon clouds
roll swiftly across a vast dusty-blue desert sky like electrified tumbleweeds
TITLE: Dust & sparks
DATE: 2007 Mar 10
Since the coming of air pollution and city lights, the stars have become much more shy than they used to be.
DATE: 2007 Apr 1
she always wrote in hidden diaries
imprinting fears and dreams in ink
daily tales of love and laughter
secrets emptied heart to paper
regrets gray matter to black letters
memories solidified into words
writing now for remembering later
pages of youth fading with age
graying hair and golden years
journals telling a lifetime of stories
the past a present to her children
TITLE: A parting gift
DATE: 2007 Apr 9
Storms question the weak and the strong alike — and the strong may not always have answers but they always have resolve.
DATE: 2007 Nov 23
Grammar stops at love, and at art.
DATE: 2007 Jun 12
Teardrops of steam-dew
glide down the kettle
Don't cry —
we'll make each other feel better.
TITLE: Tea tears
DATE: 2007 Apr 29
Mother Nature is the most powerful force on the planet — but in the human realm, it's the Mind.
TITLE: Healing brains
DATE: 2007 Mar 26
Don't let it be all in your head, or all in your body.
DATE: 2007 Apr 5
Everything is too real
for people like us —
only fantasy is tolerable
with its magically healing
soft edges, plush hugs
sparkling beauty and
golden-hour radiances
its floral-everywheres
peaceful euphoria and
eternal youth of spirit
embraced by dreams —
TITLE: Muted glare
DATE: 2007 Jun 8
NOTES: revised
I want to giggle myself to sleep each night and jump on the fluffy, comforting pillows of faith.
TITLE: Sleep tight
DATE: 2007 Nov 20
Friday, wahoo, full of glee!
Fridays are fun & carefree—
for second cups of coffee
or a delicious donut spree!
DATE: 2007 May 11
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
DATE: 2007 Aug 12
have you ever seen a flower down
sometimes angels skip around
and in their blissful state of glee
bump into a daisy or sweet pea
DATE: 2007 Jun 30
Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.
DATE: 2007 Feb 3
a bottle of wine is her autobiography
uncorked at birth, drunk to the last drop
an empty vessel all to show for it —
DATE: 2007 Jan 19
NOTES: revised
tea leaves
tea loves
loves tea
lives tea
leaves tea?
never.
DATE: 2007 Feb 27
Tea is comforting because
it brings us down to earth—
water, leaves, warmth;
it is earth, imbibed.
DATE: 2007 Jan 19
The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit — whether it comes naturally or you have to work hard for it.
DATE: 2007 Mar 26
Most people know more about their own elected officials via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbors via conversation, and many know more about the celebrities via tabloids than they know about their own representatives via voting booklets.
DATE: 2007 Feb 27
NOTES: revised
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