Certain (for Peter McKinnon)
The Keep
Parts Unknown
Reverberations
Cast No Shadow
This Life (for Peter McKinnon on our 3rd Anniversary)
There Was a Time II…..
There Was a Time….
The Fox
My Shell Barely Cracked
No Secrets…
Story/Witness
From an essay to a Poem: Letters
In passing
Syncopated Joy
Three (and MANY more) of my TOP TWENTY poems can be found in Mark McKinnon’s new book “Book Marks” (available on Amazon, click link, below)
Judas by Vassar Miller
Going..
Light…
Outlie*
Higher
That Bird
Before Buddha….
I cannot see the curvature of Earth….
Dimensions
Birth of a Poem (for Frost and Miller)
Protectors
Stalker of Souls
Happy First Day of Autumn
Interconnectedness of Us
Of All
2020, The Burn
Light, Entering
Storms tear across The Farm…
Traveling…
The Way
It’s 4 AM
In a Name….
Wide and Deep
Remember to re-member
Gone Again
Counting, Counting, Counting…
We2
12-21-2018 Solstice
12-21-2018 Solstice
End of Day for Archibald MacLeish
End of Day, for Archibald MacLeish
tuck and roll, Baby, tuck & roll….
Like the sea to the shore, like the distant mountains…ROLL.
Must be The Matrix…..
01/01/001/1001/01/001/100101/01
Marco. Polo……
From my childhood dreams when I dreamed I was Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton…or Marco Polo….
Show and Tell
Actions v. words. It’s a long, long road.
Too little, too late?
The Queen of Hearts wants to talk….gotta minute?
No story remains fixed.
We all collaborate with one another.
See, hear, smell, taste, touch my heart.
Come! Rise!
Pitch: to set up, to plunge or lurch, point/position/degree. To begin, to contribute, to attack.
To set/plant/choose. Lumen. Light. Luminosity.
I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,me,me,me,me,me
Humans have begun speaking in chitter~chatter~babble~detriv.
I almost became a geologist…
…or a physicist….anthropologist, biologist, professor, lawyer…
How can we know?
Sometimes it’s not what we say, but what’s left unsaid.
Code/decode.
Intuition comes to assist us. Use it.
Known? When? Where? How?
Yep. There you are. Here I am.
Who needs a map, anyhow?
Follow your heart. The road will appear.
Frost: “A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
Some of my poetical inspirations: Robert Frost and Vassar Miller.
dagian, Old English: first light
In the cool of dawn, in the first glow looking East
brevi = a combining form meaning “short,” used in the formation of compound words: brevirostrate. (dictionary.com)
Can you even imagine how children felt when they received a copy of Beatrice Potters small, intimate “hide-away” books, just the right size to fit in their young hands or a small pocket?! Brevi. Bene.
With every heartbeat…
I pray for you, I Love you. Love is the language spoken here.
What do 46 pages, the Beatles, and France all have in common? The Queen of Hearts said….
….off with their heads! As the baton passes, be sure you understand the situation.
You Dreamers and Doers, you Lifters and Loves, you Caring and Kind: come, now!
Rise and Become the Energy you intended! Come, now! Rise!
Little i, BIG why
Like the TILT on an old pinball machine, whistles and beeps and light flashes warn me. I’m not so very smart, after-all…
Indebted, Beholden, Thankful, Gifted, Grateful: all of the above.
Between the Soul and the Outside World, Scooter and Hesse.
The Rumi Fields and Spiritual Stalemate.
Thomas ~ If you bring forth that which is within you, that which is within you will save you…
…If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which is within you will destroy you.
~ Thomas
Direction? Here is a genuine Love poem. I hope you enjoy it.
Here is a genuine Love poem, my Friends. I hope you enjoy it.
One minute, swimmin’ around, next comes that darned osprey….or, fisher of fish..
It’s all about perspective….glad I’m not THAT fish!
On and on and on and on…
Sometimes the lights we Love flicker out, but rest assured others will be lit to light your way.
An overpowering amazement
We arise each day to a circumstance of Wonder…
Release my ego: the part of me that wounds.
‘Shatter’ ~ verb (used with object)
to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
to damage, as by breaking or crushing
to impair or destroy (health, nerves, etc.)
to weaken, destroy, or refute (ideas, opinions, etc.) (Dictionary.com)
Confinement, 2020
Can you hear the rain drops falling off the red maple? Hear the fog crawling close and closer, still?
Quiet.
How can some of us clear our minds and others can’t seem to stop the constant static interference in our minds?
Everything means something.
We looked to the sky, to the forest floor, the way a bird dips, then soars. Can you hear rocks sing?
Rise!
Anyone can be a self-serving ego-maniacal jerk ~ it takes very little effort.
Out Home
Little did he know, as he walked that field. it would be the last time he ventured into it.
Covid – 19
Is time more elastic in isolation? What would Einstein think? Covid-19-and-the-elasticity-of-time.
“Let me tell you…”
Summerfields…
Round and Round
Haiku for you….
Of the Heart…..
About Autumn from the ancient Blue Ridge Mountains to your heart….