a poem is a sermon
If just one word I write or say, some thought I manage to convey in describing my frame of mind or experience in this life touches even one other mind then I have truly accomplished what I set out trying to do. I write to be of creation when the entire world is distilled, cast […]
I extract this comment from a thread on my Poetry at Poetryslamming, not because I want to draw attention to the person who wrote it, but rather because I think that forum is not the place to engage in a debate, at least at this time. The gist of it is that this person thought […]
If they should tell you all the world is full of evil, and there’s nothing without sin, that life’s bitter extent is but a test to grind away transgression from the heart, the better to prepare your way elsewhere, or that salvation is beyond our grasp, enmeshed in esoteric rites and laws requiring a third […]
In this unspoken space where lovers, mute, imagine beyond thought a world to come, one comes to rest upon the hardest truth: faced with a simple word you are struck dumb, and know to speak of it and not to lie would tear apart your fragile acted sham. Yet from this conflict, weakly, your soul will […]
Once upon a time (which so many of us assume is in the past, but could very well be the future) in a coffee shop far, far away (so far, in fact, it might be considered to be in Memphis, Tennessee) on a Sunday that was confused about its own self-image, seeing how it had […]
My pen and paper ‘gainst your sword and shield We both draw blood on the same battlefield It’s a war of ideas, and some of them proud None of them dare speak their motives out loud My own revolution turned out to be small And sometimes, I wonder on the sense of it all It’s […]
Sometimes it seems that words are so inadequate to describe the true nature of things. As a poet, I find that lack of expressive ability most trying – particularly when what is being described is seen, but not so much with the organs of sight, but with the entire being. English, I think, is limiting […]