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Tag Archives: devotion
Let the Cold Wind Blow
Let the cold wind blow, let the weak spots show, let the gray hair go ’til it’s there no more. Let the days roll by, let the hours fly, let ’em say goodbye ’til it’s you and I. There’s just … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged companionship, contentment, devotion, happiness, living, love, seasons, Sondra
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Daddy’s Little Girl
Sometimes it’s hard to know the right way to begin Too often words don’t get me past the might have beens The mistakes I’ve made that haunt me linger on And it’s hard explaining just where I went wrong Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged children, dedications, devotion, family, fatherhood, Jeff Rachall
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You Can Come Home
One winter’s night a number of years ago in Boston, I was huddled in my small studio apartment on Boylston Street near Berklee College of Music. It was a cold December evening, and as I recall I was broke and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged desperation, devotion, loneliness, longing, love, relationships
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Samadhi
Fumbling to ecstacy One nerve cell at a time Approaching some nirvana Piecemeal, by the inch, sublime At the end of fingertips Extended like a drawl Until the whole skin breathes in each moment’s alcohol From the toes along the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged challenges, devotion, enlightenment, epiphany, Nirvana, presence, relativity, samadhi
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Looking Back at Years of Writing
I seek an answer in the shadow of these years spent wandering and lost; in crumpled notebook pages that mark a trail of desperation and precocious notions, sex-crazed teenage dreams stained with cigarette ash and the half-mad scrawl of an … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged dedication, devotion, personal history, purpose, Thomas Jefferson, writing
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