a poem is a sermon
I have not found the answers seeking truth, nor even formed the questions halfway right; the mysteries that tempted me in youth are still in shrouded mists hidden from sight. The path under my feet begins and ends a single step from where my legs touch ground; and sacred destinations? Well, my friends, not more […]
Each love, when new, burns with a lusty fire; it feeds on what it finds without regret, and warms the soul upon a glowing pyre, not thinking on those things not happened yet. Wrapped in the arms of amorous delight, amazed as each discovery unfolds, two lovers wait, expectant, for the night, and in the […]
I have lingered long by the endless shore, voice lost to the surf, that infinite shift that pulls itself from the littered ocean floor and upon which my thoughts float free and drift; for many years I saw only the edge of it, against the long horizon’s line, and heard, in the haunting seagull’s solfege […]