a poem is a sermon
To look out at the stars at night against a distant tapestry of endless black, that seems to spread beyond our fickle sense of time and stretch the limits of our sense to breaking, is to feed a dream. No simple, selfish kind of dream – the kind that wakes you in the night, half-conscious, […]
Stop all the clocks! The hours must halt their slow and steady marching on; let all lay fallow in default until this fickle mood is gone. Stop all the movement of the sun and stars against a sombre sky; let fall in finish what’s begun until this darkened thought goes by. Stop wishing, stop your […]
I closed my eyes for just a wink, it seemed, to find two hours past; and in the space of that mere blink, the sky, dull grey and overcast had cleared into an inky blue. The tepid post-rain afternoon had settled, like the evening dew that lurks beyond each near monsoon. The stars were ringed […]
From early childhood until now I’ve spent my life immersed in earnest pantomime of games adults will feign to play: the forging of relationships through love, business and war; the chaos that somehow surprises all when facades fail and underneath, our lack of understanding is revealed. In retrospect, it seems so pointless that this grand […]
Society, your dream would have me beg for pittance from a cruel employer’s hand, and from my knees downward, not use my legs, preferring that I genuflect, not stand, to act as servant, bound to divine whim that your appointed middlemen report. What’s more, I must be weak, and bow to Him who you insist […]
I wish that I could still believe the lines that feed the young and nourish childhood dreams, the reassurance everything is fine despite the raging chaos it may seem. I wish the world would confirm to my will when I am sure the course the world should take, but what I want to move often […]
I was raised on tales of princes, kings and dragon’s hordes; the books they filled engulfed my world with sights that to this day affect me deeply. I can hear the swords (both those of plastic from my youth, and others forged of steel) that came to clash against their foes each night, caring more […]