a poem is a sermon
As if the little things were not enough: those trivialities that chafe and burn like tinder when it’s dried and raspy rough, that seem so insignificant you spurn the notion that beyond them is the truth. It’s just that they are countless, and to try to sweep them each aside is of no use; for […]
Sleep on, new world — your time is yet to come; and in that pall of death, forget what was, what is, or merely seems, and build the future from your dreams. Sleep on, mankind, rebuild your strength; prostrate, laid on your bed full length, dream of new heroes still unborn in slumber’s womb yet […]
She’s sleeping there on the chaise, on her face a gentle look; dreaming no doubt of flowers, and quiet hours with a book. Her eyes are closed, her heart eased, and I am pleased that she rests; May her dreams be sweet and kind, and may she find peaceful hours. When she wakes in the […]
at one a.m., when sleep won’t come and my thoughts ramble, loose in my head like marbles in a tin can, the night air still oppressive and thick under the carport where my cigarettes call out their siren’s song, silence and the cicadas drowned out by the abrasive whirr of central air units next door, […]
There are some that make you feel guilt and shame about those few extra hours in your bed on a stray Saturday morning, eyes red after a late night and work-week; they blame you for the world not being up to speed, or for nothing getting done around here; but if you want a little […]
It’s one in the morning; only the cat and I are still awake at this late hour. It (cat) sleeps during the daylight so that when no one is watching it can devour the remnants of an evening meal, making a good excuse for it to wake us up early. But I’ve no such undertaking […]
How many strange nights have I spent awake, only to move through the next whole day dull, like a somnambulist who heedless, takes mad walks through the world of dreams, softly lulled through some forgettable conversation by a bright chimera of quiet thought that hides in its draining deprivation the night’s battle to be joined, […]