Once Soft and Smooth
Soft, soothing hands would rock a crying son To sleep; would clap and cheer when he would run; Then work anew ’til household chores were done. Smooth, loving hands would comb a daughter’s hair, Sew …
Category: Love
Torch Song
Remember the Soldier Pass, orange rocks punched by water into seven wormholes painted on a cliff that bled into the horizon. Or the Hudson River, gray palisades growing into taller and straighter marble giants as our …
The Old Man in the Mist
A lonely path through clouded memories his fading mind once sharp and clear, now lost in hazy fusion, time betrayed by hours no longer counted in his universe. Yet hesitantly climbing misty steps his feet …
Mud and Honey
Her sentimental spirit washes freewhen clay and sediment come sliding down,so if she cries, a man is bound to seea river in her eyes but twice as brown.I hold her breadth of heart in high …
Peter Sidney
16th July 2011 Mr Peter S No. 5 Orchard View Etc. Dear young Master Peter My namesake – This card in your hands is for you and not to be shared with your brothers (don´t …
Crossing the Rubicon
gnarled knees of bark moan softly through the voice of autumn’s breeze tremored silhouettes hold silence mimicking rippled frequencies tugging at the expectation of a breathless journey an unassuming span straddles a personal Rubicon and …
Because …
Because of what you do for me, I’m looking at the mystery of life and death through cloudless eyes as waves of gratitude arise like billows on the sea. Though once a hollow absentee, because …
A Thousand Things
When the winds blow into the night Reaching out to the silver moon When the rivers flow to unreachable ends I’ll sing the most gentle song To faraway stars watching over you Tell them about …