Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.
Dreams & greens
For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.
Vino diabólico
There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.
Poetry
There is a pleasure in the pathless words…
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet can not all conceal.
The words are lovely, dark and deep.
I went to the words because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of language.
In the words we return to reason and faith.
Come to the words, for here is rest.
Literature does not grow wild in the words.
I put my heart to school in the words.
In the words is perpetual youth.
Whose words these are I think I know.
We are not out of the words yet.
Viewpoint
Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.
Glorious
imagine how many glorious winters and springs
the stars from their celestial perches have seen—
Soul warmth
Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other.
Serenity & grace
when I fall into old age
let it be not a drunkenly
face-first tumble but rather
an autumn leaf gracefully
drifting from the tree —
or if we ascend into our
older years please let me
soar and not be flung
Relentless
Time doesn’t tick
it doesn’t tock —
it flows relentless
it is we who chop
its water with our oars
Flaky crust happiness
O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again and I am
Missed
Over time, the hurt doesn’t hurt. Only regret does.
Endings & beginnings
The last faded autumn leaflet hangs from a frozen branch, just a short fall from the tree to winter.
Queen of Self
Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world!