Category: My Work

• Haiku #40 – Little Angel *

  Haiku # 40 – Little Angel My little Angel Unspoiled yet by worldly cares Free from grief and woe

  November 21, 2022

  Audio Version, My Haiku, My Work

• Nouns Before Verbs #2 *

  Nouns Before Verbs #2 What happens when I write? First and foremost, I’m doing what I like to do. I’m satisfied. I’m content. I’m at peace. Whether I’m good at it or not is for others to judge. But regardless of that judgement, I’ll continue to tap away at my keyboard and continue to produce…

  November 21, 2022

  My Audio, My Prose, My Work

• Guilt *

  Guilt I feel a sense of responsibility for every disaster. What did I do to cause it? What did I not do to cause it? What could I have done to prevent it? What did I not do to prevent it? Every calamity comes with a burden of guilt. That’s just the way things are,…

  November 21, 2022

  Audio Version, My Poetry, My Prose, My Work

• Dream Time *

  Dream Time Sometimes when I dream I become ungrounded, set adrift On a Picasso landscape That seems uncommonly normal. Dreams are grand adventures, Mystery tours to faintly familiar landscapes By unfamiliar means. Dreams are like that. I remember in stiletto-etched detail The day I became lost at the age of four In a foreign land…

  November 16, 2022

  My Poetry, My Work

• Spied A Mouse

  Linda Spied A Mouse From out the corner of her eye, Linda, a tiny shape did spy. Our laundry room was the scene The site of much neglect has been. Against this siege a barricade arose And orders to this threat dispose. How this threat came to be? The fault lay clearly with me. Dealing…

  November 11, 2022

  My Poetry, My Work

• Remembrance *

  Remembrance Day is fast approaching, another November 11th will soon slip by and into the dimming past. The days when I would don my kilt and take up my pipes to mark the day at some solemn ceremony are also fading, kept alive only in the memory of those much younger than myself. The youngsters…

  November 9, 2022

  Audio Version, My Prose, My Work

• Sunrise *

  Sunrise A spray of lace draped across the morning grass Gives way before the hand of sunlight’s touch The air is graced with the harmonies of angels Madrigals sung at the dawning of the day Bestowing benisons of grace to all Who stand face up to receive them And bring peace to troubled hearts With…

  November 9, 2022

  My Poetry, My Work

• I Remember *

  I remember so many things.

  October 20, 2022

  My Poetry, My Work

• Forever More *

  Forever More Smile for me That I may smile with you And overcome this sadness That haunts my waking hours. Sing for me That I may sing with you To banish troubled thoughts And lay to rest this weight of sorrow Dance for me That I may dance with you, Take you in my arms…

  October 18, 2022

  My Audio, My Poetry, My Work

• Parallax *.

  Parallax That which is to me Cannot be that which is to you But that is the purpose of words To bridge that gulf And language is the road on which they travel.

  September 21, 2022

  My Poetry, My Work