Poetry Reading – “A Statement of Purpose”

This piece is a guide, a chart to which I refer often to ensure that I am on course, and it seemed natural to revisit it for my daily reading today. I have often felt like I am lost, and, after returning to these words, and comforted to know that, despite the chaos I find … Continue reading Poetry Reading – “A Statement of Purpose” →

Poetry Reading – “Partner in Time”

This piece is another of the most popular here, and for good cause; this was a powerful statement of the love between myself and my partner, Blackbird. It is very meaningful to read this now, as, though we have redefined our relationship and are no longer in a relationship as we once were, we are … Continue reading Poetry Reading – “Partner in Time” →

Love as a Light to Guide Us Through These Dark Times

What do we really know of love? There are so many who have tried to capture the essence of this deceptively simple word, In songs and poems, In books and short stories, In paintings and still-life photographs… Yet still we fail to fully capture or even grasp, A depth in words which is so apparent … Continue reading Love as a Light to Guide Us Through These Dark Times →

The Fall of the Vapor Mystic, Part III (Even When It Cannot Be Seen)

A thick, black fog hangs low over this place now. Long shadows cast by rolling waves of darkness spilling across the houses and walkways. With each passing second, breathing becomes increasingly labored. The windswept streets grow empty and desolate, As the life that once filled them hides behind doors and walls of brick, As … Continue reading The Fall of the Vapor Mystic, Part III (Even When It Cannot Be Seen) →

With Only Absence

There are still And perhaps there always will be Periods in which All that is Fades away Leaving only grey In these times It can feel Like there is little left As we struggle to find Meaning and purpose Some semblance of what was In a world far removed All we have come to know … Continue reading With Only Absence →

A Cold Wind Moving

Felt like A cold wind moving Hollow reeds on dripping bank Brace, step three feet left Resume Fog lifts Breathe Guided by The brightest star Only Soon seen as Just a streetlight Rising above the rest

Come What May, We Will Remain

Now it is dark once more And the path ahead Is no longer clear But I will continue I will move forward Guided by All that I know As well as An awareness Of all that I do not For I have caught a glimpse Of what awaits Just beyond Our current position And though … Continue reading Come What May, We Will Remain →

In the Mountains of the Carolinas

In the mountains of the Carolinas I've worked to put it all behind but All the memories still bind us In a way But wait With new ones maybe I can find That there's still time enough And light enough A new mind, aligned, in spite of Scenes with dreams implied No white doves Only … Continue reading In the Mountains of the Carolinas →

The Culmination of Light and Darkness that Surrounds Us

How these words A trickle at times Come like a flood at others Washing through Washing over This landscape scattered With the relics that compose The very essence Of all we are That all else Might drift slowly out of sight To ignore Or attempt to divert The waters that rise Is to be caught … Continue reading The Culmination of Light and Darkness that Surrounds Us →

On a Grand Scale

To give is to receive Life Can be made To hold meaning Beyond that which any words could capture For value is derived Not inherent Defined at will By those that conceive it Time is much the same In that our only evidence of it's existence Are it's effects observed Perceived and interpreted Within a … Continue reading On a Grand Scale →