Gaze beyond judgement’s shallow husk, venture past eternity’s delicate luminescence. Permit conviction to fade with each caress of gentle heart and steady breath, softly smiling in the hesitation of innocence, entrusting curiosity to another day.
Life’s soft journey
Emerge from the darkened repose of oblivion, unsullied by thought or temptation for reservation’s illusory miracles. Journey softly in muted calm, heart filled with dawn’s streaming hues of barren radiance, awaiting twilight’s quiet joy.
Tidelands
Tidelands bloom to nature’s touch without fanfare or desire’s circumscribed meaning. Drowning in ambivalent glory, the briny shallows twist in illusory delight, while those around continue the lumbering slog down the well-worn path of ritualized stupor. All things change, even…
Timeless
As memory erodes from the humility of aged achievement, the soul blossoms in unknowing.
Daybreak
Vision narrows in the gathering light until the space between rise and fall of the chest can be heard. Create a pathway, an escape none can see, speaking through the truth of invisibility. Dip a toe in the tepid water…
Better questions
Divining the primordial soup of the soul charms the ancients forth in a kaleidoscope of shade, releasing imagination from the bonded twins of mind and matter. Yet, common culture’s constraint serves us, calming the promise that allows Man’s trials on…
Surreal bookends
Within a one-month period, I was both carded to prove of age to sit at a restaurant bar and charged the senior citizen rate, unsolicited, for a haircut. At 57, the irony had me rolling in laughter for days. After…
Words
Words unspoken reel the puerile fancy in delight and delusion, flinging the heart in a slam-dance of reason, a confused ecstasy beneath wit’s veil. Words, branded by insufficiency and soiled with adjective purity, also define a truncated existence barren of…
A path to the soul
In man’s hurried chase for advancement, a world has been fashioned of despondent gloom, a mechanical land of literalism and materialism that rebuffs life’s essential spark. An enchanted dominion of numbers, where that which cannot be measured does not exist,…
Cup of tears
Brilliance flits at shadow’s fringe, delighting the twirling downpour. Leaves and roots thirst unopposed. Unwinding the foolishness with a child’s laughter, I come to share a cup of tears.