I now prefer silence
I prefer hearing nothing
but my own thoughts
and sometimes not even
that sometimes it’s nothing
What I’m talking about
isn’t being underwater or
being buried under sand
What I’m talking about
is being safe and
aware and mindful of
all things around me
but listening to none
There’s none out there
you just need to
listen to find it
Category: Creativity
Iland
I’ve accepted my aloneness
I no longer look
to another for friendship
I am my island
borne from nothing but
the earth sky sea
what I need I
have right here all
else are lost or
there to take and
occupy and eventually remove
leaving me my island
scarred like everyone else
BeADuck
I oftentimes feel like
a mallard trying to
find a comfortable place
to sit upon eggs
Sitting upon dreams soon
to be realities is
never easy whether they
be ducklings career or
love we all have
dreams having dreams is
easy but tending to
them warming them and
protecting them from the
elements and from predators
and the many naysayers
takes courage fortitude and
strength whether those dreams
quack or maybe roar
AnyWhere
Just as the sun
caught your naked shoulder
you turned the same
way that you turned
in Venice as the
shuttle boat turned the
corner of the canal
and the sun caught
your naked shoulder making
it glow as if
cast from gold itself
but now as you
sleep still beside me
I can still see
you and standing there
a few feet ahead
of me having always
and remain my leader
I’ll follow you anywhere
Imagined
Sitting on my balcony
after eating our dinner
enjoying the early evening
sun as it creeps
slowly lower in sky
our wine glasses tinking
as they touch between
bad jokes and laughter
this is precisely how
a Denver summers evening
would be I imagined
