Category Archives: Reflections

Good morning my friend,I’m so excited to learn,What’s it like up there,Now you’re there in turn. Have you found your dear Mother,Or others who were kind,While you were here with us,Now there to share all time? Have you seen the throne room,Is Paul holding court,In praise of the Holy Father,Saints and citizens to sort? IsContinue reading “A Curiosity of Heaven”

He came to me in a dream,Dripping wet in accusations,Of wrongdoing, wrong thinking,Of tragedy, woe and avarice. He wore a look of expectation,As if to shed these aches of the heart,For he knows his time is short,And his mortality is drowning. Yet he has reveled a lifetime full,In perdition, telling lies,And drunk selfishness,Until all haveContinue reading “Drowning Man”

Music starts to the maestro’s baton,Graceful hands like a flower unfurl,Her eyes and chin roam high above,On her toes, with her mind in a twirl. Notes from Swan Lake greet her,Fettered in a grotto corner space,But memories slip out her castle,Showing surfeit of skill and grace. More beautiful now than ever before,As admirers watch inContinue reading “Marta Gonzalez – Prima Ballerina”

I step downstairs into the dark,To a stink of ocean bream,All alone in the middle of friends,In my pillow, I hide to scream. I want to be someone else,Someone whole, normal, free,I’m tired of depending on others,My life at an apogee. A puzzle to my conscious self,A vapid life that seems a lie,If not me,Continue reading “Dream Escape”

It does not appear to be there,Without reflection,Or some contemplation,It just isn’t there. It’s like a low flying hawk in the sky,Or an oak tree in a pine forest,A phalanx of fish just below the surface,Or a lioness lurking the brown Sahara. But if one looks deeper,Below the flash of the obvious,The evident sounds andContinue reading “At First”

The sun has set on your birthday,Your family has shared their love,How happy we are to have you,And for you, thank God above. Now sleep my darling in peace,Happy dreams our beautiful child,Like a campfire that warms our lives,Slow down and stay awhile.

Sitting on the edge of time,Wanting you to be all mine,I see our spirits join in line,I’ll not surrender you. Here I am just the same,Living life with a wooden name,As smoking sun rolls down the lane,For things I couldn’t do. Where are you this new day year,I see you there but you’re not here,I’llContinue reading “Shadow Love”

A view from the mountains at dusk,As snow crackles under my boots,Our old dog, Coffee and I,We’ll meet you in the morning on the porch. Once, we visited the ocean,Pretty, but the waves were scary,I was afraid to go in,You stayed with me on the beach, under the umbrella. A yellow songbird flew by today,AndContinue reading “The Porch”

On the streets of St. Augustine,Sits a man playing a guitar,I could tell by the look of him,He’s traveled hard and far. Dirty feet on the graveled street,His song, slightly off key,The withdrawn look of his eyes,Shouts a passionate plea. The girl beside him calls out to me,I can see that she’s been crying,Palms pointContinue reading “Living on the Street”

Ocean blue sky no water in sight,A sandy plain edges forest green,As the border approaches the trees,Stand the animals in between. Red mountains that rise above,Wolves howl to the pack they made,Like a jazz sound of sadness,Shooting stars to burn and fade. Sunrise yellow ‘lo darkness looms,Warm rays tied down by clouds,Like a drummer withoutContinue reading “Resilience”