True need grabs at desperation; Love turns real through wounded eyes – You made a melting conflagration, Ripped this mammoth from its ice. Deprivation’s quavering jitter Stumbling over pill-blocked feet; All was acrid venom bitter Then a flash: the world is sweet. I would be your alien rocket Looping round your orbit chair, Blasting out […]
Be honest. Plan for your children’s future. Apologize to those you failed. Respect education. Focus on genuine service. Never assume that others owe you something. Community isn’t an abstraction. Nothing lasts forever.
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He is a driving music manWhose beats match somethingIn the rhythm of my soul-singing.Resistance is futile,So I grab the bags and turn the key.This road trip has not begunSo much as continued along a vein of possibility.My thoughts are liberated, yet Spirit strains against Self-imposed discipline, And I wake in the morning
I want to climb behind your eyes, Melt through the surface like dust through a sunbeam Travel like light and sink fearlessly into the dark, Gliding through the warm teak brown of your old growth irises, sinking all the way down To the roots. I want to face the abyss with abandon And become the
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“Nothing Social Distances Like a Jeep!” (TV Message, 6/6/20) This baby knows nothing at all of shame. If he soils himself, his parent, diaper, bib, Look! New! Excrement added! he proclaims, Proud of the
He’s just a little gray cat Old now and more careful, gentler than before But late at night he climbs into my ordinary lap And settles in with confidence Knowing me as he does Knowing how much he is wanted. His chin and belly are white And when I rub the bridge of his nose