April 2024
Bio Note: Spring is the great revitalizer of beauty budding outside our windows as well as an urge to tend to the creative gardens of our souls. These days Nature’s nurturance seems even more essential. Recently my work has appeared on Highland Park Poetry, Your Daily Poem, and Storyteller Poetry Review.
Star Trails
Some grip their lanterns through
a great darkness, hearts so tightly
woven in the ways of this world,
mere shadows of who they might be
while others, often ignored or even
deemed mad, channel true power,
minds illuminated by all that is holy
despite the heaviness hunkering
down around us…
Picture Vincent viewing
the countryside of St. Remy
from an open window before
dawn at St. Paul asylum
Imagine the genius of his sight
akin to the light from a camera
not yet invented for another
century or so, capturing
with transcendent vision
star trails scoring
the night
sky
Originally published in Quest-Journal of the Theosophical Society in America, Fall 2023
The Road
Here is the road: the light
comes and goes then returns again.
Be gentle with your fellow travelers
as they move through the world of stone and stars
whirling with you yet every one alone.
The road waits.
Do not ask questions but when it invites you
to dance at daybreak, say yes.
Each step is the journey; a single note the song.
From Bless the Day: Prayers & Poems to Nurture Your Soul (Kodansha International)
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