There are so many unseen battles going on behind the eyes of people who say they are fine. Let’s all be a little kinder today…
Battles Unseen
Category: Poetry
The Necessary Angel
This poem is about a necessary angel telling a young man with mental health problems the truth he needed to hear.
Booked to Heaven
I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.
Private Passageway
A poem about aging, reflection and lost opportunities. However, dreams in retrospect provide a way to rewrite history.
Bridge Of Dreams
How peaceful dreams can also be agitating.
Drunk
Drunk is a poem that implores the idea of heartbreaks and how some deep bonds when broken can make us feel so drunk and delusional.
Crypt in the Sky
please don’t bury me beneath
this ground, don’t let me decay
Almost End of a Line
This poem reflects my love of mythology, teaching and learning, and above all of the ways in which words collide.
Love Thy Neighbor
A poem about the war in the Ukraine.
The Cycle
Dedicated to all women who have suffered abuse at the hands of the man who was supposed to love them.
A Garden Grows
Christ wears a gas mask,
shudders as Putin’s machine
A Split Second in Time
An eclectic interpretation of mood and a mix of form.
Hunting Season
This comes from my earlier work at a rural Appalachian Ohio convenience store that also doubled as the area’s location for deer tagging.
This is the Year
Exploring an obsession with the ill-treatment of women, and the antagonisms of love and aging.
Melting into the Universal Dissolve
A snapshot in time describing the paradoxical nature of life and consciousness.
hot iron
A caution against procrastination.