Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·PinnedMember-onlyI Came to a Bridge While Out WalkingIn the midst and turmoil of daily life where do we cross to find ourself? A Bridge to Our Self Once Taken — a free verse poem I came across a bridge and lingered before crossing Stone and mosaic moss, it slept before me Paths worn and tired, it tempted…Poetry On Medium2 min readPoetry On Medium2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·PinnedMember-only12 Thoughts When Spooning at DawnHow to know if the choice was right, a review when cuddling after 40 years. The Disclaimer : I am not boasting the years I have accumulated, that is not my intent, I was fortunate and I recognize everyone has their own road to walk. …Advice On Love4 min readAdvice On Love4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe PostStanding in No Man´s land, a charred post views our heroes. The post stood alone, brittle, bereft of kindness, a peering eye. Between the trenches it watched as man´s hubris sputtered by. Raging courage, to quell the fears, it saw men blindly race to the fore, Soon to be slaughtered…Remembrance Day2 min readRemembrance Day2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·1 day agoMember-onlyBegin, Began, Be done, Crushing ProcrastinationOne simple practice that dissolves the beast that gnaws away at aspiration. We all suffer from it to some degree, and if we claim we don’t, we are probably stumbling in a vague mist of anguished denial. The debilitating process of procrastination seeps, like wood rot, into our core and…Self Improvement5 min readSelf Improvement5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·Jan 25Member-onlyI choose to, I don’t choose not to.Unable to utter a listicle, a ‘how to earn on medium’ or negative racial rant, I stagger as a drunk on the precipice of Medium irrelevance. Choice, why did you abandon humanity? I gazed as an innocent, if any in our world truly are, at the morning and I saw…Life Lessons3 min readLife Lessons3 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·Dec 21, 2022Member-onlyWho Blinds My Soul?Reflection is the bane of understanding Eyes closing, shrouded in a haze of gloom I search above, where lies heaven’s hope? Desperation, my only lover, invites me to her tomb Inching, a dirt-stained shuffling shadow, I grope. Confused, I move not to warmth or a belly filled with joy I edge…Poetry On Medium2 min readPoetry On Medium2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·Oct 4, 2022Member-onlyWhat Evil Lurks in the Morning Fog?I gazed at a swallowing mass, terrified that I, too, would be consumed. The stilled sleep of fog beckons, hazed anonymous images drift, shapeless or shape-filled, vacant. Does the shadow question? In silence the mist waltzes, in grace it consumes the surface a rolling octopus of fog. It seeps over…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·Oct 1, 2022Member-onlyMy Hands Speak to MeGazing at your palms what do you see? Time’s passing leaves crevices that echo shattered trails like dry river beds memories drifting in ash of kindled hopes now gone. Servants forever humbled and bent, dutiful in youth, angered in gnarled age. You have served in solitude firm unwavering, yet unappreciated. You can…Poetry On Medium2 min readPoetry On Medium2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·Sep 21, 2022Member-onlyTime Forgives NaughtThe passage of life’s grains of sand suffocates the substance of our souls Wrapped, enshrouded, and consuming, Time throttles my ambition, that tarted basket of hopes and dreams, that mystic cloud of naive possibility. Time stands guard, relentlessly burning the incessant drip of life, scorching the icicle of termination searing in the brilliance…Poetry On Medium1 min readPoetry On Medium1 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·Sep 15, 2022Member-onlyAbandoned, I Saw Love FadingWatching love fade, I search for a new image in the darkness — You turn slow, the ebb of a tide no sound, no breath of wind, stillness, only your drifting. A shoulder glimpsed, a cheek with loving smile, now cool and dismissive. Eyes once welcoming and warm, now distant, shuttered. …Love Poems2 min readLove Poems2 min read
