Category: Writing
I Will Water Hope
You cannot make me hate.... Read More
Marking Time with a Cricket
"Then a lone cricket starts playing his tune into the dark silence. It makes me feel wonderfully small and inconsequential to mark time with a cricket..."... Read More
Sabbath Evening by the River
"I find The rushing draught has put The stillness back in me."... Read More
Grave at the Quiet Bend
"The fingers of shadow lengthen Along the quiet bend Of the road that runs from East to West Beside the grave of a friend."... Read More
A Song for the Hopeless
"Begin again." And the hopeless soul looks over the edge, into the darkness where their dreams have gone, and wonders if the risk of beginning will be their death or a new life.... Read More
To Grandma on Ezekiel’s Birth
ShareThis poem was written just a few days after my firstborn son was born and as my Grandma Stratton was slowly slipping away from mortality. Grandma had suffered a stroke that kept her bedridden and... Read More
Lines in the Sand
Share Just over a week ago a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, France claimed the lives of 130 people. They were the result of hate and bigotry on the part of Islam... Read More