Why I ask my soul why Push on today why climb through clouds of loneliness why come out to play why toil for summits never reached why love when death will win why hope when failure blocks the road when dreams are crushed again Why stand tall With vibrant voice to live all I can […]
given that light travels at 186,000 miles per secondand the moon is 238,900 miles from earth. it takes less than two seconds for the man in the moon to smile and warm your heart how fast, then, is the speed of love when you smile at the person beside youand they smile back instant immediate faster than a speeding bullet even faster […]
cold, naked, hard, it shrieks piercing down the empty streets the wind beats on every door you can hide from death no more the restless souls stir in their beds haunted by an ancient dread the walls cannot keep out the fear the truth that fate is always near far beyond where wrong knows right […]
Breathing scents of fallen rose petal secrets Unwrapping tied up boxes of lost surprises Waiting while tear drops melt false maskes from me Staring into mirrors of screaming faces behind shadow smiles Knowing layers illusions are dissolving my truth is being revealed tio stib, 1995, 2018 You might also enjoy: First Snow, Sometimes They Smile
My Path to Writing Excellence In the midst of my current mental writing cramps, I rediscovered a cache of poems written a lifetime back. In reading through them, I concluded that I wasn’t much of a poet years ago yet occasionally I created a resonant verse. I also realized that the same disciplined determination for […]
Aladdin had been furiously rubbing the lamp all the way home from the bazaar. The old man had assured the boy that the lamp was, indeed, magical. Just rub it and a genie would appear and grant him three wishes. Not born yesterday, the boy had asked the trader why, if the lamp was so […]
Each day, every day, the curtain goes up on their one act play. The early morning hush is broken by her voice, “are you coming to walk with me?” He rubs sleep from his eyes and answers, “yes, I’m coming.” The blind man and his demented wife have said these lines well over one thousand […]
A funny thing happened when I looked at who had checked out my last blog post, “The Love Game, For Guys Only.” I discovered that, For all my good intentions, I completely missed the mark attempting to serve the needs of my reading audience. A large number of my blog visitors are seeking relationship help […]
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