Author Archives

Look To This Day…

Look To This Day
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
The realities and verities of existence,
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power . . .
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a [...]

Orpheus and Eurydice. Rainer Maria Rilke

Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes
That was the strange mine of souls.
As secret ores of silver they passed
like veins through its darkness. Between the roots
blood welled, flowing onwards to Mankind,
and it looked as hard as Porphyry in the darkness.
Otherwise nothing was red.
There were cliffs
and straggling woods. Bridges over voids,
and that great grey blind lake,
that hung above its distant [...]

the sweet spirit that is you…

When we first met
there was something that struck me
a feeling I could not shake
something about you
held the flame that could thaw my love
It was true
and it came to be
the sweet spirit that is you
against all odds
un-froze my heart
but over time
the darker angel that is my demon
fought to keep my heart on ice
the ongoing battle
damaged our [...]