AURORA The sun will still excite the sky Despite the inky veil of night, Enrapturing the mortal eye With glowing tapestries of light. Apollo shuttles burning thread To weave through Earth’s magnetic loom As weft and warp cross overhead Make dancing fabrics in the gloom. The rainbow is a candle flame To this inferno in […]
The sun in his solitude, glowing above, Called out to the moon, “Come hither, my love! The sky is too vacant, to share it I’m pining. We could fill all the heaven with both of our shining.” But the moon she was bashful and fled from daylight And hid in her refuge of comfort, the […]
“And thou, most kind and gentle Death, Waiting to hush our final breath,…Thou leadest home the child of God, As Christ before that way hath trod.” -from “All Creatures of Our God and King,” by St. Francis of Assisi Between the ages of twelve and thirty-one, I spent most of my days in an agonizing trek through […]
I. It was a solemn and idyllic night – A blissful bathing of the green moonlight Trickling through leaves that fluttered like applause Illumined the Arcadian delight. Wending my way throughout that midnight hour I came upon a solitary bower Whose cozy secrecy exuded sweet Effusive promises of carnal power. And there, two spirits who […]
It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore… Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That, in the course of justice, none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy;And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of […]
Unholy howling in my blood That drowns the music in my soul! – Confounding with nostalgic flood My poor resolve, in rise and roll. The fever of my mind thou art, That immolateth piety; Thou art the riot in my heart ‘Gainst conscience and authority. At night’s reposing, thou dost creep And plunder peace from […]
The Empowered Loser 