Your Eyes.

I write a poem about your eyes so that I don’t cry Tears are beautiful in your eyes if they come out of joy or happiness or laughter but not of pain or sadness Maybe sunlight without glasses makes you cry but not weep But if you weep it’s beautiful When you’re so filled with …

Plain Comfortable Us

My comfort expired At this point in time And you’re my first desire I’ve come to this place Twenty two times in the past Here, then left, such haste Feeling crushed Worthless Rejected Torn I Just Want Hush Painfully healed Yet dead, and long for your feel A scent of you A favorite song A …

This Place

I can go to a place that is sereneIt blesses me when I go to such sceneOf people and pleasures, feelings become treasuresI can go to a place, free and fulfillingIt gives me a peace without wantOf the things that weigh down and people who measureI can go to a placeI canCome with me to …

An Ode to Cats Who Bite

The cats without care With punch, pizzazz and flare They growl and hiss With fiery cat eyes Spiky hair Gnarling jaws And Spiny tongue They think dreadful thoughts As they Leap towards their prey  with tact Their victims by such surprise Entangled now in  Claws like shackles And teeth like swords Forgive these puny purrless …

Voice Lessons

I’ve been in therapy more than half of my adult life, in number of years. I invest in therapy not only by being present in the sessions, but also by prescribing to personal “outside of therapy” exercises, classes, events, etc in order to deepen my therapeutic results. All of this is to the end of …

Let Her Rest

(a tribute to a cat named Agatha) Lovely thing dressed all in fur Dainty legs And tail that curls Patient eyes Sweet little nose And of course her precious purr She comes to me, silent walk Hopeful heart and brave little paw Something else a nudge of her head then she and me we have …

Revenge Not

No matter how long we've been recovering, no matter how solid our spiritual ground, we may still feel an overwhelming desire at times to punish, or get even, with another person. We want revenge. We want to see the other person hurt the way he or she has hurt us. We want to see life …