A Poem: As Long as Life Beats

As I have been delving recently into a tattered folder of over 50 poems I wrote between 1994 and 2003, I have had a strange sense of reading my own soul’s history. Most of these poems, that I thought were almost perfect at the time, now make me wince and cringe with their sentiments; but [...]

A Poem: Waking Journey

I recently unearthed, from the deep litter of several years of paper, a folder of poetry that I wrote between 1994 and 2001 when writing poems was one of the few ways I could make sense of life. I have always written not only for personal pleasure but from a desire to connect with other [...]

A Poem: Common Things

I can look back to a time when writing poetry was one of the main ways that I had for making sense of the world around me. The creative output from this time in my life actually staggers me – although sometimes I cringe at the quality – I was certainly prolific. I thought I’d [...]

Fatherhood Friday: Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

You spoke of sheiks With Celebrated Beards and Entire wildernesses behind Their eyes and so The painters have made you One of those but You always swirl Ahead of me your face Like a young boy laughing with A mouth as open as the sky I want to write every Word of yours to Make [...]

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