(Read in order: A Butterfly, A Flower, And A Leaf, Like Ivy) She… In her sleeping beauty twists Another leaf perchance? Or another to fall Who knows… Still, she grows tall Covering all then’s, and now’s Is, and will be’s In careful consternation of all the how’s As she reaches again for unmeasured skies Well [...]

There’s a graveyard for hearts If you keep the receipt you can make a return And bury it for a brand new start But the bridge is burned Since she doesn’t have the proper paperwork There’s that thing festering again Too common to call a social issue Occluded by ego’s that like it too much [...]

To my good humor, I hear another rumor… There’s a hypocrite trying to change the world, By being the same old problem. At wits end, it’s a laughing matter to yet again witness, Cause, effect, and another choice to regret… Voice no resent, but how many consequences are left? Collect them all to wear like [...]

(Read in order: A Butterfly , A Flower , And A Leaf, Like Ivy ) Find her In the shade of a tree She let go of home to wander All the greater anxieties. Her face is old, color of gold, She dances silently To the turning of a breeze… Mind her Nomad of earth [...]

(Read in order: A Butterfly , A Flower , And A Leaf, Like Ivy ) A flower is all the world’s impossibility She is the great subduer of sleep The great one that overcomes And opens simply to see Simply to be free… She twists, she dances, her scent glides on every breeze! She is [...]

(Read in order: A Butterfly , A Flower , And A Leaf, Like Ivy ) A butterfly… She flies, caressing the space between Sunshine, and air, the world unseen. A stronger spirit is hers, as Wings beating, she caries herself free, From the cocoon. A butterfly… Once captive, now beyond free. Liberty, greater than that [...]

hello stranger, more beautiful than the last… from the billions of people, no two are the same. build a pedestal for each! throw petals at their feet! hello you, life; from those darkest times into light… if we celebrated each-other we would see that we’re far too admirable to condemn, to habitual hells and war [...]

hate crimes hanging from a tree and bickering bigots barking on tv pointless aggression, why is it this we choose to be, my dear humanity? when we nail some madman to a cross for having the bad sense to tell everyone that it doesn’t matter we should just be belief should set us free! love [...]

For Something Greater (Birthday Poem) “You’re over analyzing.” She firmly said… Keeping company of a long ago friend A debate with Life. Again, I’m arguing a means to end… But why argue, language is poorly articulated intent. That familiar feeling of “I can’t do you anymore.” Counting harm, peace is no charm, when you can’t [...]

hey you, do you mind? step aside! hey who? for love of another soldier… backtalk dedicated to all strong hearts so much older than the age credited to a face or cracked years between unwrinkled skin backtalk… when patience grows thin hey you, hold a dove to another soldier! peace, respect, you know we all [...]

(Dedicated to all women stronger than they think they are.) Where should I wear it this time? Stigma on a golden chain Too brown, white, or green I’m not a ‘he’ I’m a ‘she’ So I hate being me Degrees of hate Equality hurts when it comes from a fist Tell me; why should it [...]

our father in heaven… we don’t need a father we don’t need a patron king not another politician, pimp, or commoditized way of being we need our mother beneath blue skies, this Earth that hurts because our father has us beat one another has us fear our sister and brother but mother, why art thou? [...]

neurotic gods need to be needed jealous patrons and wrathful deities man, in struggle for heaven, place themselves in hell let both go, all the saintly know we need eachother to be ‘we’ but we need ‘we’ to be one inspires another… take responsibility for what ‘we’ become! so into what do we grow? no [...]

‘Why is there suffering?’ Another asks, deliriously pondering disheartening offerings Of wisdom from the profits, great teachers, and preachers Truths of fattened Buddhas and crucified believers Caught in the painful imperfections between each breath to death Morbid notions wear us all to the bone Explaining the divine in those twisting and turning toils Of war [...]

equal faces fearfully point fingers at “inferior” races in superior graces, blame games naming lesser faces rise you fools, now is not the time for hatred behaviorism scared not even the elite are in charge within each… a spark from within, something slumbers, something breaths ascending from the deep it stirs it speaks… wings of [...]

struggling to remain unafraid of what i saw the other day treasure fever and minor misdemeanors leading up to bigger evils misconceptions of god will not make me fear myself… so everyone can have more of what they don’t need the devil too, selectively breeds humans for his needs but what am is seeing? reading [...]