a pearl in the making

i don't know why

i am surprised

anymore, to find

my tears so close

to the surface,

it happens so

often these days...

my eyes, always

on the verge

of giving me away

but wisdom says:

let them fall,

they are pearls

in the making

wordless wednesday

20/20 night vision

i have been revisiting
some things lately,
turning them over
(and over) again
in my mind...
sorting them out
in my dreams, and
wishing the 20/20 clarity
of my night vision
translated more easily
into waking life

broken mandala (clean slate)

open a vein

be bled

of your color

be done

with the pain

oh, that it were

so simple a thing

as wiping

a slate clean

rising

i rise each day

on hopeful wings,

with songs learned

in the night watch

still lingering

on my tongue

wordless wednesday (wabi-sabi)

nonsense

i like nonsense,

it wakes up

the brain cells.

fantasy is a

necessary ingredient

in living; it's a way

of looking at life

through the wrong end

of a telescope...

that enables you

to laugh at [some of]

life's realities.

-theodor geisel (1904-1991)