Browsing Category: Poetry
FIRST STEP
FIRST STEP:“…I yearned to know how could our image fitInto that circle, how could it conform; but my own wings could not take me so high—then a great flash of understanding struckmy mind, and suddenly it’s wish was granted. At this point power failed high fantasybut, like a wheel in perfect balance turning,I felt my […]
A STRANGER
(This poem was inspired by reading Dante and how his envisioning of the personage of “Beatrice” affected and inspired his art. To me, it is an inspiring example how one person, how ever small their perceived presence in another’s life can affect and redefine entire worlds.)
ROAD TO SANTIAGO
I first read of the Road to Santiago in Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist,” a journey he himself took and wrote of in “The Pilgrimage” and credits to inspiration for his art. I found it again, unsuspecting when intentionally taking a break from Coelho’s books, in Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth” when Jack, a […]
FOR BEATRICE
One of my favorite things in reading is when, unknowingly, you stumble into an incredible romance. It’s not in story you go searching for, but in search for something else, it is revealed and takes you completely by surprise, drawing you in and refusing to let you break away. Recently, I began reading […]
LETTER TO CORINTHIA
I wrote this yesterday replanting a field that failed when conditions were not right. I was looking on the skies and the quote from 1 Corinthians came into my mind: “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; […]