“What is romance?” Ryan asked. “Lived spirit recognized in resonance with another soul,” she answered. “Then how does it arise from the inanimate: colors in sky, lines in a book, sound of a song, sense of wind when alone in thought—memories?” “All lives as spirit in contemplative mind.” “And how […]
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Journal Pages / 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 […]
Poetry
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.)
Short Story
HER NAME
Ryan listened to the conversation never expecting to become a part. Resting in the college coffee shop, Ryan listened as two English Doctorates—each with their own private, and common, ambition to write the next Great American Novel—debated Dante and the identity of his beloved. As the often case of most such-dreamers, their minds […]
Poetry
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 […]