Before

Before you decide what you think should be, make sure you understand what is.

Simply is (Harrow)

Once we have agreed that true love exists, we may consider its nature.  It is not, as many misguided poets would have you believe, an event in and of itself; it is not something that happens, but something that simply is and always has been.  One does not fall in love; one discovers it.

Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Wine cake

Mom's birthday cake this year. Was delicious!

Other people's words

If you only hear other people's words as triggers to tell your own story, beware.

Locks (Stallings)

As we shut each door,
It locks: we cannot enter anymore.

A. E. Stallings, from "Lost and Found"

And this is why Mom doesn't fix her own computer

Btw, it worked.

Frightening

What kind of mind decides to worship what it fears?

To excuse

We are much quicker to excuse what we like or deem customary or necessary.

Every day

Every day is an anniversary of infinity.

The path

If suffering is the only path to achievement,
how far along it should we travel?

On religion

Religion is the ketchup of philosophy.

New poems

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Nothing

Nothing is as disturbing as realizing what your friends and neighbors think is real and true.

Pretense/Pose

There are worse things than false bonhomie, but not many.

The Pattern

What if all we are is a pattern that recognizes patterns?

Made and Unmade

Roanoke Review has accepted my poem "Made and Unmade" and will publish it in their 2020 edition.

You have chosen

Never look to the one you have chosen
to follow for reassurance.

The mind

The mind knowing itself
is the mind knowing its model of itself.

If you only

If you only see, say, do
what others see, say, do,
then what is the point of you?

When you can

Choose wisely: things are often easier to pick up than they are to put down.