Welcome and thank you for visiting my blog. As the title suggest, this is where I archive my 'public' writings. You won't find any BS opinion postings here; just poetry with a few short stories sprinkled about. Take a look and thanks again!

Zen upon Sunrise

There will be a gold bloom
Fast and quiet it blossoms
Rays of petals
Tickling the green palms
Kissing the glass faces of sky scrapers
Opening up it is as in dreams
The gate to Nirvana

At four a.m. we have a little ways
                    Or at least a short eternity
Before full bloom

Traveling South

The world walks here
Sitting in what they call beating contemporary -
          I'm bored of it already
A year is just yesterday -
          they have not forgotten
And the New Century has still only just begun

The valley yawns
Cold slumber undone -
          the land has been left for dead
And the trees tell us the future -
          they speak of God
Curled and twisted they fall upon themselves without their guise or blanket

The Starbox on the left holds their hipsters
Faux hawks and retro military coats -
         Varsity jackets and knitting yarn
The radio news proves the youth is not lost -
         I cry unknown and sleep through what they call ruckus
I heard this song six months ago, claiming
     the Foreign Streets as my home.

The Grander Era

Times like these long for me
And I them

Where are the infants
Aghast by wood blocks and Legos?

Yearning ancient elephants
Wandering Oakland’s Madagascar

Large enough for smaller times
Grander eras hung awaiting

A pontoon wavering
Atop undiscriminating seas
Grander Eras.

How seas provide current

Twelve-eyed prophets

Ringing ears

Dens of thieves and books of lies wearing purple

Angry felines gnawing scruffs

Sleeping stories of living untold

Drowning

            The sea calls a name
Undiscriminating
Grander Eras I heard.