Buried deep under well-loved green hardback

swirled in serifs of gold leaf still bright

Neither dead nor forgotten not lost

but waiting to take root

first a primal crack

a tenacious root pale and hungry

but willing to split rock

finds its purchase

then the unfurling

tremulous trembling green spearheading through sun-warmed earth

there is

green just beneath the surface

before the crack of the m...

They can hear my thoughts

My troubling, troubling, thoughts

My terrifyingly independent troubling troubling thoughts

They hurt me for my thoughts

My troubling, troubling thoughts

They torture me until I give in

For my troubling, troubling thoughts

They change my troubling thoughts

To not so troubling thoughts

Maybe they weren’t that bad

For changing my troubling, troubling thoughts...

We so rarely see in the mirror

That which we yearn for the most.

We go on these journeys

To cure our disabilities.

And in our odyssey for wholeness,

The road challenges us

To discover

That these strengths

Were never missing,

But have always shaped

who we are.

And in turn,

we help the friends

Who we find along the way

To look inside themselves

Where their deepest desires too lay....

She was useless,

Broken,

Scattered,

Insipid.

She was an ogre,

Abandoned,

Defenseless,

Discarded,

She was a shell,

Empty....

Wizards

And Dwarfs

With Elves

And more

The Hobbit

Lives happily

While the King

Lives mercilessly

Talking trees

Carry the lost

While bald eagles

Save the lot

The ring

was stolen

Or lost

Now swollen

By greed

And fervor

While Sméagol

With ring fever

Strider

And his Princess

Happily

No resistance

In the end

The ring returns

All’s mended

No more yearn

Tessa🦋...

His journey to seek the secrets of life

A flock of sheep sold and a fortune teller told

A thousand pounds in the markets of Egypt

Dreams reflected in glass and crystal clear

At the base of the pyramid of dreams

Desires of going upwards with untold fortune

Fallen from wealth and now upon a camels back

An Englishman, an Arab girl, a journey with no way back

The wise man he finds, his true self...

The folly

Of theory

Without mind,

To reason.

From the small

To the tall

Sailed. Assigned.

All seas, on

Absurd lands.

Outlandish

Full of pride

Puny one

Once was friend

Now is foe

Can confide

But does shun

Once an idol,

Now a doll.

Highlights sin

A short fix.

Excrement

head to foot.

Showered in

Politics

Pores laid bare.

A mole here,

A mole there.

Transgression.

To bear sin,

Progression.

A...

Fireman

Fire is no longer your enemy

A laughable fable

Firemen didn’t fight fire

Fireman

You start the fire

You burn the pages

You stop all dangerous thinking

Fireman

A perfect 451 degrees

Leather melts

Gilded edges crinkle

Fireman

You hide one away

You think outside the box

You find others

Fireman

Your wife wears the seashells in her ears

She doesn’t believe you

Where can you go from h...

Day turns into night

That’s when we awaken

To find that not everything is right.

The high Council is here

To discuss things we fear

The person we trusted is evil....

Pretty siren girl

You found fame on tv screens

Lovers come and go

But still you yearn for more

Perhaps that is because

You have sold your heart and name

For a life you thought you wanted

But when you close your eyes

You wonder

Is this what they will remember you by?...