the immense violence of the world
                         luck
                         hope

Women are more interesting
Dangerous as well
Smoke on the water
Call me Ishmael

Who knows where we're headed?
Ain't no tongue can tell
The Highway of Regret
I travel with Adele

I reach out
But I can't reach
55 and falling


London Calling!

Academic theology
Pretty removed from life
Hope springs eternal
Wisdom in the strife

Silent meditation
San Francisco mist
Susan Darlene Meek
Ah! Just one kiss

Won ton soup tonight
Snow falls in Seattle
Tecumseh the Shawnee
Prepares himself for battle

3 prayers for Chicago
Dinner in Irish bars
Maybe Trappist 1
Exoplanet stars

     this love that we call ours ...

DC for basketball
Take the Metro train
My son and I together
Maybe Purple Rain

A little won ton soup
Barcelona, Spain
1 prayer for my mother
Her name was Sally Jane

                   Quietly

I wrote a few poems
Traveled the world a bit
Fell repeatedly
But I didn't quit

Try again tomorrow
Sleep perchance to dream
In my solitude
I play for my team

            Silent Scream

Discovering David Markson
Truly one of a kind
Bangkok in the rain
And the Buddhamind

I've been to New York City
Wicked with my sons
Scarlett Johansson is pretty
Please give up your guns

A little won ton soup
A little Asian rice
A little Susan Meek
Don't have to ask me twice

I might die alone
I might die at night
Protection for my boys
Courage in the fright

         Gatsby's green light