Vienna in brilliant snow
She sleeps. I go below.
Like Ludwig - I don't know.

                 Decembers.

music. snow. books.

             Vienna

St. Stephansdom Cathedral in Vienna
Me solo below
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
Me silently in snow

Embers by Sandor Marai
Mozart in the Night
Eine kleine Nachtmusic
Hot chocolate does delight

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Vienna waits for you
The philosophy of math
A kind of Catholic Jew

But really one of a kind
I've been to Dublin too
Me solo in snow
Jerusalem Adieu

             MittelEuropa

St. Stephansdom above
Wife and child sleeping
Me solo below

Bookshop, chocolate, snow:


Yes, Dr. Freud - to love and to work.

1975
6 years old
On the road to Shambala!

Painful, lonely, meaningless
But still this precious life

Try to explain that contradiction
To your children or your wife

We do the best we can
We disappear forever

The best that we can do
Is beauty view together

Beauty together too
With goodness and gentle truth

Protection for sea and woodness
Games for growing youth

In Dublin. In Dubai. In Duluth.

I've written the professors
Though I am not one myself
Gandalf the Grey
Legolas the Elf

Middle school teacher
Lois Lowry and the Giver
Springsteen in Louisville
Me and Ry and the River

Women from my past
Not quite dead
Gold Doubloon upon the mast
Where will I be led?

Denver, Colorado
Rocky Mountain Higher
One of these Nights
The lighting of the Fire

Exoplanets spin
Possibly Arrival
Thomas means the Twin
The Gambler for survival

Now the light is fading
Darkness in my room

News websites all bad
Frightening virus doom

Thunderstorms in Florida
Snowfall in Seattle

The doctors and the nurses
Perpetually do battle

Fatherhood from far away
Grace to hear their sounds

Quiet night. Still I stay.
The call and I rebound.

If you are from the USA
And you go to France and Italy
On your honeymoon
You return home wishing
For more beautiful buildings

If you teach in Thailand and Taiwan
For a few years
You return to the classroom wishing
American students would pay attention
And respect teachers who try

If you go to Israel for a wedding
And Japan for a wedding
You believe in Unus Mundus
And you cry:

                   Ay! Ay! Ay!

If it's just one life
And then Eternal Night

If the sadness lasts forever
And futile is the fight

If women are quite cruel
And their beauty is their bite

Still tell her that I did my best
And she was such a lovely sight

I wish her well, wish I could tell
Her things will work out right

Please remember me
This cosmic sea:
May it bring you true delight!

Manuel, Catteleya, and me
In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love
Dali exhibit at the Art Museum

           Mexico, Thailand, Spain
               My yearning brain!

It's gonna get lonelier
As I get older
Sickness. Sadness.
Memories. Regrets.

California hope
Birth in Santa Rosa
Golden Gate Fate
Reno: I place my bets

   Sage Ridge. Shakespeare. The Jets!

even when I'm most afraid
the birds near my window sing

annihilation and Extinction
yet still that feathered thing

hope springs eternal
he saw eternity like a ring

I go down without a sound
Silence brings forth spring


                    here I am
                     listening

Morning blue
Lonely cool
high school!

A little cleaning
A little rest
A lot of sadness
My old red vest
3 little birds
I new nest
Hold you close
To my 1 hopechest

        safekeeping

European cheese and bread
        American movies
             Purple Rain

It is always 3 o'clock in the morning
In the writer's mind

I think I read this on The Writer's Almanac
Sometimes I think what we seek we find

The hazy painfulness
Puts us in a bind

In order to free ourselves
We have to farewell and be kind

Virginia Woolf bipolar
Walked into a Lake
Robert Lowell bipolar
Episcopalian ache

I too am bipolar
I pray my life no mistake
Marguerite Porete
Not a female fake

They are reaching
But can't quite reach
I hold them in my prayers

I was taught to teach
Have to teach myself to dare

Patience. Reading. Rest.
Take the next small step.

Love is patient and kind
El Paso has UTEP.

             3 point J

living with the sadness
        both goodness and badness
                        March, Madness!

3 prayers for Chicago
Lady of the Lake
The U.S. is in trouble
Make no mistake

3 prayers for Chicago
One Dark Knight
Gratitude, still gratitude
Though things don't work out right

.....Qualyxian Quest....
             Quixotic
       Kairotic y ******
              Improv

          not methodic


                   hope

I like talking to children, the stranger said
No one else ever asks me what's my third favorite reptile

I tell this story to my son; he says I'm lame
But then I watch him play:  I sit and smile awhile.

Sacred stories are not real
But rather Real
Is what Fr. Greeley would say

Sometimes I hope
Sometimes despair
Still basketball I play

My youngest son is 6
His little lego bricks
At home are on display

We live and die
We know not why
In my solitude I pray

For some kind of peace
The lies to cease
And for a kinder day

I like Red Pine
Eucharistic wine
And the silence of the Way

Sometimes you enter the Dragon
Sometimes you ride the Tiger
Sometimes you have to slay

Gratitude, real gratitude
His birth in Santa Rosa
Our time near San Francisco Bay

So much fear
Still I hold dear
And deer my fears allay

I Thai wai
As they walk by
Ni hau and then xie xie

sitting in the Stockholm sunlight
          watching, waiting
                   Europa!

I've never read Novalis
But I'm acquainted with the night

I've been up for hours
Now the morning light

Never wrote a hymn
Never wrote a dirge

Wrote a haiku (not quite)
When I had the urge

I now live in quiet
Barely leave my room

You can have Orlando
If I get Molly Bloom

Actually, Legolas is cool
Oh, that I could read the Elvish runes!

3 planets in Trappist 1
3 children - all of them sons
3 pointer and my day is done


              habitability

Thankful for the sunlight today
And for my new phone
And for my dad

                          Gracias.

The time of science fiction
The time of science fact
The time of aliens?
How would we react?
I post a bit of Facebook
I mail my Uncle Jack
I take a few steps forward
Sometimes I do look back

              I attack.

Artistic immortality
The only kind
Kind that is for others

The torment
My bipolar mind
Love: both my brothers

What we seek
We often find
A hiding place for lovers

Exoplanet water
Exomoons in June
Discovers!

Too excited to sleep
So I wait
Yes I wait

Carolina Inn
Destiny
Or Fate?

Ravenstory stamps
Seattle
Washington state

In Thailand touched a tiger
Got
A picture plate

Japanese proverb
Genius
Matures late

Wendy
Susan
Cate

To wait and to hope
To die well, Ishmael
Way out in the wilderness
Ravens, Deer, Tecumseh

Queen Sophia Charlotte
Takahiro and Rieko
Lee Tal's cousins
Viva Tel Aviv!

        Mike. Hutch. Steve.

Trinity Episcopal in Boston
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco
Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill

Not knowing is part of the fun
And also part of the faith

Seek and ye shall find
That is what he sayeth

I read Kierkegaard
Went to Copenhagen

So long, Donald Trump
Sleep on, Ronald Reagan

The Knight of Faith, The Night of Faith
Hopin' waitin' prayin'

At times I get that feeling
This has happened before
Destiny at play
Not quite nevermore
Will i actually see her?
Talk to her and soar?
2037?
What are letters for?

Haircuts, baths, board games, phone calls
                             Ya'll.

The chaos of the United States
Formed, and persisting, in united white hates

4:04
Poe's Nevermore

Northwest Ravens
Salmon galore

The pulpit is the prow
We explore

Phoenix Lights?
What are UFOs for?

I can feel Death bearing down
Dread annihilation
Rain on my doorstep
Pain in my heart

Rain on my doorstep
Children soon to school
King Lear is a Fool
The human need for art

     un poco loco part

I was lucky to have some good teachers
Spirit of Gratitude
I want to take more trains
Exomoons exude

Space is the final frontier
Have you seen Europa Report?
4044
4040 Fort

Life might be common
Yo soy solo Todd
How did we get here?
Exoplanets, God?

Movies as I age
Thank you for my sons
Help her in her agony
Help her say xie xie

               La Playa!

There is no life after death
Is there life before?
2 gentlemen of Verona
1 ******* in Elsinore

King Richard III
Comes from Thomas More
Pythagoras, pray for us!
La Florida forgotten lore

               4044

I am not an influencer
Renee just walks away
My son listens to vinyl now
Born in yon Taipei

Superman has Lois Lane
Spiderman MJ
Since I don't have you
I remember yesterday

Geology was interesting
Not just rocks for jocks
Took the London tube
She never ever knocks

In Medias Res
4044
My lonely boring days
Her body in Baltimore

             forgotten lore

It's 4:07 a.m.
So many birds in song

Listening to his teaching
Mr. Harry Wong

Alex and I in Chicago
Theology and ping pong

Leonard Cohen in London
Gentleman late along

Suzanne and Marianne
              So long!

Women are the Great Disappointment
But not the Lady of the Lake
Inner Harbor, Baltimore
America as Mistake

Up at 4 a.m.
Tired, contravening
If she were in my sheets!
And I was in betweening!

               Just dreaming

silent listen, quest to see
       raindrops, please - the best of me
                  rendezvous with destiny?

American life unbelievably shallow
     yet the daily drive I hope to hallow
          
Dylan as I seeking strive
       Yes, Dylan as I seeking strive
                
Settin’ my dial on the radio,
        I fish wish my mother was still alive!

4100 poems
Just came bubbling up

I drank the deep red wine
From the chalice cup

Upon the holy bread
Also I did sup

Quayzar was Amazar
When he was a pup

I fall, I rise, I fall
But still haven't given up


                            Resist
              America gone Corrupt