To Hope

  No explanation for this poem, just watching the Mediterranean Sea and the wind and pondering…  

haiku: soaring

Last week we had a meeting in the Anatole Hilton. My soul feasted on the view from the 29th floor. The sky, clouds, buildings, maze of highways, and landscape took my breath away. Perspective makes all the difference.  Everything looked completely different and new from that vantage point. The view mesmerized me. But it was the birds that…

haiku: The Future

Tomorrow is what  I cannot see, its image is dark in the day.  

‘They Trembled and Stood at a Distance’

It is growing. It is out of control. The California fire rages. As the title of this post suggests, “trembling and standing at a distance,” is a natural way to react to raging fire. I can’t imagine what it would be like to evacuate my home, fill my car with a few things, and later see my world go up in flames via…