poetry
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Another old poem
This poem is an amalgam of a few people I was privileged to know during my formative years and just beyond. The hand in the photo — resting on oilcloth — belongs to a beloved friend (deceased), the last occupant of an old mill camp. The Stone What story in her face isn’t being told? Continue reading
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Three Poems From An Old Stash
I wrote these unpublished poems about two decades ago. Where did the time go? Booting up my old computer felt like cracking open a time capsule. – Pam Lindsay The Scream Everybody ducked well, not ducked so much as cringed, squatted a little, not as sharp and shallow as a flinch, more like a startle, Continue reading
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Hume: poetry, music, philosophy quote (with photo)
‘Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. David Hume. Ed. Ernest C. Mossner. A Treatise of Human Nature. Penguin Classics: New York. 1985 (First published 1739 and 1740). p 153 Continue reading
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Hello Dragonfly — poem
Hello dragonfly,where are you going,going in such a hurry?I’d like you to stopso I can pick your prehistoric mind,for the secrets you’ve kept through the ages,and the truth I’m trying to find.Hello dragonfly,what do you seewith your multi-prismed eyes?I’d like to borrow themfor another point of view,the many lives so different from my ownand the Continue reading
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