Encaustic Poems

What Is It About the Jews?

...(“Shadow Puppet”, 2023, original encaustic)

What Is It About the Jews?

We live in a time of irrational fear and phobias
From fear and loathing towards one’s own body
And parents (about...

All That We Dream

...(“The Longest Journey”, 2020, original encaustic)

All That We Dream

When George Harrison sang,
“Yesterday, today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday”
He was making a si...

Animal Mind

...(“Animal Spirit”, 2018, original encaustic)

Animal Mind

Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be an animal.
Of course I am an animal,
But I wonder what it’s like
To not have the human ...

The Power of Prayer

...(“Beyond the Door”, 2023, original encaustic)

The Power of Prayer

Prayer is a lot like making love
Something we do in private
And something we have to figure out
For ourselves,
Simil...

The Dual Nature

...(“Zero Point of Creation”, 2018, original encaustic)

The Dual Nature

The dual nature of reality,
When we look we see a thing
When we don’t it is a wave,
Isn’t a matter of either/or
B...

The Benefit of Dreams

...(“Something from Nothing”, 2024, original encaustic)

The Benefit of Dreams

The benefit of dreams are many
They literally allow us to meet 
The woman, or man, of our dreams,
Meet and e...

Seeking Identity

...(“Eye of God”, 2018, original encaustic/mirror mixed media)

Seeking Identity

Sometimes I seek an identity
Deeper than the one assigned by others
The loose and sloppy consensus
Of publ...

The Dreamworld

...(“Peyote Dreams”, 2018, original encaustic)

The Dreamworld

I admit it
My preference is for the dreamworld
Over the waking one.
And that’s not to dis those 
Who are near and dear to m...

Destiny’s Child

...(“Birth of Gaia”, 2017, original encaustic)

Destiny’s Child

Who am I, where am I from, where am I going?
Are all questions some of us never even ask.
Some because we don’t care 
Or ev...

Dreamtime in Dreamland

...(“Dreaming Gaia”, 2020, original encaustic)

Dreamtime in Dreamland

Over the years I’ve logged a lot of time sleeping
With much of that time in dreamland.

I’ve had plenty of mundane d...

Reverse Osmosis of Life

...(“Corpus Callosum”, 2017, original encaustic)

Reverse Osmosis of Life

It’s a two way street
The way reality exists
Divided into truth on one side
And illusion’s delusions the other,
...

The Great Toad

...("Peyote Moon", 2018, original encaustic)

The Great Toad

At the gateless gate
I met the Great Toad
Sitting tall and wide

And in his gaze
All my needs were known
And met

And in ...

A Journey Without A Goal

...(“Rainbow Body” detail, 2018, original encaustic)

A Journey Without A Goal

The path to enlightenment is a wondrous 
And delightfully paradoxical thing!
It is complex and yet simple,
E...

The Dreaming

...(“And Dream of Sheep”, 2018, original encaustic)

The Dreaming

At our core we’re all the same
An awareness being in a world of confusion
Good/bad, happy/sad,
Distracted/focused, lost/f...

The Real Left-Right Divide

...(“Halves of a Whole”, 2019, original encaustic)

The Real Left/Right Divide

I consider myself a “classical liberal” 
Which means I’m a freedom loving
‘Live and let live’ kind of guy.
A...

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