Long Branch out Poems

MY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980

The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...

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Waymo's Service Is A Detriment To The Economy-Society

Waymo's self-driving taxi service, or ride share service, contributes very little to the economy and food chain. Whereas human drivers of taxi and ride share services circulate their...

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Sogyal Rinpoche,
and all the Rinpoche family before him,
prescribes therapeutic merit
of contemplating my Master's face.

For ecotherapists
the Master of Regenerative Intent
is also Mother Earth's face,
climate,
multicultural health
in ecological/theological harmony.

EcoTherapists,
like ancient saints and sacred scriptures,
teachers and teachings,
oral tradition Tellers
and...

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No Saints were Artists….



Suckd down a portal incorrectly chosen by disbelief blah and a challenge that is ill advised plays out a lost and a soul was threatened to be taken but should counter offensive...

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I HAD A DREAM . I know I know its been said before
But hear me out before you close the world
Views away into bleak abyss one where we all fight
Over who is wrong and what...

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O mother, who was so beautiful, yet, troubled with everything 
that may affect on the son’s well being; and therefore, grew old.

O mother, who was so elegant, yet, was so concerned about her son;
she always...

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Once, long distant calls would cost
You, your friends and family so many voices
had to wait, anticipate the budget and the worth
of words said out loud to ride rapid electric lines.
Still sentiments of love freely fly...

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CORRUPTION
As the tree branch its hands to collect  wind
So do  men  branch  out their hand to  offer and collect my willingly. 
Sweetness, and  bitterness of life are my ...

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Most Republicans I've had the admittedly too infrequent pleasure
of listening to
assume financial wealth
is a greater public responsibility 
and opportunity
than very much secondary social wealth
of healthy relationships,
resonant and democratically inclusive resilience.

And, Green Democrats
seem to share a...

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From my childhood to adulthood my
Spirit always wrestled with navigating the 
Tumultuous torrent of others thoughts
and opinions seeking to discover and
Hear my own voice.

I pen my journey, my spirit, my home.
A masterpiece crafted in passion...

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Water, in a protein sense,
salt and other substances,
make up plasma, which, in kind,
account for half of blood's design.

A mammal's blood is red and bright,
-from oxygen, when mixed inside.
Because of an iron-filled kind of protein,
Hemoglobin, it's...

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Truly it’s a wonder that you appeared in my life
A miracle for which I have waited on to take away my strife
Such a gift from heaven; an angel emerges in place of my site
To give...

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Stepping heavy as the burden of my heart breaks
Heartfelt, never made an effort that was half-hearted  
enough to be coming at your heart in half-steps
Check my prints, my footsteps never matched them
The path I...

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Sometime ago, it must have been a long time ago
I dared branch out from my twin sister.
We grew tall and sturdy, each in our own space
basking in the sunlight most of the time
and soaking in...

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Painting You

Before painting, I first sketch you
In my mind’s eye…To compose
The lines, shapes, shadows and lights, 
That work altogether to form a semblant sight
Of you for any relative, friend or acquaintance…

Next, I embrace the required...

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Just a feeling or something that lives between two people,
It begins with birth and will not end on earth till we pass,
Then we start a new love with our loved ones on earth, 
They shall...

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The old oak felled by man is no different from me,
Whose fond dreams were shot down, carried off to the sea. 
By the river, this tree had enduringly stood
‘Til the villager maimed it for need...

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I despise JOB INTERVIEWS 
Just like a stale ASPARAGUS SANDWICH!

"TELL me about yourself"
The interviewer eyes me, anticipating the perfect  answer.
I only offer a slight smile.  I muster up my best and say,
"I am...

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A fragment of matted stone breaks surface.
It is already colonized
by moss and fungi factories;
eventually they will churn 
green spawn into rural Ohio towns;
not yet of course, ‘yet’ has to wait
for the rain and the blood...

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Jim 1 

Divorced from the outside world as if you have never heard
changes in the back of my head egg shelled in design & form
some may insist on cursing the very day they were born
Dionysus...

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all the work i do
all the sweat and tears i've shed
only to get to this moment of disappointment
not in how i do my work, 
but the people who surround me
looking down on me as if...

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A snow-splattered,
cheerful red house.
Pine, sparkling white.
A snowman gladly,
proud and robust,
wears red-trimmed black hat,
a long green plaid scarf.
Buttons almost popping
off his pronounced belly.
His arms branch out
as if they are long fingers,
and there rests
a Christmas red cardinal.

Wind-pinched,...

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They don’t like it when I write about you
They even mock me when I am day dreaming in the queue
I watch them whisper in each other’s ears
Finger pointing while I am snuggling in your embrace

So...

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At peace with the outdoors,
Where life's creatures roam
Within nature,  I am at home.
The North East is where I grew.
My roots I barely knew.
As the seasons drift,
I accommodate the shift;
Embracing them all.
Feeling most alive during...

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The sky trembles, 
the trees aflame, 
naked under the spotlight, 
but they are not the dancers... 

It is those innocent strangers, 
shuffling like Kings and Queens upon the deck, 
and I, the joker in the...

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