Category Archives: hope

Hope While the Dragon’s Awake

Spirit of th’ Earth
let us invocate

grace Her with gentle strokes
for purring comfort in Her song

inspiring floodwaters to don
their rainbow mists
into songs of encouragement

not for the morrow
when This Moment will do
to be ours to dream

Farewell, 2020

Her final blink
a blend with nightfall
now another dream
in Time’s family plot

how will Her nursling
prevail
to childhood
to elderhood
thru obscurity forthcoming?

Remembering Normal

                                 at holy james’ downtown bay
                                 ‘twas someone’s future—
                                 a future after their time—
                                 way after

                                 boats anchor’d—
                                shores of point loma—
                                united landing at refurbish’d airport—
                                solar turbines—
                                star of india—
                                anthony’s—
                                pac star cruises

                               seaweed stretching from shallows
                               to surface and nursing rocks
                               bordering harbor drive—
                               a curious pigeon bobbing for scraps

                              too hot to be jogging
                              unless you’re a jogger

                              Tomorrow’s not soon enough

Today’s Aspiration

                                            thru a rift in the fabric
                                            of cold uncertainty
                                            fly our deafen’d spirits

                                            from the bugles of despair
                                            towards that sparkle
                                            in the spire of time

                                           oh!  to feel the warm voices
                                           of angels
                                           on the wings of a Miracle

aspiration

in my palm
Star of Dayspring

no, a universe
in itself

th’ offspring of aeons

such wonder
such beauty
to hold and behold

pray, forever and a day