School Shooter ‘Shooting star’ You were born of the same  stardust, the same love  but you lost your soul on a quest You were the soft...

Spring Rehearsal Birds chirping in rehearsal for spring Bravely sweet as winter thaws, and the grey film of unended winter still covers...

Removing the Veil In honor of Tahirih - 'The Pure One' For centuries, ‘she’ lived in the shadows behind veils, behind walls, behind men...

The promise of dawn arising, they tread their last steps to take their last breaths the cold dampness of the earth reminding them of...

May the time come soon when the meek inherit the earth when a human’s inner worth is the gold currency of merit earned in immutable...

She is volunteering at the senior center gift shop seated adrift walls hung with recycled attic clutter, where necklace mobiles dangle...

Dear God, please enable and ennoble me to see and know divine reality as the template of my life Its ocean my screen Its infinite...

Her eyes are elated moons peering through tassels of hair- a zephyr surrounds her creating a hum she is hypnotic in her confident freedom...

I land in the home of my heart In the valley of Cauca where mist meets mountain steamy heat spires up from mirrored grounds and the...

Wonder itself has exploded in a noiseless big bang as we discover entire new galaxies and somehow it- slipped us that now we could see a...

Stars and Magnitude Star so bright I wonder why we only follow the twinkling of the suns we can see so easily, with no inkling of the...

Late fall peeling layers the last filaments of dead leaves floating down like embers from charcoal trees. Fall is falling revealing the...

The birds don’t sing in the rain sadness weighs in puddles that distort light, I exhale the fog of inexplicable pain- the pitter patter...

Crooked in my arm I look over at your curly eyelashes and plump hand holding the book with me my youngest grandchild Making me...

Whales once abounded like fish close to the shore swimming trustingly into this cove where men swept them into nets, never sailing out to...

W Who guards the gate? at the threshold of your heart who do you summon? as day closes into thickest night wrapping the enemy on the...

Silenced stories of abuse imprinted and crystalized into a unique pattern- a life script frozen in mind Truth covered in dark snow...

Clear your heart from brambling fear and the hardness of unyielding thoughts opening the loamy terrain for tender shoots of hope that...

I am a child soldier conscripted, unarmed the proxy of the enemy in a war without end- my only retreat is within myself I cannot leave...

Dear Emily, Thanks for defining the elusive beauty and enduring power of hope Life is more complicated now yet essence is a melody...