Disappear into your smart phone
the world outside is doomed
Your few remaining human traits
have long since left the room
Disappear into your smart phone
all life beyond is lost
Your feelings truly virtual
you’ve paid a mighty cost
Disappear into your smart phone
while others stand beside
And just like you they tap their screens
faint proof that they’re alive
Disappear into your smart phone
as time is winding down
All spirit tapped, emotion strapped
your history lost, unfound
Disappear into your smart phone
that bed you’ve left unmade
Your spirit cries as memory dies
whose LaLa land you crave
Disappear into your smart phone
its power now supreme
Your knowledge mapped and future trapped
—your destiny undreamed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
Song From The Mountaintop
The cry of an eagle floats across a distant peak
bear tracks visible in the spring thawing snow
Sunlight, spreading its dance upon the land
the Ponderosa Pine and Aspen in bloom
The glaciers look down smiling the higher you climb
searching for that redemption never offered below
The wolf trails the hare back inside its snowy den
the road to all new entry having now been cleared
Permission never asked for, granted, as the music starts
it’s early May in the Rockies—the January of renewal
In a celebration of new life, flowers wrap the landscape like ribbon,
tying close the promises like good wishes on a Christmas morning
It’s springtime even on the highest peak, and old questions lost of
meaning now seem gone away...
Until reborn in the arrival of yet another desperate beginning,
—holding nothing back
(Columbia Falls Montana: September, 2003)
Twin Portals
Driven by passion
fueled by delight
Each morning a welcome
giving birth to the night
Both offer one message
twin portals divine
Two options before me
—the choosing sublime
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)
Beyond Time Allowed
My job is to make the unlikely happen
my passion driven to embrace the bliss
My vocation seeks to find the answers
my avocation wanders—soul remiss
My intellect bargains away the hours
my spirit embraces each moment now
My story when told is about the journey
that road I traveled—beyond time allowed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)