At Last (+7)

Writing the words,

owning the words

Prisoners and Minstrels,

sentences heard

Writing the words,

owning the past

Chains coming off

—freedom at last

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2019)

A Smoldering Refrain

Straddling the candle,

too close to the flame

A fiery benediction

—a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)

Still To Run

Your page now short on substance,

yet colorful the rhyme

The words used in abundance,

where lesser might define

Intention slave to beauty,

all meaning zero sum

Pageantry lost in the wind

  —your blood left still to run

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)

Morgan Freeman Got It Right

There is no…

   African American history,

 Native American history,

 Irish American history,

 Italian American history,

 German American history,

 Chinese American history,

 Hispanic American history,

or White American history

There is only American History

—and Morgan Freeman got it right!

(Grantham New Hampshire-February, 2017)

First Bite

Literary vignette,

snippet of truth

A little bit pregnant

—baby’s first tooth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017) 

Truth To Thaw

A hunter of the frozen past…

I stalk all glaciered time

To kill the demon inside the ice,

with eyes that burn—its truth to thaw

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)

'Sit Divinum'

Stop searching for Divinity

—become Divine

(Villanova University: February, 2017)

The Source

Before I started asking,

I was too busy living

The questions still in limbo

 —the answers undefined

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2019)