Where do I stand with you all?: A poem 

I know this travel/ travail, and my armour  being the trappings to tolerate the jungle;  even a jumble of deeds resonates, like  fierce howls of wolves. The battle cry  is no herald of victory, for a Trappist  who retained his austerity but forgot   his silence. My Goddess has sensed  my frugality of action turning into friction!  She cautions me, but leaves me to my   own devices. I am Platonic inContinue reading “Where do I stand with you all?: A poem “

The fire I wanted came with all that water; so, I moved on: A poem 

I thought my aspiration was a distant country  so far flung; that it was almost a never-never land  That there were so many boundaries and walls between,  that I was bound to be incarcerated somewhere as  a trespasser. And should I spend my waning years   imprisoned and despairing that there are no destinations  to reach; to embrace the birdsContinue reading “The fire I wanted came with all that water; so, I moved on: A poem “