Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Tag: Alive

  • A Part of the Whole

    A Part of the Whole

    This dark majestic wonder of infinity ceased to be a vacuum and became a collection of dust, like the silly hairlike particles floating in a sunbeam through the closed window where I watched father drink his ale or mother knit her scarf. I melted into the hardwood floor like the spilled glass of water. I…

  • You’re Actually Helping Me

    You’re Actually Helping Me

    This seems to me a bitter pill,this mindless drug,this tempting swill. Imbibing on the alcohol of misplaced clothes, no shame at all.I reach for hands, I touch, I kiss, but all the while I don’t forget – that when she leaves, with rosy cheeks,she’s leaving me, to return to him.

  • Sun Chaser

    Sun Chaser

    Almost landing in LA. It’s strange – Ever since I was a child I have thought that if someone wanted to, they could fly west, indefinitely following the sun. Today I am a sun chaser. Soaking in the light and life of something I will never come close to, never really comprehend its power, and…