https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41WVVbaEepL.jpg This little volume attempts to exemplify a range of emotion and style of poetic expression that hopes to bring our reading thoughts to a wider appreciation such as Vermeer had explored the interplay of light and shade. In a season of hostilities and armed conflict spanning the globe, The Waking Lights lifts up a glimmer of hope that is grounded in reality, even in its painting in of life's darker shades. It does not shy away or deny both realities of shadow and light. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B68L349F/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

My life is one poetic journey. If I am not reading or writing poetry, I simply live it. To me the experience of poetry should be such - to breathe it, create it, and receive it from poems and lives that are thus poetic. https://youtu.be/tivjvGze3HE 2022 Returning 'home' to the Café after being gone for far too long. My child is still an only offspring but now in their early teens. And due to this a new adventure begins. It is also a period of discovery as to how I have grown or changed as a writer. I am now, of late, orphaned of a father. On the 3rd of April, dad succumbed to his third major stroke. He was 80. In some circles that is young while in others, superlatively ancient. It seems at this point that I have returned to this watering hole of poetry during a major shift in life circumstances. We shall see where this road leads. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ImJpqutxOmg" title="The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 2007 The big thing in my life these days is that I am a first time dad. So please indulge me and excuse me if I fly off on that tangent. So I'm trying to hyper-speed being a dad as well. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8c0gkXzDZdM" title="Two Rivers" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Please enjoy the poems and other writes featured here. And should you get the urge to comment or discuss something, I would be most happy to engage you in conversation. I believe that feedback is vital in our growth and development as persons and writers. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s0R4-xBU6-4" title="All I Need Is Everything" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>