All poems and stories

  • What a pair! a poem

    John and Paul were right. All you need is love. The Beatles, not the apostles. To know unbounded love must be heavenly. Love that does not limit, inhibit, or prescribe. Why do we struggle so with it? When we love someone, we want to change them, make them something else! This is not love, but…

  • Pieces and parts, a poem

    I have never fully known how to just ‘be’. There was always someone to tell me I was doing it ‘wrong’. Later in life, I realized they were also in the same boat, and part of their journey was to find fault in others, allowing them to procrastinate on their own development. Most outgrow this.…

  • The root of all evil, a short story

    The world has gone to shit. Ok, not the world. It is still the same rock spinning through space. People have gone to shit. Sally knows this because she watches the news. Some television networks will demonize a particular political group, while others retaliate and attack the political group that their competition seems to support.…

  • Things that rhyme just fine, a poem.

    Things that rhyme with birth;Worth,Earth,Girth,Berth,Dearth, Mirth.School!Cruel, Pool,Rule,Tool,Drool,Fool.Work!Clerk,Smirk,Perk,Shirk, Schlock, Buttock.Life!Wife,Fife,Strife,Connive, Survive, Knife.Death!Breath,Health,Wealth,Meth, Depth, Expireth.