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Light

Lightness of being Being only light Floating Into light Seeing Only light. Fifteen minutes turns into timelessness Centuries and...

Hello Mary

I would think that it would be No big deal To pass on from this world Having lived and loved to the fullest Having walked Thousands of...

Across the Pond

Jan 20, 2019 A fine start to our Europe adventures! First of all, I am writing this on a brand new phone that I never thought in a...

Dreams Before Departure

Jan 18, 2019 This is the last night in this cozy bed, in a familiar setting. I have dreams of waiting. They border on anxiety. Manic...

Alone

Jan 9, 2019 Why do I torture myself so much By not being alone? Admonishing this tendency For solitude When in silence Stillness Is where...

New Year, Old Conversation

This year I will be bold I will not tolerate Hatespeak I will stand alone And stand for principle If I have to Hate speak Is hate speak...

Melancholy

The difference between melancholy and anxiety and depression Is a subtle but a distinct one Melancholy is slow, methodical, contemplative...

Honu and I

December 21, 2018 “Hey you,” Said turtle. His eyes Were like volcano rock- Dark, porous, unpredictable. “Welcome To the other side Of the...

Ganesha

December 20, 2018 My mind is a circus sometimes And I, the elephant, has finally broke free The true pure and oldest creature Ancient...

A Farmer’s Life

December 18, 2018 Inspired by Future Progression meditation with Mee Vaj in Huntington Beach, CA I look at you that hazy morning and I...

My Emotional Room

Dec 17, 2018 Down three flights of stairs Into the abyss of a staircase without rails Straight down white on black Layers like onions I...

Ode To Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda

December 16, 2018 Just because it is Neruda (and my favorite poem)... The street filled with tomatoes, midday, summer, light is halved...

Kinship

December 15, 2018 Amongst the trees and the spinach leaves She saw him or the first time Alive Alone Longing A strange kinship Undecided...

Returning Home

Dec 13, 2018 On and on and on I go through the wheel of this reality Doing Going Pushing on Exhausted Until I stop Finally And hear the...

The Voices in My Head Today

December 8, 2018 “Do you see that fancy shop and that fancy sign? Don’t think about going in there. You cant afford it. You are not young...

Murderer

December 7, 2018 How many times Have I died a bloody death? A deadly death Death that leaves scars Death the pushed past lives Into this...

Push Pull

Dec 6, 2018 I love the feeling of sheer excitement The push pull of expanding universes When in meditation I feel myself becoming Larger,...

The Three Focuses Part II

Dec 5, 2018 Here is part II of The Three Focuses for the new TheGentleTraveler.com site. And here is a little more about those three...

The Three Focuses Part I

December 4, 2018 I have been in the process of late of zeroing in on what I want to say on my new health coaching and healing website,...

Heart

December 3, 2018 Softly breaking Surrender Let it all go And send it all flying Push it down the river Until it learns how to Float away...

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