by Danny | Mar 29, 2017 | Poetic Side
Balboa Boulevard pulling over to park I passed him a figure tall and straight as a stick wearing wool cap and pea coat his feet inching along the sidewalk, his silver beard bristling under his chin I killed the engine and waited waited for the stick figure to pass...
by Danny | Feb 18, 2017 | Poetic Side
my soul is a tethered kite. it longs to soar ever higher. it resents the earthly tug. with head in the clouds it pulls to be free of the line that gives it lift. to be human is to be both earth and heaven bound – a sweet...
by Danny | Oct 26, 2016 | Poetic Side
hey, comeback kid! after all these years, your dreams and desires put off, sitting on the back burner, but simmering, ever simmering… how sweet is it now to clench a fist and whisper low in affirmation ‘I am back!’ ‘by God, I am...
by Danny | Oct 26, 2016 | Poetic Side
ady death is always there she rides in the shotgun seat we are fellow travelers though my gaze is fixed on the road and our eyes have never met her figure looms in my periphery between us there is an awkward silence how does one break the ice? can’t chat about the...
by Danny | Oct 26, 2016 | Poetic Side
sanity the shattered glass reflects a thousand images where lies reality? the ordered world breaks down into a random spray of neurons matter over mind free radical chaos sanity is a dangling rope reach out, grab it and hold on for dear...
by Danny | Oct 26, 2016 | Poetic Side
Sweet Persuasion sometimes on a sleepless night the elusive muse appears before me and with seductive charm implores me in sweet persuasion I can’t fight she reaches out to extend the touch of fingertips beneath my chin and gently lifts my gaze to hers to command with...
