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USA | Tuesday, 23 Oct 2007 | Views [759]

The sky cried today as if mourning the summer's passing into the cool hands of the naked tree     alone in the browning field upon an endlessly wheeling Earth. The day has a sadness about it, as if bourne upon the fog and deposited in thick ... Read more >

Tags: Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


Poetry and Soul

JAMAICA | Wednesday, 22 Mar 2006 | Views [872]

Poetry and Soul It's in the mountaintops billowing with bamboo fires, A tiny black hand wrapped around my clumsy white finger, A bright yellow school brimming with little-girl kisses. It's in a soccer game, a race, the gift of a pencil. It's sitting ... Read more >

Tags: jamaica, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


Ming

VIETNAM | Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004 | Views [662]

    Ming “Hey Lady, want to buy some gum?” I ignore the haggling voices and keep looking through the pictures I’d just picked up from the Kodak store between to the old lady selling rice hats, “Three for a dollar!” and the traditional Vietnamese ... Read more >

Tags: vietnam, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


Tavia

SOUTH AFRICA | Wednesday, 3 Nov 2004 | Views [1520]

Tavia Cruising the chilly streets of Crossroads Township , the bus winding its way to the tiny bar where they wanted us to spend money, we babbled on about the traditional music and food we’d just experienced on our tour of this ... Read more >

Tags: south africa, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


The Unknown

VIETNAM | Saturday, 23 Oct 2004 | Views [498]

The Unknown War Remnants Museum Saigon, Viet Nam I fell in love with your picture - those eyes so pale pallid scruff of mud-streaked beard cigarette idle taste of blood gone stale. But it's there in your eyes - that fear drowning in memory It's there ... Read more >

Tags: vietnam, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


Ti

VIETNAM | Tuesday, 5 Oct 2004 | Views [1150]

  Ti                                                                               I wasn’t searching for forgiveness, but it happened while wandering solo in the dusty, humid, roaring, poor, beautiful city of Ho Chi Minh ... Read more >

Tags: vietnam, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


Solo for a Day

VIETNAM | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2003 | Views [722]

Solo Saigon.   The name rolls over my tongue like the sweet tang of an exotic fruit.   Saigon.   A word full of romance and war, love and suffering.   It’s a word that, once experienced, becomes a part of you forever, imbedded in the deepest ... Read more >

Tags: vietnam, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


Pink Faith

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 4 Jan 2003 | Views [503]

Pink Faith             “He talked less and drank more.   It was supposed to be the same…the same.”             The subway jolted while snaking its way through the London underground.   I dared a glance at the little woman shuffling ... Read more >

Tags: london, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


The Photos

VIETNAM | Saturday, 23 Nov 2002 | Views [667]

The Photos War Remnants Museum Saigon, Viet Nam October 1, 2002 A child runs in the street, her naked body ignored by everyone but the photographer.   Burning arms outstretched as if she would fly away if she could.   ... Read more >

Tags: vietnam, Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)


To Mom and Dad...

WORLDWIDE | Saturday, 16 Nov 2002 | Views [520]

To Mom and Dad: I saw the red dust of Kenya      and missed crumbling the rich black earth through my fingers. I waded in the rice paddies of Japan      and imagined golden fields waving against a cloudless summer sky. I hiked a rugged canyon in South ... Read more >

Tags: Writings (true or otherwise, poetry or prose)



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