Youth

We are scum of the earth,
Trampled gum of the earth,
We're the kind to raise havoc,
...

I see you looking
Pondering my face
In awe at the damage
Of time

But I don't...

In the light, the warmth
Oh, that welcoming warmth
Engulfing those tender years
The...

Only sixteen but this young lady talks a lot of sense
All about climate change and its lasting...

When the fog blows over,
An image, a vision appears,
It becomes clear, and clearer,
...

A few days ago I visited, my parents first neighborhood;
Where we moved from Philadelphia, so my...

I got my driver’s license, soon after I turned sixteen;
In the Summer of 1960, coolest thing I’d...

It was darker outside than it had been in months.

The world had exploded into a dynamic exchange of...

My life seems like “The Bullet Train”, it sped by so very fast;
One moment I was a young man, the...

Ash peppers the air
Taps shatter my feet
Thud my heart
As it hovers through the...

it's a stirring
of the spirit
that leads to
an unending truth

we ignore...

Slow sleeping
In the late afternoon
My daydreams ease
So perfectly
Through my...

The sun danced
The water played
A bud became a flower

I kiss the secrets of my youth
With an unexpected ease
A childlike tear, rolls down on me...

He did not know about walks in the beach.
He never felt the touch of a woman he deeply loved....

Society
It’s tragic
Unbearable
Society
Judgmental
Every individual...