The two friends sat together, watching the stars emerge in their crystalline thousands. Finally, Bear got up. “Follow me,” and walked off the porch. The Girl followed him, but put her hand on his back to guide herself, watching the ground to keep from tripping. It was very dark. He walked for a few minutes, then sat, and waved his paw at the sky. “Look,” was all he said. She looked up, then turned in a circle and gasped....

What people don’t realise is that death isn’t what they think it is. ~ You find yourself in a waiting room…Sitting comfortably on the couch. It’s not too cold, it’s not too warm…It even comes complete with old school elevator type music. They probably figured a setting as familiar as a doctor’s office would be calming, but then they never met my orthodontist. He is still very much alive and torturing little children with...

"We Stand in Awe" (c) Mike Stone(inspired by “A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH” by Maya AngelouRaanana, February 21, 2019) The universe is not the miracle,The flaming suns are but cold-blooded thingsNor is this Earth, an uncertain platformOf shifting surfaces underneath our feetAnd seas flooding our man-made worksOr disappearing in distant mirages,Nor the mountains growing to breathless heights.These are not miracles.It is we...

hello from withoutplease don't poutwe'll be there soon we're just past the big spoonflying through ashthrowing a big ole bashand hoping he won't lash -out. his green eyesfail to see the points to my storyand all my lies  arefarfrominnocent I'm far from aliveas I cross this universeof pain and tersewords. 

Just pondering.Can you name even one truly two-dimensional object? Stuck? I can not think of a single one. A photograph still has a thickness even if it is small. A line on paper? Still, has the molecular level of height making it three dimensional.I would argue that we actually live in a five-dimensional universe. Length, width, height, time, and spirit, make up our world’s dimensions. I won’t address five for the sake o...

Sleepy, I wake up.6 AM, my clock tells me.But I don't need it to say the time anymore,I know it already,as everyday, it's the same thing.It's the same old song,every day.It's the same old poem,being told, again and again.It's the same words coming from my mouth,until my tongue is dry,until there is no more sound.Every day,I ask myself, why?Is this even living?Or am I just alive?Surfing on the waves of shit being thrown at...

The day was dreary, wet and cool.  Thoughts passed to the future, What would ensue. My friend wondered what we would be If Samsara was true And we returned. I will have achieved Nirvana, Replied I with some glee And some humor. But later my mind flew away Into the Universe, Dreamt of Moksha. Have I accomplished Devotion? My life could be complete. How may I see? My Actions may well define me. Giving a pathway home. How ha...

Puffy pink clouds dancing across a dawning sky.Billowing pillows, fluffy, tenderly inviting, sigh. Angels resting their heads, maybe dreaming?Brightening with the breaking day, gleaming.Picture perfect shades of dark and light.Shifting from darkness, a dazzling sight.Transformation awe inspiring, imagination grows,stimulating words, images, origin of this prose.Needing to find the ideal phrase for description. Projecting...

I wonder sometimes, this day will I make it through?Will I have the strength to finish the tasks at hand? Challenges the universe has given me, I need to do.Why life can be so complicated, I do not understand? My mother always told me, take each day as it comes.Some will be difficult, some easy, but never too hard. The more you deal with living, the easier it becomes. Take care of the important things, the rest disregard....

Venus, Moon and Jupiter all aligned. Heavens lightening, a gorgeous display. Planets creating a celestial chorus line . Singing praises of a coming new day. Gradually Venus and Jupiter are fading. Mountaintops radiate a copperish glow. Quarter Children's Moon left hanging. Shining against a dawning sky of indigo. Awaiting arrival of a warm morning sun.

As I get older, the more I appreciate life.Take the little Chickadee I found today.Once, living life with not too much strife.On its back, still, lifeless, black and grey.It had flown into a window ending verve.Spirit leaving his body in a millisecond. At the end, not sufficient time to swerve.To the universe its spirit beckoned.Picking its frozen body from the ground.This could be me, or a family member.Maybe a friend, d...

 Good morning stars--again our orbits crossand I see your worldshigh above my life, my eyes touching youmillions of miles awaywhere we meet each dawn, your burning worlds swirling,though some are embers nowburnt out light years ago,a state I cannot knowsince news travels slowly across the universe,and yet, your fire in my eyes pulls me towards your glow,and makes mewonder am I with youhigh above my life?Are you burning in...

Looking up these nights at you,Dear Stars,my eyes,my thoughts,my soulreaching out to where we touch in space,where the forces of our orbitsintersecthigh above my life,where we are all one familytrying hard to live in harmony,struggling to be opento the wisdomspoken in a language without words.Looking up, I listen to the silenceof your fires surrounding me,calling through the vastness of the universe we share.Oh Starsand m...

A Children's Moon displayed today, upon a canvas bright and blue, not a cloud in the sky to see, the only thing on exhibit, you Mr. Moon. Showing yourself in the brightness of day, for children who would usually be asleep in their beds, when you appear at night. Eyes wide, mouth round, look of surprise upon your oval face. Not a frown, as I would expect from you, being up so early. You appear almost translucent to me, bot...

I am hereI am the ground you walk on,the grass beneath your feet. I am the song on the wind, soft breeze through your hair. I am the smells in the forest,when you walk alone. I am the song of song bird,singing, you are not alone. I am the golden reddish sunset,as night takes the day away. I am the crackle of a fire, may I always warm your heart I am the sparkle in the night,when you gaze in to the sky. I am the bright glo...