poetry, prose, and photography
I try so very hard
Birth positive energy
Make the world better
The world is so ugly, so brutal, and I feel it’s critical to counter that. At times, it seems like I’m fighting the incoming tide with a paper cup. Perhaps it’s not enough, too little, but it’s what i must do.
A lovely day of sun
Sitting at this desk in back
Clicking my keyboard
Good Morning my friends
What will you do with this day?
A gift most divine?
Time is all we have. And, more critically,”now”. We’re not guaranteed tomorrow. So, remember to get done what’s important.
My mind is weary
Yet embracing enigma
So much left to learn
I seek to accept my ignorance. Embracing that others hold knowledge I lack. In a place which highly values knowledge, preferring even the illusion, I find such an attitude unique.
Email flowing fast
Data rich and interesting
Then our mind’s implode
My happiest place
It lies upon this shoreline
Sunlight and surf: joy!
​Life plays out
Upon this
Chessboard of deceit
Their compassion a fraud
The Fourth was Tuesday
Plus it’s nearly ten at night
Enough fireworks
Sigh…I’m quite ready to be done with fireworks.
Winds dancing boldly
Sunlight’s grace beckons to me
Voices of the West
Saw this sculpture in the lobby of the Redmond branch of the Ling County Library System.
Abandon all that we are
So we can become
All that we might be
I see myself trapped by my past, by the barriers erected from fear, insecurity and doubt. “Grow past them…” I counsel myself. “Push past them. They are but vapor, illusion, less real than the dreams. Dreams create! So I shall focus on them.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 