Over My Head

What’s the story behind your nickname?

The story of my nickname cannot be spoken of, except to say, the name bespeaks eternity.

What for, to light a candle?
What?

Would that someone’d say!

I found no well-reasoned choice
To light one, yesterday

Know, the tears, the sweat, the soul?
Ghosts!

Sweep it all away?

Time will never come to pass
When these stray from the fray

Soldiering

Of them
Didn’t I wish
Didn’t I know

Oceans away
None stars to petition
None shores to defend

Ancient ancestors
Why did you leave
Why am I abandoned

Great Grandmothers
I will remember
I will resolve

Remade, I
A Galloglass now
A Hoplite hero

Of Age: A (double) Haiku

What is your favorite genre of music?

My favorite music genre is sometimes opera — but, sometimes, not.
When one is born with a heightened sensory awareness, daily living feels like moving through the days and nights while smack dab in an opera that surprised you with its beginning and that also never ends. Everything is a drama king singing its story…asking for your attention and refusing to let you go. It’s serious and humorous, beautiful and exhausting.

We long for daylight
Did it revolt, walk away
And leave us, alone?

Darkness, and then — dawn!
We need not dread the minutes
‘fore our finest hour

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com

Old Van Man

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

One luxury that I’ve been forced to live without, but still can’t seem to live without, is love.

Grey-green
Brazen
Giant of the decades
Liberated
My heart!

My heart, again
Now, broken
And the decades
The decades, green
Now, grey

Here For It

What are your favorite emojis?

My favorite emojis symbolize grit✅, light⚡️, commitment💞, and care👏🏻👏🏻.

Here
And, how the day demands
Me
Steadies my feet and hands

Light
It will not leave me sleep
Walk
Prove what night cannot keep

Hold
All that God’s plan entails
Life!
Complex and happy trails

Sail

What’s your favorite recipe?

My favorite recipe has always been and still is:
One part enthusiasm
combined with
two parts love.

Why the whisper, so unspoken

The thoughts on pause, as if time’s broken

Puzzle pieces within song

Many breadcrumbs strewn along

Now, sails aloft and fear at bay

Plain and simple, may I say

Finished with all metaphors

I love you…here…my heart is yours

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae; FieryPhotography.com