✤ Disappointment . . .
∴ You sought to overcome the limits of your flesh . . . but you have failed. Your kind is
✤ Red . . .
∴ “Life is simple, it’s either cherry red or midnight blue.” – Lou GrammContinue reading✤ Red . . .
✤ Of Earth and Water . . .
∴ Life, like a stream of water, is renewed and renewed…
Though it wears the appearance of continuity in form.
Earth will transmit to you her solidity,
her peace, and her joy.
With your mindful breathing,
with your peaceful smile…Continue reading✤ Of Earth and Water . . .
✤ Crude . . .
∴ Now that you see me for who I am, crude and raw and bare and open, tell me . . . am I still your God? Continue reading✤ Crude . . .
✤ Memorial to Nature . . .
∴ Our community sadly lost an important member in 2012. Nature was the heart and soul of the World. They will leave a big gap in our community and will be sorely missed.Continue reading✤ Memorial to Nature . . .
✤ Greed . . .
∴ Once I reached their established, they beckoned me inside and whispered: “Come hither those who were captured by the devilishness of the World. We’re the smiths who tap on your greed!”
But they lied . . . Continue reading✤ Greed . . .
✤ Blight
∴ “And behold, I shall be a blight upon the land, and everything I touch shall wither and die.”Continue reading✤ Blight
✤ Careful what you pray for . . .
∴ And just as the people had finished their lunches in the town’s modest square, it suddenly became night. Glimmers of red shone in the distant sky, faint at first, like dying stars from a galaxy far, far away. As a crowd gathered near the town’s fountain, three lightning bolts struck – horrifying, humanoid creatures spawned at their end, beaming their many eyes down at the people – and just behind them, fiery and terrifying, a large stone headed for the peaceful mountain town.
People often pray to their guardian angels. They pray for salvation, help, absolution. But this is not how they expected their prayers to be answered . . . Continue reading✤ Careful what you pray for . . .
✤ Placing the crown . . .
∴ “Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”Continue reading✤ Placing the crown . . .
✤ Winter royalty . . .
∴ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. That is what I do. I am biting, freezing, chilling sweetness, in the guise of white and burning frost. Continue reading✤ Winter royalty . . .