Content: freedom

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Rev. Martin Luther King's struggle for civil rights was a bold political initiative. Politicians didn't like it, wished he would go away, but he wouldn't. He was right. He put his life on the line. He forced the Kennedy administration to face up to the reality of segregation. The evil of segregation not only in the south but up north too. Rev. Ralph Roy went to jail with Rev. King for disobeying the law. He was a white man who had a Methodist church in Harlem. I meet him every July 4 at a picnic in Ware, Mass. He brings his friend Joan, Robert DeNiro's Aunt.

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This is a fairytale like none other you have ever read. It is intended to expose, invert and reverse the myriad of intolerant, oppressive, degrading ideologies attached to historical fairytale narratives such as the 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' collection and their Disney reenactments. It is part satire and part intense drama. I would very much like to hear what people think of it.

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Honoring nature, birds, freedom

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Just something that came to me this morning. It isn't profound or anything nor was much thought put into this. Again.. it is in my 'not' thinking that the words breathe I love writing like this. It is effortless as in trying too hard.. I flounder and many times simply miss the mark I hope this touches what I know lies within the hearts of most writers... before they too found this love of expressing in words and the utter freedom it gifts to the soul

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Before I went to vote at Haiku Elementary School (really that's the school's name and area I live in) I wrote this ode to politicians and politics. First draft. Ideas? Comments to make better? Thanks

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I call these 'floaters' as they are thoughts that float through my consciousness. I grab them and type them down or are forever lost! Emotional feedback as well as technical

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I was traveling in Northern Ireland and came across a funeral procession blocking traffic. As it passed the car, I couldn't help looking into the faces and wondering. Graves is what I saw in those faces.

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Feeling about writing as one of the arts. How is see creating and staying true to the vision. Daring to be so naive and perhaps a little scared to catch the vision and to do it justice. But then... isn't it in the search and the journey that the soul lies like a snare.

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I wrote this several years ago. It's a battle I still fight. I entered the original title and the systen will not let me change it. The new title is "Forgiveness?"

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Martin's I Have a Dream speech...What if?

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This is just a loving message to a hurting heart. It can be a message to many who too have experience this heartache. I have taken the liberty to grow quiet and try to put myself in the beautiful spirit of the one called Raven. It is a responsibility I don't take lightly but if I go deep enough, try to change places and hear the messages is painful yet beautiful as in Cool Breeze Blowing. The remaining partner is this love story said it was exacting like hearing from his beloved.

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Memories of the freedom I had as a child on my grandfather's farm that children today will never know.

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I'm reading about Yeats' poetry (Helen Vendler's book) and trying to adapt his metrics to mine. This poem follows the style of "After Wild Swans at Coole" but the content is quite different. It's about novel writing. any response, about novels or poems, is fine

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This little piece was written for a thought provoking intro on a children's Labor Day Presentation at church. There is no rhyme, just words to stir personal thoughts.

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