No perfection in Samsara
Troubled daily life
3 beautiful sons
1 ****** wife

Rise. Fall. Rise. Fall.
Get him off to school
Dr. Cohen a scholar
Harold Bloom a fool

Chinese food today
I say xie xie ni
San Francisco Dragon Gate
In Dublin meant to be

Just to do my best
Go down, Go down kind
Trappist 1, Just begun
In Bangkok Buddhamind

                     Find?

Little conversations
Daily life
Middle son
****** wife

Susan Meek
Middle school
Noble Cordelia
King Lear fool

Do my best
Take my rest
Exoplanets
Qualyxian Quest

             Yes.

The continuity of life
And the inevitability of death
I would hold her close
Caress her gently. Breath.

Aging is lonely
Please protect my dad
Courage in the Dread
Sweet Sir Galahad

                  hope.

Paid my rent today
Had a little breakfast
Took my son to school
Please to get him through

Kyoto train station
Deer park in Nara
Kamakura Buddha
Sophia U.

Small victories
Patience. Wait.
Seattle snow
Dragon Gate

   exoplanets!

I've been writing for about 10 years
What have I discovered?
The poetry of place
I still miss my mother

Struggling daily life
A break from inner pain
A woman not my wife
Salamanca, Spain

         Downbound Train.

There is no perfection in Samsara
Just struggling daily life
My son eats with his friends
I wait. Yes, I wait.

Gratitude for food
And the oil change.
A little look ahead
Destiny, not Fate.

     something radiates

Summer again
        Light
        Rain

Awake at 3 a.m.
Kinda hard to sleep
Facebook, a few poems
Company to keep

Iso, Isolation
I grow older, I grow old
How much of my story
Remains to be told?

                 Baltimore!

Love is patient and kind
But human beings are not
3 hopes for Ry
3 hopes for Scott
Silent in the night
Temples at Angkor Wat
Let the river run
Gonna twist the plot

                  Libraries!

There's a whole language to explore
Poems in the night
Legolas the Elf
Gandalf the White

55 and falling
Gatsby's green light
Endurance.
Insight!

I'm ridiculous I know
1 man to Overthrow
Sweet Seattle snow
E I E I O

              Yo espero

I worry about my diabetes
Worry about my sons
Worry worry worry
Only just begun

My mom is buried in Toledo
Cremation comes for me
Disappear forever
Beauty Baltic Sea

          Please, Life, protect my 3!

A brief time in Ireland
The sky was misty grey
John Scotus Eriugena
Can't find words to pray

Chicago was loneliness
And a little snow
Father Greeley freely
E I E I O

                       So ...

I like Seattle, yes I do
Colors grey and green
Quietly at Kells
Atlantic City scene

Library, Seattle U.
Mario Cuomo writes
Me reading all alone
Courage in the fright

                Green light.

Continue to be patient
And trust your journey.

Short ride to the cemetery
It's all over, all the years
The silence is eternal
Wash away my fears

Therapy for my son
Please let him see
The silence is eternal
Silence - xie xie ni.

That was a scary dream
Threatening extinction
Grateful to wake up
Grateful for my boys

Astrobiology
Extrasolar Liquid Water
Exoplanets
Joyful noise

                    Nitnoy.

Got off work a little early
See my sleeping son
Un pequito Espanyol
Un pequito fun

Grey and cloudy day
Sometimes a little rain
Fatherhood is gratitude
In this life of pain

             Can't explain

Flight from Jerusalem to Vienna
St. Stephansdom above
Me solo below:

Hot chocolate, bookshop, snow.


Yes, Dr. Freud: to love and to work.

Fatherhood is gratitude
See how they grow
Frederick, Maryland
A little Reno snow

Thai food for dinner
Driving in the rain
Sleep, grateful sleep
Man of La Mancha, Spain

                      Ole!

Graduation night
Young sons sung
            Tak

My son does graduate
Now we look ahead
Keep him moving forward
Courage in the Dread

Soon he's off to Europe
Prague and Budapest
Then Virginia Tech
Leave the little nest

                   Quest!

Strange and curious dreams
Do I pass the test?
Boring daily life
Qualyxian the Quest

Live my dailiness
Try to be a dad
A little basketball
Sweet Sir Galahad

Today is graduation
Stop and look ahead
Some good thing to do
Before I too am dead

                Thailand!

Call my brother Ry
Miss my brother Scott
Very far from home
Temples at Angkor Wat

My son does graduate
Thai food tomorrow night
High hopes for his future
Future taking flight

                 Forward!

Crossing the Baltic
young sons sung
         Trappist1!

Seattle ferry boat blue
New York City night
Susan Meek not Sue
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Fatherhood is gratitude
Please, Life, protect my sons
Extrasolar attitude
Taipei 101

                  Astrobiology!

I've missed her for so long
It doesn't matter anymore
The water in Seattle
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Got him home from school
Basketball tonight
I grow slowly older
Gatsby's green light

Women are the mystery
I don't understand
European history
In Oakland the E Street Band

Vienna all in snow
Siena all in sun
Land of Hope and Dreams
Surely She's the One!

Maybe.
Mostly.

Struggle with myself
Disappointment, strife, pain
Escape in the night
Midnight bullet train

California Coast
San Francisco Zen
Give up the Holy Ghost
Cosmic seas? Muy Bien.

                  And then?

Got him to school today
Just a few minutes late
Calling on destiny
Destiny not Fate

He's gonna watch basketball
Out to eat with his friends
Religion is unbelievable
Politics portends

Keep him near and dear
A night of fearless sleep
A little summer rain
Promises to keep

                     El futuro ...

Wish I was a shaman
Flying on my drum
Singing in the rain
Signal with my thumb

But I'm just bipolar
Injections, medicine
Dr. Thomas was my teacher
Thomas means the Twin

This life is rain on pain
But I'm grateful for my boys
Maybe one day Bangkok
Buddhamind? Nitnoy.

Will I die alone?
Will I die in snow?
Will I die at night?
Will I Overthrow?

                       Yo espero.

I know I'm gonna die
Don't know when or where or why
Exoplanet sky
Something truly Thai

              Aye! Aye! Aye!

Shamans in the mountains
Korean food at home
Latin on the inscription
Evidence of Rome

Summer comes again
Thunderstorm and rain
Quietly at night
This life of strife and pain

Nobody important
Poems on the run
The American Abyss
Please give up your guns

******* times like this
I drift, I drift toward death
Does she understand?
Silently my breath

                Cosmic Seas!

Chicago, New York, DC
But I'll take Seattle
Seattle quietly

                3033

I had theological hopes
But sinful proclivities
Now I just grow older
Please, baby, please

Took a train from London
River Eden, Wetheral
Been to San Antonio
All Walls Fall

I like those Chinese hermits
Mountains in the mist
Wendy Rebecca Towson
Everlasting kiss

Saw the Chicago snow
Seattle misty rain
Daytrip to Kyoto
Speeding bullet train

          Tray aya ayain!

Small victories
Try to resist myself
City of Ember
Legolas the Elf

Small victories
Try to do my best
Fatherhood
Qualyxian Quest

             Yes.

Haven't been to China
Unless you count Hong Kong
But I like Chinese food
And Mr. Harry Wong

Rain again today
Ocean going green
City of Ember remembers
So does Things Not Seen

                   Hermits!

My oldest son is about to graduate
College comes a-calling
Take it easy, Take it slow
Sweetly Seattle snowfalling

My son plays Magic
Live that fantasy
Ordinary dailiness
Please protect my 3

                     We.

No one important
Suffering is caused by desire
My grandparents' house in Toledo
I stare into the fire

Rainfall today
He sleeps late, misses school
One Ring to find them
One Ring to rule

I'm tired. Exoplanets!
Let him sleep in peace
Pythagoras of Samos
Philosopher of Greece

                     Release!

37 on license plates
Also 72
Dr. William Thomas
Me at JMU

Softer than the rain
Susan's eyes are midnight blue
Her voice gentle on my pain
Do you parlez vous?

                    Adieux.

I like the Asian soups
I waken a little early
Gotta get him there
School for my son

Tokyo
Kyoto
Hong Kong
Taipei 101

I dreamed I was the successor
To the Dalai Lama
He asked me many questions
I had to tell my dad

No to crack *******
Yes to Burmese people
Thunder on the Mountain
Sweet Sir Galahad

Get him to and from school
Slowly through the days
Shamans in the mountains
Smoke and mist and haze

Fire in the sky
Skyline ablaze
So many doomed to die
Baby, I'm amazed


                       Up!

Such soul sorrow
Emptiness. Depression.
Try to carry on
Be the best dad I can

Keep them safe
Un pequito happiness
Moving forward
Rockin' band

               And ...

Can't get no traction
Can't find no relief
I keep spinning my wheels
Round and round I go

I miss my mother still
24 years of grief
Silent in the night
Holy Toledo snow

                     Yo!