Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” -Mark Twain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmBM-qJpEz4 On the Dance Floor   Dancing can be pure release from all of life’s stressfulness and fear. The dance floor calls out my name and the music takes hold of my soul. The beat of the music stirs […]

Sonnet XX

When to the treasur’d friends vanish’d from thought I bemoan the woe that summoned them hence Heavily did I wail afresh that brought; This day’s weeping that hath born the expense Sailing upon grief’s sea of tears did I; Such sad account live to tell thy story Of sorrow and loss such that drown mine […]

Sonnet XIX

A nearly perfect folk the Scandic be; That bear the Nordic air and forest deep Where Viking ruled the land and open sea Land of midnight Sun doth the night beweep Yet amidst glory a dim plague arose Upon sullen earth the darkness did quake; And soul upon soul fell where shadow grows That ancient […]

The Sound of Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FB9GYkIT3E Hello darkness, my old friendI’ve come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silence –Simon & Garfunkel REFLECTION: Darkness frequently gets a bad rap. Often it is used as a metaphor for evil and […]