Story-driven compositions
Lyrical Poetry
Excerpt from “Beneath Untroubled Waters”
“O! The weathering,
the way of winged spirits,
the wayfarer’s wish,
the woes of warriors,
and the wonder
in a child’s eye —
all are preserved beneath
the surface of the body of water
that reveals these things
when we are ready to see.”
Excerpt from “Fade Away”
“Today may I be
a body worth healing,
a heart worth holding,
a soul worth seeing —
and in the end, may I be
a stirring elegy worth
its weight in gold.”
Excerpt from “Scattered over the Rockies”
“But the flower is stronger than the stone,
the desert in my eyes can melt the coldest snow,
as eagles fly, the skies will forever sing
of an open space that is waiting for me.
My tears are rippling waters flowing to the sea,
and sometimes this is what it means to dream,
hidden in silence, I am everywhere and nowhere,
a weathered sparrow with lost feathers in the air.”
A few favorite quotes
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth? Nay, are there not moods which shall find no expression unless there be men who dare to mix heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland together, or even to set the heads of beasts to the bodies of men, or to thrust the souls of men into the heart of rocks? Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.” — W.B. Yeats
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”—Victor Hugo
“Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.”—Bertrand Russell