Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation!

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

He sniffed until the long hairs of his mustache had been sucked up into his nose and out of his leafy ears." — Bats 2015

African-Amendment.

The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.