Deep inside this garden of souls lies the bones of a lifetime drowning in half-truths,
Of long and slowly forgotten days that were sadly beyond repair,
Of nights not unlike the darkest side of the moon
A few insignificant touches of the brush would be all that it took,
to make life go on as she thought that it [...]
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Gethsemane
Posted: 16th November 2009 by ~m in Forever, God, Life, Personal, Poetry, Sad, Time, Truth, blood, dancing, dark, questionsTags: deep, Life, prose, Sad, Truth
WinterBlue (redux)
Posted: 28th January 2009 by ~m in Cool Sites, Creative, Friends, God, Internet, Irish, Just For Fun, Love, Personal, Poetry, hero, the Cosmos, writingThe picture above is a favorite poem I wrote that I pasted into Wordle.
I found the site through Kat, a poet/writer and wonderful new blogging friend.
She ‘Wordled’ a poem she’d written and I so loved the image it gave me.
Wondering how many readers here know what poem I Wordled . . .
Any guesses?
btw- Pamela did [...]
Scribblers
Posted: 19th January 2009 by ~m in Blogging, Blogroll, Creative, Friends, Internet, Just For Fun, Life, Love, Mondays, Personal, Poetry, Politics, Truth, Uncategorized, Wordpress, chances, technology, women, writers, writingTags: awards, Blogging, Blogroll, Friends, links, Poetry, popular, writing
I was given this award a few months ago by Annie, a writer I truly admire (and a dear friend).
She gave me the award saying this; “Michael at Smoke & Mirrors because his landscape is beautiful and touching, albeit often sad, and so very real that his words can touch as no others can.”
I have [...]
You
Posted: 13th October 2008 by ~m in Angels, Family, God, Life, Love, Mondays, Old Days, Personal, Poetry, Truth, amazing, anniversaries, chances, flowers, prayer, womenTags: 25, anniversary, divorce, legals, Love, marriage, Poetry, sweet, wives
In about three weeks my wife and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage.
It just doesn’t make sense that I make a whole spectacle of it in one day, seeing we’ve been together and
so incredibly strong for 25 years.
These days, I’m truly amazed after reading the ‘legals’ in the newspaper with these assholes that get [...]
Godspeak
Posted: 13th October 2008 by ~m in Life, Personal, Poetry, Sacred, Truth, prayer, the Cosmos, writingTags: God, Poetry, prose, Rilke
found this on the Jonathan Carroll website/blog.
written by 20th century German poet Rainer Maria von Rilke::
God Speaks to Each of Us
God speaks to each of us before we are,
Before he’s formed us then, in cloudy speech,
But only then, he speaks these words to each
And silently walks with us from the dark:
Driven by your senses, [...]
Darkroom
Posted: 30th September 2008 by ~m in Angels, Dreams, God, Life, Old Days, Or not, Personal, Poetry, Sacred, Sad, Truth, blues, chances, dark, storms, the Cosmos, weird, writingTags: Angels, dark, darkroom, Deep thoughts, Life, memories, Or not, Poetry, regret, words
the echoes of goodbye cross a yawning chasm of fog and thought find me sitting in this Darkroom, the pictures of my life, languid and swirling above me
familiar fingers of blacklight penetrate me, violating my inner walls of thought, a fortress once impervious yet fragile, yes, once like me
galaxies of sotto voce secrets, skeletons in [...]
Midnight Angel
Posted: 17th September 2008 by ~m in Angels, Blogging, Dreams, Family, Friends, God, Insomnia, Internet, Just For Fun, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Poetry, Sacred, Sad, Truth, blues, chances, prayer, storms, women, writingTags: Angels, blind faith, faith, Friends, God, Love, Poetry
A flutter of wings
in a world washed grey
closing tired eyes
slowly slip away
a fight against The will
learned tolerance to the pain
incomprehensible ruin
terminal drops of rain
the lack of understanding
invisible hands of a ticking clock
solitary hours moving away
shadows lost to the infinite dark
a moment of hope will surely find her
a millisecond of brilliant white light
a midnight angel to [...]
Fresh
Posted: 29th July 2008 by ~m in Angels, Blogging, Friends, Life, Personal, Poetry, Truth, Wordpress, hot, twins, writingTags: Blogging, fiction, Friends, Life, pimp post, Poetry
I’ve been busy updating my “pages” and doing some sorely needed blog maintenance.
The Ghosts and Poetry pages have been updated.
I’ve also posted a short story I wrote 6 years ago.
Just click on one of the corresponding tabs above to get there.
Thanks to Moe for all her help and guidance when I was absolutely freaking [...]

