Creating this blog of poems created over a span of 38 years was given an impetus by a re-encounter with this poem. It is a special one for me. It felt like a message from my late wife Marianne. In this post I read the poem, and after the recording there is the poem’s text.
Song of the Universal
Health, peace, salvation universal. Is it a dream?Nay but the lack of it the dream,And failing it life’s lore and wealth a dream,And all the world a dream. Come said the MuseSing me a song no poet yet has chanted,Sing me the universal. In this broad earth of ours,Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,Enclosed … Read more
An Autumn Afternoon
I walk on a late autumn afternoonAnd my heart leaps up to embrace the sky.All love and beauty surround meAnd the pale reflectionsOf my little mind’s philosophyDissolve like the morning mistDispersed by the rising sun. My heart expands with loveUntil it fills all spaceOnce again I feel the gentle hintOf Union with all there is. … Read more
Our Story
At a Spiritist conference in Miami in 2014, the speaker, Dan Assisi, ended his talk with the phrase, “Together we can do beautiful things”. I was quite taken by this phrase and showed Dan my translation into Portuguese, and the phrase is now the tagline of the MOFSA Community website. Later it inspired a poem … Read more
Passing a Torch
What will bring me peace?I am sitting with this questionNot ready to begin my dayAll I can do at this momentIs to write from my heart. I yearn for a work to continueAlthough my own powers diminishAs is natural in life’s passageI know clinging to what was is not an answer. Do I glimpse a … Read more
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare
l loved mathematics as a boy and lately have been thinking of this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of my mother’s favorite poets. Today is her birthday. Thank you, mommy, for your encouragement and support. I miss you and am sorry for the wall that came between us. Euclid alone has looked on … Read more
The Sunshine in My Heart
It is the very simplest of thingsMany words are not requiredA return to a favorite placeCommunion with my loved oneSimple acts of friendship and kindnessKindle the sunshine in my heart.
Nocturnal Wisdom
Life is changeDo I want it to be the same?Would that be living? I spent the day in the pastIt was all very excitingBut now I lie awakeMy body telling me truthsThat my mind avoids. Simple acts of livingAre what I need nowTake little stepsI have begun. September 14, 2026 This poem came during the … Read more
Krishnamurti: With a Silent Mind
“It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, … Read more
A Cloudy Day
Guidance can be ever so subtleIt was a cool and cloudy dayI thought my walk would be shorterThen came the gentlest of nudges to visit our treeAnd so I began our familiar walkI did not expect to meet a friendBut I did!A cheery greeting of recognition and I continued onNow I am sitting on a … Read more
Always
Today is Labor Day in the United States, and I realized that it would be a good day on which to share an aspect of Marianne’s and my relationship. I have always been absorbed in my work. In the late 1960s my work was teaching mathematics at a Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Marianne was … Read more