discovery
discovery
the longer I live
the more I find
I have yet to walk
where there are
no footprints
columbus didn’t
discover anything
he only became
aware of what
he did not know
Peace,
Milton
discovery
the longer I live
the more I find
I have yet to walk
where there are
no footprints
columbus didn’t
discover anything
he only became
aware of what
he did not know
Peace,
Milton
supermarket finds it’s the periodic experience of lostness in the supermarket when I turn down the baking aisle to find it is filled with crackers my points of reference have been relegated to the rubbish heap if I want to find food I will have to learn a list of new addresses they do it…
poetic license all I wanted was some water when I stepped into the Spar a step up from the gas station convenience stores I know I walked past fresh produce and Irish baked goods a food counter and a coffee machine to be surprised by spring water that bore the name of W B Yeats…
get rhythm I live with an arrhythmia I know of what I speak it’s awfully hard to dance when you cannot find the beat somewhere along the way as I traveled through my week the metaphor extended ‘cause we still can’t find the beat to life beyond these past two years of isolation and defeat…
come . . . sit in the dark with me and tell the truth reach deep in the pockets of our souls for scraps of hope and wonder come . . . look up at the storms of firefly stars flinging their light our way lay back on the blanket of dead leaves and sleeping…
I am writing on Friday night, but most of you will read this on Saturday or later, which means this wa the night to write about daylight savings. saving time some time in the night we will be robbed of an hour of sleep in order that we might save daylight the thieves will leave…
Maybe it’s because I went into the family business. My grandfather, Milton I, was a preacher. My father, Milton II, was a preacher. I am Milton III. In the spring of my first year at Baylor, I walked down the aisle at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church one Sunday night and told Marshall Edwards that I…
only became aware of what he did not know… WOW. And thank you.