Discursive Poetry

A villanelle about the enervating effect of depression.

Scenes from the seasons.

The increased hours and intensity of sunlight that Summer brings give us a much-needed mood lift.

Humankind's enlightenment was not something that began and ended within that period from the late Eighteenth Century to the early Nineteenth Century that we now call the Enlightenment.  It is an ongoing process that seems to progress more quickly during some periods than in others.

All about light.

The strangeness of dreams

Struggling to stay awake and avoid the mini-death of sleep.

The joy of napping outdoors in warm sunshine.

"Mindfulness" - a means of emptying the mind and appreciatinig "the now."  "What now?", you might ask?  This now, as opposed to the past and future ones - now, in other words.

The nagging and unsettling doubts of obsessive compulsive disorder.