thoughts from the tip of a glass pen

written June 25, 2003 with a Venetian twisted glass pen, gold and purple ink, Brewster, NY

Purple Poem

Purple
Color of Kings and
Queens
Royal, bright and rich

Purple
Warm, friendly
Color of twilight
Of summer sunsets
Lilacs and tulips
Violets and roses
Grapes, plums and
the regal eggplant

Purple is beautiful
The color of enlightenment
Red and Blue united.


Gold Inside Me

Golden streaks
of sunshine
pasted to my paper.
Wishing for
Solidity--
Finding it in a new place
unexpectedly.

A shining ray
of light, glistening across
the page, written in my heart.
A solid place for my
feeling towards you.


Maturing Vision

Like children
Innocent with capacity
For any number of
Evils. But still bright
With hope for good choices
In day and out day.

And then, when choices
are what hope wanted,
seeking ever for good--spite
other--where am I then, now
Certainly knowing
Past faults, but
Blind to previous
life, lightened by
a new vision.