Dean : Writing

      How to Transcend

How to Transcend

A Poem by Dean


The concept clear to rationality--stimulus-response,the matrix of life--that's all there is,and if we speak, to gain, or scoreor cast away a care, wha..
         She

She

A Poem by Dean


It was her kissthat sent a shaft of lightinto confounding blackness where the deadwould hold their rites of cold fraternity--as if the border of that ..
      Ellis One

Ellis One

A Poem by Dean


To a man on death row, with whom I once corresponded
       Song of the Wayfarer

Song of the Wayfarer

A Poem by Dean


Goodbye, my children; you shall have your daywhen seas sweep you beyond th'Aegean islandswhere the scrolls lie buried underneath the sands,beyond the ..
        Look Away

Look Away

A Poem by Dean


I scry in dusty shopsand in forgotten atics, where old pictureswait their resurrection in my eyes;I want so much to look behind them,move through laye..
        A Now for Always

A Now for Always

A Poem by Dean


A waterfall,though great or smallis only that unless it be Yosemite.To round that final curve into the clearing,Ah, and then be made awarethere is a l..
       A Poetic Cycle

A Poetic Cycle

A Poem by Dean


It seems to me that I have submitted this before, but I do not find it on my list on this site--so do tell me if you've seen it.
        Schweitzer's Creed

Schweitzer's Creed

A Poem by Dean


The doctor would have smiled, I think,in reverie off Lambarene's shores,to field a posthumous dream--to learn dry atoms' call to other worldscan reach..
       The Silent Voice

The Silent Voice

A Poem by Dean


is tapping gently on my consciousnessas if it is the gateway to the contentlooming at my upper left, approachingfrom behind, and it is mine to watchit..
       Parable for Obscurity

Parable for Obscurity

A Poem by Dean


Mere purity may not abide the breathless dawnthat even in its birth proclaims not innocencebut the virginity of time.Yet with the rising wind, a shudd..