Nolo Segundo : Writing

What To Tell The Children

What To Tell The Children

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


Each generation truly comes into this world naked in both body and mind. Do we really pass on the wisdom the young will need to cope with life that is..
Into the Cloud of Unknowing

Into the Cloud of Unknowing

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


The title and theme were inspired by a tract written by an unknown monk-mystic in the late Middle Ages.
For I Can Hear Life

For I Can Hear Life

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


It seems a natural irony that only as you approach the 'last lap' of your life's race will you fully savor its innate beauty. ..
The Old Tracks

The Old Tracks

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


The kid within this old man still loves trains, and for many years has thrilled to hear the particular beauty of a freight train's horn as it approach..
Musings...

Musings...

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


If you live long enough, one day you may wonder, Did I do all I might have with what I had?
Vanity and Dust

Vanity and Dust

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


There is really only one ultimate question for human beings: are we just clever animals, subject to death and oblivion -- or is there a part of us tha..
A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL

A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


I wrote this as an old man whose soul, forever young that it is, can still drink of the happy parts of his childhood.
When Death Was Free to Roam The World

When Death Was Free to Roam The World

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


In our mundane, materialistic, skeptical society we may be suffering from the illusion that there is nothing more to life and the universe than what o..
In The Belly Of The Beast

In The Belly Of The Beast

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


A brief, personal allegory on depression
Breathe Close To Me

Breathe Close To Me

A Poem by Nolo Segundo


When you have long loved someone, you cannot help but think what it would be like to be separated by death. Such thoughts are not morbid but only thos..