Pete : Writing

Bereft

Bereft

A Poem by Pete


I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found. - Thoreau
Poesy

Poesy

A Poem by Pete


My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it. - Thoreau
Shards

Shards

A Poem by Pete


Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows. - Thoreau
Dodo Dive

Dodo Dive

A Poem by Pete


In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is. - Thoreau
Lockdown Town

Lockdown Town

A Poem by Pete


As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness..
Outpouring

Outpouring

A Poem by Pete


The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke..
Continuo

Continuo

A Poem by Pete


Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
Takedown

Takedown

A Poem by Pete


Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. -Thoreau
Got a Light?

Got a Light?

A Poem by Pete


However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Thoreau
Pickin'

Pickin'

A Poem by Pete


Truths and roses have thorns about them. - Thoreau