Author’s Note: This piece is inspired by “The Common Journey”, by Josh Bond, the fifth poem of thirty, selected by Veronika Bond. This poem, as with all of Josh’s poems, is filled with literary intricacies and mechanisms, from the subtle to the more pronounced, which he uses, adroitly, to pace the poem and create […]

Author’s Note: Inspired by “The Call To Adventure”, by JoshBond. To me, the underlying message is to do freedom responsibly. For me, this involves a mindfulness of both the internal and the external. In this poem, Josh incorporates subtle, irregular structures, such as: Broken stanza, slide rhyme, sparse punctuation, phantom rhyme structure as well as […]

I Am Poet: Chosen by Lightning Fire from the heavens bursts, fetus mind: Nascent light The tapestry of the blank page – Gazing mazesI study the composition in the constituencies of the structure Seeing into the youth of the truth of: Being Fire from the heavens upon the infant mind, ancient alphabet Cipher wheels inside […]

Mind as the Designer that Designs: (The All is Mind; The universe is mental) Everyone has passed it might as well be as if each of us become the lastThe rain Falls as the day is filled with dismay, somehow someway We must just find a way. How the wisdom is formulated from the crude […]

  The Craft: Ars Poetika (This Art of Ours) It is the art of finding the self, the art under the surface of The art. The walk through the woods – Walking & Talking. Hieroglyphs of bark: Stark. Pathway through the trees Leaves. Forgotten memories Currents & Seas. Rising tides: Inside. Treasures & Currencies. Teaching […]