The poem comes from a moment of clarity when you realize solitude by choice. In this solitude you find things (concrete and abstract) you've been looking for.
As I walk about, the sky is clear.
I feel no pain!
No voices speak to me...
My thoughts are dear,
My mind is clear-
I wish this for years;
Of joy,
Of laughter,
No sorrows I feel.
I cherish this time-
Come with me to this place...
Where forever is today.
Where memories are embraced-
Created to live forever.
Solitude of space;
Captive to no one.
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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