This collection of short poems are aphorisms (short statements of general truths, insights or good advice similar to “sayings” that often use metaphors or creative imagery to illustrate their points).

Annihilation

An ancient summons plunges
the moth into the candle’s flame.

Unlike the moth
my ego fears annihilation

in the flame of vulnerability.

Fierceness of Our Love

Our blessings to others
is not measured by the length
and product of our days

but by the fierceness of our love.

Requited Gifts

Remorse and forgiveness
are requited gifts
teaching the heart

how to breathe.

Progeny

The opposite of love
is not hate
but indifference–

the progeny of fear.

Prowling

My soul is like a ravenous lion
stalking for God

in the darkness.

Dry Leaves

Prayers like dry leaves
are swept up

by God breathing inside us.

Sounding

Each act of compassion
is a sounding of the
fathomless
waters
of
God’s
Heart.