Eloquence: Rhythm & Renaissance. Poems and short stories focusing on personal growth, nature and spirituality to help you lead a more meaningful, satisfying life.

Meditate with words so soothing...

...they melt in your spirit not your mind. Poetry and short stories of meditation, renewal and healing.

From Slide Show

Sky melts into land,
water mixes with sand,
graceful spirits transform man,
easing back the cover of darkness.

From Wanna Wannabe

I wanna be unlearnable, elevated
A little closer to myself
Trusting, understanding
What I should become.
I don’t wanna be appreciated
Just grateful
Not patient or content
Simply still, sometimes.

Nominated for a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry.

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How I’m Doing

In the midst of despairing thought,
my spirit breathes life in me.
And where there is life,
there is hope.
And where there is hope,
breathing is soothing.

a never-ending, free-flowing fountain
of thriving, rejuvenating potential,
enough for every thirst,
enough for every vessel.
From “Gift Wrapping”

These poems linger in your mind long after you put the book down. His are the sort of images that drift back into your mind days, even weeks later, when you least expect it, forming new connections in your spirit.

Some of my personal favorites are: "To: Natural, My Love," (a poem on the beauty of natural African curls), "Darkness Wings," "Buffalo Creek Crossing," "Why We Need Peach Trees & Kids," "Basic Needs & the 'N' Word," and the humorously, yet truthfully shocking "Some Dreams Seem So Real..."

D. Ash, Editor of Expanded Horizons

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Serenity Serene (From Writer's Whirlpool)

I love nature-soft sounds. I'm adrift. Deep breaths lift me into the space above dancing grasses and waving trees. The evening wind tickles the garden and brushes me playfully. Insects announce the changing of guarding lights and that rain is almost ready. The moisture-laced aroma wakens memories like the smell of baking bread. Sprinkles drizzle through colander clouds streaking the soft pale blue. I love the exchange of emptying and filling, hunger slowly fed, sinking into rest, and dusk driven flowers awakening to accent the dimming light and to feed creatures of the night.

Meditation

Help me seek peace within so there may be peace on Earth and conduct myself in good faith to create goodwill towards men.

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