by JGD | Dec 28, 2012 | Observations
‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.’ So said the American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Most of us start our adult lives excited by the infinite possibility that life offers us,...
by JGD | Dec 9, 2012 | Poetry
The street about me roared with a deafening sound. Tall, slender, in heavy mourning, majestic grief, A woman passed, with a glittering hand Raising, swinging the hem and flounces of her skirt; Agile and graceful, her leg was like a statue’s. Tense as in a delirium, I...