by Bela Johnson | Aug 26, 2014 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, people, Uncategorized
Laughter alchemizing leaden to light, a child’s eyes lit up from inside a man not yet shrouded in decorum. Search for the Buddha all you will while life continues in ordinaries; teachers everywhere from leaf mold to lovers. Only the mind waxing preferential, maroon...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 15, 2014 | culture, musings, nature, people, poetry, Uncategorized
The old woman clasps worn cards wearily to grizzled chin, vertical lines set deep as piercing black eyes etched into an apple doll face. Sweeping swollen arthritic fingers over lined forehead, drumming now, listening to the hollow sound of bony digits echoing against...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 14, 2014 | musings, people, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
Regarding me over bins of oatmeal and millet, not comprehending choices – where is the plain, brown, recognizable? Offer of assistance precipitates wonder: Do I work there? Perhaps, and one never knows another’s motives, What qualifies me to answer?...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 16, 2013 | musings, people, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home. Your house is on fire; your children all roam. Grief washes over me in surprising waves, currents flowing into eddies in the folds of my brain. She fidgets in the nursing home; picking feathers off false birds needing no tending....
