by Bela Johnson | Aug 12, 2014 | creativity, lifestyle, musings, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
How can we hold harmless the jealousy of poets, artists of the mind who articulate where others flounder, dry-docking on their facts? Words spoken burn daylight and time cannot retract itself, no excusing, bowing out. Forgive us then, the endless pondering, refining...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 6, 2014 | happiness, inspiration, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
Lucid dreams and time bombs light up folds of the mind like fireworks stamping images that fade, leaving only memory trails in their wake. In bright light or deepest shadow lies truth, pulsing quietly and insistently amidst folly; flickering neon placards of inquiry,...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 3, 2014 | musings, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
I’m accustomed to gazing at stars beyond stars soaring like dragons across the night sky. Wrapped in fleece, I steal away, bare feet padding across dew-soaked grasses, rolling onto my backside, bathing in moonlight. Like a faerie dipping into the heart of a flower to...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 23, 2014 | inspiration, lifestyle, musings, poetry, Uncategorized
I cannot capture the flower on film, only rarely have light and essence pierced the veil to quiver still upon the page. Petals are fragile things life exudes when it finds an opening for expressions of ecstacy. ...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 17, 2014 | inspiration, nature, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
The voices speak in silence, drowned not upon the wind; deep inside lurks a stillness, point of light in a dark crystalline sky. Are they drawn from imagination’s well, unconfused by chaotic din? Does it matter where wisdom is garnered like sheaves of grain in an...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 8, 2014 | food, lifestyle, musings, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Reclining in wrapping indifferent to its contents, the tidy row of portobellos lies chilling; scaly surfaces restricted by saran to fit, shipped far from forest understory now gasping for breath through tiny puncture-perfect holes. Carefully pulling free vulgar...
