You do not have to drop your eyelid over your eye to close your eyes or to experience blindness, you need only to think of yourself.

Seeing through the images that portray the poor requires intimacy, knowing their names, feeling their pain, and understanding their smiles.

A poem I wrote after observing another of the many catastrophic fires that plague the lives of the poor living in hovels in the cities of the Philippines.

A poem reflecting my personal experience with faith, with the poor, and with life changes. The children in the banner picture live, and often scavenge, for food at a dumpsite…

This poem is from my book Everyday Thoughts and precedes a reading on Job. The theology of the poem is drawn from the book of Job. 

This poem precedes a reading in Everyday Thoughts. The banner picture for the poem is of Abbey and I at Disneyland in Hong Kong. 

This poem is taken from my book titled ‘Theopoetics’.

The personification of death can, in my thought, only be portrayed as a coward, a bastard. 

This poem is taken from my personal collection of poems not yet included in a book. 

This poem is a reflection on loss, family, aging, and faith. It is born of my personal life, Yet, life is more complicated than a poem. My relationship with each one of my middle aged offspring is vastly different due to life’s blessings, challenges, and circumstances. I love each of them, even if I didn’t, or cannot now, always make them happy with my choices or my view on life. I do not think they have grasped the life and person I have been separate from their coming into the world. This is, in part, due to the separation of generational experience. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. I can only say everyone should be blessed to have children as wonderful as mine!

The song of Solomon affirms the sacredness of the male/female relationship in all of its intimacy. That God is not mentioned in the Song of Solomon affirms that the sacredness is between the two persons. Love and Romance are gifts from God for human beings to enjoy with all the poetic emotions that fill the heart. The world needs more lovers.