Transcendent Stories

When I was young and lustfully inclinedI set my sails to cross the wine-dark seasIn search of lands where lotus eaters lived,Seduced by tales of hedonistic joys;A world of myriad fleshly delightsAnd unrestrained sensual indulgence,Where I could gorge on luscious nubile fruitsIn endless days of sweet debauchery.With never a moment’s pause for regretOr backward glance to my days of childhood,Those happy days of guileless in...

Almost forty years have passed since that fateful dayWhen in a moment of anguish our affair died,Discovered in the tender bliss of recent sex,Nakedly entwined in each other’s loving arms.We had grown careless under the beguiling spell Of overwhelming desire, blinded by passion,And reaped the just harvest of our duplicity.For several weeks I thought my life was threatenedAnd I cannot imagine the daily horrorOf your domesti...

Standing on the cliff edge early on that spring morn He watched the sun rise over the rim of the world, Painting the cliffs golden in the clear light of dawn. How he envied the sea birds who with wings unfurled Left their craggy roosts to soar up into the sky,  To float unrestrained on unseen cushions of air, Free as the gentle zephyrs that carried them high Above his stooping form burdened by age and care. ***** There wa...