Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.