Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

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.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.