I love this poem, yet I had no business writing it. You see, I have never lived in a country while it endured a war on its soil. I do not know the affront of being exiled from your ground, home and community. I do not know the terror of loosing family to artillery, small [...]

The moratorium on lovingself has been lifted! Your sovereign status duly recognized! The refugee you believe yourself to be does indeed have a home!Inhabit it now! Your poetic license has standing! The center of your power embodied, grounded! The occlusion on the aperture of your heart dissolved! Voice the authorityof your native tongue! And, see! [...]

One Sunday morning ten minutes before beginning a workshop in Nicosia, Cyprus, I ran out the back of my hotel to fetch a bottle of water. The street was filled with the movement of young women. The poem is what I saw in my five minutes with them. Early Sunday morningpresences of liberty,attenuating modest joy [...]

I am a bit sobered as I look at some of these poems for the purposes of giving the reader context. This poem really reflects my internal dialogue – a mini pep-rally if you will. It’s relevant and at the same time, if you will permit me the expression – bullshit! It arises from my [...]

I have the good fortune to be learning to fly a 1946 Taylorcraft named Simply Magic. Buoyed beauty delight,airfoil, propeller, convection’s currents andmorning’s colored lightlift our banked rolls – Simply, Magically – dancing throughcloud corridors – these canyons -consequences of consenting cumuluspassages through tears of quiet joy. Now,between sun and cloud,this taildragger’s silhouette borne within [...]

  Talking to myself again.Unite your heart.  Listen as it speaks. Its true character is inclusivity. Its true nature is joy. Cultivate its fecund kindness.Its generous plethora awaits. ©2010 Stephen Victor

This poem turned up in the promotional copy I wrote for an evening public talk. The talk did not go particularly well – yet such is my journey of moving into my own life’s expression. Identified your destination?Not the one others want you to take,rather -your own! And,on whose chart have you planned your course? [...]

May the courage of your sovereign heart prevail over the banal falsities culture bequeaths. May your marriage be buoyant, enriching and tender. May its supple contours center and cradle the odysseys you are undertaking. May you together surrender your most fancied identities and selves in the arms of the other’s love. May you each, during [...]