WHISTLE
WHISTLE I have completed a grand task my body is exhausted and tired but the joy of the completion prompts an old tune from within a jolly vibration of many sounds released in tempo from my lips with a progression of a melody it lights up mood and moment I use my nostalgia to my […]
Ophelia
This painting is called “Ophelia”, completed in 1852 by British artist John Everett Millais. It depicts the young Danish noblewoman Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, who due to Hamlet’s actions, loses her sanity and drowns. (Act IV, Scene VII). Ophelia’s pose, her open arms and upwards gaze, resembles portrayals of saints or martyrs, […]
OUTSIDE
Outside it piles on with constant snow, and what spring looks like, I don´t know. Don’t know how much more I can stand or why I was born and bred, in this land? The rays of sunshine are not equally dealt n’ it affects your mind, and how life is felt. A.G. Munson
MYSTERY
Why is one attracted to the unknown? Seeking out obscure people or events that are cloaked in lack of information. Is there a sense of adventure at play? Going on an expedition of intrigue, to uncover the facts as in archeology. It is alluring to want to go on a hunt? hunting after the […]
DISTANCE
From far away something can happen a rough mountain can look beautiful romantic thoughts find their longing love of your home country blossoms difficult memories can find some piece daydreams can form in bored minds a longing is created in the distance real hope is found in the distance where all hope is gone […]
STUCK
When the mind is stuck like a car on a mud road and the wheels spin around but nothing does move, no thoughts land hopeless rage does form anger replacing progress the solution does not find you, recluse and abandoned you retreat from ambition. A.G. Munson
The Night I Killed a Man
I killed a man once. Almost forty years ago today, in the year of our Lord 1987, I travelled to Portland, Oregon with my brother’s family. My brother was then living in Seattle with his wife and their newborn daughter, Jessica. They had a nice house between Seattle and Tacoma, and I was visiting them […]