“They become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.”

You didn’t happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?”

The failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love.

Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun.

They become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.

Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes.

You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.

I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.

As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day.

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.