July 11, 2016

Fool In Love

July 11, 2016/ Nick LeForce

At some point, everyone entertains the desire for a complete make-over in life, to be like the caterpillar transformed into the beauty that we know is our essence. We all have moments wishing we could be free of our limitations and permitted to live and love fully. But we are also bound to our old ways and to the social and personal rules by which we live. If you could have a "second chance" in life, would you take it? What would it take to get a "second chance?"

June 30, 2016

Nothing To Declare

June 30, 2016/ Nick LeForce

The goal-driven life may yield amazing results, but it is not easy. This may be why so many dream of island life, where enough to live is found in each day, and where there is no need to aim for higher ground or high rise luxury. On rare occasions, we may take our leisure in a faraway land and actually relax, letting go of our driven world. What we bring back is often lost in the rush of return. This is my poetic ode to keep the ease in the everyday world.

June 20, 2016

Stillness and Motion

June 20, 2016/ Nick LeForce

Complements make each opposite possible. There is no certainty without doubt and no stillness without wavering. Wavering is not a sign of weakness, but a mating call for the stillness at the core of your being.

June 09, 2016

Current Of The Soul

June 09, 2016/ Nick LeForce

How do you know when new life is rising up in you?

June 06, 2016

The Friend

June 06, 2016/ Nick LeForce

There is no substitute for the friend that stands beside you ... What is freindship to you?

June 03, 2016

Open Wings

June 03, 2016/ Nick LeForce

Air planes and air travel constitute one of the most amazing human accomplishments. Though it may defy our logic, air travel is perhaps the safest mode of transportation. This is my poetic ode to the airplane and those who make it possible for me to live this exotic life!

May 22, 2016

Carefully Crafted

May 22, 2016/ Nick LeForce

Although there can be great beauty in a carefully crafted life, this poem asserts that "carefully crafted" can also become a veneer that keeps us from our deeper yearnings. What is your irrepressible yearning? What do your feet know that your head does not about walking the path you are meant to walk?

May 16, 2016

Make A Swan Song Of Your Life

May 16, 2016/ Nick LeForce

This poem is a slight modification of my morning daily intent, written on Sunday, May 15, 2016. The reference to Lewis Carrol's classic, Alice In Wonderland, appeared to me because I was scheduled to attend a modernized stage play version later that day at B Street Theater in Sacramento. The poem raises the question: What if your life were your swan song and every act was your final performance?

May 10, 2016

Heart At Bay

May 10, 2016/ Nick LeForce

We each have a wild nature, a part we learn to lock up in order to get by in the world, and to keep our heart anchored and at bay. We also have our struggles in life, those times when temptation comes calling out our wild side and we must choose between the life we have carefully crafted and one that skirts the dark side...

May 04, 2016

The Poets

May 04, 2016/ Nick LeForce

Are you being called to a deeper life? The Poets came to me almost in one piece after hearing a poetry reading at Barnes and Noble on a full moon night in 2003. The poem highlights a sense of having two selves: one lives a surface life of habits and hobbies, of interests and interactions on a daily basis. This is the little “s” self. The other one, the capital “S” Self, lives a deeper, richer life of which I am only faintly aware.