Jeff Flesch 11:03 am on March 8, 2026

Wear and Weather

Preoccupation and persistence found

perfection.

We met under the stars, and

talked until dawn.

You were a shadow of the clouds,

mysterious and luminous.

I hid against the sand dunes

sparkling with wear and weather.

Drift wood stood between us

daring the other to signal acceptance.

I’ve seen you before

when it was impossible to say more.

A faint hello was all I could manage.

I found life difficult, and struggled to

maintain balance.

Even now, I fight with reality, did we

speak or did I imagine.

A life along the sand, and in the

dunes, can bring about such damage.

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

Jeff Flesch 5:27 pm on March 7, 2026

I Flew Next to The Sun

You told me to wait.

I did, and sat and drank.

Troubled, with ideas blurry and blind

I fell into a hole,

and flew next to the sun. It was fun

and stayed the same and

was all that anyone needed to grow.

Depression comes in waves.

In a mind filled with worry, and body

filled with tension.

you probably didn’t know

nor did you feel the need to mention.

You and I always happen.

The world comes into view, and with

a silent and persistent acquiescence

falls away

until it’s time for the next show.

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

Jeff Flesch 6:29 am on March 7, 2026

A Tempest

The waves crash.

Dusted diamonds linger

upon the sand. An offering

of life and death, and a reminder

of truth and sacrifice—hypocrisy.

Love lives in all things, lasting

beyond imagination and illusions of

idleness—

hope. Tying the tide together,

brings a tempest.

Furious and eager, I love alone, and

pray to the one I call home.

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

Jeff Flesch 12:50 pm on March 6, 2026

Hidden Transformation

you are hidden from view.

recognize the truth

about who you are and want to be—

desire.

nourishes body and mind

through prescriptions of faith.

A guide to another world.

becoming apparent through hardship

and loss–realizations.

through murkiness

and transformation found

in-waiting.

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

Develop. Inspire. Transform.

Jeff Flesch 5:25 pm on March 5, 2026

A Promise

Jeff Flesch 12:01 pm on March 5, 2026
Tags: awareness ( 25 ), faith ( 6 ), freedom ( 5 ), Inspiration ( 25 ), ocean ( 19 )

Breathe

#awareness, #faith, #freedom, #inspiration, #ocean

Jeff Flesch 6:47 pm on April 8, 2025

Speak of Nothing

The truth bears witness to

the sins of our fathers. Remote

undertakings sire disasters, and flooded

plains seek growth. New starts

with old beginnings, and old with new

speak of love.

You, me, and the price we pay

for the pain of loss. Speak of nothing,

for the future tells its own story.

A tale of woe, misery, and

a solemn good night.

Have no fear, the sun will always rise.

Jeff Flesch 4:00 pm on December 11, 2023
Tags: .poetry ( 531 ), beginagain ( 2 ), despair ( 11 ), hope ( 77 ), illusion ( 14 ), Life ( 507 ), memory ( 9 ), nature ( 350 ), prayer ( 4 ), reality ( 42 ), shadow ( 10 ), souls ( 2 ), sun ( 21 ), time ( 29 )

A Shadow, and A Prayer

Tangled weeds thread hope
and despair
through the nub of desire

a sensuous screenplay
evoking memories of you

softened by time
by the wind
and by the telepathy
between two souls destined to begin
again

one moment
mirrors the next
as time becomes irrelevant —
existing

are two
made of one
a shadow, and a prayer

calling down the hopes of another sun

Image aalmeidah, Pixabay

Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: sensuous, screenplay, nub. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.

Updates

It was great to drop in on a few of your sites recently and read your amazing poetry and other creative works.

This past year, I’ve been super busy, both personally and professionally.

Personally, I’ve taken to traveling and am actually currently typing this blog post in London while my life partner reads upstairs in the hotel we are staying in. It’s been a wild year, full of love, light, and discomfort too, as I’ve been asked to grow more and to grow in new ways, yet all of it has been amazing.

Professionally, I and the newly expanded team are doing well. We are currently creating the next academic year’s work, which requires a lot of strategic thinking and planning.

Though I’ve not been writing much at all, I am planning to begin to write more each week and to also visit the blogosphere as my schedule allows.

I hope you have all been well.

I am sending you all of my love and blessings.

Jeff

Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon best-selling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month

#poetry, #beginagain, #despair, #hope, #illusion, #life, #memory, #nature, #prayer, #reality, #shadow, #souls, #sun, #time

Jeff Flesch 6:00 am on August 23, 2023
Tags: .poetry ( 531 ), connection ( 125 ), essence ( 2 ), extraordinary, lifetime, Love ( 509 ), nature ( 350 ), poem ( 568 ), presence ( 39 ), realization ( 38 ), romance ( 22 ), soul ( 9 ), transformation ( 22 )

Existence Bared

I saw you once from across the room
you were there, and not.
A cataclysmic revival, and rejuvenation
found in your essence
and in your presence. Though I didn’t know it then
it was only a matter of time
until we began
to move in a more choreographed way. Confiding
in each other felt like times before.
These previous lifetimes, and planes
of existence bared in the soul
between two lovers
knowing all along they’ve done it before.

What’s New with Me

All is very well here, super busy and engaged across many projects, both personal and professional.

Due to these obligations, I am going on an indefinite hiatus. I will stop by and see all of you as I am able, and will post occasionally, yet there will be no real pattern or schedule to my posting and engagement.

I will continue to write, and submit work for publication, and I will let you know if any of those submissions result in new publications.

I also plan to continue to submit occasionally to MasticadoresUSA.

I wish you all well, and send you all of my love.

Jeff

Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #connection, #essence, #extraordinary, #lifetime, #love, #nature, #poem, #presence, #realization, #romance, #soul, #transformation

Jeff Flesch 6:00 am on July 16, 2023
Tags: .poetry ( 531 ), authenticity ( 9 ), comfort, dual, Life ( 507 ), Love ( 509 ), nature ( 350 ), nodual, pain ( 118 ), poem ( 568 ), reality ( 42 ), realization ( 38 ), relvelation, transformation ( 22 ), truth ( 18 ), vss365 ( 21 ), waystation

Way-station

There is truth in the wind —
recognizing
the pain, and the uncomfortableness of a past
faint, and dim
yet lit brighter than any star
within

an atrocity of revelations –
understanding
this life

a way-station
and non-dual exercise
playing out in a duality of heart
and mind

Image by Prawny

Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: truth, atrocity, faint, star. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.

What’s new with me

I am doing well, and having a grand time with my new work role, and community responsibilities. Though this is true, I miss all of you and love when I have the time to come by your sites to read you and to see you.

Lately, in addition to my new work role and community responsibilities, I’ve sent out poetry to some new publications. Though I have no new pubs yet, there will be in the future, and I will update all of you as that occurs.

Lastly, here are a few pics from a recent hike. It’s so beautiful this time of year.