Totality

TOTALITY - Scot's advice to a new student - The sword is a harsh mistress and to learn her secrets takes commitment. You will never know her fully. Her secrets will forever elude you. So to learn her mysteries you must be gentle , strong, coy and as committed as a lover, listen to her, fight for and with her, and see in her eyes all there is and ever will be to love. She is cold, sharp and lethal. She is warmth, passion and forgiveness. She is the most trustworthy of deceits. And "she" is all your's but first you have to cross the room and ask her to dance

Sudden Impact

Sudden Impact




A loss of a brother and son

Fastest hurt limitless shock

Knowing them is how I’ve won

Even with shortened time on clock



The tears mourn price is paid

In the wages of our lives

Rather it be me and you had stayed

But their impact has survived



Thicker than blood, fire baptizes

To go when others tremble with fear

Living life sans compromises

To save lives you feel him near



lives you saved my son are celebration

in my tapestry you have been sewn

thoughts of you bring elation

the life you saved was mine own

Fire and Ice

As heart melt as snow in summer


Chills wind to sirocco kiss

The heart marches to discordant drummer

To love and be in solemn bliss



Of that fire inside ember burn

To rekindle ashen passion flame

Betweens lusts and less self-lies discern

A passion’s passion seeking blame



The distant coldness had to seize

The bright nocturnem of its ways

The petty death sepulcher’s the keys

As parting glancing blows betrays



Frozen fire bites and consumes

The steely blade’s sacrifice

When in a cage of bone entombs

The infinite war ‘tween fire and ice