"This is Holy Ground,
You have desecrated
our Holy shrines."
Words said throughout the ages
to excuse Mankind's warring
and destructive ways.
But what is Holy Ground?
Where battles were fought,
or won or lost?
What is a holy shrine?
Where a person was born,
or lived, or died?
Is Holy Ground a man made thing?
Or is it forests, mountains
and teeming seas?
Look at the universe far and wide.
Where else can mankind live?
Nowhere we have found.
Our precious blue planet,
humanity's only Holy Ground,
is all we have.
How much more death, war,
and destruction has to come
before we learn?
Will we reach out to one another,
to rescue, to preserve this,
our solitary refuge?
Or will we persist in slaughtering
people, animals, plants,
and lose the true Holy Ground?
We can preserve this rare and shining orb.
Or piece by piece destroy,
our blue and living Earth.
Time grows shorter every hour.
Leaving us with less and less.
What will you do?
Today.
2009
September
South Bay Writers Talk Challenge
1st prize - Essays
2008
June
Frontiers in Writing
Honorable Mention - Memoir
2007
September
Honorable mention
Writers Weekly 24 hour contest summer.
June
Frontiers in Writing Conference - PPW Amarillo TX Short Story
1st place! and 3rd place
April
California Writers Club - SouthBay Branch
Annual Writer's Talk Awards
1st place! Memoir/Short Story
2006
Southwest Writers Group Competition
2nd Place Short Story-Western
September 2008
WInter 2007 issue
Honorable Mention Los Gatos Juried Art Show 2007
IMS, DB2, ORACLE, NOMAD,
RACF, etc
Technical Writing Certificate
Link to Work page
