• It Only Takes One Wave To Change You Forever: J-bay South Africa
    Travel

    It Only Takes One Wave To Change You Forever: J-bay South Africa

    July 30, 2007 /

    Traveling isn’t always easy: different beds, snoring friends, babies crying, funky food—’for the last time, vegetarian does not mean I eat chicken.’ Having been cursed in countries south of the border for decades, you would think I would have learned by now as I run out to the reception with a hopeful expression on my face, ‘I just drank the tap water, is that cool?’ I was feeling awful for some reason, and it wasn’t the water. I picked up some gnarly African flu, for four days I was praying to trade it out for anything Montezuma style. Illness knocked me out like Mike Tyson at a drunken bar mitzvah.…

  • Writing By Derek Dodds
    Poems & Prose

    Truth’s Dance

    July 30, 2005 /

    i met this guy in Mexico years backand he had this huge tattoo on his armhe was powerfulInsightfullike a shaman i instantly felt he was my brothersoul-type-brotherand i asked him what veritas meant he said truthit hit me hardit struck me like a boltright in the center of my being because i knew that what he had on his armwas the meaning of lifewas the meaning of my lifeeven though most of my life was a lieswallowing what had been passed down to me from my familyassimilating what ‘they’ taught me in all those hours of ‘education’how to be a ‘good humana good ‘citizen’a good ’employee’ “I pledge allegiance to…

  • I am by derek dodds
    Poems & Prose

    I Am

    July 30, 2004 /

    sun shaped silhouettes of silenceseduced sensitivitygently shaping my reality tears of broken dreamsshattered by a softness of unfathomable understandingimpregnated peace drips like honey from the fountainof my own courageto live in truth mysteriousmysticalmagical the bird song tells the complete story shuuuuuuujust listen, my friend silence the ground squirrels even know the secretkept by a thousand dreams mountain-inspireda journey that only the moon can whisper sun shadowsmy shadow a blade of grassdances to life’s song are you listeningcan you see silenceis love’s catalystmy voice will give it wings heart rootsmy roots ‍