Author name: Dan Swanson

You don’t need a motive for kind things you say. You don’t need a cause to commit acts of grace. […]

Ideologues identify an ism to obey, but the world needs folks who listen to what others have to say.

It isn’t too hard to be kind and not hateful. When someone shows grace, it is good to be grateful.

Some kids do not like when you calmly explain how a guaranteed forecast of snow becomes rain.

I find poems most poignant when they have something to say that we’ve known or felt forever but could not

There’s a moment, every morning, when I see dreams slip away but still clutch the fleeting feeling of forgetting yesterday.

We stress and obsess over wealth we possess but death takes away every dime; A much better measure of what

Sometimes words, like stars, align in stellar patterns, where they shine. Sometimes words, like wraiths, degrade and slink in shadows,

With crazed now craved for content clicks, iconoclasts act kind for kicks.

It’s never too late to just wait a bit later and summon the will of a procrastinator.