Dusted Horsemen: A Glimpse of the World through Another Mind; Poems & Meditations

Poetry has power, and Wm. Richard Dempsey proves it again and again in this volume of verse, perspective, and meditations. Here are a fresh voice, accessible vision, clear images. Historian and retired intelligence officer, poet and novelist, he offers a questing intellect, a sensitive ear, and a gentle, sure pen.

Softly I tread the quiet earth
marking my passage in dew
breaking webs weaved in darkness
startling wild things
that feed in the night.
From At Sixty

Did you not see the darkened sky
nor hear the thunder
nor feel the wind-whipped sand?
From Medicine Man

We are the dreams they dream.
They are the dreams we dreamed.
From Our Children