Author Archives: thepensmight
Turn and Repeat
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I turn my head and scurry past The maskless people that I meet. I know it does no good till long past. Still, when I pass them, I hurry and repeat. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite […]
Radical Reversal
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Let us hope the start of 2021 Is like a band’s bad dress rehearsal. It will take time for this to be undone. No matter how long we need a radical reversal. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment […]
How Long?
Who will say when this madness stops, by their actions today, not all DC cops. Protesters came to commit executions, leaders elected lawfully to institutions, charged with the duty of living the law, yet, some won’t believe what we saw. Anyone who instigated or abetted this must be jailed, tried, lest we’re remiss. This means […]
Counting on My Fingers
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ My famished soul, hungers, yearns, lingers. Crawling through horrors, terror, real, imagined, Light-blasted sky flooded, illuminates nothing. Offended, darkness turns away, offers […]
All the Colors
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Started on 12/31/20 I think of all the flowers I may not know And all the trees I cannot correctly name. I […]
Warp and Weft
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Why would we wander in yesterday’s rooms, We know they harbor ghosts we would flee? What would we weave on yesterday’s looms? […]
Hidden Not Gone
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Could it be I finally understand, even with my limited perception, that I am but briefly in the band, no matter my […]
Our Lexicon
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Experimenting with a form called Trenta-Sei Do we really understand a single thing Beyond our own tiny slice of the world? Judging […]
Still Today
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Still today I plan and dream. Long years Past, forgotten, Perhaps forgiven, Rent, riven, Rendered mute. Memory shifts, Slips, loose pebbles, Hold […]
Waiting Again ~ Then and Now
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Waiting again. So much time Spent waiting. Inundated, inundating, Conditioned response. Absolutely predictable. As expected. Reflected, reflecting Drab brown walls, Life stalls. […]
