Category Laughter
Wherever It’s Not
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What would I see if I were a tree looking both high and low? Watching the rootless barely here, before it’s their time to go. Though they think there span is more than enough to murder me, who’s seen thousands of turns. I understand passing […]
Phantoms
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I’m trying to remember how the rain felt, once, jumping into puddles, when I played younger. Fat drops from the sky. Drops I made in reply. I don’t recall fear then. Yet, I am afraid lately. Did similar phantoms fill my days, my sleep? Do […]
Only Who I Am
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Words, for me, wind down My art draws me, to paint All my words, all the words Any language, form, intent Incomplete to curry change Still I grasp I’ll persist, scribbling Verses, essays, stories, more Offering vision, being, truth My truth, which the universe Fills […]
Too Late
Please, comment if you can and let me know what you think. People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Within these days of isolation, silence, consumed by noise and confrontation, Have you remembered those you love, Remembered in time, said, I love you? Thought will mean nothing when alone. Wonder what will […]
Not Yet
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I feel like I have run out of gas, though I have not yet stopped. I should say, yet to stop trying. I wonder, will 2020 never end? ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ […]
Out of Darkness
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ City or suburbs, everywhere I go, holiday lights are going up early. 2020 makes me see quite clearly, we need bright lights, a new show. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of […]
Time We Must Wait
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Light all the candles. Speak the ritual words. From the past, from the future. Do they now have meaning? Did they ever? Do you believe they will be heard? If they are heard, will it matter? Another ritual, lost. Come and gone, yet to be. […]
Dashboard Toy in a Clear Plastic Box
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In the car parked next to mine, A trapped mime in extreme. No subtle gesture here. He beats his head on his Plastic walls repeatedly. What this could be for, What it should mean, I cannot begin to fathom. A metaphor for a strange something, […]
If Only
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A concert, if only in my living room. If only, I say, though I can access zoom. I could be on the street, cold and alone, Clutching my belongings; I cannot atone For following fools who led, pretended. Their casual cruelty cannot be defended. Nor […]
Certain Choices
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Music and beauty perdure from the past. Will anything we do or say be able to last, After destruction, desecration, disregard? Certain choices made, easy becomes hard. Not a choice of love or hate; it is our fear. If we cannot claim courage, shed no […]
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