Category Modern Life

Relish Gladness
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The smell seemed so familiar, so evocative. Watched Pacific’s waves crash upon shore. Far from the clifftop, worried it might give. Still, that odor tickled my nostrils as before. Yet imagine my surprise, “What?” you ask. When I realized what tantalized. My mask. Watched Pacific’s […]

Much Small Life
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Tree shadows dappling the trail before me call to mind other times and other walks in the woods. I stand dwarfed beneath an elder Redwood, ancient beyond my reckoning. Nearly impossible to imagine or comprehend all this tree knows. Standing until it falls and even […]

Curses, Falled Again
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ My body often moves before my brain. Although I remain unusually oblivious. I knock things over; I’ll hope to explain. I’m going here, but I end up over there. I would do better, though I have always Been this way, crashing into something. May be […]

Something Wondrous
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In the early morning hours once again. Tired enough to be in bed, not to sleep. I can smile, say it is all good, pretend, Admit the world’s a mess; it will keep. When a day slips away and night rules, Watch eyelid-movies; my mind […]

What’s for Dinner?
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Although I do not believe that I am brilliant, Sometimes my words and thoughts are good. My opinion; I may be no smarter than an ant. Since, in time, I will most likely be their food. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is […]

Again, Again
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ There are no longer rules or even manners. All permitted to unleash our animal within. Forget about all the seers and the planners; For only we ourselves reign them in again. Who is to say if we’ll succeed or we’ll fail? Does it even matter […]

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 […]

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? […]