Category Modern Life
Simple Complexity ~ Complex Simplicity
Simple Complexity ~ Complex Simplicity ~~~~~ Why then must poetry’s meaning be couched, Like the imagined sea-sound heard in a shell? May fleeting beauty, convoluted truth be vouched, Said simply and offered crystal-clear from a well? Will it help if I use night to presage age or death, Flying birds or sunsets standing in for […]
Light, A Distant Vista
Light, A Distant Vista ~~~~~ Responsible, preoccupied, needs, daily duties, urges to create. Atlas beneath my half-sky, inventing my truth in beauty before I am late. Days, time-paced, sheltered, stopped, shoulds and musts to meet and answer While so few sought either truth or beauty; they didn’t pay the financier Is shielding the candle flame from […]
What I Always Expected
What I Always Expected ~~~~~ He was sure he could encompass it all Inside of his brain, his body, his being/ A world grown oh so incredibly small; With little work all would be agreeing/ But we did not agree, and battles raged, Despite how tightly all were connected. Not yet evolved, our animal’s uncaged […]
Buy and Bye
Buy and Bye ~~~~~ Can you tell us of days, our future cast How we fared and how long did we last Not really important in the grand scheme Everything changes; whimper or scream All of our glories and all of our horrors Blink of an eye; so much less than hours We all think […]
A Plus ~ 2018 — Now We Wait ~ 2020
A Plus ~ 2018 — Now We Wait ~ 2020 ~~~~~ A Plus ~ 2018 Life, I know, is what we make it, Though mostly we let it make us. So busy we can never stop to sit. Think each bit we acquire a plus. Now We Wait ~ 2020 Now we wait, shelter; we […]
All Our Winding Ways
All Our Winding Ways ~~~~~ What are the ways We navigate life? Paths we follow; What we choose, Life chooses for us. Locked in Sterile cubicles. No matter How, how much We strive To create, Make them ours. Locked in To desks, To dos and don’ts, Our duties. Trapped in cells, Apps, smart phones, Toys […]
On Our Way to Oblivion
On Our Way to Oblivion ~~~~~ Time that I work from back to front. Don’t worry if you don’t understand. It is just my way of fooling my brain, To discover what I don’t understand. Might it be, I’ll never have answers? Maybe I’ll never know the questions. In a time and place like all […]
Will I Have Any Chance?
Will I Have Any Chance? ~~~~~ Will I know how to say farewell, Will I have any chance to do so? Will all have been said, do tell? Will I cherish regret, when I go? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let […]
The Rest
The Rest ~~~~~ Things that are lost may reappear Or never show up at all, my dear. Neither rhyme nor reason suffices. Will explain our talents and vices. Despite what doctors, shrinks say; It’s all a mystery, but you will pay. Knowledge bubbles up from below, In truth; we cannot possibly know. In the end, […]
Laid Low
Laid Low ~~~~~ Sitting here and succumbing to the idiot box, While doing my best an idiot not to become. I’ve the world’s knowledge at my fingertips. To ignore it; that that would be really dumb. Are we deaf to reason, blind to illumination? I watch flickering images, hear braying asses. How then can everything […]
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