Category Modern Life
Clearly
Clearly ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ We’ll never stop dying or being born. Then, can we cease killing each other? If we shed blame, confront our reality, homo sapiens may survive to see peace. Clearly, we know much of waging war. From rocks and sticks to […]
Outside In
Outside In ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ Men, you, who think you rule the world and, anything, anyone is yours for the taking. Convinced it is your right you call it your destiny, manifest or personal, you stride forth. Step back. See your heavy footsteps, boot-prints […]
Again
Again ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ 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. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is […]
When Fear Fades
When Fear Fades ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment . ~~~~~ When fear fades, what will I discover? Maybe another person the same as me. One who struggles to meet like needs, who seeks the same answers that I do When anger fades, who will I become? Will […]
On the Doppler Shift
On the Doppler Shift ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ I hear the humming man from afar, as he approaches where we are. The humming grows as he draws nigh and, dwindles when he passes by. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Dream Collectors
Dream Collectors ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ Is everybody a collector of dreams, even those at night, we don’t remember? Those on the edge of time and reason of which our minds barely catch glimpses. They inform our days, leading us somewhere, sliding sideways, from our […]
Isn’t That Odd
Isn’t That Odd ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ How then may I write? How can I stop, here for this time, now and none other? To sharpen my razor on a broken strop, all deep enough in drek we’ll smother. People who lead […]
So Little Has Changed
So Little Has Changed ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ (I could write and post something like this every day. It makes me sad.) Today, it was a shooting in Girlroy, CA What are the numbers, does anybody know? Does anybody care how many […]
Pale Reflections
Pale Reflections ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Shadows of trees, which do not exist, extinguished by sudden, bright lights. Four musicians, in white, tux jackets, take the stage, like waiters to serve us some succulent moments, Beethoven. I wonder about their histories and any tales to […]
At Least Today
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Stop now, then continue, amble along city streets. Stroll down brassy, brightly-lit boulevards, replete, preening, peering at our distorted reflections, why, sumptuous shop windows, blank-eyed passers-by. Captured in, by all the lenses of many-eyed CCTV. Daily life’s digital Camera Obscura in […]
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