Category Modern Life
Clocking Out
Clocking Out ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ As the clock for our survival runs, tic, tic, tic, some pick profits over people, sick, sick, sick. If we don’t make changes quick, quick, quick, there’ll be no need for a clock going tic, tic, tic ~~~~~ Peace […]
Always
Always ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Oh so many ways we can dream and hope. Some near, some distant, need a telescope Find what we want or want what we find; spend years so depressed, out of our mind. Will we start to understand which is […]
Along for the Ride
Along for the Ride ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Listening to a long-time friend, nearly 50 years, who currently lives more than 5,000 miles away, playing a bamboo flute, somewhere in Chicago. A mysterious mélange of time and space, relative to not only distance but also […]
Happy Trails to You
Happy Trails to You ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I look around and wonder what each of us sees. Where I sit, it’s cliché, the forest from the trees. I, like, listen to, like, voices impressed by, like; never mind, think I will go out for […]
When Future is Ancient
When Future is Ancient ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ What will we find in ancient times, from what we have not destroyed? Like everyone killed, endless war. Have we lost too much to recover? Imminent threat of climate change; sticks of dynamite, it occurs to me, […]
Report From the Realm
Report From the Realm ~~~~~ “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Trumpery is Reality” Words by Birds I am the Rouge Regina. You never will find finer. Say bad thing of my rule; it’s fake news, you fool. I am the queen, the best. Just forget all of the rest. Misunderstand what […]
Making Choices
Making Choices ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Can we now talk of love? We hear far too much hate. Lift our eyes to stars above and so choose to cooperate. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave […]
Grown Large
Grown Large ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ In too many places we are led by children grown large before they learned to share, grown large, still believing the the myth. Mine! Neither want, need nor knowledge hold sway. The fluid world of young children, constantly shifting […]
Too Many Aces
Too Many Aces ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ When the night descends in screams of terror, minus hope, our world shatters, breaks open, with the fragility of a DDT damaged eggshell, who will hear our wailing, save the darkness? With our cleverness, our hubris failed […]
Power to You, People
Power to You, People ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Power to You, People I offer you this simple verse, all my Pen’s Might followers, from my heart, didn’t rehearse. Six years tomorrow, today in Word Press terms, it appears, I gained 200 followers, a win, on […]
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