Category Modern Life
Songs of War ~ Songs of Peace
~~~~~ And will the savage songs of war never end, Replaced by simple, sweet songs of peace? How can we, forever, our loved-ones send, Knowing they will feed the slavering beast? Do we wonder why we never grow sane, When the best, the brightest are sent to die? Why choose blood, shed again and again? […]
Blue Sky, Gray Ocean, Sunlight Halo
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Driving down the California coast, A day overcast in shadowed gloom. Crisp, windy, made for a brisk walk. A hole in the clouds opens, circular, Reminds me of blue sky, other days. Time, not better, yet a form of magic. Light limns […]
One Day
~~~~~ One day, I will be gone, as we all will be, one day. Do you take time thinking about this, push it away? Rich, poor, wise or dull. any who preen and simper, Start as weak babes, end the same, bang or whimper. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Carpe Hora
~~~~~ They know they are outnumbered ninety-nine to one; We, the larger number, say that nothing can be done. Is it something in the water, or maybe it’s in our food? Whatever it proves to be, it must be something good. Good, for them, at least, but not for all the rest of us. And, […]
Bartholomew Matthew
~~~~~ Bartholomew Mathew Cannot decide. Tangled in social metaphor, Smiling, snide remarks, Too-knowing asides. Yearns for freedom From his shabby garret. His plush penthouse. Can he escape. Fly away, With but a single try? Ensnared in darkness, His shadow’s umbra Anticipates crisis, Steps and turns, Life’s dance marathon, His daily rumba, Sudden, explosive. Will he […]
Perspective
~~~~~ I’d happily spend all of my days as nights, If I could only live all of my nights as days. What’s the problem someone random says? They are but labels; call them what you like. Trees, I believe, may well be dogs or birds. While dogs are railroads and birds flowers. Seconds could last […]
Ask Only One Question
~~~~~ Give me now the cheerfulness and fearlessness of our youth, Back when we knew they were our lives, embodied our truth. Towels we used to make super hero capes with paper masks; Innocence our strength to conquer all our Sisyphithian tasks. Heroes all, though one day as Indians, the next day cowboys. Imagination’s fires […]
No Longer Ours
~~~~~ The end of an era, so-called. Not the end of all, perhaps. Unknown for now, until Some future now, connected; Contiguous, not, in theory, continuous. Then, is that us, gone? Merely an era in time, between, No relationship but time, flowing, A rolling stream, raging River, fed by tributaries or, one Embodied in rich […]
Ever Deeper
~~~~~ What do we tell ourselves Late at night, Moments from sleep? What do we hope for At first light? Sun’s return Births our new day. Do we live Our days asleep, Our nights awake? Questions I struggle to answer Huddled before, around Flickering blue fires, Our idols. We pray they guard us As they […]
From Time to Time
~~~~~ Some tell me that we cannot understand time Which puzzles me because we live within it I never question time, and feel quite sublime Time, from time to time, keeps us feeling fit ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me […]
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