Category Modern Life
Possibility
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Possibility Now the grasses dance, the wind sings Music of warbling birds, the cricket chorus Here, now; no other place exists for us Joined in experience, each experience unique Others completely different, separate, alone Yet all the same, all connected at the […]
In League
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ In League I would climb upon the stars So I might hear your thoughts. Though I am driving into bars, while jumping over draughts. I am hunting beneath the grass. I wonder which side I am on? If it is all the […]
Civics Lesson
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Civics Lesson ~~~~~ The jury is still out, At least it is for me. What was it about? I must wait and see. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative […]
Do Us A Favor
Do Us A Favor For all the shooters out there, I have a request Whether you hail from the east or from the west If shooting many people jumps into your head Do us a favor, stay home, shoot yourself instead
All Deserving
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ All Deserving ~~~~~ Whether you think you lost or won No matter what your views may be On the president now, the last one Or, indeed, on the other forty-three The time has come to make a stand For all of us, […]
A Wink and a Sayer
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ A Wink and a Sayer ~~~~~ Sometimes I write poetry When I’m lying fast asleep It doesn’t seem fair to me These words I cannot keep Yet, since I don’t remember May not be good as I think Dream mind is more […]
To Do
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ To Do ~~~~~ I have written words of late And more than just a few Muse of verse made no date What’s a simple poet to do? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See […]
Arrival Time Undisclosed
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Arrival Time Undisclosed Wandering into my neighborhood at night Wondering what water in gutters gurgles, What it chuckles down drains, in a deluge But my face turns to eye distant dwellings Their lights seen from atop a hill I climbed Spellbinding, sweet […]
May Be Far
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ May Be Far ~~ To see the world of others As the have seen themselves Whether in a past or future Across the ocean in other lands Across the sea of vasty space Greeted by an unknown people A tribe that we […]
Never Alone
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Never Alone ~~ In vast crowds Humanity Footsteps, high-pitched, Staccato constancy Remind me Of bird chicks, Insistent, helpless Without nourishment Fickle succor — there, gone Inconsistent, snatched away Driven, in danger Unexpected abandonment Vagaries of nature Meaning all of us All the […]
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