Category Modern Life
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Fourteen Toliver climbed into the low branches of the tree with the densest foliage. He planned to wait out the day, watch and learn from his hiding place. Initially, he wedged himself into position, with his feet on a branch and his back pressed into the trunk. He still feared he would be found […]
A Different Day
In this instant generation is it ever just now? If each moment is an anticipated future, how? Recording all our lives for future delectation Can existence contain any new expectation? Will it ever be right now, this moment, day? Can we live now while deciding what to say? It is said, history is written by […]
Answer to an Unasked Question
Passionate Pacific my daily inspiration, sunlight, sand and surf Murmured messages wash on shore, chased by crashing waves Warm strand, moonlit, twinkling on the swells, reflecting earth Wind, water, weather form transient art, nothing the sea saves Humbled by such vastness of ocean, rolling beyond the horizon This and more besides to stir or calm […]
A Mime’s Message
Without thought or conscious knowledge of the anniversary of the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, we watched the documentary about it on Friday night, 9/19/2014, the one-year anniversary. In 2012, visiting good friends, chosen family, we went to the mall on more than one occasion. I didn’t know when I started watching the documentary […]
In Between
Within the difference, all of our choices are made It’s where we decide is it better to be loved or paid Who made the second choice, how did they decide Wrong path taken long ago, this generation’s ride What’s the difference, can you parse what I mean Either right or left, or a hammer claw […]
Remember, Remember the Eleventh of September and So Much More
On this day thirteen years ago, innocent people died Perished in terror as their loved-ones hoped or cried Just their daily routines, in moments all burned away Some of our reason, our innocence also died that day Truly, that hateful day, all gave some and some gave all Be ever thankful to those who chose […]
Always Choose
Would that it be so, that we could redream our world in sleep Though, I suppose we must decide are we a butterfly or a man Dreams are the seeds of change and hope; is it too great a leap I will wonder, write, share this vision, at least that is my plan I will […]
Life as We Know It
What do we mean when we say life as we know it? I wonder if there is anybody who really has a clue? Is it something we know, we have learned to forget? If we recall it, do you think it might alter our view? A long time ago just now, the void felt bored, […]
Haiku of Modern Life
Age and Beauty Age before beauty For wisdom trumps pulchritude Beauty, too, shall age Swish A train bell clanging Dopplering into silence Swish of traffic now Clear Ahead Train whistle warning To clear the tracks ahead now Crossing bar is down Blooms Blooms fade, passing time Stone fawn stares blindly upward Bright zinnia blooms
Silently Across the Night
Moving silently across the night-dark earth Fires burn ever Fluttering banners, gold and red, to mark the dead Ever brighter Blood-red projected on shifting smoke Ever hotter An ever-changing, tattered screen, white, gray, black, overlaid scarlet Consuming all No animal, no insect, no blade of grass remains For eyes to see Glimpses of crazed conflict […]
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