Category Modern Life
What is There to Lose?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Soldier straight, Their brother stands, Their sister stands. While they reach out Their untouched hands. We step beneath Their outstretched arms, Unable to imagine all Myriad and costly harms. Cost of life, of hope, in pain Dwarfing any envisioned gain Humankind is anything but kind. We need but […]
I Heard
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ (The importance of negative space.) I heard Monarch butterflies migrating through California have dwindled from millions to around two thousand or so. With them go the insects who help pollinate all of our crops. Will we pollinate by hand, let plants not grow, trees perish? Those we haven’t […]
Pain and Fear
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Listen and do not make a sound. What do you hear, your thoughts? Though someone is always around. Sound contagious, brains may clot. Wait, perhaps I realized something. Part of our stress is noise we hear. Where nature restores, so we sing, Our days all beset by pain […]
The Only Way
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Earth is not our stage where we may playact a meager role, despite being cast hero or king. We, more akin to cells that comprise our being a longer time than now we lived as designed. But then we exploded into runaway growth, a cancer which spread so […]
Once Upon a Life
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Part One Once upon a single life nearly fifty years ago I sat upon a brick wall in Palo Alto feeling low. Without money a place to stay, listening to an unknown rock band in Litton Plaza, I heard A dulcet voice offering me hello. Who knew such […]
On the Road Again?
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Vaccine, my second dose, hurray. Here, I sit and I wait and I hope. Are we on to the road to recovery Or sliding down a slippery slope? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ […]
A Plus Fine
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Life, I know, is what we make it, Though mostly we let it make us. So busy we can never stop to sit. Think each bit we acquire a plus. Now the pandemic sees us home. What we acquire is mostly online. Swells our waists […]
Ashamed
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ We should all be ashamed. None of us must remain unnamed. Whatever we believe now, no matter what we learned, or how. What we believed yesterday, What we were taught, not in our DNA. Whatever we are ever likely to believe; Open our eyes; we […]
Hide the Fear of Living
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ (aka The Lucky Few) I went for a walk this morning. Reached the beauty of the briny deep. Upon the surface only was my view; the world below kept its secrets close. I thought of how we judge the world, based on the surfaces we […]
One-Six-Twenty-one
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Past the time that they were reaching, they lost their way and brought the weeping. While their idol raved and ranted screamed he could never be supplanted And it clashed with the truth of freedom. During the riot I watched alone Watched their fervor to […]
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