Category Music

That Depiction

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What is reality? Can you tell me? Explicate in such a way, I may understand and comprehend the vagaries of our complex existence. I will listen without resistance, if only I might know truly, if only for this single instant. The world would change. Not only mine, […]

Know Not Why?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The universe slides through its ethereal dance. What are the chances you and I should be here to witness this moment, add our vibrations to the constant changes? Can you hear the bass and basis of all creation, that which we use to form our lives, their […]

Another Fight

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The procession marches through the city. A solo horn sounds. Yet, life abounds around the moments death has claimed. Children play in the park. They won’t go home until after it grows dark, scurrying towards whistles and the holler of voices, fathers forcing them to make choices […]

Cricket Angels

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I hear the birds singing throughout the yard, the hall, as if they exist in every space, every moment, as indeed they do. Listen to their thrills, their, arpeggios and crescendos. If only I could understand their song, their language of notes. So complex, we only begin […]

Hidden Within

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Thirteen people danced and sang, giving voice unto the joy of song. Why that number? No one knows, but the sound they made sublime. It’s a solo in myriad voices. Listing here and there, near and far away. What sways the beauty of notes sung in harmony? Given […]

Our Longing Gaze

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Power and glory sing the same. Bring to me the peace of plenty, the songs of angels and demons. Do you believe not the demons sing? Some would joke that this torment enough to make Hell more than hideous to behold. Who needs fire and brimstone, with […]

Each and Every Day

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ From where I sit, I hear my wife making salad. I see the piano where she sits and plays. I look out my window and see the hills behind my house, covered in trees and bushes, bottom to top. I enjoy the comfortable home my love has […]

Other Than Sleep

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Skip along like a child about to play hopscotch, jump rope. Hope to feel the joy of play, stay in childhood long past growing, knowing there is no way to keep the time when young, other than sleep. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is […]

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How Little?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ (I intended to post every day this month, then COVID laid me low. We think life listens to us, but that’s not always how it goes.) Gone now, the widows and orphans, the wounded soldiers, all who might remember the pain, suffering and heartbreak of war. The […]

Hope We Find

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Raise your life itself on high. Try to find the balance between tears and laughter, balance what we are after. I hope we find it. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and […]