Category Poetry
Secret Heart
~~~~~ Where do you think you will find your secret heart, A heart that speaks to the secret heart of the world? What pushes us away from the center, keeps us apart? What fear, hatred bigots us, around our heart curled? Are we somehow kept too busy to even take one look, to find that […]
Until Life Runs Out
~~~~~ Our world drowns in ignorance. No one knows. Our world smothers under ennui, apathy. No one cares. We inhabit tiny cages, think we’ve got it good, or not. We run, race, within our wheels, believe we are getting somewhere. We smoke weed, drink, pop pills, preen and pretend. We don’t see any of this, […]
Transformations
~~~~~ Let the world inhabit you, move you in strange, exotic directions. Imagine a new land where north, south, east, west are meaningless, arbitrary. Find there no time, but change ever present and everlasting. Expressions of limited duration. Only process, constant, no past, no future, a surprise waiting around every moment, even if we find […]
Full Circle or Geriatric Lament
~~~~~ When wee small and wheeled about, it’s the only way you could get out. When, past four score years and ten, it’s the only way you get out again. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. […]
So They Post
~~~~~ Everything you are about to hear or read is true. Whether these stories are about me or about you. How should we tell these stories so they are real not some mountebank’s wild and fanciful spiel? I believe that we must trust ourselves, our gut. I think most folk are happy where they are, […]
Fullness of Time
~~~~~ The moon sports a Cheshire grin tonight, hiding its face behindaa sly smiling light. It will be revealed in the fullness of time, when over the brow of the hill it’ll climb, Many tell us, though it varies, it’s the same, playing hide and seek with the sun, a game. Mirroring light from the […]
So Little Has Changed ~ Verse II
from the collected writings of Phileas the Lesser ~~~~~ Remember each number is someone’s mother, son, father, daughter, aunt, uncle and, it may be anyone. Rich or poor, special on either end of the spectrum, you can be shot by a gun, dove, hawk, smart, dumb. In or from an ivory tower its fiery wrath […]
Don’t You Know
~~~~~ All our symbols of success and failure are much more than they might appear. Still, they may not be what you think, paper, metal bits, a conspirator’s wink. If you are rich, you believe I am wrong. all your wants, needs met, a happy song. If you’re poor, you’re certain I am right, chance […]
Because
~~~~~ Once more into the breech, believing that everything is within my reach. I can laugh, dance and sing. It will all be rooster’s crow, saying that I am here. While I am sure you know, I wanted to be perfectly clear. A song I know has a line, how we all feel a little […]
When Air Becomes Breath
~~~~~ In the beginning, though completely unaware, a woman’s body breathes a quickened zygote. Not the woman nor the potential know, care, because unknown, potential is all they’ve got. Later, when both grow and become conscious of the world and each other, in their own way. After months, as potential molded out of dust, grows, […]
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