Category politics

Only Time’s Caress

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ How languorously her tears fall waiting for the service to begin. Who can know the depth of her sorrow, how her time came now? Listen for the sound of sadness pattering the floor below, like distant rain upon cobblestones. Wait! The hearse has arrived. The pallbearers lift […]

Her Final Words

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ It’s been over two weeks and I still do not understand how someone could do this. Half my age and she had no idea that morning would be her last one. She’d dropped her children at school. Did she hug them and kiss them, as if she […]

Lo, We Remember

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ We remember those who are gone, and we honor those who remain. All those who have lived so long, who pray they did not live in vain. Think now of those who served, and those who have only waited, to experience the horrors of war. worse than […]

Vision

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sometimes, we must look outside ourselves, to see what lies within our hearts. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think See more of my creative offerings […]

In Between

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sometimes it comes to me in ways and waves of feeling sends me reeling, like a movie spooling out at 24 frames per second. You have seen the mise en scene, or at least know what I mean. Go forth, spread the word, all you’ve heard, until […]

While Wondering

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Brightly as I go, I wonder, wandering through the world. What have you heard? Sound will carry us. A fair start. Where you are and you stop, brightly or dully, slow or fast. Discover where you will end up at last as you wonder while wandering. ~~~~~ […]

Obliterating Us

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ In Memory of Renee Nicole Good Hold on. Show me the way to more. Is it tears smoothing the dance floor? Fear smothering the strings of the instruments till no one sings without pain, and the knowledge we’ll do it again. Kill till we obliterate us. ~~~~~ […]

Either of Us

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Correct if I’m wrong about the many things I believe in my daily routine. May I do the same for you? And will either of us listen? ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a […]

What Tomorrow Brings

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Cry freedom as you step into your adult life. No matter where you find yourself, who you end up talking to, talking about, the conversation always reflects you. Who you are and who you may become. So speak of many things: failed governments, cabbages and faux kings. […]

When Patterns Come

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ How city traffic weaves, snarls and fights for space in order to find their place. Speed on, blow your horn. All for you, because you’re you. Cacophony of motors. machines fill your heads with noise, which, when patterns come, become a form of music, so intense. ~~~~~ […]