Category politics

At Least

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ My time upon this globe spinscloser to my dénouement? Whata lovely word which seems toconvey the sense of an ending, oran ending with some sense, at least. What do I mean to leave? Would Idare to number my sins, my acts ofcharity? Do they in any […]

Wonder Why?

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Rain falls softly upon thefields, patterns on the streams,and carries me along throughthe mysterious countryside as Iwalk along. My dog rangesahead of me, backwards andforwards and back, following hernose in ways I no longer haveavailable. We depend on our misty eyesand wonder why it is so […]

A Better Form?

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I find there’s so much I don’t know.Would it help if I had just one moreplace to go? Would it be somehowsignificant in ways the others haven’tbeen? Would I be able to absolveall my sins, my transgressions MightI find a better form of expression? ~~~~~ Diversity […]

Do You See?

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What if you could be transportedto another time and place? Perhapsthrough a great novel which leavesyou an active participant, the hero, orsomeone else who changes the mostbecause of what they experience withinthe pages? If only it never had to end.Great music, some art may also transportyou, […]

Only They Exist

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I have felt the darkness come. I’veseen the stars wink out one by one.Not the thousands we can see, butthe million billion contained in themillion billion galaxies. So vast ourcosmos, it beggars description, letalone any concept of true understanding.Could we use such cosmology to explainthe purchase […]

All the Other Beings

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Gently, the wind blows through the trees.I wander through the valley, smell theflowers and listen to the birds. What willI find if I am but quiet enough to listencarefully to the world all around me? Whatwill I know within the silence of myself?Will I take the […]

All Along

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Life speeds past me with a grace and precision which are no longer mine. Yet I enjoy the show, want to join in all the ways I could before. Do I still see a crack in the door, one I might slip through? And bring along my […]

Beginning to End

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When your day is more than you expected and it’s a good day. Oh, how you wonder, did I ever get so lucky? Though, like the weather, days change suddenly. Cloudy to sunny and back again. Sunny yet cold, much like entire lives. This brief moment for […]

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 […]