Category politics
Give and Take
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Give your heart in everything you do. Offer your soul, as if it were pennies. You are here to give yourself away, in ways you do not remember, but have been given the imagination to dream. Each of us has our own special gift to offer, or […]
Consider Ourselves
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Why then the need for a celestial conductor who might somehow lead all creation? More likely a vast being 13 billion light years old, grown from babe to adult and someday into old age. A gradual fading of the strengths which have sustained and maintained a cosmos […]
A Deep Breath
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The air crisp with the scent of winter as I stood near the teahouse in Portland, Oregon’s block square Chinese Garden. A hazy day didn’t hide the city around the periphery of the garden, but made it, like stepping into another time and place. In the near […]
What I Said
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ This poem cannot heal my heart, but this poem can patch my soul. This poem cannot feel my pain. This poem can help me share my feelings. This poem cannot alter the order. This poem can structure my daily grind. This poem cannot remember my birth. This […]
Instead
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I scream my defiance as loud as I can, until it echoes inside of my own head. I’d do it again, but I don’t have a plan. So, I wonder what I might do instead. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]
Please, Stay Tuned
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Today, I won the lottery for mega bucks and I’m walking around, chest puffed out. What can’t I do? who can’t I be? I suppose the most like person is me. Today, I walked upon the moon, right near where other folk have walked. Won’t they be […]
Far Beyond You
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Soar until you reach the heights. Draft upon the currents to rise higher. Look down upon the vast field of creation. And though, you will thrill in awe, |the cosmos will remain beyond you. Still, you will strive to rise above creation itself; looking for a new […]
Always
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth~~~~~ ~~~~~ Will I find it walking the trail, the trees whispering into my ear? Will I find it waiting along the road, every sign and driver telling me anew? Is it in the squeak of the floorboards. the step I skip so I don’t wake you? Can I find […]
The Mourning Machine
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Everyone must be happy; it’s the law. Get your dental implants, so you’ll smile. There must be no crying across the land, and no tears or wailing on any hand. While you wait, just read a joyful magazine; ads for dear leader and the power he shows. […]
Allusions We All Retain
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The dishes in the cupboard sat in the dark, awaiting use and the crack of light when a door opened. Almost blind after so long confined, left to wait with no sense of life out of the wooden box they live in. Some may remember chicken, hot, […]