Category politics
Will We Be Wise?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The tree forks stand proudly and point to the sky, to the ground. Some point directions unknown, unimagined. Where do they lead? Who’ll know where I have gone? If not me, anyone? Love awaits, if I’m bold or lucky. Adventure’s overrated, though need or greed may drive […]
My True Voice
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Slowly I contemplate reality, singing chance with all beings. Not religious, but universal. The music and words kept simple to calm my inner monitor, allow my true voice to open my inner ears, so I might hear my own message. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment […]
Balanced Ending
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I listen, only to hear distant voices, whispers, asides, deep discussions, laughter. What are they discussing, I wonder now? Certainly not Michelangelo or Da Vinci. War and rumors of war torments, memoirs of lives lost. Memorialized forever. No heavenly choir sings, nor stentorian angel proclaims threats of […]
I Can But Stay
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ My heart weeps for all that is lost. For how I have been left alone. Bereft of family and friends who I once knew. Gone now to a destination of unknown dimensions. Around the corner, behind a wall. I hope they wait for me. Fear they are […]
Why We Let This?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The machines move rapidly, creating life, formerly, our own.They push us aside, but can theyfeel the satisfaction of the jobwell done? Work passed down,father to daughter, mother to son. Whatever combination I call forth,will it matter? When everything is made by machines and we are left to […]
Additions To Our Song
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What if, each morning, we could tune ourselves to the deep world? The music of our sphere, which may no longer sound true, since we’ve changed not only our own instrument, but also the score. As our once harmonious composition sounds discordant and dissonant , harsh and […]
Who Knows
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Have I not suffered enough my life should feel replete, while not complete? Nature wonders at all my misplaced questions, ideas, my singular beliefs. Am I not here for this alone? Who knows the answers if not I? All the chances missed While I listened to the […]
What Lingers
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Cars flood the city streets. Stopping going, turning, honking. A vast confluence flows backwards, seeking sources for another day. Knowing they will flow back again. Until the flood of people crests, flows and eddies strange but known patterns. Sometimes disrupted by the unusual, like a tree falling […]
A Mother Bids
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ A mother bids the starlight to sing their child to sleep. Dreamless or happy romps in a land of make believe. That they could grow up in a world of peace and plenty. History a horrid and horrific memory. If reaching out to seed stars and planets. […]
What Choice Do We Have?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Hope in darkness lingers in low tones. Sustained tremolo and plangent reserves. When we are deep into winter’s night. We know that some tomorrow, we’ll see light. Even those who live through months of darkness, realize they will watch the sunrise. Lingering above the horizon for days […]