Category politics
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ On the anniversary of the Sandyhook School shootings and the aftermath of the Brown University shootings, both resulting in death and destruction. […]
A Different Route
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Walking in the cold along the Esplanade, watching the people as they watch the sea. On the pier, fisher folk cast lines and drop crab pots, waiting to see what their luck or skill will be this day. It’s cold and I pull the sleeves of my […]
As If
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The lark ascends in the morning, more presage of hope than warning, going now into the sky, plying currents invisible to me. What might it see from its height aloft? Does the earth look hard or soft? Do the currents distort my vision? Indecision rules my life, […]
What You’ll Learn
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Hurry forward and assume your place. It’s still the same game, the same race. Some will tell you it’s different every time, appearance might suggest another clime. It’s always different, yet always the same, different boards and tokens, the same game. So, step right up and take […]
Will I See It?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Might I begin to understand my lingering doubt? Spout my wisdom, yet be ignored. My briefest, brightest light deplored. My plight, much too similar to most, the host who fills the world and is as soon forgotten. Like rotten meat and veggies saved too long, belong only […]
Impossibility
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The shadows flit tree to tree and building to building, the players hiding, laughing. The game, the one we all play, our shadow tag, which is more than the time to hate or the time to adore. We run and laugh and dance and sing, looking for […]
Follow the Path
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Leaves drift slowly through the trees. Solid sentinels in orange, red and yellow, ground beneath them carpeted in color, turning brown around the fall of seasons. The reasons held in those discarded, like bare branches of the winter’s trees. Bare or clad in white, more funereal than […]
Know We Must
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ May life fill me to the brim, my sails and yards trimmed to catch the wind and sail away long past a year and a day. No marriage, no pea green boat, simply pea coat to warm my breast. Help me face each and every test and […]
Alters All
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I stumble in the darkness, crying out for light. What might I see if the lamps are lighted? Glory or a blighted landscape stretching onward in the distance? If the sunrise arrives, shall the blighted be transformed? Return to the glory of a lost city, some undiscovered […]
Staring Into the Darkness
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What will I find when I turn over rocks on the shore? Will something scuttle forth like the ideas I have at night in my dreams or in my wakeful moments staring into the darkness? ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]