Category politics
Phantoms
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I’m trying to remember how the rain felt, once, jumping into puddles, when I played younger. Fat drops from the sky. Drops I made in reply. I don’t recall fear then. Yet, I am afraid lately. Did similar phantoms fill my days, my sleep? Do […]
Too Late
Please, comment if you can and let me know what you think. People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Within these days of isolation, silence, consumed by noise and confrontation, Have you remembered those you love, Remembered in time, said, I love you? Thought will mean nothing when alone. Wonder what will […]
Streets Run Crimson
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ All of our greedy, gutless impeders Who aid the spineless fool at large, Do all they can and nothing much To keep their simple tool in charge. Non-conceder; he we did discharge. But not Mitch; he remains at large. As a dozen plus Attorneys General […]
Afflicted
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Afflicted Variations on a theme by PBH For the United-States failure to act. Masks and distance became required. While you got let go, laid off or fired, COVID-sick; do your eyeballs bleed, while with your fickle gods you plead? Go crazy; nothing’s what you […]
Time We Must Wait
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Light all the candles. Speak the ritual words. From the past, from the future. Do they now have meaning? Did they ever? Do you believe they will be heard? If they are heard, will it matter? Another ritual, lost. Come and gone, yet to be. […]
The Mysteries
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What are the mysteries? If anything can thus be called. Life itself is mystery enough, at least to me. Listen to the voices of winds and waters, stones and trees. Mountain, sea, and sky. Life much older then thee or me. Yet, we do not […]
Small Steps
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Sitting in a room with every other chair Taped off, so we will stay six-feet apart. And everyone is masked, cause we care, Which may be a small step; it is a start. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is […]
Dashboard Toy in a Clear Plastic Box
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In the car parked next to mine, A trapped mime in extreme. No subtle gesture here. He beats his head on his Plastic walls repeatedly. What this could be for, What it should mean, I cannot begin to fathom. A metaphor for a strange something, […]
If Only
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A concert, if only in my living room. If only, I say, though I can access zoom. I could be on the street, cold and alone, Clutching my belongings; I cannot atone For following fools who led, pretended. Their casual cruelty cannot be defended. Nor […]
Certain Choices
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Music and beauty perdure from the past. Will anything we do or say be able to last, After destruction, desecration, disregard? Certain choices made, easy becomes hard. Not a choice of love or hate; it is our fear. If we cannot claim courage, shed no […]
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