Category politics

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People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Experimenting with a form called Trenta-Sei Do we really understand a single thing Beyond our own tiny slice of the world? Judging […]

Waiting Again ~ Then and Now

People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Waiting again. So much time Spent waiting. Inundated, inundating, Conditioned response. Absolutely predictable. As expected. Reflected, reflecting Drab brown walls, Life stalls. […]

Gullibility

People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ How did we learn to be so selfish? So many think only of themselves. Is it simply that we are stupid, too and cannot comprehend anything? As more people become infected, number grows of people who die. Will it take the death of someone you […]

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 […]