Category politics
Nothing Left to Give
~~~~~ Smart phones are a boon and a curse. They unite, simultaneously isolate us. Rooted deep into our days, our purse, in oh so many ways they bankrupt us. Tech rules, talking, staring at a screen, cut off from each as we communicate. To the fly on my leg, it means nothing. In caves, no-touch […]
If
~~~~~ If I could save to world or me, oh, what a crazy choice that would be. I would choose to save the world, you see, but for my love, who matters more than the world or me. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a […]
Remains of the Daze
~~~~~ I watch all the faces when I walk. I read their heartache, joy and pain. I imagine their stories, as if we talk. Despite tales I create, theirs remain. O so many stories and, also, so few. I think I read this number is seven. Basics match if not life, who knew? Bad, good, […]
What Do We Fear?
~~~~~ 4 Questions Concerning the Fate of Humanity It is not a question of who we have been or even who we are now. It’s a question of who we become. More importantly, it’s whether we choose or whether we continue to embrace the pain and chaos we manifest and appear to revel in, in […]
Whose Sweet Face?
~~~~~ While club and maul and stick and mace may have been effective to smash a face, they all require study, practice and intent, maim or murder always what was meant. While the spear and stone or an arbalest, increased striking distance, were not fast. Designed to kill prey, as dangerous as us finished more […]
Which Three Letters?
This is a piece I originally posted last May, but with the shooting at the synagogue in Poway, I feel like I need to post it every day. ~~~~~ Which Three Letters? ~~~~~ NRA, DOA, RIP ~~~~ The NRA pushes guns without any regret, as they myriad Needless Requiems Abet. Doubtless they think they deserve […]
Your Life
~~~~~ What we select to hide; what we’re willing to show, live in conflict, diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter whether we’re moving fast or slow, whether our journey is near its end or just the start Life now flashes by us in rapid fifteen second clips, with staggered moments, fraught with raw emotion. While […]
Children’s Duty
~~~~~ How lovely a bouquet, yellow daffodils, in a clear glass vase, the stems cut short, die the sooner; their life and beauty stills. Though death comes for all life, no resort. From the far field we hear a loud report. Death stalks killing fields and marks all, knowing lives of children, it will abort, […]
Secret Heart
~~~~~ Where do you think you will find your secret heart, A heart that speaks to the secret heart of the world? What pushes us away from the center, keeps us apart? What fear, hatred bigots us, around our heart curled? Are we somehow kept too busy to even take one look, to find that […]
Until Life Runs Out
~~~~~ Our world drowns in ignorance. No one knows. Our world smothers under ennui, apathy. No one cares. We inhabit tiny cages, think we’ve got it good, or not. We run, race, within our wheels, believe we are getting somewhere. We smoke weed, drink, pop pills, preen and pretend. We don’t see any of this, […]
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