Category politics
Transformations
~~~~~ Let the world inhabit you, move you in strange, exotic directions. Imagine a new land where north, south, east, west are meaningless, arbitrary. Find there no time, but change ever present and everlasting. Expressions of limited duration. Only process, constant, no past, no future, a surprise waiting around every moment, even if we find […]
Full Circle or Geriatric Lament
~~~~~ When wee small and wheeled about, it’s the only way you could get out. When, past four score years and ten, it’s the only way you get out again. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. […]
So They Post
~~~~~ Everything you are about to hear or read is true. Whether these stories are about me or about you. How should we tell these stories so they are real not some mountebank’s wild and fanciful spiel? I believe that we must trust ourselves, our gut. I think most folk are happy where they are, […]
Fullness of Time
~~~~~ The moon sports a Cheshire grin tonight, hiding its face behindaa sly smiling light. It will be revealed in the fullness of time, when over the brow of the hill it’ll climb, Many tell us, though it varies, it’s the same, playing hide and seek with the sun, a game. Mirroring light from the […]
So Little Has Changed ~ Verse II
from the collected writings of Phileas the Lesser ~~~~~ Remember each number is someone’s mother, son, father, daughter, aunt, uncle and, it may be anyone. Rich or poor, special on either end of the spectrum, you can be shot by a gun, dove, hawk, smart, dumb. In or from an ivory tower its fiery wrath […]
Don’t You Know
~~~~~ All our symbols of success and failure are much more than they might appear. Still, they may not be what you think, paper, metal bits, a conspirator’s wink. If you are rich, you believe I am wrong. all your wants, needs met, a happy song. If you’re poor, you’re certain I am right, chance […]
Who Calls the Tune?
~~~~~ Regardless how brilliant, how noble I believe my thought Scorning how gracious, how grand I envision my dreams Futility wraps them up, a cerement, as small minds plot Hate, fear, want, and murder shape their selfish schemes I understand I can change the world, if just my little corner So I strive to add […]
Always Choose
~~~~~ Would that it be so, that we could redream our world in sleep. Though, I suppose, we must decide are we butterfly or human? Dreams are the seeds of change and hope; is it too great a leap? I shall wonder, write, share this vision, at least that is my plan. I will live […]
Asked Too Soon
~~~~~ Tell me the story of the man who kissed the moon, the woman who holds up the sky. Unless, I have asked too soon, you think I might be high. Though I have spent little time in bars, I have spent far too much in cars. Still, I always knew I could not escape […]
Cheap Bead on a Necklace of Stars
~~~~~ When will we say enough is more than enough? Will it be before our world, we cry, “time out?” Might we be told, exit the stage, leave our stuff? Never convinced we saw what our play’s about? Where have we gone wrong in the deeps of time? Perhaps, a wrong person took a rock […]
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