Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

A Plus Fine
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Life, I know, is what we make it, Though mostly we let it make us. So busy we can never stop to sit. Think each bit we acquire a plus. Now the pandemic sees us home. What we acquire is mostly online. Swells our waists […]

Hide the Fear of Living
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ (aka The Lucky Few) I went for a walk this morning. Reached the beauty of the briny deep. Upon the surface only was my view; the world below kept its secrets close. I thought of how we judge the world, based on the surfaces we […]

Out of Our Depth
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What we know and what we think we know Are often diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter if we are moving fast or slow Whether near our journey’s end or at the start. Life now flashes by us in fifteen second clips Or flickering interludes […]

As Always
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When sunlight warms the waiting Earth, While darkness spreads its nightly chill. One engenders all life and giving birth, In the end death wins and it always will. Still, dawn will come around once more Until our unknown last morning comes. In the beginning, life […]

Than I Be
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In all things creative, I wish I was Much more talented than I already be. Although I should practice, I pause. Still, I realize, can’t wait for discovery ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ […]

The Eternal Mystery of Phileas, the Lesser: I Must Admit
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In a Time of Pandemic and Insurrection. ~~~~~ In this dim season of darkening light, When day is eclipsed by growing night, I walk on, crackling crispness, fast-fallen leaves, Like shots from a distant fight. Stark, bare limbs filter the weakened Sunlight, all that my […]

While We Linger?
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The tapestry of life I see is darker than I knew. Indigo so deep it’s black scattered with distant lights. Stars or torches leading where? Yet dawn will come in glory reflecting red, orange and yellow. Climbing the sky to white and blue as we […]

More Not Than There
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I want to write, paint, design something profound. Still, I’d also like recognition even a little money. Although neither matters much in the cosmic view, Be neither forgotten nor remembered in nova blast. So how do I deal with life now, greeting mortality, Eventual ending […]

Containment
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ How do we contain what we are? Where are we going at any moment? Will we ever listen to the sky and trees, Let alone the so-called birds and bees? I don’t have answers; perhaps I never will. Still, I will live my life in […]

Good Boy
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Do I or don’t I enter contests? Art, writing; Who knows what? Clearly, I’m seeking conquests. Think I’d be fine with a head pat. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my […]