Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Nap Time
When we think about life, our future, we want to succeed To be popular, powerful, rich, comely, to live a life of ease Some live solely for an afterlife, or in daily fear of disease How many of us ever choose to contemplate our legacies You know all the phrases; you read them in the […]
Life Lessons
A fireplace in a solid home, wooden mantle and surround Fluting, details in the wood and built-in shelves either side Mementoes from this life, ancestors, previous generations History contained memories, feeling felt within sentiment Meanings, we understand, more important than money Have more significance than any goods real or imagined Yet, one day these memories […]
Flower Power
Stucco walls and Spanish tile roofs Backed by tall, tree-crowned hills Set off by gnarly oaks, blossoms, wisteria Sing myriad tulips, rejoicing daffodils Heady fragrance; dizzy, spinning, is it this Perhaps, or perhaps it’s too much sun From which I reel, causes my confusion Everywhere, people, groups, myriad, unique Such a wide, amazing mix of […]
Conflict of Interest
We all want it. We all want it all. We do. Do we? Or is that just a story we’ve been repeatedly told? Love, home, family, food, friends no longer hold Enough; fail to comprehend what enough may be New flashy car, a fancy man, a trophy wife to start All the latest apps we […]
When We All Know
Everybody dies So why do we try So hard to pretend We will never end Hold tight the ignorant Insanity of youth When we all know the truth This is not meant To cry false sentiment How we face this Whether with no solace You and I decide intent Or with aplomb Earth, water, fire, […]
Never Live In Fear
How will we decide what to do, what to think, what we will think In our world of conflicting opinions, way too much information While we caper and cavort blindfolded, ever so close to the brink Believing we’re so ordinary, nothing extraordinary can be done When actions are performed beyond the pale, it will not […]
So We Pretend
How do we choose all the choices we make From the simplest ones to risks we will take What motivates us to decide what’s our goal Will power, money, love, sex make us whole Are health and happiness the top on our list Or upon a good life of beauty, fame we insist We want […]
Total Can’t Recall
Tech jackets, watches, glasses won’t mean a single thing Won’t matter what they know or do, unless they’re bling Sure, there is a certain status in the land of the nerd elite Doesn’t mean they’ll play the burbs, be seen every street Unless this tech makes you look sharp, stylin’ and profilin’ Can you honestly […]
Blue Screen Cafes
What do expect, from texts Just the usual suspects How would that be With life the fee Head down Smile or frown Attention, intention locked In a little box, a pox Yet only letters in a row Like any word we don’t know Shorthand, perhaps But often slaps Is there reason to listen Moments to […]
Cart Before the Horse
If we made our lives wide open to reading, music, art How would we choose, decide where we should start Never relished classical, like in the Saturday cartoons Hate rock, jazz, yet to elevator Muzak you hum tunes Presentation may be wrong; nothing works every age Not just times around the sun; how each fills […]
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