Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Beautiful Dreamers
Are you liberal, conservative, radical, stoic, centrist, anarchist, green? You can fill in the blanks I’ve missed. Maybe you want to bring back the Wobblies or worship the sun. What you label yourself is much less important than what you believe. Can you tell me why you believe, what you believe and why it matters? […]
No Place Safe to Stand
If you find something’s wrong don’t cast about looking for a reason I’m the one to libel, always, I must honestly admit, this or any season You think you’re wrong, you’re incorrect, I’ll swear an oath I did it From simple misspelled words to atom bombs, for all I will take credit The argument […]
What Else?
You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties is the only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, to you, it even feels […]
Because We Have Not Stopped
Because We Have Not Stopped A Poet’s Words with Poets’ Words When myriad commit cruel murder, macho maniacs brutally rape, mad hermits dream and decimate, Then will we need to know where the sidewalk ends, where a phenomenal woman’s secrets lie With daily tribunes crying madness, feasts of destruction, humanity the savage, ravenous beast Will […]
When a Fan of a Certain Age Attends a Students’ Classical Concert
Hot lights shine, burn yellow, orange, blue and red Reflecting back off crimson shoes and scarlet laces Clashing with those many white and black clad Sharp counterpoint to their serious, sober faces Red the vagrant color corrupts the evening’s show Bright blood, a wound, mimicked by a flautist’s tie Stark food-color hair in back, […]
Masterpiece
masterpiece n. 1. A person’s greatest piece of work, as in art. 2. Anything done with masterly skill. I believe most if not all people understand what is meant by the word masterpiece. Though our definitions may vary, we all have an idea of what we think it means. In the west, we associate […]
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