Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Aftermath

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Ships sail through the harbor and the crowd cheers, though they know they are on their way to war and death and pain. Perhaps, we should never use the word war alone, despite its ultimate implications. We must spell out the horror, death, the agony within and […]

The Life Of Warmth

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The night walks through the bazaar, carrying jewels in their wrap, trailing veils. Who knows whose lights are represented? Is one of them Sol the name we have given? But what name does any sun claim as their own? Do we need such a true name in […]

Give and Take

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Give your heart in everything you do. Offer your soul, as if it were pennies. You are here to give yourself away, in ways you do not remember, but have been given the imagination to dream. Each of us has our own special gift to offer, or […]

Consider Ourselves

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Why then the need for a celestial conductor who might somehow lead all creation? More likely a vast being 13 billion light years old, grown from babe to adult and someday into old age. A gradual fading of the strengths which have sustained and maintained a cosmos […]

What A Marvelous Space

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What spirit moves through the heart, the mind, the brains, the hands of any creator? This is a question all should ask. We all create in our own ways, to the degree of which we are capable, though even the most minor among us have created life’s […]

Am I a Writer or Just a Person Who Owns Too Many Notebooks?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ How can I have too many notebooks? A dastardly assertion. Like saying I have too many books. So what, if my stack of To-Be-Read books would be taller than my house, taller the city hall. Yes, I admit it might reach the moon. But it’s not hoarding, […]

You’re Out

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I sit on the sidelines, wanting to play this game called life. I would take the stage, play hero or villain. Though I have read actors enjoy playing villains because they are more complex, more challenging, I’d choose to be the hero, even if that makes me […]

A Deep Breath

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The air crisp with the scent of winter as I stood near the teahouse in Portland, Oregon’s block square Chinese Garden. A hazy day didn’t hide the city around the periphery of the garden, but made it, like stepping into another time and place. In the near […]

What I Said

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ This poem cannot heal my heart, but this poem can patch my soul. This poem cannot feel my pain. This poem can help me share my feelings. This poem cannot alter the order. This poem can structure my daily grind. This poem cannot remember my birth. This […]

Far Beyond You

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Soar until you reach the heights. Draft upon the currents to rise higher. Look down upon the vast field of creation. And though, you will thrill in awe, |the cosmos will remain beyond you. Still, you will strive to rise above creation itself; looking for a new […]