Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Know We Must
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ May life fill me to the brim, my sails and yards trimmed to catch the wind and sail away long past a year and a day. No marriage, no pea green boat, simply pea coat to warm my breast. Help me face each and every test and […]
Alters All
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I stumble in the darkness, crying out for light. What might I see if the lamps are lighted? Glory or a blighted landscape stretching onward in the distance? If the sunrise arrives, shall the blighted be transformed? Return to the glory of a lost city, some undiscovered […]
Staring Into the Darkness
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What will I find when I turn over rocks on the shore? Will something scuttle forth like the ideas I have at night in my dreams or in my wakeful moments staring into the darkness? ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]
Hidden Within
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Thirteen people danced and sang, giving voice unto the joy of song. Why that number? No one knows, but the sound they made sublime. It’s a solo in myriad voices. Listing here and there, near and far away. What sways the beauty of notes sung in harmony? Given […]
Assure Our Survival
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Still, when we could best one another in our quest. The arms match refused to recognize one another’s hand, as friend, as they recognize themselves. Who’ll know where we have gone, once we’ve disappeared? Will one wise sage peer into their scrying glass, pretend they understand how […]
Living
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Now I know the secret of life, how to live and why to love. I can tell you so many things, but would you listen to me? Why would you believe I know the answer? Simply because I tell you I know the secret to both life […]
What We Might See
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Running away, running home, Which is the escape you would choose given the choice? Each has its trials and its treasures. Who’s to know where we’ll find pain and where we might find pleasure? How we’ll know what our life is meant to be, or what we’ll […]
Awakened?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Awakened from or into a nebulous scene, I wonder if I have drawn dusk or dawn. A cabin in the distant burns a single light. Fog fills the valleys between stepped hills, the birth or dearth of endless possibilities. Do I see a first light of night, […]
Into the Wilderness
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Coming from the crowded places where people abide, I forget the vast stretches of open ground I see when I fly. It looks almost imagined it’s so enormous, with occasional straight lines, the sign of people. Perhaps, that’s the sure sign we don’t work with nature, follow […]
The Angels Came
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ All the dead grasses linger, yet, they still speak to life. Reflecting our own toil, our own strife. Hidden in the sky and the ground, the secrets of living and life that abound. Tell me you love me and I will be happy knowing you’ve found me. […]