Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Darkness or Dawn?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ The rill trips down the watercourse, empties into a sheltered, shadowed pool where leaves float. Pool’s end, where the water drains, the sun glints, dances, and dazzles, forming ripples. Watch the stream broaden and slow, as rainbow hues glance from the sunlight shining low. Is it now the […]

Angelique

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The club, dark and smokey with pot and hash; cigarettes de classe. Whiskey and gin flow like the oasis fountains, As there, the air filled with foreign tongues all converse. Tables are full, the bar stands three deep. Men and women drink beer and vodka. While the […]

We Are One

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sound the horns of color. Heralds of a new day. Slowly seen and  rapidly forgotten. When the sun awakes, peaks above the horizon. Glory we observe, going forth into warmth or stepping into the storm. We are nourished on a world not designed for us, by us, […]

Our Own Song

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When tomorrow forgets it once was a mystery. Now, it is only the past. Recent or ancient history, no matter how late or long, we wait to find our own song. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World […]

Exactly Where and When

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Lost in time and in space, unconcerned, utterly relaxed. What to worry? You’re still part of all creation and as creation fills you, you recall it’s impossible to be lost, wherever you may be now. Like the eternal now, the eternal you, always present. Though sometimes more […]

The Bus Pulls Away

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The clock ticks and time races. Move to the country, time slows. It can’t be just clock or location, but I will bet no one truly knows. The country, an unexploded bomb. We had best hope time stands still. Ticks last hours, sweat on our brow. If […]

Awe the Key

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Imagine you’re running in a wildflower field. Bright yellow dominant, accented by purple, red, blue, white, and green, plus sharp and subtle tones of noise. A kaleidoscopic crescendo of colors, shapes, and heady scents, All designed to hold you captive within the sanctuary of your soul. Awe […]

Do Not Look Away

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The world moves more quickly now, like the tones in an aria or oratorio. Trill upon trill, in alternating notes. So many won’t know what we mean. Do you wonder? Since we so rarely know ourselves. We believe that we decide what we think we are doing. […]

Nourishing

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Every time I write a poem, I open myself to the cosmos. I see with an inner eye, hear with an inner ear, hearing something far or near, What the thrust that draws me on, draws me through? I feel myself flow through myself, and everyone filling […]

Will That Help

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Do you recognize signs of a season, a special time? Time may be the word we must stress. How we perceive. Would we know signs from the past, portents from a distant future? If we are told, would that help? Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace […]