Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
The Living End
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Oh, to find my voice again though I never really lost it. In the grass, a wanton wind. A bridge; I never crossed it. Lost my vision in my mind though I could always see it. Certain that I’d gone blind. Had a dream, couldn’t be it. Ocean […]
Red Shifted
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Watching the news last night, noticed something, caused a fright. Stories full of depraved, depressing sights, ads for new medicines, so I will not die tonight Told who died, was shot, or another dastardly deed. Told I can’t breathe, my ticker’s bad, but they have what I need. […]
Choosing a Figment
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Death comes to us all.Death comes for us all.The first early or late orSomewhere in between.It seems to visit more asWe age into silver years. The latter always comesWhen and where it will.At times, our choosing.We are taught to fear itAs its after is unknown.This is true each […]
Thoughts and Feelings
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Thoughts of hope and disillusion lead to clarity and to confusion. Feelings of clarity and confusion lead to hope for some solution. Now a side calls for dissolution with violent means, a revolution. Revolution won’t be a solution with our uncontrolled pollution. While counter to our constitution they’d […]
To an Unsung Future
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Let me write your name upon the sky So that everyone may remember you. Let me write your name upon the salt So you may season all our daily fare. Fair winds blow, whisper your name Softly into the ears of infant children. Where animals meet in their […]
We Are Not Quick
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When did I lose the songs of the mother earth? Or were they buried beneath noise long before? Before my birth, this birth, though perhaps There was a time when I and all could hear them. Maybe only one could not hear and determined that if he could […]
Neither Nor
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Although I seek reflection I am subject to refraction. Though I attempt detection I am driven by distraction. Neither drink nor election allay or alter its attraction. As delay sees my dejection Faltering through inaction. Mired in mental inspection Causes me dissatisfaction. Who wants my disaffection Can life […]
What We Think We Held
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ It took nearly as long for sunlight to reach your eye As it did for George Floyd to be murdered and die. Even these words you read are already in the past, although it may be, a mere nanosecond has passed. Still, a year ago or five minutes […]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Tomorrow will soon to become today. Tomorrow, you know, does not exist. Tomorrow will you say you love me? Tomorrow will you know I love you? Tomorrow is such a meaningless idea. Tomorrow is a concept that gives hope. Tomorrow always pretends it awaits us. Tomorrow, we can’t […]
Gatherings In Absentia
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Family gatherings and celebrations, those personal, secular, and religious moments many now no longer await. They’ll be remembered and honored. Not in the same way, the same place. When the specter of love occupies an empty chair in another missing room. What if one person, the emotional glue […]
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