Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
More Not Than There
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I want to write, paint, design something profound. Still, I’d also like recognition even a little money. Although neither matters much in the cosmic view, Be neither forgotten nor remembered in nova blast. So how do I deal with life now, greeting mortality, Eventual ending […]
Containment
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ How do we contain what we are? Where are we going at any moment? Will we ever listen to the sky and trees, Let alone the so-called birds and bees? I don’t have answers; perhaps I never will. Still, I will live my life in […]
Good Boy
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Do I or don’t I enter contests? Art, writing; Who knows what? Clearly, I’m seeking conquests. Think I’d be fine with a head pat. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my […]
Rain Has Foretold
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Evan found hope in a bin in an ally. He would show you if you let him, though you object to all he implies, recoil at his rough, ragged bedlam. Honest with holy peace of children, he wanders up and down the street, tries to […]
Serious as Death
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Words piling upon words upon words, Like cumulus clouds growing to storm. Our first storm has already been heard. If we weathered it, sounded the alarm. While we watched neighbor or friend? Rage and riot, serious as death, attend. Like cumulus clouds grow into storm. […]
All Together
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I have shown you wonders beyond imagination, revealed to you the smallest parts of my being. I find you within me, yet; you do not understand languages too, of creation too gross and too subtle to speak to you. I will guide a minor poet’s […]
In Weeping Fields
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ This will not be our last day, our last night Fraught with the madness that fills our land. Belief will help, but not by itself alone. How will we fly with shackled limbs, Wrapped in the symbolic cloth of flags. Banners used to hide what […]
Relish Gladness
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The smell seemed so familiar, so evocative. Watched Pacific’s waves crash upon shore. Far from the clifftop, worried it might give. Still, that odor tickled my nostrils as before. Yet imagine my surprise, “What?” you ask. When I realized what tantalized. My mask. Watched Pacific’s […]
Much Small Life
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Tree shadows dappling the trail before me call to mind other times and other walks in the woods. I stand dwarfed beneath an elder Redwood, ancient beyond my reckoning. Nearly impossible to imagine or comprehend all this tree knows. Standing until it falls and even […]
Something Wondrous
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In the early morning hours once again. Tired enough to be in bed, not to sleep. I can smile, say it is all good, pretend, Admit the world’s a mess; it will keep. When a day slips away and night rules, Watch eyelid-movies; my mind […]
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