Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
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 […]
Laugh at Nothing
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I wish I could find the wit to say thoughts I wish to share this day. I can’t; guess I will choose play. or perhaps, at the moon, I’ll bay. I know this is not wit, just silly, that my reception may be chilly. Thoughts I wish to […]
What is There to Lose?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Soldier straight, Their brother stands, Their sister stands. While they reach out Their untouched hands. We step beneath Their outstretched arms, Unable to imagine all Myriad and costly harms. Cost of life, of hope, in pain Dwarfing any envisioned gain Humankind is anything but kind. We need but […]
Pot Dreams
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Tonight we take an hour from the top Which we then add onto the bottom. We pretend we will have a longer day. Pot, I say smoke ‘em if you’ve got ’em. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the […]
A Plus Fine
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Life, I know, is what we make it, Though mostly we let it make us. So busy we can never stop to sit. Think each bit we acquire a plus. Now the pandemic sees us home. What we acquire is mostly online. Swells our waists […]
Hide the Fear of Living
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ (aka The Lucky Few) I went for a walk this morning. Reached the beauty of the briny deep. Upon the surface only was my view; the world below kept its secrets close. I thought of how we judge the world, based on the surfaces we […]
Out of Our Depth
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What we know and what we think we know Are often diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter if we are moving fast or slow Whether near our journey’s end or at the start. Life now flashes by us in fifteen second clips Or flickering interludes […]
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