Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
What’s for Dinner?
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Although I do not believe that I am brilliant, Sometimes my words and thoughts are good. My opinion; I may be no smarter than an ant. Since, in time, I will most likely be their food. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is […]
Turn and Repeat
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I turn my head and scurry past The maskless people that I meet. I know it does no good till long past. Still, when I pass them, I hurry and repeat. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite […]
All the Colors
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Started on 12/31/20 I think of all the flowers I may not know And all the trees I cannot correctly name. I […]
Hidden Not Gone
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Could it be I finally understand, even with my limited perception, that I am but briefly in the band, no matter my […]
Our Lexicon
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Experimenting with a form called Trenta-Sei Do we really understand a single thing Beyond our own tiny slice of the world? Judging […]
Still Today
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ May the New Year Bring us a Safer, Happier, Healthier, and Kinder World And Thank You for Bringing Me into Your Lives. ~~~~~ Still today I plan and dream. Long years Past, forgotten, Perhaps forgiven, Rent, riven, Rendered mute. Memory shifts, Slips, loose pebbles, Hold […]
Phantoms
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I’m trying to remember how the rain felt, once, jumping into puddles, when I played younger. Fat drops from the sky. Drops I made in reply. I don’t recall fear then. Yet, I am afraid lately. Did similar phantoms fill my days, my sleep? Do […]
Only Who I Am
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Words, for me, wind down My art draws me, to paint All my words, all the words Any language, form, intent Incomplete to curry change Still I grasp I’ll persist, scribbling Verses, essays, stories, more Offering vision, being, truth My truth, which the universe Fills […]
Time We Must Wait
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Light all the candles. Speak the ritual words. From the past, from the future. Do they now have meaning? Did they ever? Do you believe they will be heard? If they are heard, will it matter? Another ritual, lost. Come and gone, yet to be. […]
If Only
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A concert, if only in my living room. If only, I say, though I can access zoom. I could be on the street, cold and alone, Clutching my belongings; I cannot atone For following fools who led, pretended. Their casual cruelty cannot be defended. Nor […]
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