Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
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 […]
Certain Choices
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Music and beauty perdure from the past. Will anything we do or say be able to last, After destruction, desecration, disregard? Certain choices made, easy becomes hard. Not a choice of love or hate; it is our fear. If we cannot claim courage, shed no […]
Whatsoever
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Have you ever Considered, Are you aware, Everything You believe, Take on faith, Is something You cannot prove? Or a starting place For scientists, So they know Which way To move.. Neither description Is infinitely Bad or good. Unless humans Insert themselves, Decree interpretation, Telling […]
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