Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
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 […]
Know or Sell
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I would write a brilliant book, pen a poem, be pleased. Paint a magnificent masterpiece, Myriad multitudes of each, if the truth I tell . I imagine if I succeed, that I shall never see. Would it, I wonder, be better to know or sell? […]
Entirely
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A new notebook, bright green, just because. Writing this with my bright red fountain pen. Using them to take me to where I’m going, and away from the places I’ve already been. Like time, we should flow with the stream. To do otherwise, we either […]
Somewhere Between
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Looping ink coils across my early am paper seeks to find answers to my life at slow-tilt, whether to record or discard the still hours. Wonder if my part in the play matters now. Walking along the shore upon a known path while strolling slowly […]
The Spaces Between
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Shall we talk then, shall we sing, discuss Rachmaninoff, analyze Proust, remembrance of future things? Will you tell me no one knows what tomorrow brings? As musicians fingers fly, over strings, along the keys; quickly, quickly, come listen. Not only notes, words, intonation, intention, momentary […]
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