Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Time Alone

Time Alone ~~~~~ Are we contemplating our days of future past? Do we think anyone may remember us at last? Study us, analyze where, when, why we ended, find out how we died, greatness we pretended. Will they applaud us, the sun, moon and stars. view us like the finest horses, fastest race cars? Discard […]

Into a Ball

Into a Ball ~~~~~ I know I want to always be clever or, at least, I want to appear to be. Not solely here, in every endeavor. wisdom over smarts, at least for me. I know, time tells what was thought of what I offered and I left behind. Won’t matter what I made, bought; […]

Outside In

Outside In ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ Men, you, who think you rule the world and, anything, anyone is yours for the taking. Convinced it is your right you call it your destiny, manifest or personal, you stride forth. Step back. See your heavy footsteps, boot-prints […]

Again

Again ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ There are no longer rules or even manners. All permitted to unleash our animal within. Forget about all the seers and the planners; for only we, ourselves, reign them in again. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is […]

Dream Collectors

Dream Collectors ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ Is everybody a collector of dreams, even those at night, we don’t remember? Those on the edge of time and reason of which our minds barely catch glimpses. They inform our days, leading us somewhere, sliding sideways, from our […]

Life’s Soundtrack

Life’s Soundtrack ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Are we surprised music triggers our emotions, hearing its ever-present backdrop to our world? As if our days are accompanied by a soundtrack. Perhaps, we no longer know how we should feel, how we should respond […]

They Might Grow Up

They Might Grow Up ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Emergency, emergency, everybody to clear the streets, The extremists are coming, the extremists are coming. Guns carried openly on the hip or hidden under arm; they will tell you it’s only the bad folks […]

Pale Reflections

Pale Reflections ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Shadows of trees, which do not exist, extinguished by sudden, bright lights. Four musicians, in white, tux jackets, take the stage, like waiters to serve us some succulent moments, Beethoven. I wonder about their histories and any tales to […]

Illegal Ease

Illegal Ease ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Everything I know is correct All that you know is incorrect Being blunt, not circumspect You may disagree on redirect ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and […]

At Least Today

~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Stop now, then continue, amble along city streets. Stroll down brassy, brightly-lit boulevards, replete, preening, peering at our distorted reflections, why, sumptuous shop windows, blank-eyed passers-by. Captured in, by all the lenses of many-eyed CCTV. Daily life’s digital Camera Obscura in […]