Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
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 […]
Climb of Beauty
Climb of Beauty ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ (Written while listening to der Winterreise — Schubert) Wondering, I wander within a wood, lost in thought, again, wonder without sight or care, though I might end up anywhere. I seek escape from my nightmare, to return to […]
Nature’s Fan
Nature’s Fan ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Now, snow rests upon my weary head. Might I have used another path instead? It’s growing darker, nature’s fan is nigh, it’s bold palette, on distant shore I spy. Did I wait overlong my steps to retrace; the treasures […]
Why on Earth?
Why on Earth? ~~~~~ Who owns the people who are on top and, why on Earth will they not stop? Because their brief glory casts a pall that will surely become the end of all. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let […]
Life and Time
Life and Time ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Life is trying, trying to stretch me, stretch me thin. Extenuated tries, treasons, lies, reasons, death and life, sorrow trouble borrowed double. Tears flow, falling like rain, striking, splashing, battering, splattering. Ripples spreading, intersecting. No respite, no recrimination, […]
Outside Straight
Outside Straight ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Who named our potentates in charge to date? There’ll be others, after we fill our final crate. Will it ever matter who we put atop that slate? Held to the grindstone their egos won’t ablate. We allow them to […]
Always
Always ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Oh so many ways we can dream and hope. Some near, some distant, need a telescope Find what we want or want what we find; spend years so depressed, out of our mind. Will we start to understand which is […]
Along for the Ride
Along for the Ride ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Listening to a long-time friend, nearly 50 years, who currently lives more than 5,000 miles away, playing a bamboo flute, somewhere in Chicago. A mysterious mélange of time and space, relative to not only distance but also […]
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