Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Before You Go
Before You Go ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Do you think our getting old is making some folks rich? Tell you that’s true and not some sort of computer glitch, though the people taking care of us do not get that dosh. Those […]
None So Blind
None So Blind ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Spinning stories, so I may begin to understand. Walking within a sheltered wood, artist’s view, as pine needles slip beneath my steps and recall, soft, changing winds, tires on newly-fallen rain. Ideas from distant […]
After
After ~~~~~ It’s time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ When none speak truth, we hear only lies. Then, it doesn’t matter what we call the color of the skies, or if the clouds send rain or death. Will anyone sew our shrouds, bear witness to our […]
Heirs Apparent
Heirs Apparent ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ All the things I might have done, or seen, or known. all the beings I might have been, become, while strolling along a quiet esplanade. The mottled green sea sparkles blue, white. A painter hoping to […]
People in the Clouds
People in the Clouds ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Painting, oil, acrylic, water, color to attract our eye, we may travel to exotic places, without a need to fly. Meet people from far away, in geography or in time, marvel at their talent, […]
Get Along With You
Get Along With You ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation, and world over wealth. ~~~~~ All of us, pawns in a world full of sound and fury. With overtones, undertones, key changes, abrupt screams, staccato bullets muffled by frail flesh, silenced forever. Leaving rivulets red, brains, gore, guts, […]
Pointed Regard
Pointed Regard ~~~~~ It is time to put the people over politics, country over capitulation, and world over wealth. ~~~~~ What balancing act, magician’s sleight of hand, do we use to simply live, make our lives feel grand? Who do we fool, do you suppose? Ourselves, others, no one? Do we merely pretend we […]
Rapidly
Rapidly ~~~~~ It is time to put the people over politics, country over capitulation, and world over wealth. ~~~~~ How rapidly all our days wing away, no matter how we measure time, its sway. In the cosmic scale, our time is less than not. We’ll be gone before we know what we’ve got. ~~~~~ Peace […]
The Spaces Between
The Spaces Between ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ 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. […]
All So Simple
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ What’s a person to do? When every day there’s something new, war and violence, feeling blue. So, what’s a person supposed to do? Rich fools spout madness, though some agree, guns for all, that’s best. Don’t you see? Braggarts and […]
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