Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
War and Music
~~~~~ The held breath Anticipated moment Awaiting Fall of the baton Order to attack The battle begun Enemy engaged Black notes Nebulous faces Hours of practice, drill Engraving response Into your body Your mind, being Carving moments Movements Into your soul Send up a prayer To a higher power Universal spirit Favored deity To watch […]
Nothing Left to Give
~~~~~ Smart phones are a boon and a curse. They unite, simultaneously isolate us. Rooted deep into our days, our purse, in oh so many ways they bankrupt us. Tech rules, talking, staring at a screen, cut off from each as we communicate. To the fly on my leg, it means nothing. In caves, no-touch […]
Happy Trails to You
~~~~~ I look around and wonder what each of us sees. Where I sit, it’s cliché, the forest from the trees I listen to voices, talk spiced with the word like; never mind, I think I will go out for a long hike. We mistake politicians for leaders, know they lie. Kill or discredit true […]
Remains of the Daze
~~~~~ I watch all the faces when I walk. I read their heartache, joy and pain. I imagine their stories, as if we talk. Despite tales I create, theirs remain. O so many stories and, also, so few. I think I read this number is seven. Basics match if not life, who knew? Bad, good, […]
What Do We Fear?
~~~~~ 4 Questions Concerning the Fate of Humanity It is not a question of who we have been or even who we are now. It’s a question of who we become. More importantly, it’s whether we choose or whether we continue to embrace the pain and chaos we manifest and appear to revel in, in […]
Your Life
~~~~~ What we select to hide; what we’re willing to show, live in conflict, diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter whether we’re moving fast or slow, whether our journey is near its end or just the start Life now flashes by us in rapid fifteen second clips, with staggered moments, fraught with raw emotion. While […]
Children’s Duty
~~~~~ How lovely a bouquet, yellow daffodils, in a clear glass vase, the stems cut short, die the sooner; their life and beauty stills. Though death comes for all life, no resort. From the far field we hear a loud report. Death stalks killing fields and marks all, knowing lives of children, it will abort, […]
Again
~~~~~ Again, I ask you to sing me my song. I do not know the tune or the words. Unclear where notes or rests belong. Even to me this sounds quite absurd. Still, I know, if I once hear this tune, I’ll believe I have always known it. Self-symphony, under sun or moon, this harmony, […]
Secret Heart
~~~~~ Where do you think you will find your secret heart, A heart that speaks to the secret heart of the world? What pushes us away from the center, keeps us apart? What fear, hatred bigots us, around our heart curled? Are we somehow kept too busy to even take one look, to find that […]
Until Life Runs Out
~~~~~ Our world drowns in ignorance. No one knows. Our world smothers under ennui, apathy. No one cares. We inhabit tiny cages, think we’ve got it good, or not. We run, race, within our wheels, believe we are getting somewhere. We smoke weed, drink, pop pills, preen and pretend. We don’t see any of this, […]
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