Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Life Courageous
~~~~~ What gifts given, received would, within my words, sing Tripping lightly from my brain, my heart, my tongue Able to express the subtle hopes of anything and everything The true name of all the life and death I live among Would my hearing need to be honed so fine I’d hear the stars in […]
What Need?
~~~~~ I heard a question most recently, which, I must say puzzled me. Seriously, someone asked, you see, what do we have any need, jeez, for tigers to walk among the trees? And while I pondered, I realized, I could never, ever compromise. So, seriously, I ask you now, why, what need have tigers wandering […]
This, Too, Shall Pass
~~~~~ What distinguishes, creates demarcation between living and life? Can they be divided or shared, like pieces of pie cut with a knife? Or. only the viscera of being alive, breathing and eating and shit. Simply work, chores, needful daily obligations; that cannot be it. In relationships you always hear such a lot of talk […]
Beautiful Dreamers
~~~~~ Are you liberal, conservative, radical, stoic, centrist, anarchist, green? You can fill in the blanks I’ve missed. Maybe you want to bring back the Wobblies or worship the sun. What you label yourself is much less important than what you believe. Can you tell me why you believe, what you believe and why […]
No More
~~~~~ A dolorous dirge, hidden in the depths of space and time. Time the liar. Faster, slower, changeable, not the same for you and me. When density, elevation, heat, speed, motion do not match, compare, how then might I or anyone opine any triumph or tragedy? We have or see emotion, pain and waiting will […]
Belonging
~~~~~ Mistakes may mar the music, but it will not make it noise. Discerning ears might say ick, musician need to regain poise. Like problems, transgressions; we can’t let them ruin our song. Life is just notes in succession. We’re always where we belong. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
So Far, So Good
~~~~~ Paint, brushes and a blank canvas, where do I begin? Decide what areas stay empty; what will be filled in I imagine my artwork upon a second-hand shop floor Stuck behind a velvet Elvis, banged into by the door Maybe I will tickle your fancy, so on the wall I’ll go I hope I […]
Choose to Live
~~~~~ When you think life has given you the right to carp, moan and whine, that life gives others a better view, leave pity outside, you will be fine. If you have problems quite severe, Your life won’t be better in a sewer. You are sick, tired, rent is in arrears, attitude, distance from trier […]
Time and Age
~~~~~ We pretend we have conquered mountains, that we’re stronger than a cold north wind. We tell ourselves the land and sea are ours, Yet nature says we’re wrong over and over. We sneer that we were primitive, in caves. Yet, they lasted far longer than we, so far. Nor did they trash the world, […]
Spark is to Blaze
~~~~~ If we will surround ourselves with beauty, music, art, words, focus, positive feelings, deeds, and what we may offer others. Tell our constant truth, our own. Truth which comes from within. Truth which we brought with us, into light, cold, need to breathe. We bring awareness and vision, even if we’re born without eyes, […]
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