Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Search For the Hopeful Refrain

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ It might be time now to begin again,my dear, to think and talk and swear we’re here. Search for the hopeful refrain,which repeats and dulls my pain. Lamentations coldly wail through the void.Leave me annoyed and full of choking doubt.Something new, yet I’ve known and often carried.A […]

How?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Times Comes and time goes, though it is always now. Even within a time signature, counting fast, counting slow, time remains this moment. How? ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let […]

How About You?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The steps of death stalk city streets, the bloody plains. No on explains, except in self-referential words. How absurd. We wage war ‘cause we will, must, do. How about you? ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ […]

Mood or Situation?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Meet and greet, say hello, change partners and repeat like some old fashioned formal dance where each knows the steps. Who to touch and who to leave alone, Much like life, except our dance card is random even if we meet the same strangers in our daily […]

In This World or Another

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ To have all the time in the world and be able to remember myself, not only in this life, but also in other lives I have lived. Lives in the past, lives in the future. I suppose this sounds absurd, to you, who give little thought to […]

Questions

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth~~~~~ ~~~~~ What would I say tocarry the day? Whenwill I make my move?Why does it matter fornow or forever? Whatis it I have to prove? ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me […]

Dual Results

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth~~~~~ ~~~~~ Who’s to know the secrets ofthe universe? Do you trust themwith that verse. Given what thatmay entail, if they feel, care onlyfor knowledge, not consequences.Results are inherent in discovery;the car crash which comes fromthe first thought of reciprocalmotion. The push and pull of allcreation. The balance point foundrarely, […]

Limited View

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What is nature? Have you wondered? The usual things, of course. Trees, flowers, mountains, rivers, sea, sky and life. But wait, we are part of life as life is part of us. So everything we do must be a part of nature, however unnatural. Yet, can anything […]

At Last, Peace

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Listen the earth, the wind, the rain. Bow down before the fire and the flood. Learn to control nature for as long as it lets you be in charge. Ultimately, we always lose when the Earth places itself in front of our weak attempts to be the […]

A Brighter Tomorrow

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Dark and brooding reigns this day as rain falls softly on the fields of flowers. The stones which stand with stars and crosses. Nothing glosses this tragedy. Long past the game of wait and see. All we have lost, all which may never be found. The peace […]