Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Be Still
Listen to the music as you pass and wonder who sings your song ethereal and reaches inside you played on a piano; it makes you feel unmanned, apprehend skill and grace played by either hand. Be still, listen, becoming the notes, the moment When you connect with this, everything beyond Whether you get it depends […]
Differences
I am sitting, waiting for a haircut; it is one of the myriad things we do. Any who don’t may be called a nut, but they are only different than you.
And Then I Know
I, one evening, going out to a recital, look away from my life, a brief moment. When my gaze returns, my perception changes so questions in my mind foment. Walking to the concert hall, after it’s rained, light reflects off every city street, diamonds to dazzle my eyes, my life rearranges, my heart chooses a […]
Near but Far From Home
Out for a day near but far from home, where do you think this child might roam? Hither, thither and even yon, what might I chance upon? A mighty tree, with children at play, becomes a tower, though it changes by the hour. A hidden trail beneath a massive thicket Leads to their secret hideout. […]
All Together Now
Wonder if you think it possible to find something profane within the divine? I think you must; it is merely balance. Neither light nor dark work freelance. When we’re dead, we’re turned to dirt, ashes scattered to the winds, the void. It happens, neither you nor I can avert. We cannot any way find […]
Tug-of-War
I’m very much scattered of late, a tug of war between my muses. Writing, art which I fail to create, although I’m not making excuses. I might join the fray on one side, if I haven’t chosen the other one. Whenever I’m not trying to hide, I warrant that I usually have fun.
Which Three Letters? NRA, DOA, RIP
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Which Three Letters? NRA, DOA, RIP ~~~~ The NRA pushes guns without any regret, as they myriad Needless Requiems Abet. Doubtless they think they deserve an award, although they’re Not Really Aboveboard, Children killed; the NRA fights resistance. Why did they Need […]
Cough, Cough
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Cough, Cough ~~~~~ We’re spending money like we’ve got it and fortunately for us, for now, we do. Our government, creditors don’t give a shit. Nor does death when our time comes due. It makes no difference where we start, How high […]
Dance of Life
Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Dance of Life ~~~~~ Improvisational science Dichotomy of control, extravagance Both joined in an alliance See the stardust, watch it dance ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings and […]
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