Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
For Their Madness
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Trumpery is Reality” Many people drive crazily now, as if they do not care As in other lands where aggression is the right of way You are too timid, might run afoul of those who dare For their madness, you may be the price you will […]
Then or Now
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Trumpery is Reality” When did the presage of prophets and sages Then bid the message of profits not wages No longer the days the world driven by we So long; now days the world driven by me Is it still possible to change our world now […]
Next?
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Trumpery is Reality” Next? Death frightens us Because we’re told It should frighten us Because we do not Know what is next Yet, that is the same Description we have Of our life and living We will never, ever Know what is next ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more […]
Mute, Moot
This computer which consumed my life Nibbled away in small bits, large bytes It jabbed, twisted as it stuck in the knife If only Ben Franklin never flew his kite A world away, you read what I’ve written Our strange interface provides translation The powers that be would rather we fit in That we have […]
What and Why #10
What? In a nation founded On the genocide of One people and fostered By the enslavement Of another Why do we still need to ask this shit? “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Trumpery is Reality” Do you want surrender to a Populace that believe that a blowviated snakeoil salesman is the […]
What Was the Question?
On that day which handed me my lunch I arose at dawn, prepared to earn my pay Bruised, battered, like I’ve taken a punch Happening more often than I want to say Life opines, some days you eat the bear Others, it’s certain that the bear eats you While I’d swear that I simply don’t […]
We Have Not
What have we done That fuels our hubris That fools our reason Into believing that We are special In any possible way Whatsoever Who can tell More learned scribes Than I, surely Have asked the same Question, but Were they any More successful In finding answers We have not changed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my […]
Our Being
Black and Light ~ Philip Brent Our being is expressed in everything Every breath, word spoken or written Indeed, the writing and speech itself What we most misunderstand, despise May tell us more than any other thing Dark clouds bring rain, clean the air Impregnate the earth so all can grow Yet somehow here, where […]
Act of Cowardice.
France. This another heinous act of cowardice by someone targeting civilians as a message of what? It is horrid and unforgivable, as are all such acts.
What’s Going On ~ Rise Up, Rise Up, Rise Up
Marvin Gaye, and a group of talented musicians, writers and arraigners crafted and recorded the song and the album,” What’s Going On in 1970/71 and it resonates until this day. There are conflicting stories of how it came to be, but whatever the details, the music and the message live on. Sometimes, for me, when […]
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