Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Keep Us Deadly
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Carry me to a foreign land. One where I recognize the living though they look death in the eye and carry ending like a burden to be borne. See the living run and weave through the corpses and near- dead as if they play a new game. […]
All Times
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Times come and times go, but often they’re the same, whether good or ill or full of doubt or fame. I don’t know what times means, it could be just the math. I’ll take it for what I can find. The world full of peace or wrath. […]
Still and Always Unknown
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Birds flying over the meadow. Shadows flat beneath the sun. Impossible to pick out just one from the other. Whether we approve the weather. When the daily ledger of sunshine and rain, joy and sorrow. Song flies all around, the sound of life and love, mating calls […]
What’s After
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Fill me with longing, belonging here and there, everywhere. Why do I care, if I might dare to step into the light, a sight to be seen? Don’t be mean. How, then, Can I tell what will swell my heart, my soul, swept into the unknown land […]
Conversation Deleted Forever
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The message said, conversation deleted forever and I tried to imagine what that would be like. No talking, no texting, no sign language. All gone. No written language, no books; since books are nothing more than conversations from other times. No history, no mystery, no song, Don’t […]
For A Time
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Slowly I climbed the stairs, almost home. Though my steps are tired, the lights inside will revitalize me, as I change from my work costume into clothing I call my own. Certainly you will understand when others join you, sit down to dinner conversation. Then, with fuel […]
Within the Moment
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ How then will I find my way, and why do I feel the need ? Done slowly or its speed. Still, I would wander until I alighted in a land of hope. Sighted, not benighted. Everything known within the unknown land. Things lost and things found. Grand […]
Excerpt from the List of Everything I Have Loved~Beginning and Ending with Horses
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ It starts with a red stage coach I could ride, when I was five. It had six white horses whose legs moved when I rode on it. I gave it away for a toy drive. Sand Dune Pony by Troy Nesbit, a book that made me fall […]
No Restitution
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Fly away as tears fall. Is it joy or is it sorrow? Will I know today? Will I know tomorrow? What presages the past when no one remembers all the days, the sunny Mays and bleak Decembers? Going now, searching for the way to know this is […]
Always Freshly Made
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ A beautiful day after days of gray, warm and dry rather than wet and cold at a seminar concert far from home. With what’s to come all unknown though expectations of wonder and splendor. Still, I listened to a man talk about the good old days when […]