Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Some Old Miser
Why must our television shows be so lurid, Video games blood-splattered in crime, war? Is it evil buried in our psyche or in our id? Think we crack a whip, make the tiger roar? The game is rigged, tiger behind every door No matter our choice, streamed, disc or vid, Murder, mayhem our drug, demands […]
Truth Finds a Way
A hall of repeating patterns revealed Lines, squares, columns and capitals Straight, undulating, solo, combined Define our world in shapes and lines Like Booker’s seven basic story plots Shapes and line are limited and finite Until magical combination, creation World shown new, never seen before A secret we search for throughout life Our imperfect combinations […]
Expansion
Taiko drumming Vast energy I feel it Through the floor Below me Hear it, too Though I sit A floor below I hear it Filtered through Talk and chatter People passing Brief snippets To interpret As if my own Piercing shrieks Children Laughter, love After nothing Nothing after For artist, writer Creatives all Seeing […]
Whatsoever
Have you ever Considered Are you aware Everything You believe Take on faith Is something You cannot prove Or, starting place For scientists So they know Which way To move Neither description Is infinitely Bad or good Unless humans Insert themselves Decree interpretation Telling you That a hammer A useful tool Is a weapon Hit […]
Searching
I’m trying to figure out what I want. That may or may not make sense to you. What prompts me to say this now are the first two weeks of 2016. I didn’t make any resolutions, but I decided that I was the only person who can change my life. With that in mind, I […]
Copland — Quiet Town
I never made it inside to hear the program Though I remain certain I arrived on time Up and back pacing, words, feelings raging A brassy shout, complaint, perceived injury Iniquity, injustice, sighs, prudent acceptance Neither earth-shattering nor life-threatening I listen then from outside of the concert hall Captured finally, soulful music plaintive rings Thoughts […]
Either One
We all know deep in our heart Some will stay and some depart Either one you might wish well Conversely, tell either go to hell
And Then
I’ll meet you At the coffee bar, She said, So, I sit Wait Observe Play what if Bufano cat Keeps watch With me Crouching over Pink cyclamen A coated woman Waves But not at me Nor for me Husband returns Sits in a seat His wife Relinquishes His, a call Of nature Or His […]
Be
The wonders Of museums Uninitiated cannot Understand Dark night Illuminated Life filled A mother’s love An old woman’s Quiet moment Patient, meditative Reflection Snow-covered land Weary rest Looking within To see the future What she hopes She will see Husband or child Gone Ahead, before Not yet returned From day’s labors Night carousing Lonely watch […]
Cannot Imagine
Have you this modern truth brought home Your devices, machines, smarter than you With all their various prompts and screens Your car and phone communicate; so new New to me; I’m old, adult before this time My first job, each file kept on paper alone Eight jobs in, till a mainframe I must climb Punch […]
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