Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Redefining War and Peace
The words you will read below, with additions today, were first published here in November 2013. I believe the message is clear and illustrated daily by senseless violence around the world. PBH War, armies, death, destruction, terror, horror and fear fill our news and our days. All these are our reality and damage our peace […]
Now or in the Future
Filled with chances Wasted hours Happy times The path ahead Carries us onward Up a distant hill What Stops will we make Steps will we take Missed friends Opportunities Through fear, reason Self-treason Challenges we’ll add To our path’s trials As we climb Yearn for the crest Believing it will reveal An easy path Toward […]
War and Music
The held breath Anticipated moment Awaiting Fall of the baton Order to attack The battle begun Enemy engaged Black notes Nebulous faces Hours of practice, drill Engraving response Into your body Your mind, being Carving moments Movements Into your soul Send up a prayer To a higher power Universal spirit Favored deity To watch over […]
None So Blind
Spinning stories so I may begin to understand Walking within a sheltered wood, artist’s view Pine needles slip beneath my steps and recall Soft, changing winds, tires on newly-fallen rain Ideas from distant time, till this one, right now Our own insights or through eyes, ears, hands As composers, artists, writers interpret our life They […]
Before It’s Time
Do you think our getting old is making some people rich Tell you that’s true and not some sort of computer glitch Though the people taking care of us do not get that dosh Those farther up the food chain chew the expensive nosh Our ship’s top deck grows higher, as we’re put in steerage […]
Stepping Out
All the myriad steps we take in life Number into millions, I’ve no doubt No matter where we go, what we see Many never realize what life’s about
By Your Choices
I grasp at my time, my life, my being Like the blind men and the elephant What I perceive not what I’m seeing It may be my fire’s only on my pants Chasing after truth by concocting lies Mystic brews that obscure and reveal All my victories, failures and my tries Perchance to illuminate or […]
At Risk
At the risk that I repeat I am not feeling replete By cars upon my street I know I’m not an elite Fearing I only baa, bleat As my hours vanish fleet Till I’m but merely meat And lying ‘neath the peat For life’s rarely ever neat It’s messy and indiscreet Sun, rain, snow and […]
Hoping to Receive
Sitting at a store counter waiting A new, nonworking fountain pen Hold head down, no flow grating So grab another pen, begin again As I write, I watch the busy world Coffee kiosk, fuzzy socks, balloons Ads, short, tall, and flags unfurled Acres of pretenders singing tunes Ghosts, goblins on All Hallows Eve Robot, ghoul, […]
Nothing Doing
We are taught we should know aught That means we ought to study naught No, that is truth, or so I have thought But I don’t believe it’s what we sought I’ve thought it cannot do what it ought Since aught + naught = naught – aught
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