Category Thoughts about change
What Tricks
What Tricks ~~~~~ What tricks must we play to hide from ourselves? Are there places, parts we simply refuse to find? It might be either or both to anyone who delves. Oh, come on, can you please make up your mind. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ […]
Dream Strange Dreams
Dream Strange Dreams ~~~~~ Patterns upon patterns upon patterns, All our world is full of shapes and lines. Some appear solid, but science says no. Some are shadows and reflections of us, Our world patterns cast upon everything. How to know, what is real, what is not? Is it a question, or is the question, […]
Escape Velocity
Escape Velocity ~~~~~ When I set out to find my fortune, who knew I would land so far from home? Home a moving target while growing up. Though I understand it is not a place but a feeling which summons us and holds us together, yet, seeking escape velocity, While remaining always together to […]
Rules of Gravity
Rules of Gravity ~~~~~ She is as bright as all the stars. She treasures their light within Her bosom, their fires residing In her heart, soul to share their Radiance. Her sunlit brilliance So blinding that it illuminates My weak vision and my spirit In awe, gives my heart wings. I searched for her, unaware […]
The More We Give…?
The More We Give…? ~~~~~ Where we both waited, Lost in summer schemes, We sat close, never knew, Or noticed when our heart Stood up and walked away. We felt the rupture deeply, Inside, a sudden sharp pain. Knew something was gone. We felt bereft and forlorn, Half of who we had been. Yet, I […]
Yin Balances Yang
Yin Balances Yang ~~~~~ Whatever wisdom I have acquired, After learning how little we know, Comes down to simple things. Balance always finds its measure. The life of time encompasses all, While we inhabit our ignorance. Know to always find hate and love, Naturally, mysteriously as dark to light. Over time all things will wear […]
If I Could
If I Could ~~~~~ If I could see through all time, Identify when I fall or I climb, Abandon it, no reason, rhyme, Would I live my life sublime? If I could travel across space, And find and visit every place, Memorize so I can’t misplace, Will I ken reality is not a race? If […]
Children All
Children All ~~~~~ All poems are poems for children, Whatever we think they’re about. Children all are born to be poets, Dream alive a mother’s heartbeat. Until they’re lost to ones, naughts. Percussive, staccato rhythms that Write verse about shoulds, oughts, Starve us with the feckless bounty, Our personal flickering blue idols. We, who write, […]
Can You Tell Me?
Can You Tell Me? ~~~~~ How can we in any way feel proud Of the genocide of one people and The enslavement of another people? Both groups represent many tribes. As we all do, though we name them Other, nations, lands, areas or clans. Yet, all of us people before any other Thought, consideration, name, […]
It’s Bizarre
It’s Bizarre ~~~~~ Picking a guitar string, What to eat for dinner, There is a funny thing May be fatter, thinner. Like fingering or capo You grow shorter, then You change shape, oh. Not where you begin. Like this instrument, You stay who you are. New you is your intent. Inside not; it’s bizarre. ~~~~~ […]
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