Category Thoughts about change
At Least Today
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Stop now, then continue, amble along city streets. Stroll down brassy, brightly-lit boulevards, replete, preening, peering at our distorted reflections, why, sumptuous shop windows, blank-eyed passers-by. Captured in, by all the lenses of many-eyed CCTV. Daily life’s digital Camera Obscura in […]
Climb of Beauty
Climb of Beauty ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ (Written while listening to der Winterreise — Schubert) Wondering, I wander within a wood, lost in thought, again, wonder without sight or care, though I might end up anywhere. I seek escape from my nightmare, to return to […]
Nihil Hic Est
Nihil Hic Est ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Friends, Terrans and Countryfolks, lend me your ears. The investigator confirmed, there’s no hoax; let’s make that clear. He affirmed his team was not on a witch hunt, yet, several felons charged. The boss said for them to […]
Nature’s Fan
Nature’s Fan ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Now, snow rests upon my weary head. Might I have used another path instead? It’s growing darker, nature’s fan is nigh, it’s bold palette, on distant shore I spy. Did I wait overlong my steps to retrace; the treasures […]
At Risk
At Risk ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ 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 […]
The Long View
The Long View ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Do you, we ever watch the world long enough to see it change? Or do we never? Not the ticking tock of human-constructed clock, nor the morning,. evening, all day news and views brags and boasts of pundit […]
What I Said
What I Said ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Mired in my mind maze, lonely and lost, as I wander around inside my own head. Wise words I uttered, at too high a cost, because, I cannot remember what I said. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]
And Then I Know
And Then I Know ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I, one evening, going out to a recital, look away from my life, a brief moment. When my gaze returns, my perception changes, questions in my mind foment. Walking to the concert hall, after it’s rained, light […]
Remember Not
Remember Not ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I remember when young, one time when I lived in the moment. Though not the moment, the time itself. Nor do I recollect the now when I became self-reflected. Imputing moments with meaning, without presence. Revealing that in […]
Choose
Choose ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ We are but tiny thinking specks, on a tiny living speck, merely insignificant bits of matter. We can choose to be specks living in harmony or war forever, never quit. Choose, the former or latter. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence […]
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