Category Thoughts about change

And Who Are We?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~   Skip and hop along, happy, storybook people. Despite how dark the story becomes, someone will always turn the page. What comes next? If someone has torn out the final pages, and used them as fantasy toilet paper—what then? The story can end at any time. Even when […]

A New Plant

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~   Tripping lightly down the stairs into life’s sepulcher, you slow. A temple arranged to receive, to fete death, waits in rising smoke. Incense, the zephyr of mourning. We each speak our own tradition in our own language. Only some hear and only a few comprehend. Raise your […]

More for Less

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ I am the candle, my gifts are my flame to light my way through utter darkness. My reason to be, no thanks nor blame; my light shines more, as I become less. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World […]

Peep to Leap

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth Where are you now, sitting without a peep? Where then tomorrow? Take a quantum leap. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think See more of my creative offerings […]

Many Pathways

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth   Who would you be, what would you do,if living your life were up to only you?It must be, of course; whom else livesin your skin, or sees through your eyes?None do, nor do they expose your lies. On a pathway, to the same destination,with risks, chances to […]

Both Together

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Sweetly sing the sirens calling you into deep darkness, the cavernous, wound labyrinth, you solve daily. Little more than rats in a lab; it’s only way you know to eat, to feed those closest to you, if only food. Where are the thoughts of escape? Have they dimmed […]

Imaginary Poetry

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~   Blow out the cobwebs from your mind. Tap your temple for memory or healing. See the drums and drummers gathered around a bright fire,both warm and cold. Reeds are blown from far away, calling to mind birds and animals as yet unseen. The drummers turn in circles, […]

Know They Are Alive

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Who or what this song may be, where it came from its beauty calls you to close your eyes to simply listen until all other sound has vanished. Listen until you disappear into space and time. Madcap revelers race through your gathering. Riotously roiling late partiers lolling around, […]

Into the Past and Future

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Softly and swiftly, fly into the night. Careful! Let no one see you, hear you. Let your music blend into life around you, until you do not know where you begin or where you end. Your ear hears sound not yet made, as if from a galaxy. So […]

Mad Chattering, Gentle Muse

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ The birds rise up and circle overhead. A moment, strangely silent, unnerving you, as you wait, finally hear a note, a a shriek, a squawk, mad chattering. So loud, you convince yourself it was not ever silent. You walk on, hear a violin playing in the city square. […]