Category Writing

Assure Our Survival

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Still, when we could best one another in our quest. The arms match refused to recognize one another’s hand, as friend, as they recognize themselves. Who’ll know where we have gone, once we’ve disappeared? Will one wise sage peer into their scrying glass, pretend they understand how […]

Hurry Home

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Going on from here, I could go to the city, the country. I might move anywhere. Still, I’ll likely simply stay where I am. Where I now reside. I have no need to hide, though I would scamper, scurry, hurry to hie me home. ~~~~~ Diversity is […]

Living

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Now I know the secret of life, how to live and why to love. I can tell you so many things, but would you listen to me? Why would you believe I know the answer? Simply because I tell you I know the secret to both life […]

What We Might See

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Running away, running home, Which is the escape you would choose given the choice? Each has its trials and its treasures. Who’s to know where we’ll find pain and where we might find pleasure? How we’ll know what our life is meant to be, or what we’ll […]

Awakened?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Awakened from or into a nebulous scene, I wonder if I have drawn dusk or dawn. A cabin in the distant burns a single light. Fog fills the valleys between stepped hills, the birth or dearth of endless possibilities. Do I see a first light of night, […]

Into the Wilderness

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Coming from the crowded places where people abide, I forget the vast stretches of open ground I see when I fly. It looks almost imagined it’s so enormous, with occasional straight lines, the sign of people. Perhaps, that’s the sure sign we don’t work with nature, follow […]

Joyful Tomorrows

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Dance and sing, bring the feast, join into the celebration. We must find the joy everywhere around us, hidden and in plain sight, like flowers and balloons, natural and man-made. Beyond laughter, which is but expression of a deeper feeling, dealing with our life’s hidden sorrows so […]

The Angels Came

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ All the dead grasses linger, yet, they still speak to life. Reflecting our own toil, our own strife. Hidden in the sky and the ground, the secrets of living and life that abound. Tell me you love me and I will be happy knowing you’ve found me. […]

Hold the Sun

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Soft and sonorous, the world sings, brings forth life in great fecund masses. What passes for daily existence fraught with cooperation and resistance, each to its sphere? Even as natural as the moon. Unlikely, until we see the patterns. Hold the lanterns before the darkness–stark and limited […]

Either Way

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Haplessly, helplessly, I sit and ponder my existence, like watching a traffic light, waiting for it to change, giving me permission to go. Yet, only I am stopping myself. Such is life. We may follow rules or ignore them. But we control our own actions. Not only […]