~~~~~ I’ve heard, I have the same amount of time as all those famous folks who came before. That handful celebrated in prose and rhyme. So why do I feel stressed down to my core? Our world is faster paced than prior folk faced. Not better, not worse, necessarily, but changed. I’m sure for them, […]
~~~~~ I will not by my life be floored when I may take it on the chin, staggering till balance restored, stand up straight and tall again. Wait, could it be that I am lost, upright, walking a wrong trail? Perhaps not wrong, what a cost, timid, will I succeed, will I fail? Every […]
~~~~~ 4 Questions Concerning the Fate of Humanity It is not a question of who we have been or even who we are now. It’s a question of who we become. More importantly, it’s whether we choose or whether we continue to embrace the pain and chaos we manifest and appear to revel in, in […]
~~~~~ While club and maul and stick and mace may have been effective to smash a face, they all require study, practice and intent, maim or murder always what was meant. While the spear and stone or an arbalest, increased striking distance, were not fast. Designed to kill prey, as dangerous as us finished more […]
This is a piece I originally posted last May, but with the shooting at the synagogue in Poway, I feel like I need to post it every day. ~~~~~ Which Three Letters? ~~~~~ NRA, DOA, RIP ~~~~ The NRA pushes guns without any regret, as they myriad Needless Requiems Abet. Doubtless they think they deserve […]
~~~~~ What we select to hide; what we’re willing to show, live in conflict, diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter whether we’re moving fast or slow, whether our journey is near its end or just the start Life now flashes by us in rapid fifteen second clips, with staggered moments, fraught with raw emotion. While […]
~~~~~ Conservationists have the goal, bringing species from the brink. Extinction the brink they extoll. Can they do this, do you think? Maybe, aliens are here even now. Don’t think their effort working. Ornery, stupid, don’t know how, Probably not, it’s but us shirking. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
~~~~~ How lovely a bouquet, yellow daffodils, in a clear glass vase, the stems cut short, die the sooner; their life and beauty stills. Though death comes for all life, no resort. From the far field we hear a loud report. Death stalks killing fields and marks all, knowing lives of children, it will abort, […]
~~~~~ Again, I ask you to sing me my song. I do not know the tune or the words. Unclear where notes or rests belong. Even to me this sounds quite absurd. Still, I know, if I once hear this tune, I’ll believe I have always known it. Self-symphony, under sun or moon, this harmony, […]
~~~~~ Begin at the beginning, just before. Do you know where that might be? Bring light into all the dark places; opening your heart, light the world. Moonlight, starlight, both the same. Inhale deeply, feed lungs and brain? The beginning of everything always begins at the end. I urge you to open wide your wings, […]
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