Tag Archives: art
Linger in Ways
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Artists, writers, others may bring us emotions they felt but could only express in a language not yet understood and perhaps never spoken. Think Wolfe, Picasso, Plath and so many you and I have never known. Or, at least, not today. We may only hope that someday we […]
Eternity Eternally
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In the never was the always And the ever was. It was ever never always And it always never was. If you’d think to fight with me, I’d argue day and night. Spirit alone knows what will be. Trust neither brain nor sight. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence […]
Something My Father Taught Me
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The frog am a queer little bird him am. When him walk him hop him do. When him sit down, him sit down On him little tail, which him hardly ain’t got ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! […]
Things I Learned From my Father-in-Law
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Everywhere it rains, It rains on the just And unjust fellows. But mostly on the just Because the unjust Have the just’s umbrellas. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know […]
Love is All
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Ancient before time, impenetrable void waited. Crawled from its atomic shell; instantaneous illumination flared. Newborn this moment. A swirling figure moves, is every moment. Innocently wise, hopeful, in constant conflict. Cooperation in every interchange. Full of wonder, every and all stories. Worth living for, growing, expansive. Worth dying […]
The Rest of Us
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ They say we may remove our masks But then again, they say maybe not. May only sometimes; it’s situational. Imagine a future where it’s seasonal. Will it then become a style statement At least, for all those who did not die. Maybe we will have become divided In […]
May Sweetly Smell
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ We are not well. How can you tell? Why, it is the smell But let’s not dwell. Let’s sit, think a spell. Can we excise or expel Bad eggs and their shells? We might then excel I mean, who can tell? We may sweetly smell If we can […]
In Their Season
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The fog dampens the sound and the ground Shortens our view while hiding the familiar. Boats, rocks, headlands vanish and reappear Where they’re expected but also unexpected. Waves murmur and mumble along the shore. We stand up from a bench, brief rest behind. Walking, to return to where […]
Only Who I Am
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Words, for me, wind down My art draws me, to paint All my words, all the words Any language, form, intent Incomplete to curry change Still I grasp I’ll persist, scribbling Verses, essays, stories, more Offering vision, being, truth My truth, which the universe Fills […]
Point, Counterpoint
Point, Counterpoint ~~~~~ Patterns, all is patterns The world over We struggle to comprehend Seeing faces In the rug Monsters, creatures, demons In chipped paint Puddles on the street Yet, we deny Or try Abnegate such apparitions As fancy only Too frightened To believe It might be another Reality Until art Intrudes in all forms […]
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