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My True and Only
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Flying now miles above the clouds, a solid field of white, like deep snow. What lies beneath now hidden, both the clouds and below alien landscape. I remember snow when I lived small, in areas which chilled to freeze, below. Two feet of snow overnight, recalls my […]
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 […]
Time’s Wind
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Do I not have enough challenges in my life? Do I not possess a significant depth of feeling? Am I a shallow-rooted tree pretending strength, even though I provide the same shade as my more deeply-rooted cousins? Perhaps, I am a book of blank pages slowly being […]
Excerpt from the List of Everything I Have Loved~Beginning and Ending with Horses
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ It starts with a red stage coach I could ride, when I was five. It had six white horses whose legs moved when I rode on it. I gave it away for a toy drive. Sand Dune Pony by Troy Nesbit, a book that made me fall […]
When After Finds Before
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When Walter went to the drugstore, he wasn’t buy drugs, but looking for relief from his aches and pains. When Walter went to the supermarket ,he didn’t think of everything that had died, but shopped to find the healthiest foods. When Walter went to the movies on […]
Pro and Anti
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When we wait too long to tackle chores, dirt and toil wait around to settle scores. So, why do we bother with procrastination, knowing those chores wait in anticipation. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, […]
Why It Hurts
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Our government seems to run in circles these days, like a dog, not only chasing its tail, but also catching it. In the quest for power over what might help people, the body politic bites itself repeatedly. And people wonder why it hurts. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, […]
When It Comes.
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ He releases his balloon to watch it fly. Cries, since she knows it’s long gone. Though not his father’s sharp’s words cutting deeply into her psychic flesh,they shrink away. But the words don’t come, at least not yet. He’s expected toknow and punish herself accordingly. They suck […]
A Mother Bids
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ A mother bids the starlight to sing their child to sleep. Dreamless or happy romps in a land of make believe. That they could grow up in a world of peace and plenty. History a horrid and horrific memory. If reaching out to seed stars and planets. […]