Tag Archives: choice
The Other Shoe
The Other Shoe ~~~~~ In times which try you, foil your plans, do you hold on tightly, use both hands, sink ‘neath the waves, in deep despair? Hope anyone helps you; no one’s there. If days, weeks, years, the world stinks, you feel hopeless, know you’re jinxed. You see not a way to thrive or […]
Always a Surprise
Always a Surprise ~~~~~ When will we learn to recognize our face in every face we meet? Why must it be always a surprise, each time a new person we meet? Not kin, yet, the question is true. Merely cloudy reflections, shards, that may show worst, best of you. See, hear, learn the truth of […]
Into a Ball
Into a Ball ~~~~~ I know I want to always be clever or, at least, I want to appear to be. Not solely here, in every endeavor. wisdom over smarts, at least for me. I know, time tells what was thought of what I offered and I left behind. Won’t matter what I made, bought; […]
Clearly
Clearly ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ We’ll never stop dying or being born. Then, can we cease killing each other? If we shed blame, confront our reality, homo sapiens may survive to see peace. Clearly, we know much of waging war. From rocks and sticks to […]
Outside In
Outside In ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ Men, you, who think you rule the world and, anything, anyone is yours for the taking. Convinced it is your right you call it your destiny, manifest or personal, you stride forth. Step back. See your heavy footsteps, boot-prints […]
When Fear Fades
When Fear Fades ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment . ~~~~~ When fear fades, what will I discover? Maybe another person the same as me. One who struggles to meet like needs, who seeks the same answers that I do When anger fades, who will I become? Will […]
They Might Grow Up
They Might Grow Up ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Emergency, emergency, everybody to clear the streets, The extremists are coming, the extremists are coming. Guns carried openly on the hip or hidden under arm; they will tell you it’s only the bad folks […]
At Least Today
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Stop now, then continue, amble along city streets. Stroll down brassy, brightly-lit boulevards, replete, preening, peering at our distorted reflections, why, sumptuous shop windows, blank-eyed passers-by. Captured in, by all the lenses of many-eyed CCTV. Daily life’s digital Camera Obscura in […]
Nature’s Fan
Nature’s Fan ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Now, snow rests upon my weary head. Might I have used another path instead? It’s growing darker, nature’s fan is nigh, it’s bold palette, on distant shore I spy. Did I wait overlong my steps to retrace; the treasures […]
The Long View
The Long View ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Do you, we ever watch the world long enough to see it change? Or do we never? Not the ticking tock of human-constructed clock, nor the morning,. evening, all day news and views brags and boasts of pundit […]
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