Tag Archives: civilization
No Word
An LI friend recently post an article about influences, both those we are told should be and those we know who have been. #All people matter. How many names will not be remembered What numberless stories will never get told Life on the Earth, with no guaranteed word No one may remember when you grow […]
What Do I Know?
Do you believe in magic, elves, fairy-folk and such? Or do you scoff and scorn, think it’s all too much? So smart, you know that you can rule out anything? Disbelieve the intent of galaxies, say stars don’t sing? I hope I’m not so pompous, I’d discount possibility Our most tragic tale unto our most […]
Worlds Enough and Time
Everywhere I look, stories of our current condition and perilous plight greet my eyes. Economic collapse, massive unemployment, infrastructure degradation, environmental destruction and the not so gradual collapse of life as we know it. On every front we have war and rumors of war, terrorists foreign and domestic, religious jihad, political statement, killer cops, cop […]
Until Life Runs Out
Our world drowns In ignorance No one knows Our world smothers Under ennui, apathy No one cares We inhabit tiny cages Think we’ve got it Good, or not We run, race Within our wheels Believe we are Getting somewhere We smoke weed, Drink, pop pills Preen and pretend We don’t see Any of this, […]
Children’s Duty
How lovely a bouquet of yellow daffodils In a clear glass vase, their stems cut short Die the sooner, their life and beauty stills Though death comes to all life, no resort From the far field we hear a loud report Death stalks the killing fields, watches all Knowing the lives of children, he’ll abort […]
My Friend
Begin at the beginning or just before Do you have any idea where that might be? Bring light into all the dark places Will you open your heart to light the world? Moonlight and starlight are the same Will you breathe deeply, without restraint? The beginning of all, everything starts at the end Will you […]
So They Post
Everything you are about to hear or read is true Whether the stories are about me or about you How should we tell these stories so they are real And, not some huckster’s wild and fanciful spiel I believe we must always trust ourselves, our gut I think most folk are happy where they are, […]
What are We Supposed to Do?
Prejudice, religious and racial intolerance, terrorism, murder, war and greed are said to have existed almost from the moment Homo sapiens first walked upright. Territorial imperatives and tribalism came to exist and I’m sure disputes sometimes arose between neighboring groups. Yet land was plentiful and early hominids could find more distant areas to forage and […]
Vision
Viewing life through my own glass Either magnifying or reducing lens My inner prism, no form, no mass Lighting my inner prison to cleanse Other views or other ethics learned May inform process, but not control Inner truth never hidden or spurned This lens my vision to expose, extol You may not understand my vision […]
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