Tag Archives: curiosity
How Much
Part of me wonders why I feel lost When I sit right here in the center As I wait outside, to ponder the cost Just how much must I give to enter
Parting Comments
How many times have I auditioned for this play For numberless roles I have landed or have lost I may be tasked to exit my last stage on this day With my life and my hair both the color of frost Focus; my character must never slip from my face As the lead or as […]
Answers
Now is the time, the time is now The next questions, what and how Answer these questions to know where Though it’s always now and anywhere
Don’t You Know?
All our symbols of success and failure Are much more than they might appear Though they may not be what you think Paper, bits of metal, a conspirator’s wink If you are rich, you believe I am wrong All your wants, needs met, a happy song If you are poor, you know that I am […]
Ere We Fall
Who knows what we have lost to the cause of war Music, art, novels, plays, poems, films and more Bachs, Da Vincis, Berninis, Monets create wings The Shakespeares, Elliotts, Cassatts gone missing Would we find saviors numbered among the dead No way now to know to where they may have led Wars are equal-opportunity, high […]
My Head Might Explode
What convoluted scenes we nightly do create Within our dreams our world to contemplate When we can learn how, cogitate this fluidly We should then, finally, comprehend reality Yet our mind clearly contains what we need It has done its utmost to propagate this seed We, dullards who cannot decipher this code Cannot try too […]
A Living Hell
Imagine if everyone who had ever lived, lived forever Decrepit old carcasses stacked up like a cord of wood What? You thought we’d stay young, no changes ever That is crazy and totally absurd; it would do no good Consider history’s myriad heroes, sidekicks and villains Who’d battle to retain, increase, consolidate their power Plus […]
Perspective
I would happily spend all my days as nights If I could only live all of my nights as days What’s the problem someone random says They’re only labels; call them what you like Trees, I believe, may well be dogs or birds While dogs are railroads and birds flowers Seconds may last eternity; it […]
What?
What we know and what we think we know Live in constant conflict, a dubious do-si-do What we believe, will never have to grieve What we conceive denies what we perceive
Now
The future is not finished The future has not begun It will not be remembered For it has the past become
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