Tag Archives: humanity’s insanity
Have I Told You?
Have I told you about anything I know Or have I only told you about my beliefs One’s like granite, survives a hammer blow The other like a gust of wind or a falling leaf Belief will sometimes change the world Knowledge is sometimes calcified and friable If we could believe peace is around us […]
Whatsoever
Have you ever Considered Are you aware Everything You believe Take on faith Is something You cannot prove Or, starting place For scientists So they know Which way To move Neither description Is infinitely Bad or good Unless humans Insert themselves Decree interpretation Telling you That a hammer A useful tool Is a weapon Hit […]
Whatsoever
Have you ever Considered Are you aware Everything You believe Take on faith Is something You cannot prove Or, starting place For scientists So they know Which way To move Neither description Is infinitely Bad or good Unless humans Insert themselves Decree interpretation Telling you That a hammer A useful tool Is a weapon Hit […]
Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin Espresso confusing, pronounced expresso Reflects our hurry through over-busy lives Pillar to post, back again, we ferociously go Worker bees, consumers return to our hives Professed beliefs belie our daily intolerance Which is usually much less than skin deep Yet we all move to the same diurnal dance Wake up in the […]
Marketing People
I see walking billboards everywhere Logo clothing, a true marketing coup It seems people neither know nor care It is a trend the rest of us should rue
Chances We Take
Lotto, street crossings or driving at speed Chances taken for what we think we need Neither going faster, slower or in between I cannot express exactly what that means We should choose to travel deeper inside To determine all the places where we hide Frightening, yet more rewarding than lotto Still some get stoned, spend […]
Cannot Imagine
Have you this modern truth brought home Your devices, machines, smarter than you With all their various prompts and screens Your car and phone communicate; so new New to me; I’m old, adult before this time My first job, each file kept on paper alone Eight jobs in, till a mainframe I must climb Punch […]
Neck Deep in the Big Bloody
OR What It’s Not About (Warning: This piece runs over 3,700 words. If you do not feel you can read it all, I urge you to read as much as you can, plus the intro and conclusions.) I’m finding it difficult to wrap my head around the insanity I see on the news and in […]
Overrun by Barbarians
My mind has been ground down into mush Constipated thought, no matter how I push As obfuscation, trivia and drivel dribble out Any wise words of mine, missing in action That said, I’ll fight to drivel and dribble on Mayhap a turd of wisdom will squeeze out Flow from this fickle pen, held in my […]
May Well Find
If you can think You may well find Nothing on your mind Cannot stitch together Two thoughts equal aught You’d better take a sweater
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