Tag Archives: paradigm
Pain and Reason
When you live in chronic pain, no one wants to share You hide it as well as you can, but at times, you swear Those who love you are sympathetic, but cannot know How every day you must struggle to get up, let alone go Still, for the most part we try and smile and […]
Hoping
Went out the other night, an academy of science, heard a talk Studying the cheetah in order to slow, stop their steady decline One woman grew a group to save cheetahs, when others balk Hoping to make us understand how losing one, may all resign Crowded, little parking, though I did not run fast as […]
Constant Companion, Mutual Friend
Boarded the train with me As usual, I failed to notice Or wonder who it might be Perceived no sign of artifice Pushed my cart in the store I remained quite unaware My hands on the push bar Didn’t notice anyone there Changed my baby’s diapers With my husband’s hands Pried rubber from my wipers […]
Twixt Art and Eternity
What waits within us; what secrets might it seek Are we merely meat puppets, if bold or if meek We think we’re the best, after our upward climb Before we see artwork that is more than sublime We are staggered, stunned, stopped in our tracks In transcendent beauty, ugly, fair, nothing it lacks Inner truth […]
The World I Love
(To the tune of: The Man I Love – Gershwin) Now the yellow gloom cannot gleam Ev’ry night I dream an awful dream All the worse the harm has made me scream No he or she Although I despise, I tell you true It is almost sure my dream will come true To me it’s […]
Bet an Orangutan
My lips turn down, my shoulders slump Each time I hear news of Donald Trump Summer of the Donald my friend decried Honestly, I think I’d rather be circumcised He’s such a perfect candidate, you shout Spouting he will fix it all, no concrete plans Supporters don’t care, so won’t be found out His words […]
Spare Change
I say it and I say it and I say it again. I say it this way, I say it that way, I say it another way. No one listens. Perhaps I’m preaching to the converted, but I cannot tell. Give me an Amen. Somebody. Anybody. Please. I realize I write for me before others, […]
Life’s Tough
No matter what you may do Or where you may go in life Life will appear to aim at you You think you’d be singled out Cosmos is 91 billion LY large If not the focus, will you pout Each day, if sun or rain, enough And the moon and stars at night Don’t get […]
Olduvai Gorge and the Origin of Human Ecological Dominance
Earth Day – 2015: Took a while to post, but here it is Tired, cranky, cold and standing much too long Other people, let in early, will sit in front of me At a talk about the rise of human eco-dominance Eco equals ecological, also equals now economy Those that’s got gets, learned at my […]
At Our Peril
Whenever you hear a baby’s cry Do you imagine someone will die Not cause, effect, nor imperative Life’s answer to what death gives Pondering such questions, no fear But simply the fact that I am here Some do not question what, why Don’t they marvel at the night sky Are they then, creatures of the […]
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