Tag Archives: understanding
Never Noticing
Never Noticing ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ When night descends in silence. Sergei Rachmaninoff Do we fear the coming night? Do we think our cleverness will best the sun and stars, our perception of time? […]
Never Noticing
Never Noticing ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ When night descends in silence. Sergei Rachmaninoff Do we fear the coming night? Do we think our cleverness will best the sun and stars, our perception of time? […]
Too Many Aces
Too Many Aces ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ When the night descends in screams of terror, minus hope, our world shatters, breaks open, with the fragility of a DDT damaged eggshell, who will hear our wailing, save the darkness? With our cleverness, our hubris failed […]
Do We Dare?
Do We Dare? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Mistakes which only I can make. Wonder just what does that mean? These were words I heard recently, neither do I recall, nor know where. Our world, opposites, give and take, reminds of all the balance I’ve seen. […]
We Will Never Know
We Will Never Know ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ While I am well aware that what other people like may, in no way, appeal to me and the corollary, that what I find wonderful, they may see as dreck. This should not matter in the scope […]
Simple Man
Simple Man ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I am a simple man. Because I believe the human race can change. I am a dreamer. Because I believe everyone should understand. I am naïve. Because I believe if enough people say no, it will matter. I […]
Neverending
Neverending ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Will we Grow, grow up, grow old, grow old together in all weather? Woven, weaving a tapestry, joined, cleaving, or a shroud, grieving, giving, dying, living out loud. Friend, lover, mover, cover, shielding all, memories times, signs. Lightening, thunder, torn […]
Act After
Act After ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Where will we be on the midden of history? These moments, time, which none might recall. What will we or any other see? Torments of our climb, if we rose, when we fall. Who will, then, decide what we […]
Redefining War and Peace
Redefining War and Peace ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ War, armies, death, destruction, terror, horror and fear fill our news and our days. These are all very real and frightening, but I believe war deserves a broader definition, as does peace. War is not simply armed […]
Echoes
Echoes ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Out in peaceful nature, where I love to be. Now, I hear soft voices, direction a mystery. Are there other hikers in the nearby forest, or echoes of other people from long ago? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]
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