Tag Archives: universe
Hope
Pause a moment, on this most momentous eve Though it is not everyone’s special high holy day And try to practice what we all profess to believe Since what we do often contrary to what we say If you believe a god, God, created all, everyone Why then believe your group better than the rest […]
Taking Flight
It is so late at night, it has become very early morning Still, here I lie, brain roiled in riot, with unclean hands Creating, too long awake, intent, so I should be snoring Time it is, past, I seized my uncharted, unnamed lands Until a nascent solution lives, I shall not cringe nor beg […]
I Wonder
I wonder what all the time spent traveling fast Planes, trains and automobiles has done to us When our psyches, minds, bodies are far cast Like sling-shot stones or a swiftly flying discus The faster we move, clearly, the less we see Is this why bodies fail when older, wind down Our mind, reflexes not […]
Can the Last be First?
All nice guys will finish last, what I have always heard Ever since I started life as a wee laddy, oh so very small Confused by lessons taught, reversed, it sounds absurd Learned have I, from kindergarten, goodness trumps all Thou Shall Nots take pride of place, as truths of a sage With almost […]
Useful Things ~ Dipping my Pen into my Stream of Thought
Useful Things Dipping My Pen into my Stream of Thought Originally written as a continuous piece, broken up to aid readability Looking at a wooden coffee stirrer At a free seasonal holiday concert In a public library with paper cups Coffee, brownies, cider and cookies My how times they have changed Since I was born, […]
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
With the one-year anniversary of the tragic murder of elementary school students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut this Saturday, I decided to repost the following, which first appeared here and on the Daily Kos in February of 2013. I have chosen today to post this so the families of Newtown […]
Not Where We’ve Been
In this time of gimme, pushing through people to a moldy, cheesy holiday song One which you have heard so very many times, you hate it, yet you hum along Gimmes stand before stores, hand outstretched and crawl through your mail slot Many of them fill real needs, food and shelter, help people that […]
Then, More Than Ever
The world and understanding it live poles apart, as do all of we Fatigue hangs my head, drawn earthward by depression, despair My eyes struggle to lift against the strain, find only conflict, greed Madness then might be my problem, believing we may live in peace Guns and drugs our cities fill, our prisons […]
Enough, Just Enough
Time is money, money is time, though I’d like to see you eat either one The tokens we value, believe have worth, are extremely puzzling to me It’s symbolic I realize, they can provide little to no shelter by themselves Yet we treat them as real, pursue them with zeal, cry if we miss […]
What If?
What if you could create anything, paint like the greatest artist ever seen Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gentileschi, Rousseau, Magritte, Cassatt, Ditko, Kane No doubt, I haven’t named your favorite, your one and only most fine The list is so long, I could fill up every notebook that I have ever owned Then I could […]
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