Category: Photography
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Success?
Success? If propagating the speciesIs a mark of successThen, that I amHaving bread children And in the processI’ve not killed or injuredAnyone mortallyThat I know of As for improvingHumanity’s lotContribute my meagerInput the best I can In the long viewWas it worth the effortAnd occasional pleasuresFuture generations will decide Don’t want to go outWith a…
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Here’s An Idea With Heavy Consequences
Is Reality Real or Just Perseptive illusion? Humans haveThe gift of wordsTo express and informWhat’s realAnd what’s not Make us soarOr cry and deploreSet us upFor the big failUnquestioninglyConsumed as real They express ideasSymbols physicalMental audibleThoughts individualCultural universalSwimming inGraymatter domesCan be changedAt whim and willThe cryptic tomesOf Reality –LE Who Gets to Decide One person’s…
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Our Current “Leadership”
Another Scalawag In Power Low down and dirtyBlack hearted scalawag Took me to the crow’sMurder reunion cotillion Told everyone he’sWorth a quintillion And scampered awayWith all the sweetmeats Took to the evening skyAs I watched with a long sigh –LE
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Another Memoir Memory From The Late ’60s
For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge Something’s happening here Buffalo Springfield on the jukeboxLinda Lane slayed us with herintricate guitar work andsensuous vocals What it is ain’t exactly clear Her band – Lady and the TrampsGeorge Hoka on his Hammondmesmerizing sound like the Animalsvoice soulful like Burdon’s There’s a man with a gun…
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Let’s Get Real …
Get real! You hear it all the time, but what is “real?” “Real” is a human idea, as are all ideas. Ideas on the nature of reality have evolved with our bodies, brains, and social psyches. And just as all life continues to evolve or go extinct, our ideas of “reality” also continue to evolve.…
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Riding And Sweating
Riding And Sweating clear cerulean domewith no cloudsscanning Sol’s barcodefrom the seat ofmy tadpole trikegenerates a 401 error yellow Mesquite blooms are now mostly gone replaced by an abundance of seed pods decorating their longleafy-green bows Palo Verde in full bloomtheir seed pods to arrive soonas a third or fourth iteration ofBrittlebush is blossomingand now,…
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An April Morn…
An April Morn… April sunny blues skieswarm morninglight breeze explosions of yellowand new green havebomb-blastedmost of the trees preview of summerarrives this afternoonhigh in the nineties my ride on the loopfinished for todayrelaxing with cooldrinks and food and arrangingwords on my tabletin simple verses –LE – 4/8/25
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Who’s To Blame?
Who’s to Blame? leaderspolicy makerspointing fingersblaming anythingand everythingnever lookingin the mirror illegal to be poorin the richestcountry to haveever existed of coursethe poorare to blamewhile the richare even richerthan the ancientpharaohs and as empires declineas all empires dothe rich andpowerfulmaintain theirpositions atthe expenseof everyoneelse isn’t it time toabandon empireas an economicsystemtry something morehumane ? –LE…
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Anticipation Syndrome
Anticipation Syndrome stomach juices oozinggetting ready for thatmeal – that habitual meal intellect dictates thatI can go for dayswithout food no real harm stomach juices keeptelling my brainI’m hungryI’m starvingI’m dying just habit Pavlovian response anticipationsyndrome –LE 4/5/25 PS: I’ve been ‘intermittent fasting’ for years, but it’s been awhile since I did a water fast…
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Cool April Morning Ride
Cool April Morning Ride a cool April morning witha few puffy-white cloudsabove the surrounding mountainswhile the sky above isa translucent blue explosions of yellow bloomsdraping various trees and bushesin the mazes edging both sidesof the Tucson Loopeven in the dry riverbed early Brittlebushalready gone blousywhile the yellow explosionsof Palo Verde are stilla few weeks away…