Tag: Ethics
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Lady In Black
Lady In Blackby Uriah Heep She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morningHer long hair flowing in the mid-winter windI know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walkingAnd destruction lay around me, from a fight I could not win Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ahAh, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah She asked me, “Name…
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Stew And Recipe
Stew and Recipe Closing, the waking dream unfolds, the path to consciousness — untold,The printer hums, the keyboard clicks, the cursor blinks, 1 human brain (shredded). The surge crashes, the mind blanks — consciousness returns. 2-much stock (quantum soup — quarks, mesons, pisons, and other subatomic nutrients — unprocessed). Bio-transducer/receiver translates the quantum…
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Hey, How’s My Future?
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Hey, future me, How has the world treated you since 2026? I’m not sure how you’ll perceive this, or even if you’ll (I’ll) still be sentient for my (our) hundredth revolution of old Sol. I expect that your life and insights have changed (evolved) by then as much…
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Reading The Morning Sky
Reading the Morning Sky A perfect ellipsis of cloudsDot, dot, dot …On a blank blue skyA meteorological signInferring something left outOr more to comeBut unsaid Will cloud calligraphyNear the end of timePaint an exclamation point !Or a large PERIOD . ? Reading the morning skyOver the Santa CatalinasTo see what it may prophesy –LE
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Inaudible Teachings
Inaudible Teachings everybody’s talkin’ at mearound methrough mespinning their perceptionstheir fairytale fictionsof reality not ‘real’ realityjust their’sbased on conditioningthe birth lotteryand wishful thinking find myself wishingthey’d all just go awayfind their silencesit in the momentopen their perceptionsand just feel the day no judgementsno ‘convictions’no dogmas to defendjust open and receptiveto this momentand the universe’s inaudible…
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A World More Kind
A World More Kind unbind, unwindfrom a mostlyunkind day dystopian signsfrom world leadersflood the airwaves cause a clenchinga rigidity in my bodyand in my mind perhaps the long sleeptransmigrationto another plane returning millenia hencemay find a societya world more kind but I have my doubts –LE – 3/7/26
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Passive And Receptive
************************* Let us not thereforego hurrying aboutand collecting honey, bee-like,buzzing here and there impatientlyfrom a knowledge of what is to be arrived at.But let us open our leaves like a flower,and be passive and receptive. – John Keats
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Save Our VA Protest 3/6/26
Three of us held the line outside the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA this morning for the moring shift change, from 6:40 – 8:15 am. Of those I could make out, a good 85-90% responded positively, The rest either ignored us or were preoccupied with other concerns… Only one negative, a ‘bouncing’ thumb down……
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Early March Morning On The Tucson Loop
Early March Morning On The Tucson Loop Gossamer white swaths on pale to dark blue,the sky, an abstract painting in bright hues,the southern mountains silhouetted in sheer mists. Walkers and cyclists dotted the path north to south,most not paying particular attentionto the stark beauty surrounding them. The yellow buds of Greasewood and Mesquitepaying homage to…
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Modern Civilization
Some may accuse me of being a pessimist. I’m not, but some of my poems may seem so. These poems are the result of the mainstream media and the ‘clickbait’ my friends insist on reading to me, even though I refuse to read that incendiary rubbish myself. They are the result of my assulted senses…
