Tag: Monochrome-Madness
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A Meditation Poem
Meditating sitting meditatingmorning dovesoutside my windowhoo-hoo-hoooohoo-hoo-hoooowho-who-whooooo sitting meditatingtraffic cacophony a few streets awaybackground staticthrough wind chimesimminent rain signs bathe sunbaked grounds wildflowers bloombeside cactus spines hillside climbs can stillhear the chimes resonating sitting meditating –LE
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Philosophy – My Truth 2 of 2
My Truth My truth is not necessarily your truth, because from my perspective all truth is relative anyway. Personal truths are based on whatever baggage we happen to wrap them in. Perhaps truth is an illusion or misnomer. There are facts, that depending on how they are assembled and viewed, may confirm or deny the…
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A Mother’s Legacy
A Mother’s Legacy mother brought up hersons to be romanticsyes daughters too allhoping for the ONE theTRUE soulmate who makesall things right they all told themselvesthey were good at heartthe soulmate would seethat from the start mend the skepticalthe broken hearts since all relationshipsend and some beforethey start as indoctrinatedromantics grasp and clingrefuse to accept…
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SS & Medi-dare
SS & Medi-dare SS retired – required – inspired just plain tired – almost expired expiration date all up to fateemancipated and medicatedperhaps need bruja-ha or shaman help truer SS short-shrift – left adriftSS sucking sound asausterity abounds – movingwealth by fiat to leach-classwarehouses for the greedbrokers and their want-a-bees medicare not really there less…
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Storied 2 – Fireflies Frost Ninja
Storied 2 – Fireflies Frost Ninja firefliesthe magnificent ninea court of frost and starlightof troubled bloodland of wolves the ninja’s bladethe finishersilent wife orkept womanspirit of steamboator any other name don’t dare a dameseamus in a skirta ninja’s daughtergathering of ravensmercy – from evildeliver us court mist and fury court silver flames a permanent recordin…
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A Red Sky
A Red Sky A red sky drippingoozing bloodbackdrop ofsocietycivilization progressive pretensecrusted andsmothered indisease ashblackish grayishpoverty deathdestroying everynatural thing ittouches vaunted techno-progress dealingdeath efficientlyprofoundlyinexorably Earth’s progenyfeed – declinecloth – declinehouse – declinewe’ve chosen asixth major extinctionfor greed’s sakefor profitfor ‘progress’ humanity but a virusblight on Terrafirmawhich will remainonce we’re allgone – justiceno more norless than wedeserve…
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The Inlaid Box
The Inlaid Box with its hiddenhinges and locksaged ebonyand burnt umbersatin lacqueredbamboo inlaysoozing hempishfumes the kind onlyknown for sureto the boxthat sits deep inshadows a remotebookshelf waitingto be sampledvindicated –LE
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Art and War Drive Technology
Reading the poetry and prose and viewing the art and photography published here in various blogs have put me in a strange mood today; got me thinking about the tech that allows us to express ourselves so lucidly, so graphically. That and the constant barrage of gaslighting propaganda and just plain ‘hot air’ from local…
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The Bike-paths of Tucson
The Bike-paths of Tucson As I rode out onthe bike-paths of TucsonI spied an old bikiein spandex and Nikes I see by your outfitthat you are a bikie—-and he said—-I see by your outfitthat you’re a bikie too We see by our outfitsthat we are both bikiesif you get an outfityou can be a bikie…
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Irony of Ironies
Irony of Ironies Sometimes it’s all too tiringfacts and opinionsbeliefs and conditioningpropaganda commercialsinternal dilemmacognitive dissonance Sometimes it’s all toopedantic toosemantic toocerebral or tooemotional to appreciatethe irony of it all Survival depends oncooperation of the wholebrains and heartsindividual and communityhumanity and our ecology less humankind ends alone and forgottenin burned-out remnantsof abundance of ouronce high civilizationirony of…