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Category Archives: Social/Political Commentary
What Will Never Be Known
She shuffles flat footed on her clunky feet, trousers dragging at the back a leash in one hand attached to one round white poodle. Tail wagging following every step she takes, every step an adventure. One hand pushes the shopping … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, Apathy, belonging, Community, Contemplations, crime, Depression, family, Health, homelessness, mental illness, Poetry, Politics, poverty, psychotherapy, Respect, Responsibility, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized, Wellness
Tagged compassion, devotion, discrimination, elderly, homelessness, police, poodle, poverty, rain, suitcase
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Jugular
The lion kills for life, and life is rarely grateful. We will hold fast our fingers clasped tight like kites were flying, like the cracks in boulders held our weight. Do you see heart there in the thin shadows? Do … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, Apathy, belonging, Community, Contemplations, Death, family, Health, Poetry, Respect, Responsibility, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized, violence, Wellness
Tagged balance, belief, courage, environment, faith, hope, huntress, life, nature, passion, promise, responsibility, vulnerability
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Mallets Made Of Glass
And what good could it do you to forge your anvil made of iron with your muscles bulging and your sweat blotting patterns in the concrete below your arm? The mallet is made of glass, you fool and so your … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, Apathy, belonging, Community, Contemplations, Poetry, Respect, Responsibility, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized, Wellness
Tagged anvil, art, bridges, clarity, ego, foolishness, fortify, insistence, iron, looking glass, wisdom
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Megalomania
Ha ha, you braggadocio, you blatherskite and swaggerer, with your brains balanced on the head of a pin and your paltry butt cheeks puckered tight behind the bunched fabric of your pantaloons. I see you! Ensconced in your rhetoric, your … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, Apathy, Congress, Contemplations, Corporations, Poetry, Politics, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized
Tagged arrogance, braggart, classism, disrespect, megalomania, privilege, sexism
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Grow Up To Show Up
I want to start a revolution. How about this one: Grow Up To Show Up (G.U.T.S.U) I’m pretty sure most of you are really tired of hearing about deadbeat/absentee fathers and the children who grow up without them; this worldwide … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, Apathy, belonging, child abuse, Community, Contemplations, crime, family, Health, human trafficking, Respect, Responsibility, sexual slavery, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized, violence, Wellness
Tagged absentee fathers, addiction, alienation, belonging, community, compassion, crime, evolution, family, honor, hope, integrity, maturity, respect, responsibility, revolution, sexual slavery, sexual violence, violence
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What Could You Possibly Say?
Wings are broken, legs are hobbled and you won’t look. You have your eyes locked upon a slippery shimmering silver lining. They say: Look at the bright side. And you try your best because you’re the optimist. They say: Namaste … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Apathy, Contemplations, existence, Poetry, Politics, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized
Tagged abuse, apathy, avoidance, complacenecy, denial, ego, evolution, eye for an eye, fundamentalism, human history, inhumanity, irresponsibility, karma, namaste, peace, rape, violence, war
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Somebody’s Child
The lies don’t matter. Don’t let them blind you to the truth. The sweat streamed down the back of his neck, made silver by the indirect light through the window, and tears were jettisoned off the tip of his nose. … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, belonging, compassion, Contemplations, existence, homelessness, mercy, prose, Respect, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized
Tagged addiction, children, deception, desperation, humanity, hunger, judgement, junkies, lies, need, poetry, poverty, prose, reason, truth
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Endless Waves
Originally posted on Bell Book Candle:
At a time when food prices are rising rapidly, my local government here in Saint George, Utah has decided to increase the price of water by 10%. Why 10%? It’s nice round number and…
Posted in activism, America, Apathy, commentary, Contemplations, Democracy, economics, environment, Equality, freedom, global dominance, justice, Politics, Respect, Social/Political Commentary, superpowers, systems, Uncategorized
Tagged corruption, exploitation, plutocracy, poverty
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Your Basket
Who sleeps in your basket, you do-gooder, you holy-roller, you collector of praise and recompense? Who gains your heart, who is awarded your most gentle caress? I have painted the ones you’ve forgotten or ignored. I have used the color … Continue reading
Posted in activism, America, commentary, Contemplations, economics, Poetry, Politics, prose, Social/Political Commentary, Uncategorized
Tagged avoidance, classism, disenfranchised, drug addicts, help, homeless, homosexuals, hypocrisy, ignorance, love, poetry, poverty, prose, prostitutes, thieves, unity
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the long adventure
Stones are rounded by the caress of water, three hundred thousand years without me. I am so small. I am so big. I am just a speck on the page of this long adventure. To breathe in the dust of … Continue reading →