a poem is a sermon
I chose to walk a path of wildness; though these modern city streets are paved and seem to revel in a blindness that believes the urban sprawl has saved us from what nature could remind us: somewhere beneath all this black and gray, behind the masks that progress may wear as it fumbles through lines […]
I watch my daughter grow. She finds the patriarchy’s walls, once comforting and so secure, now quickly closing in; and the consumer culture, bred in bright and shiny malls, begins to question her reluctance to wallow in sin. The icons, once so well preserved, expose their peeling paint, and what chivalry she sought and took […]
The hand that grips so tightly at the reins, its fingers numb with effort after time, will endure bruises, callouses and sprains so long as it still feels the tugging line that links it to life’s pulsing, straining steeds as they careen along the path ahead. In time, firm hands grown weak may start to […]
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for […]
a bref double Speak to me, if you linger at the trough and hesitant to take a drink, hang back while others have their fill and more besides, expecting none will challenge their self-right. I give to you a gift – the words you lack; Do not refuse their use or doubt their strength. Employ […]
for LJ user i_dread How delicate the web that occupies us, spider-like, in our attempts to mend and build this world before the binding dries. We toil from waking to each day’s end, constructing fragile lanterns for our light that sway unsteady in each tender breeze, imagining a world beyond our sight where lives some […]
I hate a Roman named Status Quo!, He said to me. Fill your eyes with wonder, He said, live as if you’d drop dead In ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream Made or paid for in a factory. Ask no questions, Ask for no security, There never was such an […]