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Tag Archives: suffering
What Good to Grieve
What good to grieve a faded hour? The sun has long since filled the sky and led to moments come and gone as filled with life as that passed dawn. Besides, to mourn what has now ceased, too long, is … Continue reading
Nobody Wants to Hear
I could be bitter about all this shit or at least, start to doubt a benevolent universe; whine on in rhyme about storm clouds and sunshine that doesn’t come out ‘cept to drink up the water. My angst could flower … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs
Tagged anger, grief, holocausts, Hurricane Katrina, loss, New Orleans, sharing, suffering
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Recrimination
I could dredge up every wrong and each intentioned slight to catalog the way the world has hurt me, or just might and in that laundry list of ills imagined, or in fact, find solace in a victim’s role to … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged acceptance, anger, arguments, blame, politics, responsibility, suffering, words, wrong
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Feast During Famine
When Obiwan Kenobi felt the end of Alderaan it was as if a hole appeared and swallowed, to a man, the lifeforce of each precious soul existing ’til that time and twisted, perhaps frayed, the cord of which we form … Continue reading
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Tagged catastrophes, compassion, disasters, karma, kindness, spirituality, suffering, tsunamis
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Hell is to the North
They say the way is often well-paved and leads down along the map. But I have wondered, lying listening to the constant rain, about the benefits of concrete and steel until it dawns on me. The say that Mecca is … Continue reading
The Uses of this World
Is it any wonder that the world has turned to shit in the minds of those who find in it no sacred benefit, who think the earth is only temporary living space, a proving ground for humans on their way … Continue reading
Procrastination
If I put those parts of me I distain away in a box, where they can hide from the world, if I just do not decide their resolution, I can avoid pain and needling from their sharp little jabs. Their … Continue reading