by the lights of volcano fire tonight

  

journey, path, experience

metaphoric life in throes of meaning

gentle journey

ebullient path

myriad experience

ribboned and honored as art

 

 

 

it is seeming that most of what we decry

is merely propaganda, cynical politicians

creating angst, anger, violent confrontations,

whatever will sell their brand

 

 

 

 

a race is a contest of speed,

or sometimes a species

the concept of these human subspecies

based on specious ideas of ancestry

is an evil myth to perpetuate an evil cult

devised for hierarchy

 

 

 

 

the Republican Party has a deep crazy solution

 -- attract the fringe folk who regular people

shun and now you have a loyal army

without the limits of sanity

 

 

 

Wouldn't a culture of democracy --

rule by the people,

better be paired with socialism --

economy for the people,

than economy for the economically

elite?

 

 

 

It takes away from all potential

lives

to have to live

within a lie.

 

 

 

We're living in a time

when everybody has a voice,

no excuses -- you refuse to engage,

that's your choice.

More responsibility

to think, to look, listen, to learn.

No responsibility but what we

will, what compels despite

reluctance, pull of

anonymity, isolation.

 

 

 

Stop wasting our minds

on promoting pre-ordered isms,

tying up practical reality in divisive ideals.

Understand, some services are better

supplied by organized governments,

some by private enterprise, some by NGOs,

as we discover how we do best.

The point, the goal, the reason

is that everyone gets what we need to

continue and grow, that everyone

sincerely believes and acts within

our common creed of responsibility

for our communities thus that all co-create

background ecology  to live well.

 

 

 

4/26-29/21

 

 

Pink thots and prayers

 

The satisfaction about violence --

it’s direct.

Hit what we feel we need to hit

with our bodies

with our weapons

all through our imaginations,

building, building

desire.

 

 

 

Stop acting as if America is poor.

Stop acting like it’s ok to bleed her.

Stop acting like this is who we are,

demand to be.

Understand, wealth means

responsibility

to act wisely --

not license to destroy.

 

 

 

there is always more work to be done

than we can easily imagine, and thus

the potential for more jobs than there are

people to do them. 

What is needed is people who organize

the work into jobs. 

Why would you think that couldn't be

you and your friends?

 

 

 

 

wondering in this time of serious divisiveness

and fake news who to trust? 

My solution devised here and now: 

watch -- are their actions those of

a truly kind person?

 

 

 

 

I know many times I am thinking I must

do this thing now, feel anxiety to get it done. 

Later, after I have somehow been blocked

from doing it, now I realize I wasn't ready,

didn't have all the knowledge or resources

or good planning I would need to do it right.

 

 

 

4/24-26/21

ending Aries

  

it suddenly occurred to me

that all the "evils" we have come to

associate with social media have been

purposefully seeded to keep such

instant communication and sharing of

experience from creating a social

atmosphere conducive to more equality

 

 

systems promoting inequality

are not about economics, but

concentration of power over

 

 

 

 the issue really is that these new

restrictions on voting are meant to be

just that, so politicians can choose

their voters and who they don't want voting,

as if they own the country.

 

 

 

Perhaps after these events

involving police v. communities,

instead of the usual antagonistic

stance, police would stand, humbly,

before the people they’re ranks had

wronged, apologize deeply,

honestly as fellow human beings,

offer ongoing dialog to together

make sure such tragedies be

prevented. 

Perhaps turn this meeting into

a kind of wake in which people

express feelings, share relevant

stories, agree to respect and form

intent to work not from separate

camps, but together for common

purpose.

 

 

 

Clearly, people who believe they have

some strange right to treat people

badly, for any trumped up rationale,

are deeply anti-social and ought not

be condoned by anyone.

 

 

 

 

To bear arms -- other than limbs? --

not "any" arms, but some definition?

What could that be?

Words on a parchment mean nothing

without interpretation

to keep them relevant

over changing ages.

 

 

Is it a cognitive disorder,

not sufficiently perceiving

the group reality?

 

 

 

 

haiku gives true voice

 

carries us to the essence

 

of simplicity

 

 

4/14-17/21

affinity with mutant perception

 

It has occurred to me that there are

a vast assortment of employments

(remunerative work)

that most of us know nothing of. 

Thus many people fall into jobs that don't

suit them because they believe that is

what is employment.  I am wondering how to

find these employment opportunities,

but more, how to learn such options exist.

 

 

 

pretty much we are all damaged by life

one way or another, better to look to

ways to heal than ways to label

 

 

 

Going negative as response to

problems is lazy and cruel,

taking energy and support from

those working toward solutions.

 

 

 

that mystic gift to

understand who I am

by affinity with

mutant perception

 

 

thinking about unknown unknowns

 

 

4/10-13/21

April shouters

  

no wonder the Republicans need to limit voting

if they are to be able to win elections --

their default is not to create meaningful

legislation, but to keep their opponents

from doing so in order to make government

generally look ineffective

 

 

 

so the US is becoming a war of all against all

-- government against business, government

groups against each other, citizen groups against

business/government/other groups and so forth --

how is this mindset any good for any of us? 

Why aren't we instead figuring out how to work

together and get done what we need done?

 

 

 

 

years back I read an article with a chart

 indicating four quadrants:

good for oneself and others

good for oneself, bad for others

bad for oneself, good for others

bad for oneself and others

 

the fourth quadrant was labeled by the

author "stupidity"

 

 

 

 

 

defund the police was not a mistake

to promote but rather a good place to

start discussing how we can have law

enforcement that works for our communities

as well as the other social programs we need f

or working with troubled people to help them

and their communities

 

 

 

the problem is not with this work, but with

the usual cynical politicos who rain down

lies/propaganda/divisive hate to obfuscate

so they can hold power

 

 

 

seems to me that diversity generally is of

great value to business -- yes, it is good for

public relations, but more so to expand

customer bases and find alternatives that

improve the processes and products

 

 

 

 

ultimately it's not about any ist or anti-ist --

it's about having respect for all living beings,

and understanding we are all family and do

best to treat each other well

 

 

 

Vicious solutions in search

of an acceptable problem

because the problem to be solved

is that ohmygod there are people

I don't understand, who aren't

like me.

 

 

It's not only, merely, defense

from embarrassment, from harsh

judgment, elitist laughter.

Rather, defense in nature's sense,

from ripping flesh, from predator's

teeth.

 

 

I have misunderstood the people

refusing to do the simple public

health measures to stem spread of

the virus.  I now realize they are trying

to save the planet, by diminishing

human impact.

 

 

 

The essence of art:

maybe by sharing my trying to find

myself, I can help others

find their selves.

 

 

 

we all know who gave us the virus --

the idiots running around refusing to accept

that we all have responsibility to protect ourselves

and others with simple public health measures

 

 

 

 

what we seem to ignore about the whole

 "cancel culture" controversy is that it is a

loudly public controversy in which long

inheld grievances are bursting into full

interactive view

 

 

 

 every time you folks put on this ridiculous theater

 – hearts and prayers, the gov’mint is trying to take

yer guns, the problem is mental illness

[but we’re not going to do anything about that

either – hell, those are our voters]