on the fringe

 

 

considering our common human accelerating

issues with climate change, isn't it way past

time to get over our differences and

work together for survival?

 

 

 

The horrible unnecessary tragedies of

so many lives because our social structure

isn’t set up to be kind.

 

 

 

Here on the fringe all of my life,

a fine perch to watch the follies

 

 

 

I have NO POWER.  Say what I will,

no one listens.  If you are wasting

your time castigating me, you quite

obviously are direly in need of a

useful project and pleasant activities.

 

 

 

Social Reality – what we agree, is always

shifting.  Nothing to securely build on

or trust.

 

 

 

Who are we but the restrictions of

our beliefs?

 

 

 

Lion spirit walks, runs, rambles,

absorbs solar energy eye to mind,

skin to essence, pulse of heart in synchrony.

Worlds transform while lion man admires.

Golden sky unfurls, gilds his human crown,

uplifts as Sun’s Chariot all who attend.

This Earth, this plane of destiny as stagecraft,

made in images of might, grand gestures, dazzling

gambles, endures.  We celebrate in kind.

 

Shine!

 

 

 

7/21-28/21

wasting our precious human lives

 

we are constantly reinventing,

constantly becoming,

always in the throes of unknown unknowns

that rereredefine us

 

 

 

 

I am so very tired of people wasting

our precious human lives finding ways to

hate and deny each other

rather than enjoying our time together.

 

 

 

So thrilling

to have someone to talk to

 

 

 

Is this our lesson from middle school,

hiding and lashing out from our cliques?

 

 

 

The culture of ignorance

bullying against intelligence

making it a choice to fit in

or insist on truth.

 

 

 

Who will I believe --

a stranger whose motives I don’t know,

who posts fake news memes,

or my own experience?

 

 

 

7/14-18/21

a social outcast point of view

 

Entitled assholes “freedoms”

trump reasonable policies for

public health?

How is this a responsible democracy?

 

 

 

Delusion’s world, you who get to

judge who’s worth making a difference,

who gets dismissed as mentally ill,

because the mainstream make the

standards.

 

 

 

 

Notice how Earth seems to be slowly

(or maybe less so) killing us off with plagues,

floods, fires, murders, anxieties that lead to

disease, lessening our deadly influence.

 

 

 

From a social outcast point of view

 

 

 

What is it with this fad for the suicidal

to spread their death, through disease,

murder, extending dangerous ignorance

with deadly misinformation?

 

 

 

Nonbinary – not just about gender

There is so much more to color

than black and white – these are not

boundaries nor imperatives.

These are merely metaphors,

print on page.

Humans can be perverse --

anti-survival.

Caught up in fantasies that poison,

destroy our own lives.

We refuse to be wise, in favor of

self-flagellation, suffocating in hatred,

dying however we can, despite

that imperative instinct to cleave

to beauty, to survive.

 

 

 

Social constructs, made to distract,

distrust, divide, set us to destroy

our energies imploding, denying

our precious lives.

 

 

 

These clinging memories,

how expel, express?

What is their essence?

 

 

 

710-13/21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Apocalypse

  abdicating their responsibilities to play

petty power games -- is this why we elect them,

pay them, allow them to tell us what to do?

 

what do they believe they gain by acting

so crudely? Are they happy with the world they

are creating, or so miserable that they are

sharing their pain?

 

they want power, as if it is a burning imperative

that smoke covers all reasonable impulses, all

the possible actual good for humanity and our

nation that power rightly accessed and used

could bring

 

 

 

 

the Christians and Republicans are losing

membership because sane people don't want to

be associated with the ever growing insanity

 

 

Her steadfastness

refuge for wanderers

 

 

 

Defense from the profit motive

Embrace basic reality.

 

 

 

No one wants to put in the work

We’d rather shoot the weapons

and deal with the destruction.

 

 

 

Seeing life through a different lens

Seeing again

from the beginning

 

 

 

There’s nothing wrong with me.

There’s something wrong with

“normal” people who feed a need

to introduce hate into innocent

children’s lives.

 

 

 

 

public interest lawyers and activists: 

time to get busy and creative finding ways

to get around the restrictions and get out

the vote better than ever!

 

 

 

 

so, it's about courage -- the courage to speak

the truth, to do the kind, to be the change you

want to see when no one else wants to see it

 

 

 

 

 

but do we

benefit

from a system

that is made to

dehumanize?

 

 

 

we like to go crazy over symbols, as if

our emotional reactions to fantasies

trump reality or human connection