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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
POEM: Giant Chain of Keys
This poem is a tribute to won of the keys of life, that is that the journey is more important than the destination. On a more earnest note, may integrity and honesty make a comfortable home in your character. On … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Honesty, Integrity, Journey, Joy, Kindness, Life
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POEM: Beating The Conundrum
Blessed be the peacemakers. It will take awe we have to secure peace. May the fog of war give weigh to the tsunami of love rising in the see of humanity. Beating The Conundrum The peacemakers cried Everybody for everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conundrum, Enemies, Humanity, Insanity, Love, Peacemakers, War
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POEM: The Stub
This poem is a small tale of serendipity where even the small stub of a toe could lead to large discovery, and weather this discovery turns out to be a blessing or a curse may also deep end on serendipity. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessing, God, Grace, Healing, Serendipity, Time, Vocation
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POEM: Repleting Lies
War is fertile territory for hyperbole, to put it kindly. More to the point, war is built on lies. Big lies. Little lies. Really big lies. Truth is the first casualty of war — most of the rest are civilians. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Jobs, Journalists, Media, Propaganda, Truth, War, Work
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POEM: I Adore
I Adore I stumble up On the hows of awe people Soully to learn I adore That witch awe of life Is hinged And I am holy framed The truth of which I cannot bolt I am udderly dumb founded … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Holy, Joke, Life, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Destiny is as Character Duhs
Far too often it seems that cheaters and brutes win the day, and honest and kind folks get the short end of the stick. This poem is a meditation reminding myself that character, whether good or bad, and whether of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Change, Character, Gandhi, Meditation, Reality, Wisdom
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POEM: Whether Proof Hope
This poem is another meditation on hope, timeless and timely. Hope seems to have a life of its own, and seams intent to share that life. Sew spread the knews. Whether Proof Hope Hope is its own kind Of fuelishness … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Hope, Life, Meditation, Money, Questioning, Rage, Resistance
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POEM: The Rode Less Travailed
While I have a grate deal of confidence in my well-founded opinions, I can get lost in sharing these opinions with those who have no interest in listening to them. Even if I am right, the shadow of self-righteousness can … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Dancing, Life, Patience, Silence
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POEM: That Fine Line
Life is complicated. Many of us use this as a rationalization to avoid decisive action. This can leave us in a morass of moral confusion. If we a fine line a ledge, the slightest movement may result in profoundly different … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Balance, Creation, Extinction, Faith, God, Life, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Moral, Opposites, Rationalization, Science, Society, Statistics, Values, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Oh Israel, Unequivocally State Fallowed Script Her
I have always admired the Torah and Old Testament perpetual reminders of “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,” and the precept, “You shall not oppress … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Failure, Food, God, Hell, History, Israel, Modern, Muslims, Palestine, Palestinian, People of The Book, Religion, Religious, Sacred, State, Truth, Xenophobia, Zionist
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POEM: In Dig Nation — Ode to That Lyin’ of Zionism
The UN Secretary General has called on Israel to have a humanitarian ceasefire. Israel calls for his resignation. Mean wile, The United States is resigned to complicity with war crimes in the bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure on top … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Food, Israel, Ode, Palestine, State, War, War Crimes
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POEM: The Broke In Heart
This poem is another meditation on a chronically broken heart, busted wide open, caught a mist the beauty of awe creation and the cruelty of the whirled. My heart poors into the world with awe that cannot be contained. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Creation, Cruelty, God, Heart, Joy, Meditation, Mystical, Status
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POEM: Low to the Ground
A phrase I use a lot to describe my daily mode of living is “low to the ground.” This includes aspects of living simply so others may simply live and playing the long game of generations-long struggles for justice. Also, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Justice, Life, Living Simply, Solidarity, Time
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POEM: Engendering God
I have found at times that people seem more able to describe who God isn’t than who God is. Of course, discussing the nature of God at all is problematic. As I often say, there is only one thing more … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, God, Joke, Nature
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POEM: Having a Ball
This short poem is a sporty ode to love outdoing chaos with an awesome attunement to sublime harmony and joy and by artfully wielding a juggernaut of creativity. Love is an eternally open invitation. Please feel free to RSVP and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Creativity, Harmony, Joy, Love, Ode
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POEM: The Hole In My Well — Being
This poem is a playful testament to the wellspring of nature, both of the natural world which makes our life possible and the human spirit which has the potential to uplift life and awe creation. Of course, there is an … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Character, Crazy, Creation, Life, Nature, Responsibility
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POEM: Superseeding An Other
Deathly war is an unending incantation of tragedies. While one tragedy may be viewed as pivotal, as likely as knot another tragedy will supersede the earlier tragedy in quick succession. Perhaps the only surety is that two posing sides will … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Rage, War
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POEM: In Hospitable Missive
This poem was inspired by Israel’s official denial of any responsibility in the missile attack on a Palestinian hospital which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of patients, health care workers, and refugees desperately seeking what was hoped to be … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Denial, Health Care, Israel, Military, Mourning, Palestinian, Reality, Refugees, Responsibility, Truth, War
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POEM: Mine Blowin’
My mind is blown every time I meditate on the fact that the stuff our bodies are composed of, molecules, are so infinitesimally small that if the molecules contained in a single breath were spread evenly across the planet, then … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Creation, Food, Mind, Time
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