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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
POEM: Tension All Humans
If we want to be competent human beings on this planet, a founding document in our education and a basis for our collective life is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Education, History, Human Rights, Life, Time
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POEM: End the Israeli Occupation — Owed to the Palestinian People
The Israeli occupation must end. The latest in generations-long human rights violations and obstinate abrogation of international law must end. Cutting of water, food, electricity and fuel to an entire population, mostly civilians, of course, is a moral horror. No … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Food, Human Rights, Israel, Law, Military, Moral, Palestinian, Power, President, Prison, Questions, Security, State
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POEM: Bread A Loan
This poem is a meditation on making money, positing that we should make enough money to live but should seek to stay clear of the powerful drift and grift of money making you. Bread A Loan He sought to raze … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Faith, God, Meditation, Money, Silence
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POEM: Tears in My Soul
This poem is a mournful riff on the destructive grievance politics of the so-called right. Of course, what is left is left, with love and hope remaining to knit life wince agin. Tears in My Soul Where divides multiply As … Continue reading
POEM: Spoke in the We’ll
I yearn for an age where the human community and the body politic are led by a spirit of soulful imagination and creative passions rather than base impulses of material gain and vain status. May we join as planetary citizenry … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Citizens, Community, History, Imagination, Reality, Soul, Status
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POEM: Getting Off
This poem is meditation and commentary on the all-too-common chasm between legality and morality. Personally, I get off on morality, not legality… Getting Off Getting off On a technicality Beating off Their own rules Hardly A consummate victory Knot So … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Meditation, Moral, Morality, Rules
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POEM: The Largesse He Could Conceive
Throughout human history, people have travelled great journeys seeking their fortune or fare share of fame. Modern families often spread out out across the country following jobs and careers, and the proverbial better life. These things all have there place, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Family, God, History, Jobs, Life, Modern
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POEM: A Bout Time
A common complaint is that there is never enough time. Overbooking ourselves seems endemic. I have made an intentional effort over my life to create some space and time, allowing me to lead a less hurried and less forced life. … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged John Lennon, Life, Success, Time
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POEM: Retort #112
I suspect that if you don’t see someone as eccentric, perhaps living in a wondrous crucible brimming with contradictions, then you don’t really know someone. People, as inconvenient as they may be, are irreducibly wondrous creatures. I suspect that most … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Facts, Reality, Relationships
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POEM: On Acid
This poem is a playful, satirical takedown of the unromantic notion of sexual activity, particularly reproduction, as some Darwinian imperative. I am a romantic who believes that there is more than mere chemistry to human relationships and mating. On Acid … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Playfulness, Relationships, Romantic
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POEM: The Hypocrites Oath
This poem is a parody of the “Hippocratic Oath,” an early version of medical ethics best known for its precept of “do no harm.” Of course, American health care is a minefield of doing harm, adept at both undertreatment and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Ethics, Health Care, Patience, Prevention
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POEM: Meaning Less Star Dust
I have always found it odd that people can view themselves as just complicated dirt, even awesomely poetically as stardust. I suspected that even having a bad attitude about one’s existence as a subject (not object) may very well be … Continue reading
POEM — Bought Ensouled: Owed To Corporate Personhood
Corporate personhood is a scam, edging out actual human persons. Many corporate souls are filed in bank vaults in Delaware, a safe house for corporate persons…and having official papers they feel free to take a dump on actual persons. Who … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Corporate Personhood, Humanity, Life, Money, Truth, Wall Street
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POEM: Alarm Going Off
I see one of the pervasive everyday forms of violence in capitalism is having to wake up to alarm “normally.” I have no problem being woke, just not by alarms. I believe that luxuriating in the natural process of waking … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Mourning, Violence
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POEM: Sisyphus Shrugged
This poem is a parody of the libertarian bible, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, where rugged (read “ruthless”) individualism in service of economic wealth and power is lauded above all else. Sisyphus Shrugged Ann ran In the company of train wrecks … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Bible, Economic, Hubris, Individualism, libertarian, Love, Money, Power, Status, Wealth
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POEM: Unentitled Ekphrasis 247
Ekphrasis is a description of a work of visual art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise. This ekphratic poem is about the classically unassuming (“unentitled”) still life painting of a bowl of fruit. Since this type of painting is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Life, Nature, Work
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POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’
Violence often seems to be second nature, obvious or inescapable. Perhaps violence is inescapable because it begets itself, setting up new rounds of consequences where further violence begs further violence. Violence begetting itself may just be the manifestation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Future, Nature, Nonviolence, Poor, Reality, Sacred, Success, Violence, War
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POEM: Straight Manly Complaining
Straight men are the primary perpetrators of homophobia. Straight men also drive the patriarchal and misogynist culture where women are subject (and object!) of the male gaze. This poem plays with these realities as a straight man gets a taste … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Gender, Homophobia, Women
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POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)
Occam’s Razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. This funny and tragic poem is a parody of the misuse of the principle of Occam’s Razor to over-simplify and round … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Fundamentalism, Funny, Gödel, Humility, Ideology, Life, Luck, Possibility, Reality, State, Zero Tolerance
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POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
This poem is a metaphor for the natural consequences of bulling through natural limits on planet earth, our one home. This poem is yet another existential plea for ledged humanity to step away from the cliff. This poem poses the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Existential, Greed, Heaven, Humanity, Love, Money, Titanic
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