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Tag Archives: Awe
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: 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: 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: A Musing Clime
This poem is yet another playful tribute to the muse tossing down poems for the taking. This poem adopts some imagery from Jack and the Beanstalk, albeit a less scary take. A Musing Clime Do you believe In magical beings … Continue reading
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: 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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POEM: Blessed Be Our Creator (Not There’s)
In times of war or national revenge, demonization of one’s foes is standard operating procedure, necessary for justifying mass killing and destruction of civilian infrastructure, let alone civilians. This hole affair is all the more disgusting when it is dressed … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conscience, Darwin, Demonization, Evil, Moral, Morality, National, Necessary Evil, Religious, War
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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: Epitaph Numb-er Too
This short poem, an epitaph, is meant to inspire, and memorialize, if necessary, awe of those shock-proof shit detectors that some are blessed to be endowed with. Epitaph Numb-er Too He did not suffer Fools
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: 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: 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: Flame In The Darkness
Hope springs eternal. That’s just, the way it glows. Flame In The Darkness There is a flame In the darkness Awe weighs more Than mirror fact This flame is both Before and after See change As one Better Than book … Continue reading
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: 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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