A Call to Arms
A Call to Arms Put on your armor. Take up your arms. At the heart of the status quo you will find all the things that resist all the changes the world needs from you. Put on your armor. Take up your arms. For this enemy does not fight fair or clean, careless, thoughtless, reckless, [...]
End Times
End Times I used to believe that escaping the world and fading into the powers of the mind was the way of enlightenment, the way of discovery, even truth. But the mind is a puzzling body of flickers and flame, its history a gallery of artlessness, and people more the products of powers that surround [...]
The Story
The Story What is truer than truth? The Story. Visions are realized more often as disappointments than fulfillments even when they turn out, as we hope, to be true. Dreams are the stuff of what we are made of, or have not made yet. I told her the first time we ever spoke on the [...]
Follow the Truth
Follow the Truth If it turns out to be true that we are on a path or going someplace, it might not hurt to have a guide to show the way there, or at least reveal how not to not get there. Whether or not there is a there the going isn’t going to be [...]
Fear
Fear For each of the things we’ve been taught to fear, we’ve taught ourselves how. Inspired by Lachlan Cotter‘s #Trust30 prompt: These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its [...]
Condemned
Condemned Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. –Pablo Picasso I don’t need to be affirmed, I need to be condemned, so the worn, abandoned, decrepit old building of my self can be cleared out of the way. I don’t require healing, I require renewal, like a seed before it can grow [...]
Losing It
Losing It It’s hard enough just to think about, when in an unguarded moment you slip, and then notice it, lying there in the shadows in the corner of your conscience. But to write about it is just plain insane. Everything in us knows avoidance is the only antidote to this occasional disease, no matter [...]
Five Years Ago From Now
Five Years Ago From Now You are on the right path so stop wondering about Frost and his road not taken it isn’t yours–don’t hesitate, though, to memorize it; that was a good idea– I have learned from it along the way about the rhythm of loss and gain much from it still You will [...]
Writing
Writing I love and hate To write. Like an insatiable lover I wish I could hold without losing my grip, she gives only to take. It was language that first drew me in, first disclosed to me mystery, intrigue, the long tail of understanding, and the grammar of meaning, a thirst that will not be [...]
Days
Inspired by Today by Liz Danzico, from #Trust30: Days Waldo says they march, and bear a stream of gifts, while Billy sees each one as a gift balanced upon all the rest. Today though, bears no no explanation, nor does it follow the rules of history or time, the reflexive wisdom of all we’ve chosen [...]
The End
For the #Trust30 writing challenge, I have decided to use the “prompts” as opportunities to develop my poetry chops. In a more honest sense, they represent for me duels with the Resistance. I have some work to do on this front, so I’m drawing my sword 30 times over in a topically guided battle against [...]
