We’ve got all of these politicians and so-called ringleaders supposedly leading us… and many mindlessly march to their divisive tunes. This kind of chaos has been going on for eons. Really, the primary function of these so-called leaders should involve unifying the world as one whole, undivided group. However, none of them are doing that. Instead, they are encouraging us to cling to segments of the world that they pronounce as being “better” and “superior” to all others. They maintain and encourage the separation and division, with their bombs, armies, weapons, tariffs, and words… all the while making the world far more dangerous and less secure. So we have so-called men (who are not of wisdom and love) leading the rest. And so many blindly follow them — obeying these jagged men, these broken men — without question, believing their lies, their fallacies, and their cold rhetoric. The world is full of what i call “smart-stupids” who dance to the ringleaders’ tunes. Instead, may i suggest that one be a global citizen… wisely going beyond their destructive, fragmentary tunes.
From the movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales:
Statement by the Native American Ten-Bears: “It’s sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues.”
suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
young death sits in a café smiling,a piece of money held between his thumb and first finger
(i say “will he buy flowers” to you and “Death is young life wears velour trousers life totters,life has a beard” i
say to you who are silent.—”Do you see Life?he is there and here, or that, or this or nothing or an old man 3 thirds asleep,on his head flowers,always crying to nobody something about les roses les bluets yes, will He buy? Les belles bottes—oh hear ,pas chères”)
and my love slowly answered I think so. But I think I see someone else
there is a lady,whose name is Afterwards she is sitting beside young death,is slender; likes flowers.
[Note: I despise politics, but these are critical, precarious times when one must get somewhat “political.” The current diabolical U.S. administration is endorsing coal and fossil fuels and is deregulating and dismantling environmental mandates/regulations, not to mention destroying democracy and free-voting. Each year there are fewer butterflies, fewer bees, fewer lightning bugs, fewer of myriad types of wildlife creatures… not to mention fewer healthy people.
The cover of a recent Sierra Club environmental magazine stated: “Vote like the Planet depends on it (because it does).”]
Clear-eyed lightning thundering into people as a person whose booming tinkering blew separative self-seekers into roaring trepidation
Powerful winds upsetting murky, muddy minds of seem groundlessly thinking they were of clear, illuminated skies but falsely emancipated in dead houses of opaque beliefs
Earth’s life creatures were dying, not from the tempest but from the stale, stagnant home-dwellers indifferent, enclosed abodes of security hiding from the perfume of life
The tumultuous clapping was earth desperately tenacious among the sullied world of gadgets, plastic, and fossil fuels (Their adherence to self-gratification… not worth the price)
Stay safe and be cautious and prudent in this current viral crisis. This thing will likely be around for a long time. Additionally, in this polluted world, more deadly viruses will be coming. Unfortunately, our government officials are superficially looking at things fragmentarily and are not seeing things holistically with a lot of insight. In the U.S., for instance, i feel that Trump is adding to the nightmare of this. I am basically an apolitical person, but what i see this non-compassionate, narcissistic man doing is horrifying. My friends in other countries are equally horrified with the current U.S. administration, and with good reason. It’s like a horror movie. He has a cult-following around him and, while people are dying, he talks about his ratings. He promotes and endorses racism and he is dismantling just about everything that President Obama did in the past… including (recently) the drastic weakening (i.e., ending) of an Obama-era fuel economy standard that made new cars more fuel-efficient and more environmentally friendly. This will increase pollution while the world wrestles with a respiratory virus pandemic (that Trump had called a hoax) and a climate crisis. (Is a deadly-polluted world really the legacy that you want to leave your kids?) Then there is the drastic cutting of Social Security and Medicare, putting kids in cages, being puppets for the fossil fuel industry, and the GOP’s diabolical suppression of voting in many states. This is an immoral society and we are allowing ourselves to be bamboozled by extremely immoral so-called leaders. Personally, if you subscribe to such nefarious stuff, i would prefer it if you unfollowed this blog and stayed away. Such nefarious behavior is a danger to mankind and the animal and plant kingdoms. Besides, subscribing to such drivel certainly nullifies any chance of ever being visited by that sacred, holistic energy; its order and vast intelligence does not visit the disorderly, the visionless.
I highly recommend watching Dr. John Campbell’s (daily) videos on the coronavirus. (One of his wonderful and very helpful videos that i especially like is provided below. He is from England, and one meter equals around 3.3 feet.) He is a top-notch medical expert (now retired). We all need to talk more about population limitation, healthy environmental measures, and living cooperatively. And please donate, as i did, to your local food bank (in these very difficult times).
Stay safe!
Easter Eggs (kind of)… Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2020
Marla, my wife, said that my poems occasionally need to be more uplifting, so the first poem (here) is meant to fulfill that end. The second poem is what was written before her comment.
Poem #1
Here in his hands is a flowery treasure with sweet petals and leaves much joy beyond measure
He is of hopes and images where as he ascends up in the elevator flowing fields of smiling imaginary angels open doors that were dreamt of later
Can we lift a luminous whole and bring new minds out of below rise to the top ever so mindfully in a towering highrise deep in the heart of Chicago?
(Well, elevators are uplifting, aren’t they?)
Poem # 2
There was a pond and every time a frog jumped into the pond the pond became a little froggier a little splashier
There was a grasshopper and every time he landed upon a weed the weed became a little leggier a little jumpier
There was a propagandizing political news-channel and every time a person watched it the television became a little duller and a lot more dim-witted
Leopard Frog, a species that will not survive long in a world filled with crass people who do not act diligently to prevent global warming and who think that “Windmills cause cancer.”. … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2019
Many stuffy politicians can pull many into their stupefaction pull many into their (paid-for-by- the-fossil-fuel-industries) raisons d’etre (which include bona fide lies) but as for a rogue like me, well, the cheese in their trap is made of distorted
(though expensive and smelly)
cardboard
A this and that must wear its hat while hoping for balmy weather The meaning of life is to give life meaning us on this ship together
This hole of fate in a piece of cake in a jumble of rhyme and reason A warm cup of Joe for Larry and Moe while Curley’s out of doors just freezin’
A sitting duck amongst the muck as the hunter takes keenly careful aim It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for him he’s happy as a clam but it’s himself he’ll maim
We all run the tough gauntlet in this crazy rat race world many down in the dumps without a clue The smoke and mirrors gunshots and tears must do an about turn and fathom out what is true
Upcloseandpersonal … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2019
Pinocchio you’ve told so many duplicitous lies in your disingenuous politician style it makes me wonder if your incredible nose could possibly grow even longer
Boll Weavil (but at least it’s not voting to destroy the environment) … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
In reality, Elongate Long-Jawed Orb Weavers are not at all dangerous. People who turn their backs on the environment (and who vote for those that do) are what is extremely dangerous.
Elongate Long-jawed Orb Weaver … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
[from Albert Einstein (1879-1955; physicist and Nobel Laureate): “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”] Write to your congressmen, vote wisely (instead of what you inherited), and demand change.
This Haiku doesn’t need a canto because it’s just too damn small.
The U.S. is destroying the Environmental Protection Agency.
I find that I as time goes by grow weary of politics and all of the dirty tricks that the man in charge who by and large likes to pull because he is a fool a wealthy man in this land a one percenter a climate change hater whose only goal to get others to […]
If we all did more regarding green energy, if we all wrote emails (concerning cleaning up the environment) to the White House and to our Congressmen… then our little planet would have a chance.
Happy Halloween… and here’s a huge, new threat to horses! Remember, however, nothing is quite as scary as the presidential campaign in the U.S. around now! Ahhhhhhhhhh!
A Huge New Threat To Horses! Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2016