The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
~ Nikola Tesla
nights are dark and long
and those who come only
to wheedle
me into eating, or drinking, or brushing my hair
coddle and coo
yet bear knife and needle
to prepare my mind to sleep and rest
no, not to rest, to forget - they come and spiel
dogmatic scientific credal
Categories:
credal, mental illness, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Other
Where have all our freedoms gone, I asked
As I watched them slowly eroding away,
Once in the warmth of liberty we basked
Probably wishful thinking they would stay
Seems a time for reckoning has come,
Did we abuse what once we prized so dear
God-given rights, marching to a different drum?
Choosing to live our lives in peace, not fear
Where patriotism was our love of country,
Not given to a frightful, credal nationalism
What have we come to in this 21st century?
Influenced as we are by rank sensationalism
Seems we espouse the right to be contrary,
Now even denying the realities of our history.
Written June 27, 2022
Categories:
credal, freedom, patriotic, perspective, rights,
Form: Sonnet
a natural thing
to sing
perspectives with words
overshadowing all
may call&plea
in thoughts&visuals
the answer will be
meditations
on experience
happenings
seeking the essential truth
in
cries of concern
by
the crushed&downtrodden
at
crisis point
honesty
prevails aloud
petitions prayed
blessings beseseched
in credal calls
ask to receive
as we believe
saying it as it is
tell all
large&detailed small
cry now for justice
await
hold back listen watch&see
He speaks
He shows
He knows
Categories:
credal, christian, poetry,
Form: Verse