If empathy only applies to your tribe?
To put it plainly? You’re a hypocrite.
It’s said people should be open minded,
that rhetoric doesn’t match our actions.
One world respect everybody’s rights,
but only if our flags fly on the same side.
You’re no better than the shooter.
How can you sit and smile at a gun?
When was the last time you spoke up?
We need to break down barriers,
not let them get healthy and fortify.
You bask in hues of revolution’s rubble,
because the blood is opposition’s color.
But if the river began to flood your house?
You would take a bullet for your neighbor.
I thought you said this was about unity?
You’re no better than the shooter.
How can you sit and smile at a gun?
Talk to people who are nothing like you,
a breathtaking world awaits the bold.
There are friends out there to discover
give yourself a chance to meet them.
Say ‘Hello’ in a multitude of languages,
if you aren’t even willing to shake hands?
You’re no better than the shooter,
How can you sit and smile at a gun?
I am a budhha and i am the samurai
I am the sadhu the truth and the lie
I am the Brahma the Shakti and the sigh
I am the the sign the depth and in high
I am the day the night and the dusk
I am the cow, the ling and the husk
I am the lotus, the fish and the mire
And i am the brain, the thoughts and the wire
I am the Satva and I am the Tamas
I am the heat, the honey and the hamas
I am the fire, the ice and the steam
I am the thunder, the light and its beam
In doubts or decision or when you ask me
I am the He, Aham Brahmasmi!
Tanto tempo fa e molto lontano
Mi sono innamorato di te prima del secondo spettacolo
e della tua chitarra
e suoni così dolce e chiaro
ma non sei veramente qui, è solo la radio
non ricordi di avermi detto che
mi amavi tesoro
hai detto che saresti tornato di nuovo da questa parte tesoro ti amo
davvero
instruments from all four orchestral families: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
Rich Powerful Sounds
Ah-la Calla-Bruuger
with
Chorus
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embrace unity
what society expects
sells out life's purpose
Far as the eyes can see
Nearer than what is far-aeay
The love that has cum+for you
Iß the love for us
What to say
To make you come again
To make you
Come back to anyware you are
Cause looniness is such a
Sad affair
Come back to me again, and ah again
I wanna be
Anywhere you are
See I don't love you
And I don't need you
I want you
I am just
To proud to begin
To far down is the way you go
When you don't care anymore
Find someone who cares
The one
Who say there be there
Ain't no world for me
Without you
Without you
What's ah man
To do
Tell me baby
Tell me baby
Learning to love you
Is learning you
What about me
What's is it gonna be
Tell me you care
Learning to need you
Cause I love you and need you
Tell me you care
Say you'll always
Be there
Yeah. Yeah, yeah!
Tell me you really love
Me baby
Tell me you
You really want me baby
Baby. Baby
Ooh baby
I love you
I really do
Far as the eyes can see
Nearer than what is far-aeay
The love that has cum+for you
Iß the love for us
What to say
To make you come again
To make you
Come back to anyware you are
Cause looniness is such a
Sad affair
Come back to me again, and ah again
I wanna be
Anywhere you are
See I don't love you
And I don't need you
I want you
I am just
To proud to begin
To far down is the way you go
When you don't care anymore
Find someone who cares
The one
Who say there be there
Ain't no world for me
Without you
Without you
What's ah man
To do
Tell me baby
Tell me baby
Learning to love you
Is learning you
What about me
What's is it gonna be
Tell me you care
Learning to need you
Cause I love you and need you
Tell me you care
Say you'll always
Be there
Yeah. Yeah, yeah!
Tell me you really love
Me baby
Tell me you
You really want me baby
Baby. Baby
Ooh baby
I love you
I really do
Can do
Attitudes,
You too.
Though it’s still partly cloudy in this street
& everybody follows the king’s fleet,
I’m following you to the ends of this world,
where I’ve replaced everything with your word,
I remain elsewhere like the empty plea
because you’re that fire burning inside me.
Though those agencies that create duets seem
to believe that a system employing well over
2, 000, 000 couples with infusions of bright visions
will need certain clearly specified characteristics
with objectives & noting costs to protect the new moon.
You’re that whirlwind blowing everything away,
that’s why in this play, I pray not to be the next prey.
I’m too late this morning & I won’t catch any bus,
though traders in their market won’t understand us.
To them, we’re actors in a tragic-comedy stage.
& we made a bold decision to try out the phage.
Give me your hands for a warmth of touch
& I won’t be in operational form in that skutch.
Give me your mouth for a kiss
when I listen to your coos.
Give me your whole body for burying me completely
when I pledge fealty.
The Staves had arrived to envoke the stabilty
and structure
that had been lacking.
To the Normal desencey of things
One to image, the full scope
of things. She called upon the
the circle of fifths
the 12 chromatic pitches
3:16 centered
Harmonic relationship &
Transpositions:
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During the Researching phase of this part
several members of the brainstorming team
became angry:
" A Member of What Wasn't Taaught"
appeared and began discussions.
They nevr taught you the phrases
Fiance or Fiancce in school.
It had been excluded along with
Discion making aspects of
becoming engaged and finding the right
person to marry you.
Music theory seems to be taught
in colleges or to
gifted students.
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-shmuzn or shmuesn
The QuadCity Chatter Box
" The CoachBuilt Bentley"
25 should be built
and sold aound the world
to the jealousy of the People!
Inspiration might come
with From a Position o Jealousy
Jealousy does not fit any of these rules
because it is an abstract.
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("Rainbow Body" detail, 2018, original encaustic)
Today I noticed on a website I use for book reviews
All eight of my poetry books
Suddenly have a fresh new one star review.
Sadly though there is no content to these reviews
Nothing to sink my teeth into and learn from
Just a single star
Which simply means, “I hate it.”
But these are the first reviews or ratings
I have ever received in ten years now
Of publishing poems
So I will take it
Mostly because I have no choice.
It is a free world after all
And so if we engage with it
We shouldn’t be surprised
When it engages back.
The beauty of getting only one star reviews
Of course is it doesn’t get my hopes up
Hopes of becoming rich and famous
Influential and significant
Because I know, especially now,
None of that would be true.
(9/15/25)
youre a red apple
the outside i devour in large, juicy bites
as much as my teeth can fit with all corners stretched wide
youd think to do the same at the core
But cracking bitterness brings seeds
scratch small bites, an itch
Jaw working, bony indents stiched
I like the way my tendons flex
Palm spread to grasp that hard fruit off the wiry stem
The core delicate
Slurping juice of whats left
The carcass melts into a brown sugar debt
Back to the earth you go to be reborn again
The ocean
Gave a gift to me
A coin for passage
Across the sea
To pay the ferryman
Should I need to cross
To light the lanterns
So I won't
Get lost
(“Creation Myth Merit Badge”, 2016, original oil)
Death Cult In Our Midst
There is a death cult in our midst
Some you can tell, many you can’t
Until they open their mouths
And out comes the hate for Life
And cheering on of Death.
Everywhere you look you can see the cult
Online, on TV, in movies and games
Where death and destruction
Is glorified and normalized
And you score points and win
When you kill.
The line between fantasy and reality
Thus blurred and/or erased
Leaves US where we are today
Broken and divided
Fearful and emboldened.
What does tomorrow bring?
More death
The cult dreams, whispers, chants and sings.
More death
Until only the pure remain.
(9/15/25)
the kids grow up
with plastic guns
before they grow teeth.
they watch the screen
where the hero kills clean,
a bullet solves the problem
faster than a thought.
blood splashes brighter
than sunlight on pavement,
and the crowd cheers louder
for death than for love.
they are fed violence
with their morning cereal,
taught to settle everything
with fists, knives, bombs.
generation after generation
learning the lesson:
murder is easier than mercy.
Love dances in our eyes,
Can come in any shape or size,
Love we mortals personify,
Starts with twinkle in our eye,
Love is not only for the young,
Wrinkly lovers laugh for fun,
Love is for near and far,
Fur, fin, feather, Love's the star,
Love is part of adaptation,
Love for God wants faith in action,
Love can bloom or fade away,
Brief regret, on with today,
Love's torch can light our way,
Love dancing leads each day,
Love is part of our human zen,
More love needed in our global den.
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