Our nation - at a crossroads now
With intersecting planes
Of concepts much at odds somehow -
Exacerbating strains.
The Democrats perplexities:
A "Heart without a Head"
Explains irrationalities -
(Dysfunction - simply said).
Republican proclivities:
A "Head without a Heart"
Explains their personalities -
(Flatlines on MDs charts).
Both play the same devout "blame game"
With terse polemics wrought
As zealots on both sides proclaim
Their hyperbolic thoughts.
They come and go yet most remain,
Though times change in due course,
And seem to think it's their domain -
Their livelihood resource.
And, money flows and money goes
Awash in large amounts
But how, from where, no accounts show;
Just smoke and mirrors doubts.
With most seats safely in the till
Few voters needs to heed,
Instead exert, exhort their will
On things inflating greed.
Then, how do we comport with this
Vast wasteland so immense?
We wax and wane and turn and twist -
It's our experience.
Categories:
disenchantments, america, character, how i
Form: Rhyme
That I never be expert
in hiding ...
May I never be
my counterpoint ...
that I don't die
before understand
all my astonishment ...
and that I don't live
those disenchantments ....!
Categories:
disenchantments, allegory, allusion, creation, life,
Form: Free verse
Any difference between feeling horrified, on one hand,
and disenchanted terrifying thoughts, on the other,
seem connected to punishing error and folly in others
unlike our self-righteous ego identities
trained to settle for a Win/Lose anti-communal
anti-trusting world.
Such disparities are even less wise when paranoid
and manic,
a difference in degree
between tragically toxic and merely Win/Lose business as usual,
between outside projection and inside rejection
on our shared global potential enchantment stage.
Then, too,
perhaps any disappointing difference between climatic ecstasy
and everyday enchantments,
in-between wu-wei,
still kindly loves our best
and healthiest
and most beautiful,
sensual,
graceful local cooperative presence.
Each ecstatic day may bring some of both
cooperative enchantment
and Left v Right disenchanting competitions
to avoid horror and terror out there,
without doubt,
but also everyday disenchantments
of a complex,
sometimes chaotic,
domestic inside/outside competing darkness.
Categories:
disenchantments, community, conflict, confusion, health,
Form: Political Verse
I've often heard,
Guns do not kill,
and people do.
I've often thought,
Words do not curse,
but people do.
Both are right
and wrong.
Our words
and guns
and uncivil enculturation,
bad habits
and addictions
fascinations
relentless Win/Lose competitions,
disenchantments
mutual divestments
despairing ego-centriments,
isolation
paranoia
xenophobia
homophobia
germophobia
racial phobia,
terror and terrorism
together curse
and kill.
Guns with owners
too often hear
words with full-volume cursing
swords
ballistic piercing kills
Any cooperatively owned and green-managed party,
political or otherwise.
Categories:
disenchantments, abuse, bullying, conflict, corruption,
Form: Political Verse