The body
Johan on the strand
The sun shone on his belly
Gulls had gouged his eyes
Crabs crawled into his nose
came out of his mouth
A shroud of sea tar
A man strummed a guitar
A girl laughed
A summer in 1954.
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
- Johan Huizinga
Within these white walls of wellness and weakness
lie labyrinths of life changing lies
Needless needles nip like nuisance nettles
Scary scans scrupulously scrutinize
Doctors dressed in drab garbs declare dreadful news
making moody me feel all the more miserable
Circumstances circle with cyst-like certainty
Persistent problems promote psychological pandemonium
Yearnings of yesterday yell and yammer for youthfulness
Lost in listlessness, I lament in laboured longing
Call for Peace:
Johan Vincent Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian sociologist, and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies.
Positive Peace is defined as the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. The same factors that create lasting peace also lead to many other positive outcomes that societies aspire to, including: thriving economies. better performance on ecological measures.
What is Negative Peace? IEP's definition of Negative Peace is understood as 'the absence of violence or fear of violence — an intuitive definition that many agree with, and one which enables us to measure peace more easily.
Societies with high Positive Peace have better outcomes on a range of factors that are considered important, such as better per capita growth, better environmental performance, less civil resistance movements or violent political shocks but also better infrastructure to weather the impact from natural disasters.
https://youtu.be/0PRzlpvHLPE
Fuseli forenamed Johan. Heinrich
was a bit of a art maverick
He had an obssession with women's hair
painted with abandon&sans a care*
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare#:~:text=The%20Nightmare%20is%20a%201781%20oil%20painting%20by,infatuation%20and%20obsession%20was%20a%20huge%20popular%20success.
Between Rock and A Hard Place
Johan you want to avoid and duck,
Who had been bringer of bad luck;
Whale of a deal,
And real steel;
Between rock and hard place are stuck.
Jim Horn
Am interested in starting A "Jonah With Whale"
Poetry series.