Going with the Flow

Electric passions ruffle still waters

of a soul troubled into stagnation 

welcoming the freshening current

flowing with depth and strength 

bringing fresh perspectives against

a menacing canopy of tears and fears.

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

~ Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Arc of Time

Panoramic beliefs are too grand

too grand for us ordinary folks

 ~ who work each day,

~ pay our bills

a long line of ancestral geniuses  

believed in the arts and sciences of the universe

~ Galileo who named our sun a star

~ ancients who dared say the earth was round

and in this age of modernity

when belief in arts and sciences wavers

~ those who believed in digital magic

~ created the world wide web to connect us all

In this mundane and ordinary world

we have our own grand perspectives

~ we each cherish our own beliefs

~ create our own worlds of life and living.

“Man is what he believes.”

~ Anton Chekhov

Flowers, Bricks and Mortar

Scintillating conversation is full of ideas ~ 

Ideas toss perspective around like a frisbee

flying back and forth until 

wobbling to the ground

or finally heard clearly and filed away.

Scintillating conversation is full of ideas ~

Ideas threads perspective through society

twisting and turning with

opinions, hopes and dreams

balanced by the weight of sparkling reality.

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

~ Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society