Three Haiku for the Body Politic (2018)
Republicans and
Democrats alike must serve
their benefactors
Two-party system
makes branding differences
easy to market
How far we stray from
humanistic ideals when
money corrupts all
Current Thought
Hope RekindledThis past week has given us more hope for our diseased republic than any other time in 50+ years of paying attention. Observing and participating in a long-overdue peaceful uprising, occupying the streets, feeling the righteous energy of people of all ages, colors, faiths, and wealth (or lack thereof), has…
New Discoveries
- “Goodness”
Orginally posted on December 15, 2020The righteous social justice publisher, Wising Up Press, from Decatur, Georgia, has released their latest anthology, this one simply called Goodness. Several dozen writers grapple with the concept, sharing poems, short stories, essays, and many affecting memoirs, all manifesting a sense, a feeling, of something we all recognize and yearn for but often cannot define....
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The Author
Michael, I have not realized how corrupting money is until now. We all live so far from this that it has not occurred to us the depth of this horrible greedy situation we find ourselves in.
I am frozen on page 68 of your book fearful that I cannot take any more of the truth we find ourselves living in. Does it end on a hopeful note? The tradgedy of weakness in humans is so painful. We are being very careful to surround ourselves with people of a positive energy.