pop's poetry

Category: philosophy

  • a clear signal

    lines of discrimination are drawn in wet cement
even with years of withering storms
they refuse to be obscured
paving over, covering up, burying them
will leave them lurking underneath
waiting to resurface with time
only a purposeful upheaval, a deconstruction
of the hardened structures will break
the lines into smaller pieces
dots and dashes on broken segments
signaling to the coming generations
a kind of S.O.S. from the past

  • breathe

    Take a deep breath.
Let it out.
In that time,
A child in this world
Died from hunger.

Breathe deep.
Exhale slowly.
In that time,
Americans threw out
Five tons of food.

Like a colossal Grand Canyon,
The gap between
Rich and poor
Takes my breath away.

  • birds of a different feather

    though you may be different than me
and sometimes I won't understand
I hope you feel acceptance
I hope that you are free

to follow a separate and beautiful way
yet still be a integral part of my life
I hope that you feel welcome
I hope have your say

even if others won't choose to hear
for fear that change may happen
I hope that you feel trust
I hope your path is clear

to take wing and soar so far above
with birds of a different feather
I hope you feel lasting peace
I hope know true love

Pops 2015

  • stuck

    Learning the same things,
different words,
same message.
Singing the same songs,
different tunes,
same ideas.
Sitting in the same chairs,
different fabric,
same view.

Einstien said there's insanity in repetition
while expecting different results.
There's also indifference in repetition
when expecting the same results.

Learn new things in new ways.
Inspect the impassable.
Expect the impossible.

  • pillars of strength

    The two most powerful forces brought to bear
on everything sentient living in our world
and beyond are love and freedom.

Love has no boundaries and is beyond compare
in the cycle of life as it drives both the willing
and unwilling to move forward.

Freedom is always bound by love and there
is little one can do to escape the bonds
but to grow stronger with them.

For when combined, freedom and love share
a power that nothing in the universe could
possibly withstand for long.

To experience the two, no matter how brief or rare
in a lifetime, is to know with certainty
that a life is worth living.