Category: Society

  • 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.
  • drought haiku

    I'm not all that spry
    But I can still kick your ass
    Get off my dead lawn!
  • 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
  • only a woman

    For Twin and Katie
    Only a Woman
    can truly understand
    what's going on inside and
    will stand aside and beside
    while the world crashes then
    resurrects into the stratosphere
    in a matter of moments.
    Only a Woman
    could see the beautiful mess
    behind what could or would be
    and what shouldn't be
    into what must be done
    today or any day
    or not done at all.
    Only a Woman
    would open a darkened door
    to a brokenness with gentleness
    and kindness to make it
    right with the simpleness
    of just keeping all the pieces
    safe for the future.
    Only a Woman
    will walk with delicate patience,
    tirelessly searching with peaceful
    purpose and passion to find
    a perfect union to step into
    by lacing up colorful shoes
    and hiking the heights of joy.
    Only a Woman
  • 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.