Beauty & Desire

Beauty is desire;
We only find beauty
In what excites us.
08.31.10

Form & Substance

Youth upholds form
And age, substance.
08.30.10

Ineptness & Noise

We cover up our ineptness with noise;
The greater the gift, the softer the voice.
08.29.10

Widerness & Habitat

Animals in captivity,
A zoo
Humans in captivity,
A prison
Animals in wilderness,
A habitat
Humans in habitat,
A wilderness.
08.28.10

Worship & Cosmos

Worship
Washes off hubris
And reveals our worth;
A minuscule, ephemeral species
In an infinite, timeless, unfathomable cosmos.
08.27.10

Peaks & Tumbles

Keep the peak within sight
But not within reach
Be the best you can be
But not the best there is
Everything that peaks tumbles.
08.26.10

Evidence & Decisions

Our unwillingness
To critically examine the evidence
Is responsible for most of our bad decisions.
08.25.10

Money & Life

Money that enriches life’s quality
Is well spent
Money that reduces joy and peace
Is preposterous
Money that merely increases power
Is the most dangerous.
08.24.10

Human & Divine

To spot a good reason to celebrate
Is human;
To create an excuse to celebrate
Is divine.
08.13.10

Biographies & Halos

Biographies
Remove the halos
From around famous faces.
08.22.10

Wisdom & Groups

Wisdom is an attribute only of individuals, never of groups
And there has never been a wise group under the sun;
In fact, wisdom declines as group numbers rise
And since our entire world is ruled by groups
Wisdom has never been our guiding star.
08.21.10

Time & Life

Those who don’t waste time
Live many lives.
08.20.10

Hints & Words

Hints are more potent than words
The less said, the more is implied.
08.19.10

Words & Knowledge

Listeners learn as talkers make noise
The wise think as talkers make noise;
Knowledge is inversely proportional
To the number of words used
To express an idea.
08.18.10

Friends & Abdication

When friends abdicate
And you don’t know why
It’s mental misappropriation;
Don’t waste time to find out why
You’ll never find out and if you do
It won’t make sense to you.
08.17.10

Music & Noise

Just like loud music turns into noise
Likewise soft speech turns into music.
08.16.10

Conscience & Humanity

Those who tranquilize their consciences
In order to justify the injustices committed
By country, creed, ideology, family, or loved ones
Even though they do represent the majority of humanity
As a majority, they also do commit double treason;
They not only betray all their fellow humans
They also betray the soul of their Maker.
08.15.19

Advertisements & Truth

In all advertisements
Is a waft of seduction
A teaspoon of cunning
A veil of misrepresentation
And a breath of treachery.
08.14.10

Life & Inanimate

Only death endures;
Compared to the inanimate
Life is frail and ephemeral;
Much like a meteor
It burns bright a while
Then quick reverts to dust.
08.13.10

Greatness & Joy

The concept of greatness
Comes from humanity’s paranoia;
There is nothing great upon this planet
Except the joy that one creates with love.
08.12.10

Truh & Numbers

Truth has little to do with numbers;
Humanity still believes that
We are the universe.
08.11.10

Hunger & Starvation

The difference between
Hunger and starvation
Is the difference between
Hunters and killers;
Those hungry for love, hunt
But those starved for it, kill.
08.10.10

Life & Meaning

Humanity’s search for the meaning of life
Is embellished with so much mythology
And pursued with so much seriousness
As though life has forever been
In desperate need of meaning.
08.09.10

Power & Wisdom

No power remains wise;
Hubris rises with power
And supplants wisdom.
08.08.10

Terrorism & Injustice

Terrorism
The ideology of anger
Is the primitive reaction
To inequality and injustice;
Counter terrorism, on the other hand
Is the enlightenment that blossoms & blooms
Out of heightened justice and diminished contrast.
08.07.10

Euphemism & Truth

Euphemisms serve those
Who do not dare speak the truth
And also those who do not dare hear it;
The brave ones, those who do not euphemize
Are sacrificed in the name of truth on the altar of history.
08.06.10

Food & Play

Were ever there is food, there is play
And were ever there is play, there is food
For the two are united by nurture and pleasure.
08.05.10

Cycles & Beings

We are cyclical beings
Like life, we cycle
In and out of our seasons
Our moods and impressions
Friendships and loves
Passions and desires
Interests and Activities
Cycle in and cycle out
In their own sweet times.
08.04.10

Life & The Inanimate

Life is a time out from the inanimate
Inanimate is the reality of the cosmos.
08.03.10

Popular & Creativity

Catering to the popular
Stifles creativity.
08.02.10

Mood & Self

Good moods are easy when all is well
And hard when ‘currents turn awry’;
We find out who we really are
When things are bad.
08.01.10