Speed & Power

Speeders on the roads
Don’t know why they’re speeding;
Their purposeless sense of urgency
Fired by the power of their machines
Drives them to show off their prowess
With reckless disregard to others’ safety.
02.29.12

Joy & Simplicity

True joy
Is always simple.
02.28.12

Teaching & Emancipating

There are those who teach to learn
And there are those who teach to earn
And there are those who teach to emancipate
The indoctrinated minds of us adults who
Were inculcated with atavistic dogmas
While intellectually defenseless children;
It is this latter group that societies exterminate.
02.27.12

Personal & Impersonal

If medicine should become impersonal
Doctors will become technicians
Patients will become clients
Procedures will supplant thinking
And treatments will no longer be individualized.
02.26.12

Sleep & Life

Everything that increases sleep
Shortens life without shortening time.
02.25.12

Winners & Losers

Those who win and think themselves winners
Become eventual losers
And those who lose and think themselves losers
Are forever losers
For both winning and losing
Are naught but educational courses
In the schools of life
Whose only graduating goal is wisdom.
02.24.12

Subtle & Blunt

A subtle hint
Is more powerful
Than a blunt statement.
02.23.12

Fortunes & Spending

We are all programmed
To seek and hoard fortunes
Rather than make and spend them;
It is our shame to die with moneys
That we could have spent
Profiting others.
02.22.12

Loyalty & Calling

Physicians
Because of their calling
Are far more loyal to their patients
Than their patients are ever loyal to them.
02.21.12

Appeal & Endurance

Enduring appeal
Is a function of refined elegance
Elevated manners, and a sparkling intellect;
Youthfulness, body form, and seductive beauty
Cannot hold one’s attention beyond the ephemeral flares.
02.20.12

Sexuality & Gender

Sexual sympathy is gender driven
And is independent of societal mores;
Whenever a man cheats on his woman
His men friends thoroughly understand;
Also, when a woman cheats on her man
Her women friends thoroughly understand.
02.19.12

Belife & Actions

Belief must be a biological necessity
For the need to believe in a cause
That the believer deems worthy
Imparts significance to life
And justifies actions
Unjustifiable.
02.18.12

Words & Time

People who habitually use too many words
Have no awareness of the time they waste
And the annoyance they provoke.
02.17.12

Uglinesss & Loveliness

There is not one ugliness in this world
That some do not find acceptable
Or justifiable or even beautiful
Thus causing it to persevere
Rather than be rectified.
02.16.12

Contamination & Insemination

Good moods inseminate;
Bad moods contaminate.
02.15.12

Celebrations & Lamentations

Facing death is rendered easier
When celebrating the lives we’ve lived
Instead of lamenting the declines awaiting us.
02.14.12

Space & Loss

The smallest space
Where many items are lost
Is inside a lady’s purse.
02.13.12

Un-answerable & Un-knowable

To answer un-answerable questions
And to profess to know the unknowable
Is a fundamental flaw in human nature
That leads to tragic consequences.
02.12.12

Empathy & Enception

To be able to empathize
With someone’s despicable state
I imagine him as a helpless child who was
Misfortunately inculcated by nature and nurture
To become what he presently is.
02.11.12

Greatnesss & Leaders

Greatness is so rare
Yet still we expect it
From all our leaders.
02.10.12

Peace & Details

Many a peaceful life
Has been smothered
By too many details.
02.09.12

Peace & Details

Many a peaceful life
Has been smothered
By too many details.
02.09.12

Impressionable & Enlighetned

It is easy to sway an impressionable mind
But hard to sway an enlightened one;
Enlightenment is impervious to inevidence.
02.08.12

Humility & Pride

Feigned humility
Is masked pride.
02.07.12

Nations & Human Rights

Nations that purport
To uphold human rights
Have themselves violated them
And continue to support nations that do.
02.06.10

Daydreams & Hope

Thank God for daydreams;
Without them life would often seem hopeless.
02.05.12

World & Capms

For each of us
The world is divided into 3 camps:
1 - Those whom we love or care about
2 - Those whom we know or know about
3 - Those whom we don’t know or know about;
Our duty as world citizens is to enlarge the 1st & 2nd
And continue to diminish the 3rd group as long as we live.
02.04.12

Country & Mistreastment

If your country occasionally mistreats you
Think of the many times you have mistreated it.
02.03.12

Blindness & Importance

Those historically blind
Who feel and act important
Need to dedicate more time
Thinking about the beyond
And studying the behind.
02.02.12

Attitude & Misery

Attitude
Is a major source
Of human misery.
02.01.12