Power & Aggression

Military power is seductive;
Once acquired, it will be used;
Acquiring it is a vow of aggression.
06.3012

Power & Abuse

Power is always abused
But it is especially abused
By those who were powerless.
06.19.12

Self & Distance

To understand one’s self and shortcomings
One must step away form one’s self
And examine it from a distance.
06.28.12

Stubbornness & Pleasure

There’s a deep, primitive pleasure
In all acts of stubbornness.
06.27.12

Perceptions & Cement

When perceptions are allowed to cement
They concrete the gates of the intellect
And fortify it against all other views.
06.26.12

Reason & Freedom

To chose a renaissance identity
Based only on reasoned thinking
Emancipated form one’s upbringing
Is the mark of a truly free mind.
06.25.12

Power & Age

The two fierce, natural forces

         That undermine great power & wealth

         Are old age and poor health.
         06.24.12

Love & Sex

Sex is a bribe
Love is a gift
Making love
Is worship.
06.23.12

Reason & Knowledge

Thinking logically

But with insufficient knowledge
Is a common cause of judgment errors.
06.22.12

Waiting & Making

We spend lifetimes
Waiting for things to happen
Instead of making them happen.
06.21.12

Dreams & Life

Dreams, unfulfilled
Is where we all live.
06.20.12

Ignoring & Peace

A magnanimous Christian strategy
Under-utilized & under-taught
Is the meek act of ignoring;
Ignoring insults, injustices, harms, and losses
Rejection, aggression, betrayal, and malevolence
Is the shortest road to inner and outer peace.
06.19.12

Bad & Justifiable

There is nothing unethical or horrible
Harmful, unjust, or unreasonable
Which cannot be justified
By certain minds.
06.18.12

Blindness & Perception

Our blind spots prevent us
From seeing ourselves
In a negative light.
07.17.12

Convesation & Talk

The difference
Between talk and conversation
Is the difference between noise and music.
06.16.12

Beliefs & Freedoms

Passionate beliefs
Censor intellectual freedoms.
06.15.12

Frugality & Excess

Societies evolve
From frugality to excess;
Once the stage of excess is reached
Turning back to frugality require a cataclysm.
06.14.12

Beauty & Power

Whereas men's eyes have evolved
To focus on female appearance
Women's eyes have evolved
To focus on male strength;
Thus, beauty seeks power
As power seeks beauty.
0613.12

Showmenship & Pictures

We can measure our showmanship
By how readily we pose for pictures
Especially, if they are to be published
And how we favor flattering pictures
Which misrepresent our true images.
06.12.12

Persucutors & Persecuted

When the persecuted
Become persecutors
They lose their soul
And their solidarity.
06.11.12

Assessment & Error

Every time one assesses one's self
To be better than any other creature
One overestimates one's own significance
And underestimates the significance of others;
An unfortunately common human error.
06.10.12

Culture & Might

A culture is judged by its arts
The health and cleanliness of its cities
The intellectual enlightenment of its people
And the joy and justice it imparts to the world;
Size, might, technology, wealth, and influence
Carry no weight in cultural assessment.
06.09.12

Opinion & Knowledge

Opinions that fly
Are mostly full of hot air
Un-researched, un-examined;
The non-experts who air them
Are merely venting out gut feelings
Without knowledge, evidence, or study.
06.08.12

Why & Dislike

I find entertainment
In deciphering why
Some are difficult to like.
06.07.12

Honesty & Abuse

Honesty
Invites abuse of the honest
And protects the dishonest form abuse.
06.06.12

Love & Memory

A love
Forbidden to marry
Lingers in the memory
Throughout life.
06.05.12

Beauty & Dignity

Beauty
Without dignity
Is meretricious.
06.04.12

Loyalty & Spirit

Loyalties are three
Economical, familial, and spiritual;
The only one you cannot buy with money
Is the spiritual, where one would rather die
For a cause, or a relation, or a friend
Than betray them for a bribe.
06.03.12

Appetite & Temptation

You cannot tempt with food
One who has lost his appetite
Or one who has just had a big meal.
06.2.12

Self & Beauty

Regard
How we always manage
To imagine ourselves beautiful
Regardless of he ravages of genes & time.