Enclaves
As the world around us becomes more wrought with strife – when the stress of expressing ourselves , our ideas; and our inner thoughts and heart is assailed on every side – so much so that we calculate our exposure of who we truly are – it is in these times and circumstances – these [...]
We call you from Gallipoli
We call you from Gallipoli – the Light Brigade – the River Kwai
From death camps on the Mekong, and from mountain’s cave and den
We call you from desertion to the wilderness and scented bed
From Flanders Fields and Auschwitz – from Stalingrad and Diamond Head
From hulls of sulking vessels where you [...]
Death is a Hunter
Death of a Nation
“What’s going to happen now? – Darkness?” The night was falling around us but in a very different way than our memory could recall.
The images, the shadows that stalked our awakening were upon us – closing in, surrounding us – hedging our escape. The air was stifled [...]
When the Lights Go Out
It is beginning to look like we are in a nuthouse – that is being run by the inmates – the psycho ward. We call it accepting diversity.
The problem with doublespeak – or could we say ’speaking with a forked tongue’; is not that we tend to accept atrocities [...]
Lift up the voice of Lamentation
(Call to America)
Lift up the voice of lamentation
For destruction and the whirlwind are upon us
We were as children playing before the storm
Famine, sword, pestilence
We did not heed the call or warning
And they are come upon us unawares
For we were all as in the days of
Prosperity and merriment and festival
We played [...]
Pathological Sexuality
Pathological sexuality
Really?
We live in the era
Of fallout – ever heard
of it?
Just wait until we
have to walk in it
Unprotected
And undesired.
