List: Society

I realize that every country has its complexities and social mazes, wonders, dynamics, etc. But since this is my society - America - (and my page...lol), I think this category works for now. I may change it later.

• Perils and Wisdom

  Some can see what others cannot / Applied insight can untie the knot / A lot of us move about in a fog / Appearing like a mind that’s clogg

  26 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 24 10:03 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Hope, Life, Personal, Society
• Smoke and Mirrors

  Ahhh, the things she would mention / She was starving for attention / She was needy and would feed me / The latest type of fiction / / Sordid tales he kept mixing / Flawless things, he

  25 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 24 10:10 PM 2007. In Life
• While I Was Basking

  Streaming thoughts, flow like rapids / Naturally occurring, like Lake Placid / A purifying fire, burns like acid / / While I was basking in the ‘idea-ocean’ / Spectacular designs sought promotion / And to a highe

  20 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 27 6:38 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Society, Personal, Thoughts, Hope, Life, Nature
• Gusts Of When?

  There are twinkles of glee, thinking ‘bout “we” / There are surges in us each, wanting to teach / There are tears in the eyes, watching them try. / / Right around the bend, you remember ‘when’: / / When chaos wa

  16 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 27 6:49 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Love, Personal, Society, Thoughts
• An ailing humanity

  / Hark! / Hear their shrills of agony all around / The sense of ‘insurmountable’ abounds / Bereft of comprehension: a wet, crimson ground / Bold is to do more than frown / To help even one person is profound

  9 lines, 4 comments, on May 6 5:54 AM 2007. In Pain, Sad, Society, Hope, Thoughts
• Outside Wrap; Inside 'scoop'

  / Things are not always what they seem / (a saying old and familiar) / Yet, have you ever wondered why? / Why the Surface is so different? / So appealing to the (I) / / To weigh a matter ('mystery batter'?)

  24 lines, 2 comments, on May 10 11:56 PM 2007. In Personal, Society, Thoughts, Hope
• Skull Duggery

  Drudge and drudge, then watch one smudge, / another person’s reputation into the ground. / The snooping of two, mulling over who likes who, / and wondering how many people ‘sleep around’. / Fudge

  24 lines, 4 comments, on May 13 11:33 AM 2007. In Life, Personal, Society, Thoughts, Spiritual
• Caught and Distraught

  Life is rough—living on the ledge / Yet, hazards abound on the inside edge / On city corners with kids milling around / Seedy schemes in pl

  32 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 4 5:15 PM 2007. In Dark, Life, Pain, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Spiritual
• Who Cries Out For Me?

  Little ones happen everyday / I’m its’ opposite to erase dismay / Thousands have stood up in battle array / I’ve held the thirst of million

  19 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 17 11:11 AM 2007. In Hope, Spiritual, Thoughts, Society, Personal, Life, Love, Other
• If You Don’t Stand For Something…

  Stark and determined, / Like silhouetted vermin / Brilliantly robust, / Repelling settled dust, / A thrashing of human will, / Like extingu

  23 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 19 5:36 PM 2007. In Life, Hope, Personal, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• Door Jammed…

  In this world of humans / There are precarious dynamics / Helter-skelter sensitivities / And crucial problems to fix / With sight less than perfect / And lenses for a costly fee / At times we have to ask:

  29 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 30 12:02 PM 2007. In Personal, Society, Thoughts, Life, Hope
• Investment Loss And Gain

  Pound-for-pound, it’s a shame / Countless loss in a faceless game / Courage is needed with a sure aim / Some risks too—or remain the same / If we sweep over people, as we would a floor / Sometimes not wanting t

  24 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 30 12:17 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Thoughts, Society, Personal, Other
• Gold and Silver

  Up through the ages / To these days with few sages / Reading compass gauges / And exacting words and phrases / On parchments in hue / So little is new / This earth in full view / Like diversity-stew /

  26 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 30 12:29 PM 2007
• Locked Out

  Of the house Of the car

  32 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 4 8:48 AM 2007. In Personal, Pain, Sad, Thoughts, Spiritual, Life, Other
• Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep…

  ‘O toiling soul, an amnesty is near You’ve vanquished hundreds of odds

  29 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 6 11:15 AM 2007. In Hope, Life, Thoughts, Spiritual, Society, Personal, Other
• A Thing And It’s opposite

  It’s been said:
  “An ounce of prevention

  36 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 14 6:51 AM 2007
• The Humming And Clicking Of My Soul

  I’m strumming on an invisible banjo
  I ask about the twinkling…

  36 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 22 8:55 AM 2007
• Is it safe to look inside?

  I got the sense of a ceramic epidemic
  Such a shrilling menace

  30 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 24 10:39 AM 2007. In Life, Hope, Thoughts, Society, Personal, Other
• Bellow-to-Yellow, Come In…

  Sometimes I’m fighting excessive weariness I never thought I’d have a worry-list

  31 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 26 5:51 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Pain, Love, Hope, Life, Thoughts, Spiritual
• What I Have Unearthed…

  I am a man
  On tarnished earth I stand

  29 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 29 7:30 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Life, Other, Hope
• There’s A Sign-Post Up In Red

  Amid a peril-filled slump of mankind’s scoffed basin
  Neglected and scorned—a forgotten inkling’s resin

  29 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 31 8:29 AM 2007. In Society, Thoughts, Life, Hope, Personal
• Is Your Reason Out Of Season?

  My mouth is contorted by treasons of reason It’s a capital offense

  27 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 1 8:57 AM 2007. In Society, Personal, Life, Thoughts, Spiritual
• Can You See It?

  Things come to us in spectacular ways
  Sometimes arriving instantly

  24 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 3 5:38 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Love, Personal
• Patiently Pondering

  I was succumbed with a slanted surrender My mind mingled midst jagged juxtapositions

  23 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 8 8:25 AM 2007. In Contest, Life, Other, Thoughts
• High-Speed Society

  37 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 29 2:12 PM 2007. In Adult, Contemporary, Life, Thoughts, Personal, Society
• Mopping Up Spills…

  A focused mind An open heart

  34 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 30 6:20 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Other
• The Wonderful Sound Of Silence

  Pause. I squint my eyes…

  19 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 7 4:52 PM 2007. In Life, Personal, Society, Thoughts, Spiritual
• Peaks and Valleys

  There is tremendous energy in a game of volleyball
  Spikes and dives—competition drives the players through

  31 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 20 3:42 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Hope, Life, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• Rain, rain…you don’t have to pay

  The rain’s not thinking of me It has the right-of-way, without a fee

  23 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 29 4:22 PM 2007. In Life, Hope, Contemporary, Pain, Sad, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• I Want To Clean My Plate

  Pensively, I notice my computer screen
  And some splotches on glass sang to me

  30 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 29 4:30 PM 2007. In Hope, Humor, Life, Passion, Dreams, Thoughts, Spiritual, Society
• It Takes Humanity

  Is taking a hand an act of chivalry? Look at this landscape of humanity…

  20 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 29 4:38 PM 2007. In Angst, Love, Pain, Sad, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Life
• The Hardness Test

  The sun came up on the spacious earth The waves were high—a good time to surf

  33 lines, 25 comments, on Dec 30 9:17 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Personal, Spiritual, Society, Thoughts, Contemporary, Hope
• I'd Rather Be Watching TV

  I said NO! You stupid a--!”
  “What the hell is wrong with you?”

  47 lines, 12 comments, on Jan 1 10:06 AM. In Abuse, Pain, Personal, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts, Life, Love, Hope
• Dream’s Cape

  I saw vivid images and twitched my head While my body lay trapped and couldn’t shed

  27 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 21 7:06 PM. In Humor, Life, Love, Other, Fantasy, Society, Thoughts
• I Know What The Caged House Brings

  Cries ring out, “Do or die!”
  This is not a third world country

  27 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 21 7:14 PM. In Angst, Personal, Pain, Society, Life, Thoughts
• The Power Of Paradox

  It’s morning time again I get dressed

  31 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 18 5:59 PM. In Hope, Life, Humor, Personal, Thoughts, Spiritual
• The Proof Is In The Budding…

  Plumages of grandeur capture me I’m enraptured by glimpses of spontaneity

  21 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 18 6:08 PM. In Thoughts, Life, Personal, Hope, Spiritual
• Changing Terrain

  I’m the skin of the earth On this globe I’m wrapped around

  27 lines, 25 comments, on Mar 10 6:43 PM. In Life, Nature, Hope, Fantasy, Thoughts, My Own Style
• A Cycle Of Hope

  I’m uninvited…
  This doesn’t make me unexcited

  31 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 10 6:46 PM. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Life, Nature, Personal, Society, Hope
• I Cry In Colors

  Who knows how many fell, On the walk that way?

  26 lines, 36 comments, on Apr 21 9:58 PM. In Sad, Society, Pain, Life, Angst, Thoughts
• Sticks ‘n Stones

  I notice that I have an ‘instant fan’
  Who’s wrapped around me

  24 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 22 5:25 PM. In Humor, Lyrics, Pain, My Own Style
• A City Seen

  I see them everywhere…
  I get a low rise form those

  23 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 22 9:26 PM. In Sad, Society, Pain, Life, Thoughts, Spiritual
• Empathy's Touch…

  Exhausted, disgusted and famished—he was done
  But he ‘muscled’ his way pass the shower’s curtain, by one

  27 lines, 12 comments, on May 3 4:33 PM. In Sad, Hope, Life, Thoughts, Spiritual, Emotions, Lyrics, Creative
• A Prick in Time…

  With a mere sixty seconds on the clock This life is fading fast

  25 lines, 16 comments, on May 22 6:27 AM. In Hope, Life, Nature, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts

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Categories: Hope, Love, Personal, Social issues, Spiritual

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