The Big Picture

Patterns and

Connections so bright

Spawn silence

The Last Full Measure

Remember

Slaughtered foe's last smile

Not their flags

Alpha & Omega

What a dream

It is to live, and

Then to die

Twenty Years

Dust and ash

Of towers and dreams

Life spins on

Breaking News

The world spins

Faster than our hearts

Ride the wave

Stranger Danger

Run! Hide! Fight!

The Other is here!

Light a lamp

Answers

One plus one

Makes infinity

Dawn's first light

Ride of the Hominids

Dirty ass

Lowdown talking apes

Ad Astra

History

If history has a “right” side

We mortals shall never find it

For we are but actors

Dancing for the Playwright

The Rat Race

We scurry like ants

Building palaces of smoke

Morning dew glistens

Heaven

The night breeze whispers

Taste and see eternity

O happy madness

Autobiography

I am a sower

Of foolish words from above

Giggling stardust

In the Beginning

"Adam fell that men might be;

and men are, that they might have joy."

~ 2 Nephi 2:25

Original what:

Sin? Consciousness? Grace?

Myth enshrining memory,

A moment in evolution

and we switch

from Ape to Man

from This to That

from Feeling to Seeing

Sublime visions

of something wonderful

for the brave and the foolish

Oh, but the works of human hands

Schemes and dreams to make heads spin

Faster! Higher! Stronger!

So many lessons learned

So much wisdom forgotten and ignored

Are we better, worse, or just different than what came before?

Two roads diverged on that ancient savanna

and we chose the double-edged sword

which clears the undergrowth, while discombobulating the soul

O blessed day!

O wretched day!

Paradise lost, and found

by those brave or foolish enough

to awaken the heart

and be

Father Adam, pray for us!

Mother Eve, pray for us!

True Beauty

Fields of blood and toil

Dirty streets and garbage dumps

You make them holy

The Unholy Trinity

Money - Power - Fame

Seduction Eau de Sewage

Do we dare resist?

Got Privilege?

Grace falls upon all

Unevenly to our eyes

Perfect for Their will

So be not ashamed

Nor prideful about your share

Just trust the kingdom

Sacrificial Lambs

For which of my needs

Do you suffer? Do you die?

Beauty triumphant

Ingenuity

Never as clever

As we advertise or dream

Fear not impotence

Projection

The darkness in you

Is not the darkness in me

Stand alone, as one

Volksjustice

Fickle is the mob

One day, you're holding the noose

The next, it holds you

For wrath has no friends

Only bodies for the pyre

Wake up! And choose Love

America

Disobedience

Father of freedom, and grief

Scales always balance

Civilization

Arrogant monkeys

In party hats waving sticks

Beware the Landlord

Matter

To have or have not

Means so much, yet so little

Dust to dust, we all

Treacherous Love

Enemy of mine

Or so I thought at the time

Agape, my friend

Companionship

One hundred allies

Or a solitary friend

The night: long, cold, dark

Joie de Vivre

Weak and fallible

From my first breath to my last

Sing alleluia!

Wild Kingdom

Life besieging us

Untamable mystery

Submission, our hope

The Enablers

Save us, O Smart Ones

Take charge of our hopes and fears

And so the world turns

God's Gift

Selfish, thoughtless fool

Prodigal of Prodigals

A Parent's delight

Scapegoats

Them: Source of Our Pain

Deserving of Our Contempt

Behold, a mirror

Irreverent Wisdom

"Do your best,

And flush the rest."

~ An Unknown Genius

(Whose work adorns my parents' bathroom wall.)

Perfection desired

Only within human minds

They love you, as is