A night market lull
Politics and jewelry
Impatient vendor
Tag: politics
Landscapes
Of space and time
Of politics and social norms
Of family and friends
The things that stay
But never stay the same
The ephemeral things
Lost and soon forgotten
Nothing ever stays
But change
Which is often the point
Of these things we do to landscapes
Change the landscape
Change each other
Change ourselves
Delicate Intricacies
Of the hand-carved relief
Covering the walls
Was equal to the politics
Within them
And the lives of the people
Beyond them
Now those
Outside the walls
Were not privy
To the intricacies
Within them
Because those
Inside the walls
Were apathetic
To the intricacies
Beyond them
Until the time came
When the intricacies
Beyond the walls
Galvanized
Into a single blunt force
Which felled first the walls
Then the delicate intricacies
Within them
Opening ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #252
Doors shut and barred
Windows sealed from within
A dead end
At the end
Of a narrow
Corridor
No retreat
No respite
No redress
Then a door opened
Beckoning
The voices within
Sang songs of hope
And possibility
Of healing
And renewal
Beyond the door
The way remained unclear
But the long, dark night
Of the alley
Was over
Death of the Narcissist
A weak defense eventually overcome
By firing rounds of fact
Between the spindly balusters
The entire structure collapsed
Under the weight of culpability
Leaving him, finally, exposed
Had he any integrity at all
Such a rampart may have protected him
Buttressing his image sealed his doom
America ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #216
AMERICAALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL
LOVE WINS
BLACK LIVES MATTER
IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES ARE WELCOME
DISABILITIES ARE RESPECTED
WOMEN ARE IN CHARGE OF THEIR BODIES
PEOPLE ARE VALUED OVER PROFIT
DIVERSITY IS CELEBRATED
Confined
Confined
By politics
Extreme and
Everyday
Barred
Unbarred
No difference
Constricted
Patterns of
Thought and being
Restricted
By others and
Self
Freed
First from
Within
Lead
Only when
Freed
La Lluita Persistent; The Persistent Fight
Outside the halls of learning
Where words are emblazoned
Even shouted in the square
Beyond the walls designed
To confine them
Between Slaves
slaves
the one who
protects
the master is
the most
cowardly