A child to mind, to remind me broth without bother,
not canned but spiced and salted
not made to be bottled up and put in the shelf
but fresh like a peach with fuzz on her face,
a smooth bum and strong back and curls that say "me".
'Freedom right now' is all she demands
all she needs to explore the wide world
of a yard fenced, a park hence,
a neighbour to sing hello.
She says 'read to me, tell me I'm pretty,
don't ever forget that i'm here.
I won't let you go far from facing the fact
that I'm yours to adore and cheer'.
August 9, 2009
July 12, 2009
Times gone by
Sites unfair, unseen; waters too deep, unclean. My view is skewed by night, by trembling stares at stars and vocal hopes for a rainy day to make sense of staying put. My past fades, my useful past forgotten and present plans to do some good are drawn by ink (invisible), designs (petty), arrogant guilt and wine. i write as quiet as i can lest loss makes a smudge on the page. I gather like mice to cheese traps, fish to hook straps, I ramble like rivers run wild. If patience wears, i hide and wait for a tap turned on, a song to start, a baby's cry, the smell of life anew and there i sit on the leisure lap, so grim, so firm, so blue. I turn my back on shifting sand to see the future's plan lest photographs show a soulless soul and a soiled dream come true. I think of this; of times gone by and today's small contributions.
February 16, 2009
o, but barren notes with ink gone dry
Soliloquy (sp) of Insanity
O, but barren notes with ink gone dry are my memories. Alone, unto a light untold bespoke of even more forlorn. I sink with heart but stunning still, i croon for blood to flow. Still barren notes with ink gone dry, my memories grow old. It's apple trees and elephant's ears and pyramids i miss. I've seen the Babylonians, a try for it, a thought of it, a grab for power and need. They promised us the land and gold and justice true, a sky so blue, a market square and underwear and our place beneath the sun but i have now gone by way of winding road some hence, on bi-way's search for less and less whene'er ink on barren notes' gone dry.
O, but barren notes with ink gone dry are my memories. Alone, unto a light untold bespoke of even more forlorn. I sink with heart but stunning still, i croon for blood to flow. Still barren notes with ink gone dry, my memories grow old. It's apple trees and elephant's ears and pyramids i miss. I've seen the Babylonians, a try for it, a thought of it, a grab for power and need. They promised us the land and gold and justice true, a sky so blue, a market square and underwear and our place beneath the sun but i have now gone by way of winding road some hence, on bi-way's search for less and less whene'er ink on barren notes' gone dry.
February 4, 2009
Political Paths
Politics is so funny and painful. ....so predictable, transparent but so entrenched and slow-moving.
A "promise" is one response to an optimistic (and usually misguided) notion of the perfect answer. The thing is, inexperienced 'handlers' of political power must be blown away when they realize they can't fulfill that "promise" no matter how they go about it. Who's agenda goes first, which goal can be reached now? What priorities are there, really? Who's for me; who's against me?
Promise to Priorites to Put if off.
It is a new age. A true age of hope and change. For people of colour and for others who do not see colour; for people from nations around the world, the Obamas' success seems to right a wrong and the world feels more balanced.
They say "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely". We are not naive; we know that our dear Obama's agenda will be rocked and blocked by intransigent political and social systems. But Jesus, let us find another way. God, let this be a new age. But you bankers and ne'er-do-well corporate snakes, lest ye forget, they also say - "God/de giveth and God/de taketh away". I mean, how much money does a person REALLY need?? (sorry - had to throw that in). But, really, don't you LOVE Michelle's casual look and those kids are TOO cute!!!!
I started out wanting to write something about Canada but got side-tracked. I mean, who wouldn't!!!
Cheers.
p.s. Sarah Palin remains a mystery and - for Canadians - Michael Ignatieff is about to become one.
A "promise" is one response to an optimistic (and usually misguided) notion of the perfect answer. The thing is, inexperienced 'handlers' of political power must be blown away when they realize they can't fulfill that "promise" no matter how they go about it. Who's agenda goes first, which goal can be reached now? What priorities are there, really? Who's for me; who's against me?
Promise to Priorites to Put if off.
It is a new age. A true age of hope and change. For people of colour and for others who do not see colour; for people from nations around the world, the Obamas' success seems to right a wrong and the world feels more balanced.
They say "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely". We are not naive; we know that our dear Obama's agenda will be rocked and blocked by intransigent political and social systems. But Jesus, let us find another way. God, let this be a new age. But you bankers and ne'er-do-well corporate snakes, lest ye forget, they also say - "God/de giveth and God/de taketh away". I mean, how much money does a person REALLY need?? (sorry - had to throw that in). But, really, don't you LOVE Michelle's casual look and those kids are TOO cute!!!!
I started out wanting to write something about Canada but got side-tracked. I mean, who wouldn't!!!
Cheers.
p.s. Sarah Palin remains a mystery and - for Canadians - Michael Ignatieff is about to become one.
January 6, 2009
CANADA - WAKE UP 2
Dear Jaliya:
Thanks for your comments!
Do i really sound 'catty' (re: MEOW reference))?? I love it! I'm all that and pissed off, too. I feel so alienated from a process that used to inspire me. The last ten years have left me agog with North American political direction going farther and farther right (conservative) and where lofty principles like 'access to basic rights for all' have become "rien" (nothing) in the face of the race to multi-national economic success.
No wonder the world is falling apart. We desperately need a balance. It's weird, but i felt kind of vindicated and optimistic at the same time, when the stock market fell - it was like "SEE, I TOLD YOU"!!! along with this sense that we were standing at a turning point. The greedy and sociopathic are everywhere but there sure seemed to be preponderance of them on Wall St/ Bay St./ and every other money street in the world this past year (two thousand and eight). The behavior of some is reprehensible and astonishingly cruel - especially in terms of the magnitude of losses.
I hope (like millions of others!) that the upcoming Democrat leadership of the U.S. will offer up the much needed and desired direction toward a better, more just society, focusing on the values of peace and caring and equity for all peoples in all places, inviting them to share fairly in the land and resource that are abundant in so many places in North America and elsewhere.
It's all too complicated and i put everything in such simple terms; i'm surprised i'm even thinking about these things still.
The United States can no longer afford to claim to be the "greatest nation in the world" and Canada's military presence has changed from Peacekeeper to Combatant. Canada's identity is linked to evolving alongside the rights and customs of all cultures. In considering multi-culturalism, we must have thought "why invite people in, if you don't intend to respect their customs?" But it we really were to look at Canada's immigration policy and practice (procedures), we would be surprised at the defensive and protectionist position Immigration Canada takes. This seems way off the point, i know, but i think the battle for "Nationhood" is on and it wouldn't surprise me if we soon understood "nation" in a historical context only.
Is Mexica better off because of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). Please forgive me, i know less than nothing about that subject.
Yes, Mr "NAFTA", what do you have to say for yourself now!! I remember when we were so against it back in the mid eighties but I didn't understood that it was Mulroney's (past Prime Minister, Conservation; currently being investigated for fraud and corruption) way of setting the parameters for Canada to build a global economic framework. Heady stuff when interest rates were as high as 18%!! Who the heck cared when you were losing your job/house/ etc.
Our current leader of the Opposition Party in Pariament (Liberal Party of Canada) would be lucky to get 500 people to stand in the f*c*ing freezing weather up here to listen to the same old crap - "OUT WITH THE OLD; IN WITH THE NEW - which, by the way, is THE SAME AS THE OLD!!" Where's the Rhinosaurus (sp) Party when you need it??!!
God, give me something to chew on.
Meow!!!!
At the same time, i bow my head, i know so little.
love heather
Thanks for your comments!
Do i really sound 'catty' (re: MEOW reference))?? I love it! I'm all that and pissed off, too. I feel so alienated from a process that used to inspire me. The last ten years have left me agog with North American political direction going farther and farther right (conservative) and where lofty principles like 'access to basic rights for all' have become "rien" (nothing) in the face of the race to multi-national economic success.
No wonder the world is falling apart. We desperately need a balance. It's weird, but i felt kind of vindicated and optimistic at the same time, when the stock market fell - it was like "SEE, I TOLD YOU"!!! along with this sense that we were standing at a turning point. The greedy and sociopathic are everywhere but there sure seemed to be preponderance of them on Wall St/ Bay St./ and every other money street in the world this past year (two thousand and eight). The behavior of some is reprehensible and astonishingly cruel - especially in terms of the magnitude of losses.
I hope (like millions of others!) that the upcoming Democrat leadership of the U.S. will offer up the much needed and desired direction toward a better, more just society, focusing on the values of peace and caring and equity for all peoples in all places, inviting them to share fairly in the land and resource that are abundant in so many places in North America and elsewhere.
It's all too complicated and i put everything in such simple terms; i'm surprised i'm even thinking about these things still.
The United States can no longer afford to claim to be the "greatest nation in the world" and Canada's military presence has changed from Peacekeeper to Combatant. Canada's identity is linked to evolving alongside the rights and customs of all cultures. In considering multi-culturalism, we must have thought "why invite people in, if you don't intend to respect their customs?" But it we really were to look at Canada's immigration policy and practice (procedures), we would be surprised at the defensive and protectionist position Immigration Canada takes. This seems way off the point, i know, but i think the battle for "Nationhood" is on and it wouldn't surprise me if we soon understood "nation" in a historical context only.
Is Mexica better off because of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). Please forgive me, i know less than nothing about that subject.
Yes, Mr "NAFTA", what do you have to say for yourself now!! I remember when we were so against it back in the mid eighties but I didn't understood that it was Mulroney's (past Prime Minister, Conservation; currently being investigated for fraud and corruption) way of setting the parameters for Canada to build a global economic framework. Heady stuff when interest rates were as high as 18%!! Who the heck cared when you were losing your job/house/ etc.
Our current leader of the Opposition Party in Pariament (Liberal Party of Canada) would be lucky to get 500 people to stand in the f*c*ing freezing weather up here to listen to the same old crap - "OUT WITH THE OLD; IN WITH THE NEW - which, by the way, is THE SAME AS THE OLD!!" Where's the Rhinosaurus (sp) Party when you need it??!!
God, give me something to chew on.
Meow!!!!
At the same time, i bow my head, i know so little.
love heather
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