vernal observation

rain
wind
leaves

insight in to corruption

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

--aung san suu kyi

human upheaval

marches and riots in tehran
the leaders are not trusted
ahmadinajab is weakened
green flags everywhere
the women of iran are rising up
the streets are noisy and crazy
o tehran tehran tehran
do not forget our love
be at peace o beautiful tehran

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what's madness but nobility of soul
at odds with circumstance?

- theodore roethke

artistic teleology

one does not inherit an audience
one builds one
one reader at a time

- david bromige +2009

interiority

my deepest me is God!

-st.catherine of genoa

freedom craved

until the heart is satisfied
the only freedom
is to choose ones' discipline
to fail to choose
is to have another discipline imposed