Psychological description of the move from family dynamic to personal validation.
Category Archives: Politopical
The Ethics of Silence
What you’re finding with all this side-liningis a dangerous repression ofrealityso stop your crying and just beminding your own business No one likes a cry baby and heywe all got our problems Shut your mouth and play by the rulesthe rulesthe rulesand say nothing scary Climbing outta the gravebeing bravemonsters lurking in your caveterrifyingyou back inContinue reading “The Ethics of Silence”
In Between
Fight for diversity at your peril. Many people, regardless of skin colour or heritage, have vested interests in maintaining segregation. I am not one of them.Truth Telling. Dignity. Courage. I want these to be the defining characteristics of Australian society.
Lesson at the Yorkian
Luka Lesson takes the stage and you can already feelPages turning in his mind as he recites with powerThe ages we’ve waited to hear these lines Live it is with ‘May Your Pen Grace the Page’Delivered to the crowd they grow loud and cheerTo the rhymes that clear the message through the voices Ringing throughContinue reading “Lesson at the Yorkian”
Connected
Given the timeto produce a rhymesaying with grace andkeeping rhythm in time Find the path to say the ideasthat everyone hearsin their soulsthe vision sears Through the yearswe find new partsin our heartsand make new starts Making arttakes timewe sayit’s mine Me is on the pagegoing into your earand through your mindyou find Nothing queerbetweenContinue reading “Connected”
It’s 4am 4am 4am 4am it is…
It’s 4 in the morning and we copy a dull theme that became a memeA TED-sponsored presentation which bent the genre and the sender of the message circled back again and againThe laughter was fun until the third time was done and I became dumbFind a way to stay invested in the TED-tested my mindContinue reading “It’s 4am 4am 4am 4am it is…”
Tough Crowd
The cavernous chasm between the haves and the have nots and how we may bridge it.
Good Morning, Death, You Seem to be Weakening
The past five months have been detrimental to my waistline. Not completely overwhelming but, nonetheless, there are several extra kilos there. Let me escort you through my recent brushes with death. Melodrama included. I was walking home from a complete disaster of a party one afternoon in October, just when the hot weather returned. IContinue reading “Good Morning, Death, You Seem to be Weakening”
Hither Evil Glances Not
Have you ever met someone who has never felt fear? I don’t believe it still but my eyes and ears tell me I must. Can you believe that the man of a household never assaulted the children under his care, or that the woman never lashed out, or that siblings never became vindictive? Incredible but,Continue reading “Hither Evil Glances Not”
I had such a fun day today.
Organised to take my father’s Bomb M W in for a diagnosis. E46. Ancient vehicle. I refer to it as the Teutonic Lump as it certainly is no Honda Jazz. The automatic transmission, all of which I hate to greater or lesser degrees, randomly pops into Panic Mode ™️ and only engages 4th. This itContinue reading “I had such a fun day today.”