22 Apr 2010
1 CommentOrange, The Unrhymable Word
Orange, the Unrhymable Word
The color, the fruit
…the color of the fruit
The word, orange
It used to be called yellowred
One word not two
Things change
Her favorite color was orange
Can you guess her favorite fruit?
She mastered the fine art
Of peeling the skin
In one whole piece
Slowly she would push
Her slender fingers into
The center and divide
Sharing with me the slices
We would watch the sun set
Yellowred on the horizon
She would peel off the
Hard, uncompromising
Cynical armor
Of my outer self
Leaving me raw but whole
She carefully removes
The remaining pith
Slowly, she would push
Herself into my center
And force me to divulge
The secrets of my inner self
Wet and sticky
We share the slices
Bitter and sweet
We plant the seeds
She…squeezes
We entwine
Orange, the unrhymable word…
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The subject of this post, “orange”, was suggested to me by Ivy. See this post for more details.
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15 Sep 2010
2 CommentsUnity
Imagine All The People
Seriously. Let us imagine, for just a minute, that we were a species. A race. The human race
Let us imagine that with this recognition, we are no longer other things
No longer colors, and no longer preferences or sexual orientations
No longer this club or that activity. This party or that affiliation
Yes. Let us pretend that we are all people. One race. The human race
Well, what do you suppose would be possible then?
Imagine if we pooled our collective knowledge. Scientists, theorists, creators and artists all across the world
Sharing information and ideas
What do you think we could accomplish?
What if large corporations and military interests did not buy up all of our greatest minds
And turn them to greed and destruction
What if we Let their knowledge and observations run free
What could we build? Together as one race? The human race
Do you believe that we have the resources and technologies to feed the world
Yes, the world
Do you believe that we could provide cures for diseases that have been killing us off for decades
Or that all of the factors that create a large volume of crime and violence can be completely eliminated
By eliminating their root causes – hunger, poverty, lack of education etc
The truth is, we can do all of that. Right now, this day
It’s possible – don’t believe that it isn’t
I believe in unity
I truly believe that we cannot move forward in any significant way as a people
Unless we start to see ourselves as one people
We can be individuals, we can have groups
But we can be individuals that work together
Groups that form only for the greater good of all
Things could be so different, for everyone
You
Me
Us
One person can do much, but when U-n-I verse…
All things become possible
Think about it
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