Early on Tuesday morning, officials rushed to save artist Andy Goldsworthy’s famed environmental artwork Spire from a series of brush fires raging in San Francisco’s Presidio National Park. Though salvaged from destruction, the beloved sculpture has been significantly charred in what investigators now believe was an act of arson. At least four towering fires, likely sparked by embers […]
via “What I do know is that art doesn’t give up.” — Art of Quotation
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. Milton Glaser, 1929-2020, illustrator, graphic designer
via In Memory: “To create something new you must have doubt.” — Art of Quotation
Just because
you say that:
‘It has to be
like that.’
Approved, without conscience
Driven by: uneducated criticism
and stereotypical non consensual nonsense.
A single dissenter
can still rise
Blooming, from the crowd
And, say
NO
The chatter of group compliance
simmers gently, without a spill
but,a lone ingredient
may yet spark a quicker bubble.
It unexpectedly .spurts
a volcanic lava
overflowing
making a small trail.
Like the person, who
demonstratively argues
their cause.
Stands and brings attention
And, says
NO.
Moved by the need
To right, a wrong
Disgust, peaked by
witnessed exchanges
of a bullies attempt to dominate
a ‘weaker person’.
I say
NO.
To team sly glances
highlighting an
underlying group aversion
to an individuals
differences.
I say
NO.
Upright. Tall.
Against, sneering grins
smeared across
grinning lips.
Authoritatively, I protest
And say
NO.
Then,
walk on.
With my own
Smile.
Leading the way.
When I’m down and out feeling blue
Just close my eyes, hand to hand and think of you
Can’t forget smiling on your face, sparkling eyes
Your kindness, your endless love, your emotion never lies
We share times together, you never left me alone
So when I’m down and out feeling blue
I know you are there for me، through thick and thin
You were my best friend my life, I have ever seen
I am lucky to have you around me
You are just with me I can feel I can see
I share my happiness song for you with glee
I share my sadness with you, which makes me free
You sit beside me, take my hand
Its heaven for us this land
I feel the warmest, honesty
It’s cold but with you I don’t feel frosty
When I am down and out feeling blue
I close my eyes hand to hand think of you
Feel I need you , I can’t lie
But the morals don’t apply
But I can’t fight what’s inside
I can’t get you off my mind
Thinking I should let you know
That it’s you I want to show
All the places we can go
It won’t hurt if they don’t know
Think of all that we can be
They don’t know what they can’t see
It’ll just be you and me
It’ll feel like ecstasy
We can keep it on the low
I can love you nice and slow
From the bed onto the floor
Lose my mind while I lose yours
Can’t resist, I need a taste
Everytime I see your face
Want to take you to a place
Where your body I’ll embrace
Wanna feel what’s in between
As I watch you watching me
It’ll be so magically
We could do it secretly
Really want to let you know
But afraid that you’ll say no
Run away with me, let’s go
Take my hand and I’ll take yours
Wanna love you endlessly
Want your body under me
Make a dream reality
I’ll fulfill your every need
I’m not scared to fall
For you I’ll risk it all
Feels right although it’s wrong
Temptations I can’t stall
Sometimes we go through things in life
And we don’t know why
These are the facts of life
sometimes we laugh and other times we cry
God is always sending us messages
To take a look at the life that we choose to pursue
Because he doesn’t want to see our lives in ruin
Don’t allow your thoughts to wonder why and stray
When a loved one is taken away
Pick up the pieces to bring understanding through the comfort of prayer
To relieve the fear and being afraid
When God created us, he already had our destiny in his eyes
So that we can motivate others
From understanding, knowledge and to make us wise
Encourage and strengthen one another
Help everyone that you can and be strong
Peace and blessings will cover you
Inspiration can come through in poetry and song
THA.WriteHer
Performed by Allison Kampf
POEM:
So rich man you think you’re gonna survive?
Leaving the rest of us to die.
Buy your ticket to outer space,
watch the rest of us spinning in space.
You measure time by your own insignificant place
Mother Earth is starting to wake
We can feel her moving – Under our feet
Dancing but nobody is watching
She is screaming in the whirlpools of abandon love,
Drowning in the pools of blood,
Crying in the dirty rain,
In the clamour of the wind and rain,
how many lives have fallen?
We have rend her garments –
Emptying out her oceans
leaving her in disgrace,
and just plain destroyed this place.
With our lust for power and greed to have ever more,
Lies and deceit riding on the backs of the poor,
leaving them to eat dirt while
using our abandoned pets as live bait.
Oh all for the good life,
for we are gonna have a good time.
No one’s manning spaceship earth
to busy fighting and dying
while we are spinning out of control.
Oh sweet love divine
where do we go from here
oh sweet love divine
where do we go from here.
You seem to have abandon this place
For why complain –
we are riding on the crest of sensation,
oh for we all have a good life,
oh sweet love divine
Gaia is opening up the book of change
bringing forth massive amounts of
anger, sadness and despair
For we have abandoned her
Now chaos sets the order of the day.
And when the morning sun has risen –
I will walk outside this world of dust
Watching
Mother Earth shed
her garment of expression,
awakening the deep strata of my soul
and sets it dancing with my shadow wondering,
where we will go from here?
After the tears – a gentle rain falls
One can sense a presence
to a life’s sustaining ocean
of a love that is freely given,
not bound to any one person or thing
Asking mankind to wear a coat of compassion
To hold on to what is good, —- All you need is love
For All Life!
Performed by Allison Kampf
POEM:
Suddenly she hadn’t the heart to quarrel.
‘He’s faithless and won’t change’
and with that thought was freed.
After he had gone out, she packed
and put her suitcase by the door.
A last look before leaving.
The rug chosen together in Istanbul,
chess set lovingly given him.
‘Three years and nothing.’
She walked towards the traffic and hailed a taxi,
in her raised hand the black queen.
Performed by Allison Kampf
POEM
Many of us arrived in NYC with one luggage and a heart full of dreams.
When you are in New York city, you get psyched with its energy and immediately you start to ask why?
At the beginning you don’t know if it is because the astonishing architecture that intertwine the ” old” and the ” new”.
You don’t know if it is because the modern skyscrapers or because all the last century buildings with their emergency exit facades showing off.
You just feel it.
You don’t know if it is because the Broadway lights that makes you feel you’re in a non-stop, never ending party.
Or if it’s because the beauty of the Central Park that makes you feel you’re somewhere else for a moment.
You just feel it.
You don’t know if it is because this idea that you can be anywhere in less than 30 min by subway. Ah….the subway, this old, dirty, democratic and now first time disinfected system that carries the entire city from the homeless to the rich, from ordinaries to the celebrities.
You just feel it.
You don’t know if it’s because the bike lanes and citi bikes that makes you feel the wind in your face, the sun on your skin.
You just feel it.
You don’t know if it is because it feels you’re inside a movie set… is it fantasy? is it reality? Maybe both.
After sometime in New York, sooner or later you may realize the magic of this city actually does not rely on the outside.
The magic, the true magic, rely on the inside.
NY is tough, not everyone can make it here. It can be overwhelming.
You don’t know if it’s because the high rental fees and limited space.
Or if its because this city requires too much from you – NY always raises the bar.
From work, to restaurants, entertainment, to the possibilities… a wealth of possibilities.
You just feel it.
This constant and exhausting idea of #empirestateofmind that moves everything and everyone above and beyond.
You just feel it.
Now in middle of a pandemic anyone could think why stay in New York, why just not fly somewhere else, escape far away from this madness?
Well, New York never adapts to your desires, never adjust to your dreams, nor compromise. This city will punch you in your face more than you can possibly sustain, over and over again.
In the end, we are NY tough.
We know that we will fall not just once but many times, but we will rise stronger again.
We know that if we can make it here we can make it anywhere. We take this statement by heart.
We know this city has our back, for the best and the worst.
Today I can tell I am and always will be in love with this city, even tough every winter I may think otherwise, even tough I am living in the eye of the hurricane right now. The resilience found here cannot be found anywhere else.
You just feel it
It’s a privilege to call NYC home.
It’s a blessing to be surrounded for all the inspiring and spectacular minds that feed NYC’s veins and make us all addicted to be here, thus we persist.
We just feel it.
Performed by Allison Kampf
POEM:
“Look up at the night sky and count the stars until daybreak; my love for life now exceeds both the number of stars and the time it would take.
To traverse the horizon and navigate the seas, or brave the desert’s barren passages with ease; nothing is an impossible feat.
My love for life is power, empowering, serene. It motivates me to strive for the impossible- it motivates me to fly over obstacles.
I will crash through glass ceilings until the shattered mirrors falling over me reflect my yearning for the parts of myself that I’ve lost along my journey.
I yearn for the parts of me that drifted away like dust particles intercepting the rays of light that peer through the window at sunrise- perhaps those parts of me prevented me from inner peace.
Perhaps you’ll find those parts of me and I’ll find you- perhaps all hardship is a tool that we can utilize to hammer these lessons into our beings.
Perhaps some lessons are harder to penetrate- so never quiver or quake at the sight of the path towards the next mountain after you’ve just climbed to the first peak, because, verily, with every hardship there is ease.”
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