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“ One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. “ — Art of Quotation

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, from “In The Mecca”

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The Marshmallow Test? “ America….We have the knowledge, we have the resources, but we don’t have the will.” — Art of Quotation

America in 2020, it seems, is too disunited, with too many people in the grip of ideology and partisanship, to deal effectively with a pandemic. We have the knowledge, we have the resources, but we don’t have the will. Source: Washington Post, Paul Krugman America Fails the Marshmallow Test, We lack the will to beat Covid-19. […]

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“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.” — Art of Quotation

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done. Ivan Doig, writer, book quote from “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.” — Art of Quotation

“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We need a government as good as its people, and we are better than this.” — Art of Quotation

”We need a government as good as its people“ jimmy Carter, president Source: Axios Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday released a statement on Wednesday describing himself and his wife as “pained by the tragic racial injustices and consequent backlash across our nation in recent weeks.” Why it matters: All living American presidents have now […]

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“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.” — Art of Quotation

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. Wallace Stevens, poet, “The Relations Between Poetry and Painting”, 1951

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“Well you get on your feet / And out on the street / Singing power to the people” — Art of Quotation

song quote from Power to the People, 1971, songwriter: John Lennon “Power To The People” Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people Power to the people, right onSay you want a revolution We […]

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ABANDON LOVE, by Joanne Rowe

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!

In gratitude we wait for a new day to begin.
poem written by Joanna Rowe

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
Mohandas Gandhi

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The corona quiet, by Alison Hramiak

So quiet the land –

the lanes, the paths

the leafy glades.

Where in the air

viral shadow evades

surgeon scalpel blades.

Corona cripples cursed confused countries,

Crying out for medicine and medicals.

Rage against a parasite

That Earth itself has sent.

Covid 19 coursing, carousing, carelessly carefree

through the blood of this us –

This dominant species.

Powerless to prevent

As we carelessly collectively collect on corners.

Will we die of ignorance?

Or heedlessness ?

And as smoke rises from the ashes

of what is left of us

like a

mad mocking double helix

of the virus

that claimed

us…

How we will move on?

© Alison Hramiak

23rd March 2020