Love is Revolution Love is not dead, not defeated, not damaged, not out of reach. Love has not been bought, sold, or stolen. Love is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of any corporation. The kingdom of loving is within you.
Questions for a Dark Time What if you wake up one morning/ and peace is outside your window/ walking, speaking, running/ like a river,/ what will you do?
Guru Blues Some can monologue for hours on their detailed talks with God/ Some can doodle on a zither with their eyes rolled up like cod.
Gentle Spirits Arise, awake, shake off despair, remember
how many times has the Mysterious entered our lives,
how many times have we felt and seen the rush of great
winds around and through us
Flying Monkey Song Once were some critters came from the sea
Thought they’d see what they could see
Climbed up in the nearest tree
Said, Hey mama, won’t you look at me
Field Report from Alice T4 From their nests emerge mighty songs.
The rest of us are compelled to listen;
there is no place far away from them.
Dolphin Song I want to be a dolphin, that is what I want to be
I won’t have to work all day in that land beneath the sea
I won’t be called by creditors where everything is free
And you can have my furniture, my clothes, and my TV
The Dark Years None of my friends are sleeping well
The pills don’t work any more
It feels like we’ve drifted out to sea
and we can’t get back to shore
This beautiful world
lit up like a firefly
flashing in the dark
Addicted to Stuff sung to the tune of “Addicted to Love,” by Robert Palmer
Rainbow Shards Leonard Lehrman put this to music! Click to see video performance
Climate Change, Y’all (written in the mid-1960s)
Downsizing Blues Well I was running the rat race/ But
I’ve been disqualified
Collateral Damage They don’t count, they’re collateral damage
You take what you want, and make the rest of us pay
Cruel Way to Run the World We better decide to get serious now
We have our whole world to rearrange
Eight Bucks an Hour Eight bucks an hour is plenty of pay
as long as you don’t need to eat every day.
Wondering Blues How do we take back the earth?
Freedom Song Looks like we all have to do some hard time
An Atheist’s Prayer …that in the minute, crawling, massive, whirling, spacious, flashing whole…something exults
Homeless Blues You must be kind, ’cause it could happen to you
If Icarus Did Not Fall Elon Musk is playing with space flight…Such contempt for our little lives!
It Says Meek, Not Stupid The gentle have begun among us
working slow magic like the growing of roots
Legal Action Polar bears are demanding restitution.
We melted their ice.
News Flash Banditas with strollers and water pistols
shot the Minority Whip today
Poem for Cockroaches When the shoe falls, the roach is no longer there.
Red White and Blues Afraid we’ve seen it again and again:
two more clueless old white men
Sacrament Drink deep and laugh. I am Joy in Life.
Saturday Night Dead I wish/ you would spend a week on the streets
Star Scum Cosmic wind that blew no good
Brought them to our neighborhood
Sunset, Sunrise Color and birdsong/ hemming darkness all around
The Doldrums The wind of the future approaches.
It will blow away foolishness like foam.
Do You Know This Guy? This man loves to explain.
He’ll explain ‘til he’s blue
Kings for a Day …and Queens, of course
For Occupy Voiced one line at a time by the People’s Mic
Temptation Song There used to be a moment when I wanted
All the things you say I have to have
Walls When is it safe to let the outside in?
You Believe that Nothing You Do Matters Everything you do matters.
People of Peace We are all strangers in this strange land, unless we are all family
Alice T4 