Malathi Dear - A Good Woman (Book) - 3/29/2020 7:32:08 AM
Interesting. Would like to see more about the story.
Ron
Mutuality: The Full Life Process (Book) - 7/13/2019 12:41:51 PM
Congratulations on completing this book of your theory of mutuality that you see coming to pass. I see it, too. Like the Reformation, it will prevail because once people learn to "imagine," the way that John Lennon foretold, we will be in different age. One free from war and unnecessary feuding between members of the human race, our only race.
Ron
Autobiographical Sketch: Uriah J. Fields' Life in the Military (Short Story) - 9/22/2022 11:11:44 AM
Uriah,
Anything you write is always interesting. And your adventures in the military shaped you differently than if you had been able to go to college right away from high school like I did. My uncle was like that, joining the Army Air Corps in 1941. Like you, he attended many schools and became an instructor as well, never leaving the continental United States during WW III. Unlike you, he stayed in until he was a major and had 20 years. Worked as a consultant for the Air Force in Vietnam after he retired. Given the way the military has been slow to recognize people of color, you may not have parlayed your accomplishments into a full commissioned officer like my uncle. He died last year one month short of 102.
But I was surprised that you had to go to school to learn how to run a projector. Come to think of it, from my teachers who used projectors, they were a bit complicated what with film breaking and all.
Looking forward to your next reveal,
Ron
MY SISTER JANIE AND TALMON: IN BLACK AND WHITE (Short Story) - 6/9/2017 5:09:42 AM
Old photos can be so revealing. In this case, Talmon's family respected your sister, Janie's, contribution to the family by taking her picture with him. It certainly is a prized heirloom to have that photo even though those times were very unfair. I'm sure that that that that if a white man worked the whole day, he received much more, perhaps three dollars, than you did.
I don't have the photo, but I've seen it in my mother's albums of my father, about four, standing between two taller girls (his two sisters?) with stilts. He was wearing one of those all-in-one shorts with a bib front and a single strap over one shoulder. What was remarkable was his very large blonde Afro! Dad always had black kinky hair that he kept quite short. My cousin wrote that some of our family was black from Massachusetts. I believe that's why his hair was the way it was.
Ron
THE MUTUALITY WARRIOR: HIS INITIAL COMMISSION ASSIGNMENT (Short Story) - 4/22/2017 7:00:13 AM
Personal assessment, a plan of action and action are always empowering.
Your story looks more like an article because it doesn't have a storyline.
It's always better to post the entire story here than make readers go to your website to read it. Also, I don't know what kind of membership you have, but it is very easy to create a link in your content.
Go to the editor. Select the word or words that you wish to make the link and highlight it. Then click on the globe (standing for the Internet) in the list of symbols above. A place to type the link will appear.
You can see two links and try them that I put in my poem here today.
Ron
FOLLOW YOUR HEART (Short Story) - 4/14/2017 4:33:49 AM
In spite of your disappointment, from your story, your trip was quite enlightening. Although I had traveled extensively in the West in the 1960s and later, it was only 1993 before my brother took us to the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, the wonderful picture of me in my portable wheelchair right on the edge was lost in a computer meltdown and the camera was sent as a gift to others in Vietnam. I did recover one copy, small, from the Internet.
I am losing my hearing at a rather rapid rate. It bothers me because I have to guide my helpers with conversation. I guess when that comes, I will have to do like my mother and persevere without being able to hear.
So the poem certainly touched me with its meaning.
Ron
AN ACT OF KINDNESS (Short Story) - 2/18/2015 6:22:55 AM
You really went the extra mile for her. It's too bad she didn't trust you to help her with the tire. If she had, you would've helped her change the tire for nothing, she would've been grateful, and both of you would have saved $20.
Soon after I was paralyzed at 20, I found that I could drive certain unmodified cars with my paralyzed hands. Since that time, I've driven over 500,000 miles, mostly alone. I've had many flat tires and blowouts over those years and never was stranded because of it. There was always someone that would appear very soon and help me out. I generally had a few dollars in my pocket and would pay people who helped me, but most refused my money. The last incident like that was last year when I cut a tire badly on a sharp curb trying to avoid hitting a squirrel. The young student driving behind me, spent 20 minutes or so of his time changing my tire.
Through all those 50 years since, strangers have pumped my gasoline, never asking for any money. Many times, I could see that they were very happy to have shown to me a simple act of kindness. Whenever I could, I've always helped people without ever asking for any compensation. It's my way of giving back for all those that have given to me their time and assistance.
Ron
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA (Article) - 11/15/2023 5:28:20 PM
Please allow me, Pastor Uriah Fields, to congratulate you on a very effective and well-balanced exposition of DISCRIMINATION at all levels in North America, a "story" - forsooth history - that can serve as a marker/pointer towards caste-and-colour consciousness everywhere else.
WE ARE ALL AFRICANS !- whether we (especially OTHERS) like it or not, though, here, I might somewhat disagree with you (a moot point) on the subject of the development of spiritual and "scientific knowledge" as having had their initial source in Africa.
The picture you paint with hard, incontrovertible facts relating to the insouciance with which the indigenous folk and Blacks of African descent in North America have been subjected can/may also - for your information - be attributed to the European social and intellectual environment. The same predicament prevails in Europe even if one may not overtly find parallels in the laws and customs of the majority of the light-skinned peoples who have held sway all over other continents. My own parcours can well exemplify what I maintain here - to be checked against my meagre efforts at fiction/faction on the subject.
The difference perhaps may be gleaned through the lack of overt acts of transgression in European domination/discrimination - for a certain sense of rivalry exists between European states - than as it is in America.
I just thought you might wish to know.
Very many thanks and here's a hand out to shake... Every good wish. TW
It Ain't About Nothing (Article) - 3/9/2023 2:23:50 PM
I would have used, "It Ain't About Nothin'," because that's the way people usually say it, dropping the g on the end of nothing. Or why you had to specify "female" for cows and heifers.
And thank you for informing me that bull shit smells stronger from a bull than a cow or heifer. A serious piece of factual information I didn't know. Does that mean that male politicians spout the bull more suspect than female and other gender politicians? Maybe some serious study has to be done on that hypothesis.
But once in a while I like to read nonsense because it relieves my mind from the strain of trying to make sure that I'm gleaning all the good stuff from all the bad articles out there. This is the good stuff. I once quoted myself. "I learned from all my teachers, both good and bad. I certainly learned what to do and what to not to do while teaching." Served me well those few years I taught.
Ron
The Journey of a Mutuality Warrior (Article) - 2/15/2023 9:02:00 AM
Uriah,
I was moved by your article, but do not have time to read the entire article because I want to read articles from other authors today.
I, too, have been a Mutuality Warrior all of my life. Why I spent great effort to befriend and even visit students from other countries, some very poor, to share our mutual concerns about the earth, society and where we were going. I also spent 33 years in predominantly black institutions of higher learning as a white professor that was often looked upon with suspicion rather than mutuality that I wanted with everyone, including mean-spirited bosses, afraid of my power as a keeper of numbers.
I was president of a college ecumenical group during the time of civil rights activity and the wasteful Vietnam War. I now house and love a refugee from that war-torn country. I sing to her Ol' Man River often along with spirituals and songs like My Old Kentucky Home and Dixie with their overtones of the time of slavery. Often ignored in this great country touting freedom that is so hard to gain for all.
You are a unique warrior for right and justice. I hope your work lives on long after you and I are gone. Because it is so true and just.
Ron
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA (Article) - 11/30/2022 11:25:14 AM
Thank you for providing this well researched revelation of existing myths about slavery and people of a darker complexion when it comes to discrimination and mistreatment.
So-called, conservative people, tending to hold onto a mythical past that was created by them and their ancestors, have recently come up with degrading terms like, Woke or CRT (critical race theory) for their disgust over what is being revealed about how their families behaved upon coming to the United States (not America, but North America), sometimes as indentured servants or working for slave wages, but not enslaved. Shortly after arriving, began to express the same prejudices that they had from their origins, mostly Europe.
In spite of your valiant effort to end all of the discrimination and hatred going on, in peoples' minds beauty is always favored over ugliness, intelligence is favored over ignorance and light is favored over dark. Until all of those innate favoritisms and all of us are truly considered "equal," discrimination, and even, hatred, will continue to exist.
Giving everyone a fair shake in life will certainly reduce hatred.
Ron
Second Amendment: Mandate to kill people (Article) - 11/25/2022 2:33:02 PM
Uriah, I love how you can write the truth in such a detailed, yet concise way, summing up what is wrong with the Second Amendment and the way it is practiced in the United States. One of the best arguments for real gun control that I have read.
Here in the United States, we have sheriffs in every county and parish with deputies. Police forces in every city, state guards in some sly God, states like Texas, and national guards in states across the country. The FBI in the nation, and if the need ever exists, our armed forces can be commanded by the president, to establish law and order.
As a result, we have enough militia power to maintain law and order throughout the United States several times over. In fact, jurisdictions often are in conflict. Guns in the hands of civilians for "self-defense," often are used against them and their families.
In the 1790s, hunting was a necessity for most in a rural country with very few cities. In 2022, hunting is a luxury for those who have land or can go to public lands where they are allowed to hunt. Hunting is licensed and for the most part, practiced in ways that does not harm the wildlife populations and ecosystems. As a former hunter who put meat on the table, I appreciate that.
But the need for any hunter to have large collections of guns, and handguns normally not used for hunting, as well as military style weapons that should never be used for hunting, is a kind of overkill that is happening too frequently.
Already, in 2022, 4000 guns have been stolen from cars and trucks in the city of Houston. At least those guns will be unavailable for taking out traffic anger by shooting. But those guns are now in criminal hands when they probably were supposedly there for protection from criminals.
Ron
People of Color Excluding White People viz Pink People (Article) - 11/21/2022 9:36:13 AM
I have pondered this same range of color and ethnicity and found that our labels are often inadequate. Yet many people, here in the United States find it very convenient as simply, black-and-white. Psychologists, working with small children and dolls have found that children of all ethnicities will choose the blonde, blue-eyed dolls over darker skinned, eyed and hair dolls.
We humans associate white with day and brightness. We associate dark with night, sometimes fear and dreariness. When dealing with human racial characteristics, we have to get over these old extinctions that continue to carry on.
For example, while you are trying for a better definition of people called "white." You seem to accept the color of all with African features and color as black when your color and others is some form of brown. It's only a matter of melatonin in the skin and largely just a protection from the sun, that creates the colors of our skin. During the summer for much of my life, I deliberately tanned my face and body (resulting in skin trauma) because I thought I looked better, darker. But over the winter, fully covered from the elements and cold, my skin became paler again. The main reason why people from northern climes have fairer skin.
For too long, names used to describe people have been used to demean and for purposes of hatred. Arising dehumanization of opponents in war so that they can be killed as being lesser than human when they simply are not, just soldiers in the war machine that you describe about where the power resides the world.
We are all colored, and most of us have an ethnic identity. I resent being called Caucasian. My origin is more Germanic and northern European. Scholars have speculated that Jesus looked Caucasian, being a Jew from that region. So most of the European paintings of him are wrong.
Ron
Juneteenth Independence Day (Article) - 6/21/2022 1:54:16 PM
When I arrived in Houston in 1981 to assume the role in the administration at Texas Southern University, I had not heard of Juneteenth. Even though I worked closely with students and faculty at Atlanta University for three years prior, also in a predominantly black graduate school of business.
So when colleagues started celebrating and I got the day off, I quickly learned about what happened in Galveston and joined in with the festivities and excellent food. Miss those celebrations since I've been retired.
Ron
Gun Control Act of the Third Millennium (Article) - 6/5/2022 11:13:45 AM
Thank you for a thorough analysis of the pending gun control that will be codified when the number of child deaths becomes unbearable.
The 3/5 inclusion in the Constitution needs to be edited out! The primary cause of death to children is now gunshot.
Two weeks ago, a member of a Mexican gang, Lopez, incarcerated under two life sentences, was being transferred without guard to another prison. He somehow got out of his handcuffs and the cage separating him from the driver and killed the driver with a knife, crashing the bus with time for him to get on the run. About five days ago, he came upon a summer home of a strong, healthy grandfather in his 50s with his three grandsons, 19, 16, and 10. As well as a grandnephew, also about 10.
There were guns in the household and all of them knew how to use them. But this hardened criminal, Lopez, with only a knife, stabbed some of them to death and others with the grandfather's guns. When police blew out all the tires on the grandfather's truck, Lopez opened up on the police with an AR-15 and other weapons he had stolen. Fortunately, police killed him without any police casualties. But the criminal could have killed a lot more with those weapons.
Ron
Mine the Mind: Apply Thought-Replacement (Article) - 5/18/2022 10:43:51 AM
With all the negative things happening to me, I have always turned them around, like you suggested into positive action, ignoring the warning that something bad will happen. It never really has. Small setbacks are part of life. Positive thinking moves us forward.
My partner, whenever she finds me captive from the TV where I have learned to totally shut off commercials as though they were even there or my work, usually in the evening, looks in the mirror, and starts to get negative.
But she likes song. And she is especially likes the way I sing. So while she prepares me for bed and puts me in it, I sing. She loves almost anything I sing, but especially likes, Today, Unchained Melody, Amazing Grace, Sound of Silence, Summertime, and many others. I know the melodies well, but have trouble bringing up all the lyrics. And, she loves the old songs, like Camptown Races, Oh Susanna, Clementine and She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain.
The songs help calm her troubled mind until we go to bed. Where I have pleasant dreams, sometimes good stories, and she does as well.
Ron
Mine the Mind: Apply Thought-Replacement (Article) - 5/17/2022 5:24:25 PM
Praise music and prayer breaks negative energy and we draw closer to God, amen. Thoughtful and powerful write ):
Homelessness in America - Charity Begins at Home (Article) - 4/15/2022 1:45:23 PM
Many Vietnamese refugees who came here to Southwest Houston, are going home to live a better life than they've had here.
Our mayor, and otherwise kind and gentle man, has been moving whole homeless communities from one part of town to another to avoid the blight that it seems to reflect on wealthier communities. For those that are feeding the homeless, the city routinely checks them and requires them to have commercial kitchens or stops the fading altogether in hopes that the homeless will leave.
With a single stroke of legislation, the United States could end homelessness. But instead, continual privatization of government services serving everyone is moved to charities and businesses who are very vocal about how great they are but don't say that they discriminate who gets these services.
Artists like you and I, creating valuable literature for others to and enjoy, learn, get no compensation. A simple shifting of government payroll, like in the 1930s, from funding small businesses to funding individuals like you and I until we get to a point of commercial income from our works that is a living wage, is no simple way to end homelessness, criminalization of those unable to work for so many different reasons, and even the lazy, whose money will go back into the economy to keep it on an even keel.
Ron
Why Believe a Lie? (Article) - 1/31/2022 12:26:30 PM
Your analysis is quite cogent. People will believe a lie if it benefits them in some way. There is something about a repeated lie, reinforced by those in your network of communication, making the lie become true because those who you communicate with say it's true. People are too lazy to determine the truth on their own. Besides, on the Internet they can find validation for almost any kind of lie.
You mentioned the Republicans and you are right. They are hanging on to an older version of society that benefited wealthy whites over all others. It's hard to stamp out that illogic from people growing fearful of their place in society.
Progressives send me lots of surveys and petitions that bolster the progressive way of doing things. Conservatives (Recessives) do not send me those surveys. As a result, both ends of the spectrum gather from their flocks, information that shows that they are right and that they are in the majority of those people preaching to the choir. Often the actual scientific information underlying the reason for the issue is overlooked. Often no one really knows what the outcome of a particular law or regulation will be when put to practice. Evidenced by the many mandates and irrational responses of the past two years in the ongoing pandemic.
Ron
Man Alive (Article) - 11/24/2021 1:48:01 PM
Everyone should learn to live to their full potential like you write. And they should do it existentially, because they exist, not because the world is against them. Everyone has talents and potential. They should use them to move forward in their lives without undue expectations.
Just this past week one of my caregivers told me I wouldn't be able to hire another "who would work the work." In a fluke, I drove my wheelchair to a neighbor's home because her son told me she was a "nurse." She told me instead that she was a caregiver in need of work like I have. So far she has turned out to be just what I needed and exceeding any expectations.
The only thing I would object to is the statement that animals do not have souls. Animals have good memories, they learn, and I believe they plan what they are going to do. They are guided much by survival animal instinct, but I wouldn't say they have no souls. Whales communicate with one another over thousands of miles undersea.
Ron
Cameras vs Religion as Enforcer of Good and Right Behavior (Article) - 10/31/2021 10:58:38 AM
Big brother has arrived. I'm in favor of cameras like I'm in favor of DNA for crime prevention and investigation. People lie. Live-action camera shots do not. The NFL uses them often undisputed plays that are not clear to everyone, even the referees. Makes for a much fairer again like life.
But there is a downside. If every government links all the cameras in some effort to censure human behavior, like probably the Chinese are doing, that is a very bad thing.
Ron
General Colin Powell - A Life Well Lived (Article) - 10/20/2021 11:36:35 AM
A wonderful tribute to General Colin Powell, our former Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And thank you for the history of why he was able to obtain such high offices. In a earlier response to a poem, I pointed out that his manner was well-suited to be subservient to strict military command. It served him well while climbing to his high positions, but not well when he was Secretary of State.
As Powell courageously admitted in an interview on national television, he followed the chain of command when he went before the United Nations and passed on the misinformation that was given to him by Vice President Cheney that was rumor and not proven, leading to a war that killed thousands of American soldiers, at least a million Iraqis and empowered Al Qaeda and ISIS to grow and prosper during that ill-fated war.
Ron
America and the Taliban vs. America and the South USA (Article) - 9/5/2021 1:29:11 PM
I agree with you to a point. Al Qaeda and ISIS are small by comparison to the Taliban. There are several opposing Tribes that don't care for any of them. There are also a very large contingent of westernized Afghans. Many more than have been airlifted for helping the Americans, who are fleeing the country or may make a stand when they can in the future--hiding now--burning all evidence of westernization. They are the people of the Democratic government that our troops protected for so long.
But I just answered a scathing conservative article in the stories section by a misguided northerner who thinks that he still has to keep the black people from the South out of his little corner of Utopia. He blames Biden and the liberals for anything that went wrong or going wrong. But a poll of Americans like you and I shows that we are overwhelmingly in favor of leaving.
This author blasted the erasing of history (or at least the way he thought his history should be--rosy and mythical). But he is really just railing against all of the history that is being revealed like the 4000 lynchings that were treated like towns celebrations instead of what they were, blatant defiling of truth and justice, and then, sweeping it under the rug. There are many more examples, most recently, the revealing of how the black Wall Street of Tulsa, was practically erased from history--now revealed in two documentaries.
Every atrocity revealed, adds to our rich history, doesn't defile it.
Ron
Mandate of Citizenship (Article) - 8/30/2021 10:19:34 AM
An interesting twist on mandates. I would question anyone who wishes to have freedom to spread a virus that is preventable by vaccination to others as a result of definition.
White supremacy still pervades our society. Most of the backward legislation in many areas seems to come from those dragging their feet into the last century or even before that. Their numbers are dwindling, so they are trying to come up with every trick of their trade to keep in political power. Even boosting bombastic, sociopathic, narcissistic people like Donald Trump into the highest positions of political office. And worst of all, with money.
My suggestion, Internet voting, is quickly shot down. That is strange because Social Security and the IRS, have been using the Internet for nearly 20 years to be in touch and to do business with every citizen with an income. And some without income, receiving benefits. If we all had an account in MyVoteUSA.gov, no one would even miss a local or runoff election. And never have to leave other duties to go run the gauntlet to the polls and vote, ever again.
Mark my words… It is coming whether the white supremacists want it or not.
Ron
A Time to Speak (Article) - 8/5/2021 11:03:38 AM
You know that I will always speak out against injustice. Recently to our lawmakers here in Texas who are trying to ram a law through that would limit voting opportunity considerably in our cities and especially those disabled like me.
And I must remember to say, "I love you," to the one who always makes sure that I'm up and ready to go every morning so that I can write and speak out.
Ron
The Human Race: Races in the World (Article) - 4/28/2021 10:11:04 AM
From the scientific viewpoint, all humans are 99.9% of the same DNA, so the genes that cause the different racial differences are insignificant in our makeup. We even contain some DNA from Neanderthals, one of several hominids that had very close DNA, but were different. Able to procreate together, allowing their DNA to be among ours.
It is quite obvious that the racial characteristics we have were caused by long evolution in isolated climates where simple survival of the fittest in a very difficult hunting and gathering environment, allowed mutations that were favorable to continue and those that were unfavorable to die out. A very simple scientific fact that is easily proven, but not believed by so many who would wish that we were created different on purpose by some creator. Worse, that we were created like this at the same time. Simple archaeology proves this premise to be totally wrong.
Based on this scientific conclusion, I find that my fellow humans are all very much alike, but do have physical characteristics and cultural influences that make them different, in a good way. Because there is a natural force creating new, stronger humans: opposites attract. Hence the upswing in interracial marriages creating strong, healthy and beautiful offspring.
Ron
The Ark of Divinity Within Bends Toward Equity (Article) - 4/24/2021 8:13:37 AM
Interesting that the arc of history would lead to equity. The United States government, and particularly, its taxation system, allows the rich to get richer and the poor and even the middle class to slide into poverty.
But it is a proven fact, that through frugality and innovation, anyone can rise to riches in a single generation. Not by quotas, but by ambition and planning. Wealthy people of color need to show others how to do it. I do see a lot of books written by people of color showing the way.
On the other hand, my partner, who has a little shop sewing for pennies the changing flamboyant garments of people of color, has observed that the next door restaurant serving All-You-Can-Eat Alaska King Crab for only $60 a sitting, is mobbed daily by people of color. Even I, who could afford it, would not take on that offer, rather boiling my small portion of King Crab very infrequently at home.
Ron
No Going Back to Normal - Going Forward Toward a Transformed Society (Article) - 4/17/2021 9:30:40 AM
You and I both have a vision for a better world order. And I find communal living to be quite rewarding in many ways. But the truth is, our selfishness has led to a world crowded with people, crowding out the wild that is the source of our existence and ignoring what harm we are doing to the planet by our greed to have more than we need.
I believe this is the century where we will have to go to war with our own behavior. Millions, maybe billions, may die if we don't act quickly to solve the most basic problems.
When I view why United States has had more death from the pandemic, I can quickly blame it on our aging, medically dependent, population and the claim to "freedom," that has caused many to ignore social distancing and wearing masks because it seems like we are immune when we are not.
Ron
Profiles in Courage and Leadership (Article) - 2/28/2021 12:53:46 PM
Once again, thank you so much for your detailed chronicling not only of this boycott, but of many other events in the history of the civil rights movement. I believe you may be the only one still living from that original group. Continue to inform and educate us for as long as you can.
Ron
A Great Time to Be Alive: 'Transforlution' of Society (Article) - 1/27/2021 10:21:27 AM
Some lessons and a good bit of wisdom from the Bible.
I too, believe that it is a great time to be alive and to be experiencing what no one in the United States up until this time has experienced, a cooperative worldwide effort to stem a very contagious virus, quicker than anyone ever thought. Something to tell grandchildren or those who survive--many. Also, a re-orientation towards worldwide matters that are faced by all people and not just selfish, pampered landholding citizen of the United States. But greater diversity in understanding among all people, that everyone needs a break, I hand up, and occasionally, an opportunity to excel.
Ron
President Biden Selects Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary (Article) - 12/18/2020 1:38:32 PM
Pete Buttigieg is the most articulate person to run for president in my lifetime and equally as honest. When he has been questioned about his sexual orientation, he artfully replied that the questioner would do better to ask his Creator about it, the one who made him that way. The writer below is an intellectual lightweight who gets his "truth" from the pages and the mouths of right-wing ideologues whose abilities to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate are close to zero. Put another way, "a closed mind is better wasted than revealed."
President Biden Selects Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary (Article) - 12/17/2020 12:39:57 PM
"President Biden," as you call him, is a fraud and will not occupy the White House. Try as you might to justify the very grave sin of buggery, it is and will always be, nothing other than the vile, disgusting act of depravity that it has ever been. And Robert Louis Stephenson could not possibly have imagined the wicked days in which we now live when he wrote the sentence you quoted here.
To compare eunuchs, who were most often men castrated to oversee the harem of a king, to the arrogant, belligerent sodomite of today is beyond wrong, Sir. It is obscene.
Most opponents of Buttigieg, do not reject him because of his chosen sin, but because his policies are deadly, wasteful and ignorant, failing to comprehend human nature. Is it any wonder then, that Democrats endlessly bloviate about "progress" while referring to policies that represent a 2000-year moral and civic regression?
Rail against truth all you want, it will prevail long after all of us are long forgotten. A mind is indeed, a terrible thing to waste, as you illustrate here.
OUR PRAYER TO GOD (Poetry) - 7/22/2024 6:17:00 PM
Love conquers all. Well done, Amen X 110!
All Things Work Together for Good (Poetry) - 6/1/2023 1:00:09 PM
This article resonates with me. So many use scriptures for their own purposes. Probably more for selfish reasons than for good.
Ron
My Marks and Scars I Carry With Me (Poetry) - 3/20/2023 2:32:50 PM
This is what we all must remind ourselves of, thank you for sharing, Uriah.
My Marks and Scars I Carry With Me (Poetry) - 2/21/2023 8:06:03 AM
And chronicled it all! Your efforts to make sure that the world remembers what it was like to go through all of those trials and tribulations and then write them down so beautifully and put them on the Internet for all to see, will be remembered long after you and I are gone.
Ron
Engage Dutifully in Good Trouble (Poetry) - 2/18/2023 10:54:25 AM
I take your pledge easily because I've always been engaged in good trouble. I like to shake people up with the truth.
Thanks for reminding people everywhere that if they don't engage in good trouble, the bad trouble may become much worse, undeterred.
Ron
Uriah Harp, My Music Maker (Poetry) - 12/5/2022 10:37:04 AM
I viewed the music and the lovely words to the music. The only thing better would be to hear you play it on the harmonica and sing it for us. Do you have a link like that?
Ron
Write It Down (Poetry) - 12/3/2022 9:54:28 AM
Thank you for the charge. From an early age when I wrote letters, I always wrote it down. And then, in later years, I sent out annual letters to all my friends and relatives letting them know how I was doing and what I was doing. 1992, I began writing my autobiography, finished and published in 2014. But I continued to write, while no longer able to use a pencil and paper since about 1998, I now dictate this and much more every day.
Two nights ago I had a dream. In the morning, I thought of it. In the afternoon, I wrote it. Another short story that I've written from dreams. It makes my life wonderful to share so much about it, just like you have with your many writings easily available on the Internet to anyone who would want to read them. Thank you for being you, and writing it down.
Ron
I Am Blessed, I Am Thankful (Poetry) - 6/22/2022 4:08:10 AM
and my word shall not come to me void. i love your poem! i am blessed. great reminder. and i, too, will include that to my daily affirmations. thank you.
I Am Blessed, I Am Thankful (Poetry) - 6/21/2022 1:18:07 PM
It's good to see you having such great confidence. It is confidence like that that carries us through the hard times and into the good times what we can help others like they have helped us before.
Ron
What God Says About You (Poetry) - 11/25/2021 1:25:03 PM
A rousing song of faith. I expect that many may call on him like your song to relieve one kind of pain or another. Daily repetition helps to reinforce and solidify certain trains of thought in the brain. But is it just a delusion that satisfies bad thoughts by repeating it one more time?
Ron
What God Says About You (Poetry) - 11/23/2021 12:03:24 PM
I love what God says. Thank you for sharing!
Sandie
LET IT BE (Poetry) - 10/6/2021 10:51:37 AM
SO MUCH NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED BEFORE ONE JUSTS...LET IT BE. FOR EVERY WORD, ACTION AND DEED THERE IS A CONSEQUENCE, YES? THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
Two Health-Nourishing Related Questions (Poetry) - 7/20/2021 9:17:29 AM
Your article is very informative. Just the other day I received a rather offhand bit of information that was really quite trivial. I should have used this response and didn't… "How do you know that and how is it going to help you?
"18,000 people have died from COVID-19 vaccinations"
Ron
The Arc of the Moral Universe (Poetry) - 1/30/2021 9:31:25 AM
We are intelligent beings, but we come from brutal beginnings. It has taken us thousands of years, first through moralistic teachings in the family, passed down I word-of-mouth until writing could encapsulate them for the ages. And then wait more millennia for the "arc" of the history toreach the moral thing required.
With you, I believe that a lot of the right moral thing will be accomplished this year with all of the leadership in the right hands, except the judgmental one, the final court of law.
Ron
Be, Do and Have (Poetry) - 1/23/2021 1:23:56 PM
I believe you are stating that we are all unique and have something to contribute to this world that we need to contribute every day.
I spent a bit of every day with authors here trying to encourage and correct errors so that we all can become better writers like you have a become, honing our skills with practice.
Ron
You Have the Healing Power (Poetry) - 12/31/2020 9:45:24 AM
You have the gift of songwriting and song. You have lived through turbulent times and live very long. Your good nature and healing words have helped many a mind, your saving grace left no one behind.
I find when my caregiver uses her hands to massage or scratch the along the lines of the nerves that are tense from hard work or strain, there is immediately healing and peace in my body from the amazing purpose of her touch.
Ron
It Came to Pass -- It's Over (Poetry) - 11/6/2020 12:01:56 PM
In this article, you are attempting to describe something that is constantly changing. We all must change with the times and sometimes we have a hard time accepting what that change is or should be.
Ron
FEAR (Poetry) - 8/25/2020 8:52:09 AM
A simple acrostic with a fundamental lesson. Psychologists have learned that we are born with only two fears: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. When we like to scare our children or feed them lies get them scared, we provide a pathway for false fear for the rest of their lives.
I've been fortunate to face many of the things that people fear without any harm coming to me. But I do know when to run and when to stand my ground. False fear is all around us. Politically induced fear is usually false and shouldn't influence how we act, vote.
Ron
NOBODY HAS IT MADE! ANYBODY CAN MAKE THE BEST OF IT! (Poetry) - 6/25/2020 8:32:39 AM
INDEED, NO ONE WILL HAVE 'MADE IT' ON THIS SIDE OF GLORY. WE HAVE ONLY 'MADE IT' WHEN WE ARE SAFE IN OUR ETERNAL HOME...AND THE PLEASURE OF WHAT AWAITS US THERE CAN ONLY BE IMAGINED. UNTIL THEN, WE 'DAILY' WALK THROUGH THOSE TOKENS PURCHASED BY THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST, WHICH WE CANNOT DO WITHOUT; MERCY AND GRACE....MAKING THE BEST OF IT. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
4-H States of Being (Poetry) - 5/31/2020 8:20:43 AM
I have been long aware of self-actualization and it usually takes a lifetime to achieve it. I like your description of heaven as something in the "eternal now," rather than after we have died, somehow making this life in some ways, miserable, rather than the best we can make it.
The self-actualized person generally views his/her life as the best that it can be. They worked for it and it came to pass. They did not do all of the wrong things, hoping, in the end heaven would be there for them. Some call it wisdom. Whatever it is, self-actualization certainly brings peace of mind, even in trying times like this.
Ron
I'm a Good Person (Poetry) - 5/25/2020 9:09:59 AM
LUKE 18:19, MARK 10:18, MATTHEW 19:17. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
NAMASTE - SALUTATION AND GOODBYE (Poetry) - 5/25/2020 9:02:56 AM
ENJOYED, THANK YOU FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
I'm a Good Person (Poetry) - 5/1/2020 10:52:34 AM
Nothing like love, truth and goodness in one's personality. Beautifully described in this poem.
I am not a "do-gooder," but I am a tree hugger, remembering my days shimmying up and down trees by hugging the broad trunks and nearly taking the skin off my legs and arms even through my blue jeans and a controlled slide.
To me, doing good is perhaps the best thing one can do. Throughout my life I've helped others that offered my help even to those who for one reason or another resisted it.
Ron
The Garden (Poetry) - 4/28/2020 10:34:44 AM
Thank you for noting that you did not write it. I believe I've seen that before, always anonymous. But a wonderful use of garden vegetables to tell an allegory or fable, how we should attend to our lives.
Ron
The Garden (Poetry) - 4/27/2020 9:49:35 PM
Yes, in the garden of life, everyone is so precious. One who is 60 who is a mother, wife and a grandmother will be sorely missed. It will take a long time if at all to get over a loved ones fall. One who experienced six months of life as a pre-born baby is precious as well. The mother who bore her who lost this loved one has experienced their own private hell. God bless each child of God, big or small for each one is so precious. Lord help us, may God bless them so, may God bless us, may God bless us all. Amen
Mandate of Citizenship (Poetry) - 4/3/2020 8:44:46 AM
And that means every citizen over 18 has a right to and should, vote. If one does not vote then one is denying his/her citizenship and participation in this great country.
Ron
ENTROPY (Poetry) - 3/29/2020 10:24:51 AM
Time appears to be an artificial construct of an idea God gave to we Humans in our finiteness.
But entropy, as you State, is very real. Enjoyed your insights into this thing called entropy.
Less Dog, More God (Poetry) - 3/29/2020 10:18:07 AM
Good poem.
Our Best Friend ought to be our Lord Jesus Christ. All other friends are a distant second to Him.
WHO HAS THE GREATEST NAME? (Poetry) - 2/29/2020 12:46:32 PM
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH...AMEN! THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
Less Dog, More God (Poetry) - 12/7/2019 7:02:21 AM
I agree with you as to your thought of God being mans best friend rather than dog, but, as well, I love dogs as I love God because made dogs to be just that, man's friend...-e- (A thoughtful piece that I will be thinking about for awhile, thanks for posting this)
Less Dog, More God (Poetry) - 12/6/2019 12:25:15 PM
Poets are fond of wordplay and god and dog are easily transposed for satire or other purposes. Unless they are purposely trained or conditioned by life to be ugly, most dogs are friendly pack animals that include humans as a form of their pack. I can understand why you may have been conditioned to our dogs by what you faced in the civil rights protest lines with police with dogs actually hurting you and your fellow protesters.
And people in poor neighborhoods who would wish not to have guns may have dogs that they have condition to be very unfriendly to strangers. Bidding you to pet their dogs so that they will recognize you as a friend in the future.
I recently read that that there are more tigers in captivity here in the United States than in all of the wild world.
Ron
Best Life: Embracing Wisdom and Health (Poetry) - 9/22/2019 7:37:24 AM
Very good article with a very good lesson. Only we can make our, "best life." And it doesn't take anything special, like money, to have the best life.
Ron
A Model Prayer (Poetry) - 7/6/2019 6:02:02 AM
No offense, but to think of God as one who creates little wind-up toys who then bow down and thank their creator for the privilege of bowing down to their creator is not a very enlightened view of either a creator who is very wise, o of little toys acting with even the slightest bit of wisdom. I prefer to just go about learning and doing with the expectation that eventually I will become just a tiny bit wiser.
A Model Prayer (Poetry) - 7/3/2019 8:31:06 AM
I worry that you have pneumonia. I certainly hope you can still sing. If not, that you will be singing again soon.
Ron
A Model Prayer (Poetry) - 7/3/2019 7:14:57 AM
An interesting supplication. Matthew 6:9-13 however, will always remain the greatest example of how to pray for born-again Christians. Actually, I'm praying and interceding in tongues more each day now than I ever have. I'm certain something glorious is nearing. Thank you for sharing. Feel better soon. r
Love Supreme - Turn Up Your Love (Poetry) - 5/30/2019 6:51:02 PM
Love is the best thing that God ever created, I have enjoyed your poem today . Have a great evening
Love Supreme - Turn Up Your Love (Poetry) - 3/28/2019 9:12:54 AM
Love is the greatest power, and the greatest test of love is adapting to the constant changes in our lives, as well as with each other. It takes a lot of work to make a relationship work.
Love Supreme - Turn Up Your Love (Poetry) - 3/27/2019 2:33:18 PM
"The opposite of love is not hate." In many encounters with love over the years, hate (or apathy, as you say) came to the forefront. I fall in love at the drop of those beautiful eyes, but sooner than later either she or I, (or both) fall out of love. I believe most people do, and I firmly believe it is because living together so long causes this falling out of love. Even so I know I am primed for love to enter my heart again, even at the age that I am.
Gentleness (Poetry) - 3/19/2019 9:09:42 AM
Great advice. Sometimes when I'm trying to gently nudge someone in a positive direction, they lash out at me in anger. One of the hardest things is guide someone out do something with only your voice. It's much easier to gently show them physically how to do it.
Ron
A strange Intimacy (Poetry) - 1/29/2019 4:12:16 PM
ONE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE 'ROOT' CAUSE OF SUCH A RELATIONSHIP. IT DIDN'T JUST 'MATERIALIZE' ONE DAY...OUT OF THE BLUE. THERE IS A 'REASON' FOR THE 'STRANGE INTIMACY' THAT PRESENTLY EXISTS. THAT 'REASON' HAS TO BE WILLINGLY ADDRESSED, CANDIDLY, BY BOTH PARTIES. A COUPLE THAT PRAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER AND WHERE THE FEAR AND LOVE OF GOD DOES NOW FLOW...THERE IS NOTHING. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATION
The Smorgasbord Approach to Picking Ideas (Poetry) - 1/29/2019 4:00:36 PM
SMORGASBORD APPROACH...HMMMMMM. LET'S SEE NOW. I'M LOOKING AT THIS FROM A HIGHER PLANE, A SPIRITUAL PLANE...A HEAVENLY PLANE, IF YOU WILL. SO 'WE', MEANING THE WORLD'S POETS AND WRITERS ARE LAID OUT BEFORE GOD LIKE A SMORGASBORD AND 'HE' CHOOSES WHOM 'HE' WANTS TO WRITE AND WHAT 'HE' WANTS THEM TO WRITE. IN OTHER WORDS, 'HE' PICKS US, WE DO 'HIS' BIDDING. WE DON'T EVER CHOOSE...'HE' CHOOSES, 'HE' FILLS...'HE' INSPIRES. I WAS INSPIRED SOME TIME AGO TO WRITE A POEM ENTITLED, 'GOD'S POETS'. IT'S LISTED ON MY DEN, IT EXPLAINS HOW I FEEL ABOUT BEING GOD'S SMORGASBORD. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
The Smorgasbord Approach to Picking Ideas (Poetry) - 1/20/2019 10:35:00 AM
This is not a poem, but an interesting article. I have found that arguments that "cherry pick" just the factoids that support their arguments are not very good research. This is so often done with the Bible where almost any kind of point can be made by pulling Scripture out of context to make the argument.
And then there are those that do nitpicking of ideas. The one who take a single small idea and then focus in on it like it's the only idea there was, boring the reader with repetitious speaking at this or that part of the idea until it has nothing else left to give.
Ron
A strange Intimacy (Poetry) - 1/16/2019 10:36:34 AM
Too many people are and what they call, codependent relationships. Totally unsatisfying but feed on one another in a way that both parties can't quit. It's a shame. What a waste of caring and emotion.
Ron
States of Mind (Poetry) - 1/10/2019 12:13:59 PM
We must guard hearts and minds. Thought provoking pen, Uriah.
States of Mind (Poetry) - 1/6/2019 10:00:27 AM
After Ron Hull read my latest chapter of "3 Way Mirror", he thought you should be a character in my story. So, he recommended your writing to me and I am thankful he did. I appreciate your style of imparting poetic philosophy, as I attempt to convey ideas in a similar way. Will be reading more of your work. It's always a reward to discover new writers on this site. Ron has followed me a very long time, so I trust his judgement when it comes to recommendations.
I BELIEVE YOU BELIEVE (Poetry) - 12/20/2018 11:08:42 AM
IF THIS 'WISE' PRINCIPAL WAS APPLIED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD...THERE WOULD BE 'PEACE'...THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. BUT IT'S JUST TOO SIMPLE FOR THE 'INTELLIGENT' TO ABSORB. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
States of Mind (Poetry) - 12/20/2018 11:05:49 AM
'I WILL KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE...HE WHO'S MIND IS STAYED ON ME' AND THIS APPLIES TO 'WHATEVER' CLASS ONE IS IN. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
States of Mind (Poetry) - 10/25/2018 10:41:57 AM
You have stated the states had no way that sates. I hunger for more wise poetic expression like this. The uppercrust have nowhere else to go but down. And eventually, they always do.
Ron
States of Mind (Poetry) - 10/25/2018 10:11:39 AM
I like this very much.
I BELIEVE YOU BELIEVE (Poetry) - 10/17/2018 3:40:12 PM
Wonderfully wise and beautifully expressed, Uriah.
I BELIEVE YOU BELIEVE (Poetry) - 10/12/2018 9:45:56 AM
I believe that we believe in each other and back one another unconditionally.
Ron
I BELIEVE YOU BELIEVE (Poetry) - 10/11/2018 9:38:51 AM
Yes, I agree. It's not always that we would all believe in the same thing and we would have difference in opinions. But we must not trash other people's belief and call them names. That is very unprofessional as authors.
Sandie
ADVENTIST SEVEN DAYS (Poetry) - 9/19/2018 7:57:00 AM
I AGREE WITH YOU. THOUGH NO ONE CAN DISPUTE THE FULL, UNEQUIVOCAL, TRUTH THAT THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK IS THE TRUE SABBATH...ONE CAN ALSO PLAINLY SEE THAT THERE IS MORE TO SERVING GOD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS, MINDS AND SOULS THAN JUST RECOGNIZING THIS TRUTH ON THAT ONE DAY. WE SHOULD STRIVE TO SERVE GOD TO THE FULLEST CAPACITY AND TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK...EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
I Love You Because I Need You vs I Need you Because I Love You (Poetry) - 8/25/2018 2:47:49 PM
I AM COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH THIS SHARING. IT EXPLAINS SO MUCH ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS AND WHY THEY MUST BE SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST...PHYSICAL. WELL DONE, URIAH, AND THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
WHO AM I? (Poetry) - 7/22/2018 11:30:28 AM
Inspiring, Uriah, good to know who we really are.
WHO AM I? (Poetry) - 7/10/2018 7:50:17 AM
I like much better your life story and what you have accomplished in the short time that you had to sing your songs and to walk this land that isn't always, "the land of the free."
I don't give God credit for your great accomplishment. It came from within and willingness to risk great things in order to do great things. I hope everyone is to read the many things you have written and posted on the Internet. They are very revealing of the kind of man you are.
Ron
WHO AM I? (Poetry) - 7/9/2018 12:42:30 PM
We are all children of God. There seems to be a pattern of questionnaire whenever we accept a new friend on the net they would always ask those same questions: Where are you from? How old are you? Are you married? How is the weather? I don't like small talks, so I just refrain from making friends with people whom I don't know.
Sandie
Beyond Goals and Plans, on to Faith (Poetry) - 6/13/2018 7:50:07 PM
I like the surprises in my life I didn't expect on getting, especially when they are good surprises. None of my new year resolutions had ever worked out. I always planned something which I hadn't got time to work at. Something that I would always tell myself that I'll work at it tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or whenever I've got the time.
But what are the surprises that God has planned for us? We won't know until He gives us those surprises and wants us to work at them. I'll go with the flow where the wind blows, and receive my surprises along the path.
Great message in this poem!
Sandie
God Is! Thank You! Hallelujah! (Poetry) - 4/19/2018 2:36:43 PM
AMEN! THE HIGHEST PRAISE WE CAN GIVE OUR GOD IS HALLELUJAH! AND ISN'T HE MORE THAN WORTHY TO RECEIVE IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN?! INDEED, HE IS!!! A FINE WORK THAT LEADS THE READER TO WORSHIP AND PRAISE OUR SAVIOR AND LORD. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
God Is! Thank You! Hallelujah! (Poetry) - 2/21/2018 9:05:59 PM
I like the trio couple lines. They go well together, and they sound like happy lines to live by, thank you for sharing Uriah, bless your heart.
God Is! Thank You! Hallelujah! (Poetry) - 2/2/2018 8:14:01 AM
I always enjoy how happy you are. I must say I love singing Hallelujah, whether it be from Handel's Messiah or from Leonard Cohen's, Hallelujah. Even though I'm not religious, I'm uplifted and happy to sing both of those refrains.
I want to share something I heard from a Irish comedian about growing up Catholic. When he attended a funeral one day as they were lowering the casket, the young boy misheard what the priest said. Thereafter, whenever someone died, he would recite this phrase as they were lowered into the ground…
"Father, Son and Into the hole there she/he goes!"
Certainly one way to be joyous at a sad event.
Ron
God Is! Thank You! Hallelujah! (Poetry) - 2/1/2018 11:05:29 PM
Yes, sir! God is worthy of Praise all the time! That's for sure! We shout and praise Him in our church! We shout His name before and after our Bible studies! However, do we shout His name in public places? I sometimes do. But not often enough. When I do, I see two extremes, the ones who smile and seem to want to jump for joy and the ones who frown like statues of stone, God's joy, and reverence is more important than the opinions of man. Thank you for this wonderful piece of poetry. Bravo! I feel as though it was written just for me. Hallelujah! Amen
FIND TIME IN YOUR DAY (Poetry) - 1/1/2018 10:46:52 AM
Uriah, this is a great poem filled with sound advice that if taken,I believe, will result in a more serene life!
Thanks for sharing with us in The Den and continued success!
Barbara J. Henry
URIAH HARP, MY MUSIC MAKER (Poetry) - 11/14/2017 9:49:44 AM
Would love to see you dancing in the streets and singing this song.
Ron
IN DEFENSE OF MYSELF (Poetry) - 9/14/2017 7:03:12 AM
I feel bad that you had to defend yourself many times in your storied life.
Still, I have been to your website and your writing will live well and long after you and I are gone.
Your contribution to civil rights is much appreciated.
Ron
POWER OF NOW (Poetry) - 7/16/2017 10:51:33 AM
Certainly a bold and empowering statement. Very beneficial for those who believe they have no voice and no control over their destiny. It is much better to act positively today rather than dwell on mistakes of the past or fantasy of a future of wishful thinking.
However, I am a futurist and have always extracted the path of the future from the path and lessons of the past. A good grasp of history can tell us what not to do in the present. Creating alternative futures can help in picking the right path through challenges to come… some of them, as yet, unknown.
Ron
POWER OF NOW (Poetry) - 7/14/2017 8:23:57 AM
Excellent poetic sediments! Now is today! Let us live it to the fullest!
POWER OF NOW (Poetry) - 7/14/2017 1:24:14 AM
I REALLY ENJOYED YOUR POSITIVE MESSAGE TODAY DEAR URIAH XO
MY BRIEF ODYESSEY AT MY HYDROSANCTUARY (Poetry) - 6/15/2017 7:39:05 AM
Your prose poem stirs memories of my forays to Brazos Bend State Park about 1/2 hour drive from my home. There is nothing like the tranquility and beauty of a place by a stream with enough wilderness surrounding to provide food and shelter for animals. You are right about foxes. They hunt mostly at night, so are rarely seen in daylight. But they are almost everywhere in the United States keeping the mouse population in check.
Thanks for sharing your voting and tranquil experience with us today.
Ron
HOW DEEP MY HEARTFELT LOVE FOR YOU (Poetry) - 6/14/2017 5:12:29 AM
I couldn't open your download list because I don't have a right click on my Mac mouse.
Your third stanza appears to me to be a contradiction. I think it's okay not to have only one soulmate, but to go ahead and then promised someone to be their only soulmate certainly is a contradiction to me.
Ron
I Go to Nature (Poetry) - 5/21/2017 7:14:04 AM
Quite a lengthy and thorough view of the nature of nature.
Proves that we are a product of natural selection. We must be cognizant of that fact and be careful of the power given us by our evolution. We can no longer blame God when our best laid plans go wrong. We have grown up now and are responsible for our actions.
Ron
EYES ARE THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL (Lyrics and music) (Poetry) - 5/7/2017 5:52:10 AM
While the eyes are the windows we have to a very rich world out there, when judging others, the many facial muscles tell us much about the character of the person we are looking into the eyes of. And, because the lens is so reflective, we may be seeing our own reflection.
I have a Macintosh that doesn't have right-click capability. Just learned something new that I could push the "control" key and have a menu of options upon clicking the download. Unfortunately, I was then asked for an application to run the download and I didn't know which one or whether I would have to buy one in order to play it. So, I didn't.
Ron
EYES ARE THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL (Lyrics and music) (Poetry) - 5/7/2017 3:18:00 AM
The eyes are the mirror that which reflects us or deflects us, ours is the choice, beautiful heart felt words penned here dear Uriah, have a great Sunday xo
ANDROGYNOUS ME TO YOU (Poetry) - 5/3/2017 12:38:45 PM
No it does not. It's the soul of the person that matters. Thank you for sharing, M,
ANDROGYNOUS ME TO YOU (Poetry) - 5/3/2017 7:58:22 AM
Some very interesting points made by your article. It really doesn't matter to me unless I am seeking a mate where I do want, as a heterosexual male, to connect with a willing heterosexual female.
As far as simple social relationships, it shouldn't matter to anyone. During the last few years of my employment, I was assigned a rather difficult young man who seemed to have social and psychological problems that I avoided discussing with him… More interested in just getting work done. When I retired, we were both fired at the same time in a weird coincidence of being fired when I wanted to leave anyway. He didn't. We didn't keep in touch very much as we both searched for other work. And then, he announced that he had changed his name to a female name. Something that had been rumored, but I had not concerned myself with.
Ron
ANDROGYNOUS ME TO YOU (Poetry) - 5/3/2017 6:10:48 AM
When it comes to people, it should never matter, as long as that person is respectful and honest.
ALIVENESS (Poetry) - 5/2/2017 5:59:39 AM
Certainly a rousing poem with more of a message than most.
I wake up every day eager to get to work and to do all I can before I go to bed dead tired at night. It's the only way to live. When I get to the point where I can do it anymore. Then I certainly hope that I will die quickly and not be a burden to those around me for my inability to be alive and lively.
Please check the editor and remove the huge space below your poem so that readers can find the review box easier.
Ron
GOD IS, THANK YOU, HALLELUJAH (Poetry) - 4/26/2017 3:31:24 PM
It's nice to read a faithful poem that honors God with gratitude and love x
GOD IS, THANK YOU, HALLELUJAH (Poetry) - 4/26/2017 12:30:37 PM
I ENJOYED THIS SHARING VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR POSTING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
ODE TO MY SISTER BESSIE FIELDS NETTLES (Poetry) - 4/6/2017 7:46:47 AM
Yes, a beautiful tribute to Bessie. From your well written words, I see that both of you received very good foundational writing ability from the Fields School. I can also see that you are very close to her and have written a wonderful "farewell."
Ron
ODE TO MY SISTER BESSIE FIELDS NETTLES (Poetry) - 4/5/2017 10:31:21 AM
This is a fine remembrance of your dear sister, Bessie. Beautiful worded, from your heart to her soul..
LIGHT AND DARKNESS, COMPLEMENTNG PHENOMENA (Poetry) - 4/5/2017 7:57:59 AM
Exquisite writing, my fellow poet. You got it in spades when you say light and darkness are as one with the other. (Well, you didn't exactly say that, but your mood did.) I love this rather deep piece of writing.
LIVING A MEANINGFUL LIFE (Poetry) - 3/5/2017 9:18:57 AM
Statistics show that every succeeding year in the 21st century as been better than the year before. Most of us face no real "gloom and doom," issues in our lives except our health and eventual death. The best thing for us to do is focus on the positive like you suggest in your poem, and we will lead happier and healthier lives.
Ron
LIVING A MEANINGFUL LIFE (Poetry) - 3/2/2017 8:24:03 AM
I applaud this well written poem, Uriah, but I will forgo the Trump bashing.
LIVING A MEANINGFUL LIFE (Poetry) - 3/2/2017 6:42:51 AM
An effectively brief & resounding testament to the human search for happiness. I will try to keep these words in my heart, soul and spirit every day of my life...indeed happiness equates to "Gratitude and celebration". After all, it has been said, any day above ground is a good day! I am "grateful" for your wisdom.
Jacques Fleury
"It's Always Sunrise Somewhere and Other Stories"
www.authorjacques.com
THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME (Lyrics) (Poetry) - 1/27/2017 7:38:14 AM
You are an important person in the civil rights movement and everyone should know it.
Ron
UNREQUITED LABOR -REPARATIONS (Poetry) - 11/24/2016 2:19:55 PM
I fear that the debt is so great that even the United States, with its fabulous economy, would never recover trying to undo the evil that this injustice has done.
Ron
EARTHBOUND HEAVENLY TROUBADOURS (Lyrics) (Poetry) - 11/17/2016 4:26:40 PM
beautifully expressed, uriah. music is truly food for the soul.
thank heaven for all those troubadours!
be well, my friend,
carolyn
EARTHBOUND HEAVENLY TROUBADOURS (Lyrics) (Poetry) - 11/16/2016 8:55:10 AM
Last night Alicia Keys changed her expected song to sing Holy War on The Voice last night. She surely is a heavenly troubadour for the times.
ALICIA KEYS LYRICS
Play the Alicia Keys Quiz
"Holy War"
If war is holy and sex is obscene
We've got it twisted in this lucid dream
Baptized in boundaries, schooled in sin
Divided by difference, sexuality and skin
Oh so we can hate each other and fear each other
We can build these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked in
Yeah we can hate each other and fear each other
We can build these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked
Oh maybe we should love somebody
Oh maybe we could care a little more
So maybe we should love somebody
Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war
What if sex was holy and war was obscene
And it wasn't twisted, what a wonderful dream
Living for love, unafraid of the end
Forgiveness is the only real revenge
Oh so we can heal each other and fill each other
We can break these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself open, yourself open
Yeah we can heal each other and fill each other
We can break these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself open, you're open
So maybe we should love somebody
Maybe we could care a little more
So maybe we should love somebody
Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war
What if love was holy and hate obscene
We should give life to this beautiful dream
Cause peace and love ain't so far
If we nurse our wounds before they scar
Nurse our wounds before they scar
THANK YOU! HALLELUJAH! (Poetry) - 10/19/2016 1:16:15 PM
Being appreciative and having gratitude is a wonderful thing to express...
I love to see a full Moon...and it is certainly worthy of a loud Alleluia!
Nature alone provides us with much to love and appreciate...
It is always good to celebrate the wonder of this beautiful Earth...
And everything bestowed upon us...
Diana....
THANK YOU! HALLELUJAH! (Poetry) - 10/18/2016 5:11:36 AM
Thank goodness that we have sites like a full moon in the morning and a life that is good to face every morning. Some people don't have that. Everyone needs it.
Ron
O DEATH WHERE IS YOUR SOUL? (Haiku) (Poetry) - 9/29/2016 1:03:51 PM
Death is final except for God's intervention and taking death to heaven to help us live evermore.
O DEATH WHERE IS YOUR SOUL? (Haiku) (Poetry) - 9/16/2016 5:28:09 AM
You are right. When the body goes, there is no sustenance to the soul (brain activity), and both die together. It is wishful thinking, at best, to think that the soul (spirit, essence, thought processes) can exist without a functioning brain.
Ron
BELOVED COMMUNITY (Poetry) - 8/18/2016 8:47:04 AM
It was Martin Luther King's dream and it is mine, as well. Let's see it happen very soon.
Ron
BELOVED COMMUNITY (Poetry) - 8/17/2016 1:31:57 PM
Yes, indeed. Down here in the flood ravaged south Louisiana the individual lends themselves to help his neighbor and the neighbor returns the favor.
FIND TIME IN YOUR DAY (Poetry) - 8/16/2016 5:22:57 AM
I love to burst into song. And sometimes, it even sounds fairly good. It seems like it doesn't respect the time, it just overcomes me like when I sing every morning, "Good morning America, Hawaii!," Just before I get out of bed. My apologies to Arlo Guthrie for a very bad rendition of his song about the train, they call, The City of New Orleans. Actually, I'm telling my partner to turn on the morning news at 7 am.
Ron
FIND TIME IN YOUR DAY (Poetry) - 8/15/2016 5:40:20 AM
Music comes to life with poetic words.
FIND TIME IN YOUR DAY (Poetry) - 8/15/2016 5:27:02 AM
Oh, I have a song in my heart, for sure, Uriah. Thanks for reminding me.
Hate Killed the Dreamer but not the Dream (Poetry) - 8/11/2016 6:33:27 PM
AMEN! GOD'S WORD 'NEVER' RETURNS UNTO HIM VOID. KING WAS CALLED BY GOD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TO TURN THE TIDE OF RACISM, LEGALLY, BY LAW. GOD USE THIS INSTRUMENT AND WHEN HIS CALLING WAS DONE, GOD TOOK HIM. AS YOU SAID, HIS DEATH WAS NOT IN VAIN- THE DREAM THAT GOD GAVE HIM...STILL LIVES! THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH... JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Hate Killed the Dreamer but not the Dream (Poetry) - 8/4/2016 10:04:40 AM
You're right, it is and will continue to go forward until all men/women who were created equally will be treated equally, "… According to their character and not the color of their skin."
Ron
THE MUTUALITY WARRIOR PLEDGE (Poetry) - 7/28/2016 6:39:45 AM
Certainly a pledge that for some of us during our supposed great concern over the fate of society need to take heed to. Banish the bad and encourage the good. Something we should all do. Some people seem to have it the other way around. But we know better and we can be better.
Ron
Nobody has It Made but Anybody can Make the Best of It (Poetry) - 7/21/2016 8:09:58 AM
So much wisdom in your words. I always veered toward the bright side because that's the joyous and happy place to be. Why drown yourself in self-pity, pain, agony and darkness when the light of day can put a happy smile on your face and a song in your heart.
Ron
EMBRACE YOUR CHILD WITHIN YOU (Poetry) - 7/6/2016 7:30:00 AM
That's why I like poetry. I can play like a child. And why I like interacting with children. We seem to be on the same wavelength.
My mother, who is 92, calls me weekly (she does not want me to call her because she has great difficulty hearing the phone ring and getting to the phone when it does). As we converse, she often giggles like a child over what she just said. I really like that in her. Her openness, willingness to forgive, and spontaneity is something that I always admired and hope that she has passed on to me.
Ron
I'M ENJOYING MY JOURNEY (Poetry) - 6/30/2016 6:39:49 AM
I couldn't find the link, Download, on your home page, even though I could read the very light, white links near the top. So, I didn't get to listen to you singing your song. You can put the link here making it easier.
Ron
WORLD OF THE SOUL: BY LOVE POSSESSED (Poetry) - 6/23/2016 9:55:12 AM
I have read your article and this poem. You are on the right track. Let's hope that soon everyone gets on the cars riding down this track towards love instead of hate.
Ron
LET HIM LIVE (Poetry) - 5/28/2016 10:03:35 AM
It is a disgrace to this country and humanity. It has to stop.
LET HIM LIVE (Poetry) - 4/16/2016 9:16:30 AM
It should never have happened and it should stop right now.
Ron
COMING HOME TO AFRICA (Poetry) - 2/24/2016 7:15:29 AM
I had the good fortune of housing a young lady from Liberia for a time. It is interesting because her country was founded by Americans of African descent who, after slavery, returned like your poem suggests, to their native Africa. Unfortunately, the young lady I mentioned spent six years hiding with her mother in Sierra Leone, missing out on a basic elementary education and forced to come back to the United States by turmoil in Liberia that continues to this day.
The statistics about those incarcerated are appalling. If that does not constitute a continuation of slavery mentality, it speaks of severe discrimination.
Ron
BLESSINGS ABUNDANTLY (Poetry) - 2/14/2016 3:50:07 AM
AMEN AND AMEN! THANKS FOR SHARING AND ON THIS DAY THAT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE TO REMIND ALL OF THE EVERLASTING LOVE THAT HE CREATED AND SHOWERS US WITH... HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO YOU! LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
BE YOURSELF (Poetry) - 2/4/2016 8:34:23 AM
Uriah, the only problem is I would have to find "myself" first. If you don't mind you mind check out "The Me I Am" I wrote,
I'm still looking, ha!
No, but seriously, you are right.
Dan
BE YOURSELF (Poetry) - 2/3/2016 8:50:44 AM
Great advice in a song. We all have something to contribute that is unique and it's harder to try to be someone were not.
Ron
MUTUALITY (Poetry) - 1/31/2016 8:34:25 AM
A wonderful philosophy of life. I specially like the idea that one of mutuality's principles is enjoyment. So many think that enjoyment is wrong when is perhaps the best part of life.
Ron
SOMETIMES A PRAYER WILL DO (Poetry) - 1/28/2016 10:35:32 AM
I wait for the Yes, Maybe, No...
Always,
Deborah
SOMETIMES A PRAYER WILL DO (Poetry) - 1/28/2016 9:50:41 AM
Yes Uriah, keep on praying,
because there is time,
when only a prayer can help in certain situation!
Well done, thanks for sharing!
SOMETIMES A PRAYER WILL DO (Poetry) - 1/28/2016 7:59:38 AM
I think that prayer sometimes makes the person praying feel better… And that's about it.
I only pray to win the lottery. ;-)
Ron
BE YOUR BEST (Poetry) - 1/22/2016 8:13:44 AM
Some great advice in this poem that is written in narrative article form.
What if the image of God was created by, for and from man?
Ron
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU (Poetry) - 12/13/2015 9:33:51 PM
Jesus: God became man so he could be close to us and tell us His plan. Man: Some cannot believe how much God loves us so many turn away and become blind. God's plan: To forgive us and give us eternal life with Him that is wonderful, gracious and kind. Thank you Uriah and have a Merry time celebrating CHRIST birthday for the Lord is certainly with us. Amen!
Does the Black Man Want the White Man's White Woman? (Poetry) - 12/1/2015 9:01:45 AM
A very good article. Still very apropos today as it was 50 years ago.
You finally got around to my conclusion. That is that our natural survival force used to find a mate, whether that be a single encounter or a lifetime commitment tends to be one that is strong and can survive to give a healthy child that can also survive. The French have a good saying for it: "Viva la difference."
Contrived social and cultural mores that try to "purify" racial differences only came about originally because of environmentally induced survival in isolated locations. Even in prehistory, tribes knew that they had to mate with others of other tribes or their tribe would become very weak genetically and die out from inbreeding. Those who preach racial superiority like Hitler, are doomed.
When I had an African-American with a white grandfather as a girlfriend in the late 1980s, some elderly members of my family were shocked. Others have honored me for my, "courage." I find that all very unnecessary. Your final concluding paragraph is the right one:
"In this whole matter of human association or open assimilation the law: "likes repel and unlikes attract," will do more to shape the future course of history than the frequently quoted axiom "birds of the same feather flock together." The more we magnify or bewail dissimilarities to people the greater will be the attraction for the person who is more different from oneself."
Ron
Does the Black Man Want the White Man's White Woman? (Poetry) - 11/30/2015 8:05:53 PM
We have black cats and mixed breeds. We have brown tabby cats and milky white Persians. Who care what color they are? Human being are just [plain stupid! You are what you are because of your character! Amen!
I HAVE MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR (Poetry) - 11/26/2015 10:04:03 AM
I'LL JUST TAKE YOUR WORD FOR NOW AND WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE MY 'ALL AND ALL'...ALL MY PRAISE, FOR ALL HE IS, IN ALL OF MY LIFE! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
I HAVE MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR (Poetry) - 11/24/2015 8:42:02 AM
Yes, so true. I can understand why people are so worried and upset about the state of the world when they have so many things to be thankful for. We worry about trivia and news items that don't concern us. While we go about our days enjoying so much that we take for granted and don't seem to be thankful for.
Thank you for your optimism.
Ron
SELF-CONFIDENCE (Poetry) - 10/27/2015 9:12:30 AM
This seems to be more like an article than a poem, but it certainly has good advice for being more confident. I recall my nervousness when in public all the way up until I was in my 20s and realized that, in order to overcome those that had a negative view of disabilities like mine, I had to project confidence in showing them that I could operate at an equal level of competence in spite of my disability. It worked and I am no longer afraid of speaking before large audiences.
Ron
SILENT TEARS AND A SOUNDLESS CRY (Poetry) - 10/25/2015 7:26:42 AM
Interesting and psychological. I'm not sure I can relate. But then I have not experienced that kind of pain, and without experience understanding comes harder.
Ron
THE SINGING-JOY CONNECTION: SINGING NOURISHES JOY (Poetry) - 10/19/2015 1:22:22 PM
I agree. Music moves me like no other. It's the flow of life like my heart beating like a drum. When it beats no more, all the music will be gone, but I have heard it all and it is still ringing in my ears through all the years.
Ron
MY LIFE IS AN ENDLESS SONG (Poetry) - 9/30/2015 9:01:23 AM
BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva
QUINTESSENTIAL GRACE (Poetry) - 9/23/2015 5:55:40 AM
May grace be with us all the days of our lives.
Ron
SOUL-COMPLETIOIN (Poetry) - 9/7/2015 9:58:37 AM
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAT MIGHT LEAD ONE TO BELIEVE THAT THE SOUL IS NOT SUBJECT TO GOD, WHEREIN, 'ALL' THINGS ARE. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
EQUALITY WITH EQUITY (Poetry) - 9/1/2015 6:52:32 AM
You write often about the concept of "without failure." I'm not sure what that means in the context of equity or equality. Failure is a natural occurrence. The ultimate failure is death or the failure to live anymore.
Like it or not, we are all judged. But as Martin Luther King so eloquently stated, "We should not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the quality of our character." So, when our character does not meet ours or others expectations, we have failed, regardless of external circumstances.
The barriers holding back truly quality, many of them religious myth, are gradually falling by the wayside with the coming understanding that all people regardless of their physical characteristics or cultural background, have value to society and should be encouraged to freely pursue "life, liberty and happiness."
Ron
EQUALITY WITH EQUITY (Poetry) - 8/31/2015 5:20:53 PM
Right on the bulls eye. These words should be posted everywhere.
Well written. Well said.
Thank you
Chris
EARTHBOUND HEAVENLY TROUBADOURS (Poetry) - 8/20/2015 7:38:34 AM
Among many, the latest troubadour to touch us with his amazing talent is Jon Legend. I melt in the presence of his melodious genius.
Ron
L I V E L A U G H L O V E (Poetry) - 8/14/2015 1:52:03 PM
A wonderful suggestion for all.
Thanks,
Chris
Rebel Currency, Flag are Worthless (Poetry) - 7/21/2015 5:48:40 AM
Amen to that. I see no problem with the Confederate flag (of the Civil War era) being a collectors' item or museum piece. But, as you have so eloquently stated here in this letter in the poetry section, the Confederate flag has no place in modern society any more than the Nazi swastika flag has. Those that rever these symbols in modern day life want to throw back history to a time of great disservice to the intelligence of people of color. They want to hang onto supremacy of race as though it were some kind of ordained right when it is only ignorance and stupidity.
Ron
SPIRIT (Poetry) - 5/1/2015 9:48:51 PM
A well spirited poetic piece! Well done! Amen.
BEAUTIFUL LIVING (Lyrics) (Poetry) - 5/1/2015 12:06:16 AM
Lovely uplifting words suffused with Hope and Beauty...
Diana...
BEAUTIFUL LIVING (Lyrics) (Poetry) - 4/30/2015 11:02:46 AM
I'm reminded of another song, Love Is All There Is. If everyone filled the air with lovely love songs like this, the world would be a much better place.
Ron
BEAUTIFUL LIVING (Lyrics) (Poetry) - 4/29/2015 5:56:47 AM
Yep. That would be a good song put to music. I'd sure give it a listen to . . . Enjoyed just reading it, never mind that there was no music.
MY NEIGHBOR'S LANDMARKS (Poetry) - 4/28/2015 6:00:34 AM
Another article with a very good message. Always admire your knowledge.
Ron
MY NEIGHBOR'S LANDMARKS (Poetry) - 4/27/2015 9:47:41 AM
Ahhh . . . THIS is not a poem. Not even prose. It is an article. There is a place to post articles.
EMULATION vs IMITATION (Poetry) - 4/22/2015 5:52:31 AM
A whole bunch of guys are making a living imitating Elvis Presley. As far as I know, no one has emulated him yet.
An interesting lesson in a poem. While "covering" someone else's song seems to be very common in the music industry (I'm not sure of royalties are paid), for someone to copy a written work of someone else and claim that it is theirs, is an abomination.
As a former professor, I found that many students would copy someone else's work (now they buy or steal readily from the Internet) and present it as their own, just to get ahead. This lack of originality and integrity is disturbing.
Ron
EMULATION vs IMITATION (Poetry) - 4/21/2015 11:47:32 AM
But imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Michael D.
KNOW YOUR IDENTITY (Poetry) - 4/16/2015 8:37:47 AM
I'm with Ed. You've shared some very profound thoughts that everyone should consider.
Ron
KNOW YOUR IDENTITY (Poetry) - 4/16/2015 7:10:19 AM
This is a well-crafted, thought-provoking composition. It not only requires the reader to submit to a serious introspection, but it also explains the steps and the reasoning behind the inquiry. It deserves a wide audience and many more reviews. Well done.
I RESOLVE (Poetry) - 3/17/2015 5:12:10 AM
Great words to live by!
Ron
I RESOLVE (Poetry) - 3/16/2015 10:08:35 AM
Pretty much a blueprint for a happy life . . .
I RESOLVE (Poetry) - 3/16/2015 9:52:14 AM
Yes, that's coool!!!! Love this!!!
Sandie
ON READING (Poetry) - 3/16/2015 7:42:11 AM
I agree with you:Reading does all of the things you list and more.
I have read all of my life,and now, I have over four hundred titles on my kindle,but I still check out hardbacks,paperbacks,from local libraries.
Reading is a vital part of my day to day activities.
One of my contemporary writers is Malcolm Gladwell; I have read all of his books; his latest book, "David and Goliath", is a thought provoking,powerful read.
Thanks for sharing,and continued success.
Barbara J. Henry
AMBISPIRIT (Poetry) - 3/14/2015 7:19:48 AM
This article describes a phenomenon that occurs to everyone because life is full of serendipity that one may attribute to spirituality or just plain serendipity.
I'm not sure the president takes over anything, although a lot of people are accusing him of taking over the country in some way… silly… ;-)
If he did that would be a dangerous precedent, wouldn't it?
Ron
POWER OF PRAYER (Poetry) - 3/3/2015 6:07:39 PM
...there is a power in prayer...
....."God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know
the difference".....Serenity Prayer by R. Niebuhr, 1734.
ON READING (Poetry) - 3/2/2015 7:06:34 AM
Turn the page, and read on.
Michael D.
ON READING (Poetry) - 3/2/2015 6:14:33 AM
I don't read as much as I should, mostly short stories because it's hard for me to hold a book and read it. Probably the most enlightening time of my life was when I read philosophy books during my doctoral studies. Plato's, The Republic, was especially instructive and I would recommend it to anyone interested in government.
Ron
ON READING (Poetry) - 3/1/2015 1:15:11 PM
I am reading "Private Sector," by Brian Haig. It is a good book. Probably falls into the Mystery/Suspense category. I read different kinds of books. I don't know how I would live without my books.
LORD SEND ME I'LL GO (Poetry) - 2/4/2015 1:23:16 AM
Yes, bold and beautiful poetic words. I am ready too. There is NO Higher calling. Thank you for sharing. Amen
LORD SEND ME I'LL GO (Poetry) - 2/3/2015 1:03:07 PM
In the spirit of the old spirituals. Shows great commitment that you've always had.
Ron
LOVE, JOY AND PEACE (Poetry) - 1/29/2015 12:20:43 PM
Let the good times roll…
Ron
SHOW ME (Poetry) - 1/25/2015 7:49:25 AM
Only when we show our real self to another can we be comfortable together. Your poem so reflects this truth.
Ron
SHOW ME (Poetry) - 1/25/2015 4:11:40 AM
Hear! Hear! A soothing and safe play of words to sweetly remove "the mask".
Wishing you continued creativity and bliss!
With respect and smiles,
Carol Phelan Aebby
SHOW ME (Poetry) - 1/24/2015 2:07:44 PM
I don't need a mask, but I wear a lot of different hats.
Michael D.
PURSUIT OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS (Poetry) - 1/22/2015 10:51:02 AM
Higher consciousness is welcomed. For me I will accept just being conscious of what is right and abide by it.
Ron
TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW (Poetry) - 1/17/2015 9:36:32 PM
Jesus has provided the answer. But most reject Him and throw their lives away. It's our choice. He gave us FREE will. If you were God would you want to force your children to love and accept you? Of course not, well neither does the Father in Heaven. Amen!
TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW (Poetry) - 1/10/2015 7:46:07 PM
1-10-2015:
Sadly Until You Do **Die-DEAD
You Only Find IT Out For
YOURSELF--If He (God) Lets
You Come Back Into This Evil World--
Do Tell Me Your Story!!
** I Have 4 N D's Since Childhood
Whence You Are Dead Bible,Faith,
Religion Totally Irrelevant
You Either Go Up Or You Go Down--
Take Your Pick!!
TRASK...
TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW (Poetry) - 1/9/2015 2:14:22 PM
Death/life maybe its a cycle, maybe it ends. Truth is that its a mystery that everyone will know the answer to. The urge for humans to understand and learn has been something that has always been around and may always be there. Opinions vary from human to human and thats what makes us who we are. Like a spider web, building up over time to only be destroyed later. We weave the web of life and in it is our own lives. Waiting to feed our hunger, until the end.
TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW (Poetry) - 1/9/2015 12:41:25 PM
You post some interesting questions in this poem.
Most religious people say that their religion as an answer and it is quite simple. If you believe in that religion, in the correct way, your life on the other side will be much better than this miserable existence we call, "life," here and now.
Since I'm not religious, I believe that all I have is here and now. My only legacy will be what I have accomplished that will be remembered among those who live after me. Therefore, I live this life with gusto and don't concern myself with any, "other side."
Ron
TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW (Poetry) - 1/9/2015 8:19:16 AM
Death is last great mystery. A question that will never be answered, but we will always keep asking.
Michael D.
L. D. REDDICK COMMENTS ON U. J. FIELDS (Poetry) - 12/19/2014 11:36:57 AM
I think this would be better placed in the Articles or News sections. But I know that you want it to be read. And the most visitors come to Poetry.
I've been thinking about you lately while seeing information on Oprah Winfrey's new movie about Montgomery. Were you there? Are you portrayed? Or is it just the characters that Oprah thinks were important players?
Ron
THE IDOL OF TOGETHERNESS (Poetry) - 12/7/2014 11:11:21 AM
I love that last word… "ultimacy." I agree with the idea of person avoiding getting tangled up with other people and seek for his or herself the way one should live. I have done that without god or gods interfering in the process of self understanding.
Ron
BEYOND PROPRIETY (Poetry) - 12/4/2014 1:26:01 PM
I remember reading Beyond Freedom and Dignity when it first came out, as well. It was BF Skinner's finest work and had a profound effect on many, including you and me.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you've written in this poem. I think everyone should read it and fully understand what it means.
Ron
WHY-WHERE-WHEN-HOW DO I SING (Poetry) - 11/21/2014 7:19:49 AM
As a result of all the singing, I pronounce you a happy man! If only everyone would sing instead of getting angry over nothing.
Ron
HAIKU EXPOSING CONGRESS (Poetry) - 11/20/2014 8:10:20 AM
As I recall from historic records, cutting up in Congress is nothing new. Your poem has a two-edged sword to it. Not only are the new majority fond of making outrageous statements of what they believe (often to the expense of everybody but their buddies), like John Boehner crying crocodile tears when he described how he had to do demeaning work (since when is labor that is necessary, like cleaning, demeaning?) when he was young. But now that he is rich, he can hire wage slaves to do his bidding, or better yet, illegal immigrants while claiming that none should ever cross the borders.
The other is cutting government funding for all the things that all citizens can benefit from equally. Making sure that privatizing fills the pockets of their rich buddies controlling things from behind the scenes. The new Congress will all say, "Let them have charity! We can't afford to carry any slackers (like us) in this country through bloated government.
But I remember what happened to Marie Antoinette when she queried why the poor could not eat cake when they had no bread.
Ron
CHOICE (Poetry) - 11/19/2014 10:10:42 AM
Partly because Frost did not explain why he made that decision may be the reason why that poem has endured and intrigued people for so long.
The message in your article was quite clear. It's the choice is to make in life that make our lives. While we cannot predict the future, we can shape it in some way by making educated choices rather than ones that are clearly wrong from the start.
Ron
CHOICE (Poetry) - 11/18/2014 3:02:38 PM
Wonderful poetic thoughts! I took a very unfamiliar road the other day on my bike. It was exciting, new, and refreshing. I meet some amazing people when I reached my destiny. I was glad that I took that road. Amen
BELIEF AND FAITH (Poetry) - 10/25/2014 7:03:56 PM
Thank you Uriah for this victorious poem of faith that landed on this website like a lonely US Marine. We are the few, we are the faithful, but in the end with the Love of Jesus Christ we will have victory! Amen
BELIEF AND FAITH (Poetry) - 10/25/2014 9:07:43 AM
Belief and faith have certainly helped people get through hard times when they had no options. Those that do get through hard times often claim that their belief and faith carried them through. However, those that do not get through hard times are silent because they are dead.
Belief and faith are easy because they require no action except to accept and let some outside force take care. But those who act on their own conviction have it much harder because they often make the wrong choices and end up worse off. That's why belief and faith are so enticing… But they haven't contributed much to human progress… Individual action does that.
Ron
I'M STILL HERE (Poetry) - 10/8/2014 10:02:37 AM
Uriah,
Jesus IS STILL HERE. Nothing can change that even thou alot of people want too. Keep writing for our Lord.
Love and blessings,
~Linda
I'M STILL HERE (Poetry) - 10/6/2014 4:52:34 PM
GREAT write! Kings and Kingdoms will ALL pass away but the Lord our God will remain eternally and forever.
I'M STILL HERE (Poetry) - 10/6/2014 7:51:04 AM
Not only a wonderful song of redemption, a bit biographical as well. Kudos!
Ron
