Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Waning Sun, Waxing Moon old mask Moon smiling like a jukebox tune make my world safe for dreams safe from politicians' schemes from atrocious barbs of flaming from kindergarten cliques of shaming * Frame a sane world to carry happy fantasies lush and fragrant trees lust of flowers for bees a'busy b...

happy day to die
amid man's and planet's ruins
ascending from Hell


starshine uncontained
potent messaging released
cackles through airwaves


March of novelty
sad kabuki metaphor
drowns in destruction

Root of Desire (draft 1, part 1) Chapter 2: Challenge Renata awakens. She is lying beneath a tree, on a summer morning. Her clothes feel strange, different. She has no idea where she is. She hears other people's movements close by, smells their animal odors. She open her eyes. Around her she sees pe...

Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine is an online 'zine displaying various visual and written visionary art connected into a derivative artistic statement. It is free for anyone who wants to view it: http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com Issue dates are idiosyncratic and astrologically linked to the ...

Cold, it calculates
measures bloodlines
severs meek and old
awaits rebuttal from
ebullient flow
liquid luxury
calculated
warmth

Storytellers We need to make up stories to be able to create realities. That's what separates sapien from beast. Speak to the feast or famine. Sage, carnie, beggar Come to the play! There was a Roman soldier bored with war, with whores, with bloody babies. Hoping to escape, he wrote a history, moved...

Depression like that can't be cured by sitting in a room and eating when the monks eat. (not to say anything negative about Cecil's post). Yes, I do believe stress is a major factor for those who experience depression as the chemical imbalance can worsen. Actually, research with meditation suggests...

Not all the citizens of the United States are in debt, our corporate citizens are doing quite well. I think, if we must give "tax relief" to the wealthy it ought to come as US Government Bonds. We are so concerned with our debt to China and other not so friendly nations. Why isn't the US debt in th...

Tell me I can dance
The world becomes a mystery
an ecstasy, a history
of all who dance
for the joy
for the taste
of pure enchantment
in midst of the everyday
in this instant every wish
is granted
in the play
-- body with bliss --
of celebration

More trade without more "stuff" in the sense of physical objects. A great deal of trade these days is in intangibles. The major resource used is infinitely reusable -- thought, imagination, information

Not my credit card debt -- that was an example, an analogy for the national debt. Growth does not have to be about using resources (especially about misusing resources). That has to do with the greed-based market -- owning all the toys to be on top. Growth of an economy means more trade. Trade these...

Present Opening Going forward Lights and music Swirling holiday cinnamon and myrrh Taste of snowflakes Crisp, cold, lively Ballet nights, stories from afar Joy becomes a hallmark Friendly carolers decorate our doorways Signs say peace is nigh If we take the highroad, grasp sublime refrains as they t...

Imagine no John Lennon Even if he hadn't died No Beatles to remember His music still inside Imagine all the people Never hear his cry to unite through imagination It was 30 years ago today A madman blew Lennon away Yet, the import of what he had to say Can not be taken It is up to us who know His wo...

Not a poem, but a heralding song To gather audience, a hearty throng Worthy of the artists' time -- An invitation set to rhyme Look at the idiots with the plane bombs. They were not bombers. They were clowns. The point was not to bring the planes out of the sky, but to put the fear into the flyers. ...

It is important that we grow our economy because we are so far in debt that the only way out is up. For instance, I have enormous credit card debt that I have been paying the minimum of, thus getting nowhere but behind. I can't save my way out of that debt. I have to find more income to pay it off. ...