No Truth / No Justice No Justice / No Peace No Peace / No Balance Balance Truth in Clarity Clarity / Reflection Reflection / Detachment Detachment / Humility Humility / Humanity Humanity / Practice Practice / Persistence Persistence / Balance Balance Justice in Truth– Peace does not happen It is studied, crafted Handmade with care, […]
Author: Rayn Roberts
Writing, Poetry, Literature, Readings, Zines, Books, etc.
Advice for Younger Writers
I have always written for my own pleasure without regard for what the critics say. what I write is always about me; what I know, feel, see in you, nature, the news every and any thing that touches me– learn, read, hone your skills, fuck critics just write, that’s it, writing, exploration Discovery If you […]
Éirí Amach na Cásca
(Irish for the Easter Rising) April wilderness stone cold rushing waterfall. Wearing my nakedness as a bear his fur I’m not skinny but I am […]
Barmaid Snippet
“Mind your p’s & q’s”, she said you’ll fall down walkin’ home or crash your car, end up dead not a good way to go, geek– and if you’re writin’ me a poem dot your i’s and cross your t’s. fourth stanza, line six, last word I’ve had an eye on you a while– […]
A Slice of COVID 19 Quarantine,
for D. A. Rural folk seldom have neighbors pop by. I’m lucky one lives next to me. A great Dane lives with her A cat with me— We stay a crow’s call apart, safe inside. She tends the chickens daily at five. I feed the calico at that time. I greet her tossing feed “Hey, […]
La Feria de Abril, Sevilla, España
What the old know the young don’t believe the wiles of youth are not lost on the wise: as a busy farmer sees a fox does not call his dog or get a gun the old allow freedom, turn a blind eye The young wonder is life always like this, the elders say, not […]
Frontline “The U.S. of Conspiracy” Watch it Before you Vote. It’s Dope.
The United States of Conspiracy… This is some messed shit goin’ on in America. “Anna Merlan, a journalist who has covered conspiracy theories and misinformation for years, is blunt. “The conspiracy caught fire because people were uncomfortable with the idea of a Black president, and they were eager to believe any number of racist smears […]
The Plague, by Camus, says a lot about COVID-19 & Other Pandemics
I Woke One Day and Was a Man I’d wondered what it would be like to be a stranger in a body rented from God, cargo damaged more each day. I thought being a man would mean freedom to go wherever I wanted, do whatever I liked to do, not bound by the long leash […]
The Scheme of Things
In a breakneck chase the moose calf goes down, a grizzly devours. wolves stalk for hours the bison get away. the pack sustain on voles and mice mostly go hungry a crow eats the nestlings in a robin’s nest still robins abound. green turtles on a beach lay eggs swim off in the deep. all […]
Lesteka
Just Listen & Relax.
