The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday June 17th, 2023
Planetary Essentials by Jan Sand
I have used this blog to a large extent for my own amusement to play with the elementary formalities of poetry as someone entirely untrained in the medium and thereby stumbling through an alien terrain in naive explorations. But this is a public display and, as someone who has experienced a somewhat extended life, I am driven to look both backward and ahead to make sense of some personal kind in it all. As Chomsky has repeatedly indicated, this current era of human domination and power has progressed to a point of disrupting the natural complex of life on the planet so that much of civilization and all other life is being driven towards extinction within a few decades and there is little if any powerful effort to deter that finality or even accept that it is occurring.
I cannot but have a viewpoint of humility in this examination since rationality within these last couple of centuries has disposed of the millenniums of self congratulatory nonsense that previous cultures have used to elevate the egos of ancient philosophers and theologists. Humankind is now firmly placed in the animal kingdom on a small planet which is an inconsequential fleck of dust in an unimaginably huge universe.
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A chain of questions #poem by David Barger
“Will the changing climates
Continue shifting?
Will the seasons ever swap
With their ways?
Shall winter ever warm us
In December,
And summer let the snowflakes
Tell its age?”
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AntySaurus Prick #68 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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