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Feb 13 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Art Link

At the Edge

Falling

Love that lasts

as long at least

as this forever

standing too close

to the ledge

separating

us from you

waits to see

if it will be denied

affirmation

watching painfully

those intent

on pushing us off

barreling toward us

while everyone else

silently bears

witness

That love

will not end

as we fall

if we fail

but I can’t help

but think

how failing

will diminish

us all

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–October 24, 2008

Feb 12 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Blood on the Tracks

No Hate

The train of progress

moves down the track

unencumbered by those

left behind

abandoned

for the good

of an all too small

Lives consumed

as so much chum

to the hatred

Promises are always made

to come back

to rectify the wrongs

but the train

by its nature

always moves forward

Happiness denied

in the name

of progress

Must we wait

for another train

of doubtful existence

to arrive sometime

after we die?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–October 17, 2008

Feb 11 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

For Elena

Love and Happiness

Twenty-one years

out of the closet

busy

authentic

productive

happy

self-assured

peaceful

in Love

Happiness is

when you really feel

good about somebody

Nothing wrong

with being in love

with somebody

Happiness is

having the choices

and making them

to spread more happiness

Thank you

Elena

for your happiness

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–November 14, 2008

Feb 10 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Outside a Warped Box

Now or Ever?

Do we all walk forward

together

or are some of us

left behind

forever to be told

later

is the time

maybe in two or three

generations

things will change

magically?

How many years

constitute a someday?

How many limits

should there be

on equality?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–October 10, 2008

Feb 09 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Cataclysm

…something wicked this way comes

Acts of abandonment

of common decency

litter our times

with inhumanity

so dense

as to require

skillful excision

using a scalpel

of hardened hope

and dreams made real

by the collective

efforts of people

with opened eyes

uncovered ears

and noses

capable of smelling

the stench of greed

which moves the planet

ever closer

to the edge

of catastrophe

But the scalpel is dull

and the hands too few

the will appears too weak

to wield it now

on the mouldering body

of what passes for

our culture

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–October 3, 2008

Feb 07 2009

Friday Philosophy: How small is the universe in universal?

By Robyn in GLBT, Health Care, Philosophy

Debbie and I were informed about a week ago that our doctor was changing locations, leaving the Family Health Center in Montclair for another practice a half hour away. We are left with the decision of whether to follow her or keep going to the Family Health Center.

For me, that’s not as straightforward a decision as it would be for most people.

Treatment by medical personnel, doctors, nurses and office staff can be a critical issue or transfolk.

Of course, I can only speak for myself and my experience should not be deemed universal. That could be the point…or at least one of them.

Feb 06 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Game Pieces

Entropy

Born into a game

I never wished to play

Predestined to lose

while someone else

controls the dice

Not born a winner

Whole industries created

to enticed me into not

breaking even

Escape from the game

impossible

I seek (in vain?)

to avoid becoming a pawn

on someone else’s board

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–June 27, 2008

Feb 05 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Focusing a Blind Eye

Creative Control

Because a thought occurs

is insufficient reason

for it to require voicing

let alone dissemination

equal time

support

endorsement

Who speaks against

when it is necessary?

No.

Not that.

Who decides?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–August 29, 2008

Feb 04 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Gap

Kindness

Too many words

float in the ether

ethereal thoughts

about what could be

about a perfect future

hidden

by a fractured present

lived by wounded people

existing unsoundly

on a damaged planet

silently flogged

by the raging insanity

of individual greed

unkind cuts

mysteriously appearing

in the decaying flesh

of our better natures

Turn back the song of sadness

of broken dreams and fear

And sing your song of gladness

so everyone can hear

Embrace the kindness in us

Emit the unity

Together we can win us

A better destiny

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–September 19, 2008

Feb 03 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Seating

All Aboard

The train pulled in

to the borderland

Beings disembarked

fresh from the city

built a town

a fortress

walls

a replica

of the places

they came from

replicating

those things they hated

in the left-behind

Outside those walls

were the Others

pushing back

the Unknown

summoning the uncertainty

the distortion

that is a new boundary

so that once more

the train could move on

to a new borderland

Like the universe

humanity expands

and gravitationally contracts

into clumps

of sameness

ever spreading

further apart

until the border becomes

the edge of the clump

rather than

the edge of humanity

The train pulled in

to the borderland

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–September 12, 2008

Feb 02 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Choices

The Path Well-Chosen

The fork in the road

of humanity divides us

into givers and takers

Fundamentally I know

the givers will reach

the prize

at the end of the rainbow

of human endeavor

and put it to good use

for the good of us all

…even the takers

But the takers

make the road

seem so damn long

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–September 5, 2008

Feb 02 2009

Café Discovery: Holiday Train Show – infrastructure

By Robyn in Teaching

Back on January 8, Debbie and I took a trip to the New York Botanical Garden. I brought along my new camera and took a lot of photos.

Previous sub-collections are available here:

Haupt Conservatory included some of the plant exhibits, including the desert succulents.

statuary displayed photos of three public art installations.

public spaces was the first part of the Holiday Train Show exhibition.

Today’s collection is part two of three of the latter. Still to come will be (roughly) wealth, skyscrapers, and entertainment.

Clicking upon the photos should open larger versions in a new tab.