The Faroes – more of the rugged landscape.
Driving through the mountains and hills, with their scattered communities, or single dwellings, one is struck by the loneliness and beautiful bleakness of the place. It is incredibly picturesque.
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The Faroes – Off into the Volcanic interior.
Long ago The Faroes rose up out of the sea in tumultuous volcanic activity. The end result is a land of dead volcanoes, mountains of ash and larva and a rugged, fertile landscape.
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Propaganda
Propaganda
Propaganda is all we get;
An endless stream of bias.
With calculation and intent
Out of the mouths of liars.
Targeted spin and lies
Aimed at the gullible.
Callous disregard
For all the vulnerable.
The arrogant entitled
Take us for fools.
Reciting the lessons
They learnt in their schools.
Manipulate us like cattle
In their lust for wealth and power
Voting them out
Would be our finest hour.
Opher – 23.6.2022
The truth has always been the first victim in this endless war. Nothing has changed down the ages. It’s all a front.
The wealthy establishment still rule. Where once they used force to subjugate the masses and treated them with utter disdain, now they use propaganda.
The same people who ordered the troops to kill at Peterloo now use the media to keep the masses in their place, working for the prosperity of the minority.
Where it used to be mansions, carriages and a host of servants it is now superyachts, penthouses and supercars.
They give us as little as they can get away with and blind us with stark warnings, smoke and mirrors.
They appear reasonable, plausible and understanding but they are really cynical exploiters and profiteers.
Every now a revelation leaks out about their scummy workings – Greenswill or lobbying, Russian connections and cash for peerages, but it’s all soon glossed over.
They get away with deception, spin and murder.
Putin And Johnson
Putin And Johnson
Putin and Johnson
Will soon be dust.
Their crooked regimes
Will tumble and rust.
The pyramids
Will blow in the wind
Even the galaxy
Will cease to spin.
Nobody left
As the stars will go out
To wonder what
It was all about.
Opher – 25.6.2022
I’m going through one of my philosophical moods.
One short life.
We can waste it or live it.
Purpose that we create for ourselves.
We can do something positive or we can do nothing.
We can build or destroy.
We can care or hate.
We can look after the planet or be greedy vandals.
The only thing that matters is what we do in the moments that make up our lives. A positive force or a negative force. The moment is all we have. Nothing lasts.
When it is over it is gone.
The Sun Don’t Mind
The Sun Don’t Mind
There’s a war in Ukraine
But the sun don’t mind.
Though millions starve
It will continue to shine.
One day I’ll die
But eternity won’t care.
My mind will cease,
My atoms everywhere.
While we’re fed conspiracy
The universe expands
Unaware of devastation
Oblivious to our plans.
Fleas on an elephant,
A tear in the ocean.
Voyagers on a rock
Living without a notion.
So big in our heads
So tiny in reality.
An invisible flash
In the uterus of infinity.
Opher – 25.6.2022
So important to bring things into perspective.
We take ourselves too seriously.
Yet our lives are important.
The wonder of life is quite unique.
We take so much for granted.
We are busy trashing paradise for a pocket full of baubles.
How can we give this life purpose?
Biden elects 50 liberal judges to the Supreme Court!
Why not? It’s what Trump did?
The USA now has a Supreme Court that is a political tool of the Conservative Right!
The USA is on a journey back to the Dark Ages!!
The USA is heading back in time to the days of bigotry, misogyny and racism. They’ll be bringing back slavery next!!
A few truths to make you laugh (or cry).
Just put these together randomly. What times we live in!!
Life Goes By
Life Goes By
Life goes by
With us
Or without us
Despite us
All around us
But for how long?
Just once
On a bombarded rock
Dancing in the rain
Wearing just one sock
A profound dunce capered.
Opher – 25.6.2022
It always seems amazing to me that on this tiny barren rock, in the middle of a vast ocean of stars, life began.
So much we don’t understand.
So much awe and wonder.
So many coincidences.
Instead of appreciating the stupendous circumstances that surround us we have to make up rigid fables and tie ourselves down.
Instead of respecting the wonders we are surrounded with we have to carelessly ignore them, destroy them and try to rule over them.
I can’t help thinking that we’re destined for a big fall.
Medieval Morality
Medieval Morality
Fear of death
Wonder and awe
Left us wondering
What it was for.
We sought
An answer
Around which
We could concur.
We invented
Gods and faith
Rules and religion
To make us feel safe.
Now we’re prisoners
Inside our concoction
Raging and dividing
In full execution.
Victims of medieval
Morality
Preventing us exploring
What might be.
Opher – 25.6.2022
Back in the dark depths of history we invented religions. Driven by a desire to understand we sought explanations.
Over time they became rigid dogma that chained us and prevented us accepting the new.
There had to be no change or evolution.
The dogma is a prison of our own making.
Periodically the zealots and fanatics want to drag us back to the Dark Ages.
Take away women’s rights, put them in robes, hidden behind veils. Lock them away.
Misogynistic religions blame women for the faults of men. They must be made to suffer.
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