Can there be aesthetics
without ethics?

This and many other questions
pre-occupy me tonight while I
sit cross legged in a tent
with the rain for company not
forgetting the:

Birdsong the wind and
The relentless pounding
waves...
That are my days fare.

The questions / problems that
come to mind include the
delusion of certain so called
democracies, the
multi-nationals that prey on
the naive and gullible, the
press Barons that appear to
know the news before it
happens, the league of
hyper-rich that finance wars
as if some parlour game, the
seeming reluctance of many
western countries to tackle
the problems of pollution, the
anomalies that disfranchise
citizens of human rights...
ad-nauseam.

High on a mountain
In the depths of Oceans..
there
Is the Taniwha

Back in the city a complex
game is played by the
ambitions and well healed in
which the fate of countries
can be thrown into turmoil,
though the Taniwha eludes
them.

In the precincts of "Walden -
Pond" Thoreaux's spirit
searches for like minded
beings to create his Utopia,
unfortunately missed by the
eco-tourist with cameras
poised to capture the quaint
primitivism of the past. ...

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