We the people, need to elect into Congress statesmen who……

We the people, need to elect into Congress statesmen who are concerned for the overall wellbeing of the people and not some party or personal agenda; any representative of the people in Congress who puts a party or personal agenda ahead of the people’s wellbeing, should be elected out of office by We the People.”

Saying by  ~Keith Alan Hamilton~

Great Bridge Water Tower

referred to…. as some
elevated hydrospheroid
known in the past
as the Great Bridge
Water Tower
all 150 feet
million gallon
tank of it
I’ve seen standing
in its blue
polyurethane glory
with the black stenciled
name of Chesapeake
across its face
from a distance
while driving down
the Great Bridge Bypass

they say its insides
is coated with epoxy

I don’t know
but it sure looks cool
to gaze up at
on a sunny day
with a backdrop
made of clouds
when spending
a carefree day
with someone
you enjoy being with
especially my muse …..

Image & Words by   ~Keith Alan Hamilton~

World Healing leads to World Peace

My recent submission to People are Talking a part of the World Healing, World Peace – 2014 Anthology.

This vision of world healing and peace, if such a hope is going to come to fruition, it will take much struggle through effort within the human thinking process. Humanity collectively within the process of reflective consciousness will firstly have to change the way we perceive ourselves. We the people of the planet earth will have to accept that our kind, our species is nothing more than simply human. We must accept ourselves, not necessarily forgive and forget the lessons taught during the human experience; however, humanity should no longer bear the weight of quilt or feel remorse for living our lives the best we can regardless of the mistakes we’ve made as individuals or as a whole. We must come to understand that no one gave us an all-encompassing guidebook on how to live and survive, how to bring about a healthy, joyful, prosperous and peaceful world. We must realize it is a waste of time and energy to cast blame or point a finger in an attempt to somehow rectify past transgressions against each other and other living creatures. If such a vision of world healing and then peace is to transpire, We the people will have to become perceptually more positive towards our kind. We’ll have to become more pro-human minded. If we want the intolerant to become more tolerant, we must lead the way by patiently demonstrating the behavior of tolerance towards them as they undergo the process of transformation.

If this transformation is going to happen we must take the lead by proactively exhibiting a pro-human mindset, not only through words, but through actions as well. Only then will our united vision for world healing to bring about peace make substantial headway along its transitional journey. To make progressive headway, We the people need to see the wisdom and then initiate the forming of a cooperative partnership with our servant(s) the government(s). Such a partnership will provide the necessary foundation and means to come up with flexible and transitional concepts that lead to valuable practices, implemented with the assistance of innovative technologies for the purpose of improving the overall wellbeing of humanity. In the first eBook of the online series Nature ~ IQ: Let’s Survive, Not Die! (soon to be published in print by Inner Child Press), I suggested for these concepts and practices to be of benefit to humanity, they need to be centered ideologically around 5 freely accessible and affordable services: energy, information/education, transportation, health care and housing. Freely accessible and affordable services such as these will uplift the spirit of humanity making us all overtime more positive and productive contributors and less of a burden on society. Not only blessing us with the ability to help ourselves, but giving us the time and resources to help others. In turn as we help others, they will help others help themselves, on and on through a reciprocal process of healing. Where this process of healing keeps building in momentum and transitioning until the transformation of We the people becomes healthy, joyful and prosperous. Ultimately creating an environment of wellbeing that’s void of the trials and tribulations which held the world captive to anger, hatred, strive, illness and pain. At such a time, the wind then will howl no more due to the storm; ‘cause the wind will be saturated with the sweet music of peace.

~Keith Alan Hamilton~  is an independent online publisher, editor, poet/writer & Smartphone photographer. Keith has 3 Blogs: Keith Alan Hamilton.com, https://www.keithalanhamilton.com,  Nature-IQ.com, https://www.nature-iq.com,  and The Hamilton Gallery ~ Online.com, http://www.thehamiltongalleryonline.com. Keith’s first eBook in the series Nature ~ IQ: Let’s Survive, Not Die! is available online to read free of charge. https://www.nature-iq.com/download/NatureIQ%20ebook1.pdf. It will be published in print by Inner Child Press soon.

my Smartphone

there… all alone
in the Big Apple I was
on the 3rd floor
corner room
of the Carlton Arms Hotel
with a window view
that looks up 3rd Ave   ~
from 25th street
rainy outside
overcast sky
I think of writing
on this day of no plans
I ponder
do I turn on
my laptop
or do I stay in bed
and use my Smartphone
to create a poem   ~
you see…. nowadays
I use my Smartphone
more and more
to type my words
they get stored
on it too
even at
poetry readings
I read from my Smartphone
i.e., a reading in Baltimore
put on by my peace activist/
poet friend David Eberhardt

which included my poet friend
Constantine Pantazonis
instead of a sheet of paper
the whole process seems
so much more spontaneous
easy and convenient
I only use
my computer
to write prose
on my blog/web site
’cause the keypad
on the phone
still sucks for all that  ~
I’ve started a whole series
of photos with poetic words
called Images with Words
posted at my blog
advertised
on my Facebook page
……later this year
to be an eBook
only using
my Droid Bionic
who’d have thunk
within the mural
painted walls
of such a storied
NYC hotel
would sit not Gellhorn….
with her fingers tapping out
on a typewriter
a war story for a magazine
but   ~Keith Alan Hamilton~
as he uses
this high-tech gadget
to create words
to illustrate through image
his story/poem

Image & Words by  ~Keith Alan Hamilton~
Carlton Arms Hotel – NYC

perfect

while on the road called life
we may come upon
the embodiment of perfection
whether or not
we choose to experience
its very presence
before us…. or
appreciate
its everlasting beauty
by breathing in…..
its essence
is up to us

well  ~  I do see you before me
and I fully inhale your beauty

all
I
can
say
is

perfect

Image & Words by  ~Keith Alan Hamilton~

the muse

I often wonder
what’s whirling ~ twirling
around
and around
within your
beautiful mind
much like
the swirly
curly patterns
that form
in the water
of a creek
as it gently flows
beneath and beyond
a little wooden bridge
surrounded
by vegetation
with subtle hues
of color  ~

‘cause of all this…..

you’re the muse
for what’s
whirling ~ twirling
around
and around
within my mind
as the aspects
of reality
become
poetic metaphors
to illustrate
what I see and feel
through the lens
of
my
Smartphone
camera

I often wonder
what’s whirling ~ twirling
around
and around
within your
beautiful mind

Image & Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~