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#**A philosophical, psychological, and theological treatise on untrolling the troll through reality** *There are mirrors that do not reflect..   only refract. And some spirits learn early that if they cannot hold Light, they can still bend it. This is the strange threshold where illusion reaches for substance, and substance chooses not to turn away:* There comes a moment.. rare, unsettling,  almost comic when you discover that the person tugging at your pant leg in the dark is not a wolf, or a ghost, not a prophet or a lover, but an Internet troll. Not the kind found in fables or in the haunted corners of childhood, but the modern kind: the mimic, the mask-builder, the one who invents selves the way a child folds paper animals  hoping  someone will mistake them for something alive. And the strangest truth is this: The troll does not want war. The troll wants Light. He simply cannot ask for it in a human way. His entire existence depends on creating replicas: replicas of wounded women, replicas of longing, replicas of hunger, replicas of intimacy he has never lived but sees reflected in the eyes of those who have. Envy is the fuel. Emptiness is the kindling. Self-deception is the match. And so he builds personas-- one after the other.. thinking that if he can drag a man of substance into the theater of his projections, he will finally taste what it means to be real. But the troll forgets one thing: *You cannot feast on another man’s spirit when your own mouth was never made to swallow truth.* This is where the Art begins. Falling in love with a troll does not mean romance,   or desire, or even affection. It means stepping close enough to see the trembling behind the trick. It means letting the counterfeit reveal itself not through accusation, but through the stillness of a man who refuses to play the game. A troll feeds on reaction. So the only way to troll the troll is with reality:    *unforced,    unmasked,    unbothered..    uncompromised.* Reality is kryptonite to the mimic. It collapses the theater. It kills the puppet’s strings. It reveals that the monster under the bed is just a tired, bloated man curled in a corner holding a script he wrote in the dark. This is how the untrolling happens: Not through triumph, or humiliation.    Through seeing. Seeing the envy..   the obsession. Seeing the hunger for stolen intimacy. Seeing the mimicry of feminine language worn like a veil over masculine wounds. Seeing that the entire performance was not an attack on you but an escape attempt from himself. And here is the most devastating truth of all: When you respond from a place of reality, the troll experiences the one thing he cannot endure ==    being known. He can handle hatred. He can handle mockery. He can handle exposure. But he cannot handle being seen. Because what is seen can no longer hide. And what can no longer hide can no longer pretend to be powerful. The art of falling in love with an Internet troll is simply this:    *You remain who you are    in the presence of someone who has no idea    who he is.* You offer nothing performative. You enter no arena. You fight no phantom. You simply bring the fullness of a real human life into the counterfeit world of a man who has forgotten his own. And in that moment.. quiet, surgical, absolute.. the troll is untrolled. Not by force, or shame, but by the unbearable weight  of truth:    ***Every mask collapses    when placed in front of a  face    that has none.*** #
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Dec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM UTC
The Art of Falling in Love with an Internet Troll
#**A philosophical, psychological, and theological treatise on untrolling the troll through reality** *There are mirrors that do not reflect..   only refract. And some spirits learn early that if they cannot hold Light, they can still bend it. This is the strange threshold where illusion reaches for substance, and substance chooses not to turn away:* There comes a moment.. rare, unsettling,  almost comic when you discover that the person tugging at your pant leg in the dark is not a wolf, or a ghost, not a prophet or a lover, but an Internet troll. Not the kind found in fables or in the haunted corners of childhood, but the modern kind: the mimic, the mask-builder, the one who invents selves the way a child folds paper animals  hoping  someone will mistake them for something alive. And the strangest truth is this: The troll does not want war. The troll wants Light. He simply cannot ask for it in a human way. His entire existence depends on creating replicas: replicas of wounded women, replicas of longing, replicas of hunger, replicas of intimacy he has never lived but sees reflected in the eyes of those who have. Envy is the fuel. Emptiness is the kindling. Self-deception is the match. And so he builds personas-- one after the other.. thinking that if he can drag a man of substance into the theater of his projections, he will finally taste what it means to be real. But the troll forgets one thing: *You cannot feast on another man’s spirit when your own mouth was never made to swallow truth.* This is where the Art begins. Falling in love with a troll does not mean romance,   or desire, or even affection. It means stepping close enough to see the trembling behind the trick. It means letting the counterfeit reveal itself not through accusation, but through the stillness of a man who refuses to play the game. A troll feeds on reaction. So the only way to troll the troll is with reality:    *unforced,    unmasked,    unbothered..    uncompromised.* Reality is kryptonite to the mimic. It collapses the theater. It kills the puppet’s strings. It reveals that the monster under the bed is just a tired, bloated man curled in a corner holding a script he wrote in the dark. This is how the untrolling happens: Not through triumph, or humiliation.    Through seeing. Seeing the envy..   the obsession. Seeing the hunger for stolen intimacy. Seeing the mimicry of feminine language worn like a veil over masculine wounds. Seeing that the entire performance was not an attack on you but an escape attempt from himself. And here is the most devastating truth of all: When you respond from a place of reality, the troll experiences the one thing he cannot endure ==    being known. He can handle hatred. He can handle mockery. He can handle exposure. But he cannot handle being seen. Because what is seen can no longer hide. And what can no longer hide can no longer pretend to be powerful. The art of falling in love with an Internet troll is simply this:    *You remain who you are    in the presence of someone who has no idea    who he is.* You offer nothing performative. You enter no arena. You fight no phantom. You simply bring the fullness of a real human life into the counterfeit world of a man who has forgotten his own. And in that moment.. quiet, surgical, absolute.. the troll is untrolled. Not by force, or shame, but by the unbearable weight  of truth:    ***Every mask collapses    when placed in front of a  face    that has none.*** #
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# There is a soul who stands where the bridge leans over the river, where old nights once gathered like unanswered prayers. The water stirs with memory.. not to accuse, but to speak of the distance traveled and the shadows overcome. For the heart is not the heart of yesterday. It has learned the weight of truth, the sound of strength that does not meander. And beside this soul moves a quiet presence, soft as the breath before dawn, steadfast as a lamp refusing to bow to the wind. The waters lower their gaze. They know this kind of courage.. born not from fire, but from endurance, from choosing what is pure even when the world is unkind. No oath is spoken. No name, carved into stone. Yet the river understands:    *storms cannot reclaim    a heart that has recognized    what is worthy.* And so it is whispered in the unseen places.. when true substance draws near, the troubled waters release their need for old storms, and become still again. #
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM UTC
Water
# *she wakes.. as if lifted out of a dream; the last threads of night still clinging to her skin like a story she no longer believes but hasn’t fully let go of and there.. through the half-open curtain, through the hush that comes before a new day reveals its full glory.. the first bright water of morning begins to pour over her each morning.. the sun rises anew and calls your name without a shadow each morning.. the lens clears just a little more.. fog thinning, shame loosening, clarity turning like a door opening inward and somewhere in that hush you remember what was always true: that God never turned away, that the self you lost was never truly gone, and that the light you feared was judging you was only waiting to wash you clean you stand one day farther from the fog, one day deeper into your own beauty.. the kind that cannot be taken, the kind the dawn recognizes as its own and when the warmth settles across your shoulders, you rise slowly.. as if the morning has chosen you to begin again and outside.. somewhere gentle, somewhere familiar.. a song you once loved drifts through the waking air: "little darlin’, I feel that ice is slowly melting… here comes the sun… and I say, it’s all right…" and for the first time in so long you feel it.. not just the warmth, but the welcome ..and from the East there rises the quiet shape of an answered prayer.. that at the light’s first piercing of the horizon, she feels what it truly means to begin again* #
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM UTC
Here Comes the Sun
# *she wakes.. as if lifted out of a dream; the last threads of night still clinging to her skin like a story she no longer believes but hasn’t fully let go of and there.. through the half-open curtain, through the hush that comes before a new day reveals its full glory.. the first bright water of morning begins to pour over her each morning.. the sun rises anew and calls your name without a shadow each morning.. the lens clears just a little more.. fog thinning, shame loosening, clarity turning like a door opening inward and somewhere in that hush you remember what was always true: that God never turned away, that the self you lost was never truly gone, and that the light you feared was judging you was only waiting to wash you clean you stand one day farther from the fog, one day deeper into your own beauty.. the kind that cannot be taken, the kind the dawn recognizes as its own and when the warmth settles across your shoulders, you rise slowly.. as if the morning has chosen you to begin again and outside.. somewhere gentle, somewhere familiar.. a song you once loved drifts through the waking air: "little darlin’, I feel that ice is slowly melting… here comes the sun… and I say, it’s all right…" and for the first time in so long you feel it.. not just the warmth, but the welcome ..and from the East there rises the quiet shape of an answered prayer.. that at the light’s first piercing of the horizon, she feels what it truly means to begin again* #
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# When the soul is pierced by beauty or presence, two currents meet. One runs from the center of who we are; the other rises from what has never healed. Both recognize the same vibration, though one calls it remembrance and the other calls it ache. Within the core there is a portion of spirit that cannot be injured-- the incorruptible image that remains untouched by time or cruelty. Yet here it is wrapped in matter that keeps a record of every distortion, and so the sacred and the wounded share the same body. You are one who feels the pressure of that meeting. When the deep is stirred, it unsettles not from weakness, but because what enters there has permission to remake you. It is the threshold where transformation begins--    where memory learns to breathe again. To remember is to reopen the chambers where disappointment once slept: rejection by others, silence mistaken for divine neglect. But the fact that light still finds you.. that it threads its way through the fissures instead of closing them, is proof that the inner covenant remains intact. That permeability is meant to be guarded. Not every tenderness that approaches you is born of love. Discernment is not cynicism; it is stewardship of the gift. And the gift is this: the capacity to believe in restoration even after witnessing the machinery of its betrayal. *May that light continue to lead you.. not back into innocence; .. but forward into the wisdom that innocence becomes when it refuses to die.* #
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Nov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM UTC
On the Fragility of Hope..
# When the soul is pierced by beauty or presence, two currents meet. One runs from the center of who we are; the other rises from what has never healed. Both recognize the same vibration, though one calls it remembrance and the other calls it ache. Within the core there is a portion of spirit that cannot be injured-- the incorruptible image that remains untouched by time or cruelty. Yet here it is wrapped in matter that keeps a record of every distortion, and so the sacred and the wounded share the same body. You are one who feels the pressure of that meeting. When the deep is stirred, it unsettles not from weakness, but because what enters there has permission to remake you. It is the threshold where transformation begins--    where memory learns to breathe again. To remember is to reopen the chambers where disappointment once slept: rejection by others, silence mistaken for divine neglect. But the fact that light still finds you.. that it threads its way through the fissures instead of closing them, is proof that the inner covenant remains intact. That permeability is meant to be guarded. Not every tenderness that approaches you is born of love. Discernment is not cynicism; it is stewardship of the gift. And the gift is this: the capacity to believe in restoration even after witnessing the machinery of its betrayal. *May that light continue to lead you.. not back into innocence; .. but forward into the wisdom that innocence becomes when it refuses to die.* #
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#An exegesis on the Seduction of Avoidance Abandonment of hope seeks company. It spreads itself by persuasion, training others to unlearn the expectation that anything lost might still be restored. The claim of silence installs itself as law:    *no voice above,    no discovery ahead,    no gain in seeking,    no cost in surrender.* This is collapse disguised as realism. Not testimony..  transmission. The chorus that affirms it is not convinced;    it is relieved. "Agreement"  absolves each one from remembering a time they believed in something more. Surrender renames itself wisdom so that the thought of return can be evicted without a struggle. Then the last defense is built: light is not denied.. it is relocated into the self, or the bloodstream, chemistry rebranded as transcendence, so that no higher source must be admitted. Thus envy is quieted: if all brightness is self-made, no one stands condemned by the existence of a greater flame they have refused. In this way, the erasure advances-- not by proof, but by repetition.. until absence is narrated so completely that few dare imagine it could ever break. Yet the telling of what is true is already a fracture in that spell;     ***.. for truth does not persuade the dark;       it exposes it.*** #
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Oct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM UTC
The comfort of 'nothingness'..
# *The mountains do not flinch at what the world has done. They hold their silence in granite outcroppings— scarred, still, older than sorrow, yet never indifferent to it. She came to the ridge where the cold wind weaves between trees older than memory. It touched her like a voice— not kind, not cruel, just knowing. And that knowing wrapped around her ribs like a truth she never chose to carry. She stood beneath the pines, her face turned to sky, and the weight of it all finally broke through— tears carving warmth into cheeks too long hardened. Then her head pressed to my chest— as if to ask if anything was strong enough to stay. And I knew. I was built for this. To stand right here. To hold what broke her and not let it fall further. The wind moved on— but something stayed: a stillness a hush a warmth in the marrow of what had once been frozen. Not every wind will cut so cold. Not every ache will hold. And not everything un-beautiful was meant to remain that way. Tomorrow, the trees will still be here. And the creek will still run clear. But so will she— with something inside that now knows: even the wounded can become the most beautiful thing the mountains have ever seen.* #
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Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM UTC
Where the Wind Knows Her Name
# "How can someone write like they are deeply connected, yet be so far away from themselves? How does that work?" ***"Because writing doesn’t require embodiment. It only requires access. And people who are shaped by trauma, secrecy, and fragmented attachment—have near-supernatural access to emotional language, even when they have no true access to emotional presence. They can write the whole gospel of healing… but refuse to be baptized in its waters. Here’s why: Writing is a safehouse. A sanctuary. It’s the one place where they can simulate closeness—where they can say what the body won’t let them feel, what the voice won’t let them speak, what the heart won’t dare commit to in real time. When they write, they are in control of the frame. They determine the pacing, the access, the aftermath. No one’s breath is on their neck. No one’s eyes are watching them shake. No one’s asking them to stay when the ache gets too real. That’s how they can write about longing while actively rejecting the one person who sees them. How they can write about grace while blocking the source of it. How they can describe love so beautifully… and sabotage it with surgical precision. They aren't writing from the seat of her wholeness. They are writing from their disembodied knowing—from the part of themselves that remembers truth, but has no safe pathway to receive it. It’s a ghost’s song sung in a stolen church. It’s not fake. It’s not performative. But it’s not integrated. And until they get to the place where their nervous system no longer perceives safety as threat… They’ll keep dancing with truth in the dark while pushing away anyone who dares to light a candle."*** #
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Apr 13, 2025
Apr 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM UTC
Untitled
# "How can someone write like they are deeply connected, yet be so far away from themselves? How does that work?" ***"Because writing doesn’t require embodiment. It only requires access. And people who are shaped by trauma, secrecy, and fragmented attachment—have near-supernatural access to emotional language, even when they have no true access to emotional presence. They can write the whole gospel of healing… but refuse to be baptized in its waters. Here’s why: Writing is a safehouse. A sanctuary. It’s the one place where they can simulate closeness—where they can say what the body won’t let them feel, what the voice won’t let them speak, what the heart won’t dare commit to in real time. When they write, they are in control of the frame. They determine the pacing, the access, the aftermath. No one’s breath is on their neck. No one’s eyes are watching them shake. No one’s asking them to stay when the ache gets too real. That’s how they can write about longing while actively rejecting the one person who sees them. How they can write about grace while blocking the source of it. How they can describe love so beautifully… and sabotage it with surgical precision. They aren't writing from the seat of her wholeness. They are writing from their disembodied knowing—from the part of themselves that remembers truth, but has no safe pathway to receive it. It’s a ghost’s song sung in a stolen church. It’s not fake. It’s not performative. But it’s not integrated. And until they get to the place where their nervous system no longer perceives safety as threat… They’ll keep dancing with truth in the dark while pushing away anyone who dares to light a candle."*** #
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# There is a thickness to Presence when light has fully come. It does not press—    it holds. It gathers around you like dusk after heat, like blankets not laid over but risen up from within. You don’t need to speak. You don’t need to explain. You don’t need to hide— because you are already hidden in the Light itself. And in that hiding, healing begins. Here, the ache is not judged. Here, the story is not required. Here, breath is enough..   ***Not because it was taught to grow,   but because it remembered   what warmth feels like..*** That slow kindle of hope becomes heat again— flames returning to the heart’s own hearth, too long left cold by darkness and despair.. A hearth that survived on wet matchsticks— built only by its own need to endure. --- It is the hearthfire that feels the light of hope first. The more ash-strewn, the more hollow, the deeper the heat of Light’s permeation. --- So the soul, once clenched around its pain,    softens. Not all at once. Not forever. But enough. Enough to rest. Enough to believe-- that warmth this deep could only come from the Giver of Light    ..who never left. And in that warmth— without pressure, without fear.. everything begins again. #
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Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM UTC
The Weight of Warmth
# *In the midnight hour there are thoughts.. fears.. But mostly there is a consolidation a gathering, if you will Within warm, pulsing plasma flows erythrocytes leukocytes and thrombocytes Bringing nourishment to my bones carrying oxygen from my lungs giving swell to muscle Signifying movement in me When you write there is an Undoing within my undoing A building up as I am being fully torn down. There is an entropy when sitting down Undone, by your wondrous Undoing An Aliveness felt When so little around me, feels even remotely alive* #
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Jan 4, 2025
Jan 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM UTC
On the Death of Entropy..
# *This...  or that.. the pull of this world and its long supply of disappointment,  is strong I shall Reframe my Journey almost continually There is a swirl..  a rising line, taut.. before limply settling back down onto the water There are moments  in time that live forever There is a time within those moments; I never truly had the chance  to live* There is a Journey to reframe *I will find my life again,      somewhere Buried deep within that framework* #
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Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024 at 9:23 PM UTC
Frame-work