sjr1000 - Hello Poetry

We walk in our natures While our private and public selves argue through out the night. While in the South the monks walk bringing peace, compassion and kindness While in the North the authorities bring cruelty and brutality While in the West we hold our breath While in the East they prepare for the coming storm All singing that's America for you . While corporations trick and trap While commercials promise nirvana delivered next Tuesday. While another war has come And we're living through it again. While the children watch the desert encroaching and the sea rising and everybody's singing as we're sinking and shots ring out While the ghosts of the dinosaurs are laughing as they see our time is coming. While our sleep is disturbed in anxieties stinging agitation but we put on our clothes and head to work while singing an ancient song " Another day older and deeper in debt . St. Peter you can't take me now. I owe my soul to the company store" While all is not quite lost yet in the divine choreography of the dancing trees in the shifting winds We find our moments of peace and contentment within our selves within our lover's eyes A reminder of our brief time While humming the chorus of being human...

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Jan 23

Jan 23, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC

We walk in our natures

We walk in our natures While our private and public selves argue through out the night. While in the South the monks walk bringing peace, compassion and kindness While in the North the authorities bring cruelty and brutality While in the West we hold our breath While in the East they prepare for the coming storm All singing that's America for you . While corporations trick and trap While commercials promise nirvana delivered next Tuesday. While another war has come And we're living through it again. While the children watch the desert encroaching and the sea rising and everybody's singing as we're sinking and shots ring out While the ghosts of the dinosaurs are laughing as they see our time is coming. While our sleep is disturbed in anxieties stinging agitation but we put on our clothes and head to work while singing an ancient song " Another day older and deeper in debt . St. Peter you can't take me now. I owe my soul to the company store" While all is not quite lost yet in the divine choreography of the dancing trees in the shifting winds We find our moments of peace and contentment within our selves within our lover's eyes A reminder of our brief time While humming the chorus of being human...

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First, he wanted to be like me Next , I wanted to be like him.

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Nov 28, 2025

Nov 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM UTC

Son & Father

First, he wanted to be like me Next , I wanted to be like him.

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We're slanted people , Living in a slanted house, Water flows from the knocked over dog waterbowl in the kitchen downhill. Up here in Humboldt County I've always tried to play it straight But when you live in a slanted house With a slanted wife Slightly sideways is all one knows.

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Nov 1, 2025

Nov 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM UTC

We're slanted people

We're slanted people , Living in a slanted house, Water flows from the knocked over dog waterbowl in the kitchen downhill. Up here in Humboldt County I've always tried to play it straight But when you live in a slanted house With a slanted wife Slightly sideways is all one knows.

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in the slow lane, now I used to be a left lane cowboy winding in and out you understand racing to the next stop light. I'm a right lane driver now slowing down while time is speeding up. Savoring those main moments Cherishing Ignoring other drivers And yet going with the flow Not slowing down anyone . Road rage Road trips Destinations Are we there yet? We're always there now Now that I'm driving in the slow lane.

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Oct 15, 2025

Oct 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM UTC

I'm a right lane driver

in the slow lane, now I used to be a left lane cowboy winding in and out you understand racing to the next stop light. I'm a right lane driver now slowing down while time is speeding up. Savoring those main moments Cherishing Ignoring other drivers And yet going with the flow Not slowing down anyone . Road rage Road trips Destinations Are we there yet? We're always there now Now that I'm driving in the slow lane.

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Trees dancing in the winds The choreography of the divine.

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May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM UTC

Savoring 10/w

Trees dancing in the winds The choreography of the divine.

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If you never leave home You never get to go home. If you never leave the bed You never get to go to bed. When our expectations are in line with reality, there is no disappointment. There is no such thing as rejection There is only preference. We can not be defined People can only offer feedback. What to do, when there's nothing else to do. If you stand still long enough Somethings bound to eat you. Need creates attraction. One true fact, the present is just the past Focus on being the person you want to be Rather than focusing on the person you want them to be. First there is this Than there is nothing.

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Apr 19, 2025

Apr 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM UTC

Aphorisms (Round 1)

If you never leave home You never get to go home. If you never leave the bed You never get to go to bed. When our expectations are in line with reality, there is no disappointment. There is no such thing as rejection There is only preference. We can not be defined People can only offer feedback. What to do, when there's nothing else to do. If you stand still long enough Somethings bound to eat you. Need creates attraction. One true fact, the present is just the past Focus on being the person you want to be Rather than focusing on the person you want them to be. First there is this Than there is nothing.

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There is going to be many moments of love, affection, acts of kindness, charity, recognizing within the hard suffering of others, the melancholy of human vulnerability. Cherishing our brief lives, and the lives of others. There is going to be startling brutality and violence, the destruction cast by Vesuvis over and over again. Man's version of Natural Disasters. Ways to make human'suffer because their presence is a dangerous annoyance when we are filled with rage full homicidal psychotic delusions of righteousness. Or the strangers are meaningless pawns in the game. The two currents of human history running to the mouth of the great vacuum sea.

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Feb 21, 2025

Feb 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM UTC

Currents

There is going to be many moments of love, affection, acts of kindness, charity, recognizing within the hard suffering of others, the melancholy of human vulnerability. Cherishing our brief lives, and the lives of others. There is going to be startling brutality and violence, the destruction cast by Vesuvis over and over again. Man's version of Natural Disasters. Ways to make human'suffer because their presence is a dangerous annoyance when we are filled with rage full homicidal psychotic delusions of righteousness. Or the strangers are meaningless pawns in the game. The two currents of human history running to the mouth of the great vacuum sea.

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Night Blooming Jasmine on my mind Taking me for a ride back in time Lite up, L.A. nights Sunset Blvd Melrose too Hitting up the opportunities at Sloans Sometimes going home together Sometimes going home alone. At the door, Moths flying in the light Night Blooming Jasmine Wrapped around me One more kiss One more moment closer to bliss Apprehension everywhere The best part don't you think. Memory travels on a smell Memory travels on the light of the day Memory travels on the song on the radio Memory travels on the look on a face. Remembering on a full moon's night Night blooming Jasmine Drifting in on the winds and No where else to run.

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Nov 4, 2024

Nov 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM UTC

Night Blooming Jasmine on my mind

Night Blooming Jasmine on my mind Taking me for a ride back in time Lite up, L.A. nights Sunset Blvd Melrose too Hitting up the opportunities at Sloans Sometimes going home together Sometimes going home alone. At the door, Moths flying in the light Night Blooming Jasmine Wrapped around me One more kiss One more moment closer to bliss Apprehension everywhere The best part don't you think. Memory travels on a smell Memory travels on the light of the day Memory travels on the song on the radio Memory travels on the look on a face. Remembering on a full moon's night Night blooming Jasmine Drifting in on the winds and No where else to run.

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When you live with the critic It makes life more difficult The roommate from hell Who never applied for the space Just moved on in And won't shut the **** up Looking over your shoulder Pointing out Everything your doing that's Stupid and wrong Turning the mirror into a Toxic reflection pool Telling scary stories About who you've never been & Should have been Insomnia & anxiety wrapped up in a gigantic cringe, a gift, no doubt. The battle is a finger puzzle The more you struggle The more painfully stuck You become Continually looping While trying to make it stop. And it never does. I don't listen to the critic much any more It comes and goes And that's okay With me In the end Peaceful acceptance is all I Try to remember.

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Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024 at 6:09 PM UTC

Cognitive Therapy 101

When you live with the critic It makes life more difficult The roommate from hell Who never applied for the space Just moved on in And won't shut the **** up Looking over your shoulder Pointing out Everything your doing that's Stupid and wrong Turning the mirror into a Toxic reflection pool Telling scary stories About who you've never been & Should have been Insomnia & anxiety wrapped up in a gigantic cringe, a gift, no doubt. The battle is a finger puzzle The more you struggle The more painfully stuck You become Continually looping While trying to make it stop. And it never does. I don't listen to the critic much any more It comes and goes And that's okay With me In the end Peaceful acceptance is all I Try to remember.

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Time to take a forest bath I don't know about you But it's been a while Surrounded by silence The oxygen bar The dogs chasing chippes The redwoods dominating Taking a deep breath deep finally The dinosaurs were big But the redwoods are forever. What are we taking in That feels so good So healing to the soul? The winds in the canopy The freight train coming The leaves dancing in the winds Time to take a forest bath Time to call yourself even.

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Sep 3, 2024

Sep 3, 2024 at 11:49 AM UTC

Time to take a forest bath

Time to take a forest bath I don't know about you But it's been a while Surrounded by silence The oxygen bar The dogs chasing chippes The redwoods dominating Taking a deep breath deep finally The dinosaurs were big But the redwoods are forever. What are we taking in That feels so good So healing to the soul? The winds in the canopy The freight train coming The leaves dancing in the winds Time to take a forest bath Time to call yourself even.

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