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1d Jill Shields

Agnes de Lods

Human beings trust
The sum of prejudices,
Blunt as rusty blades of limitation
Repeating the same mistakes,
Longing for infallibility,
Losing the last crumbs of trust.

They fell before
Yet wanted the absolute
Of the right version of events.
Sliding under a pile of tangled,
Broken wires,
Which were supposed
To build their impeccability
In judging other beings.

Water changes its state,
How easy to trudge
Further into the blurring
Instead of understanding,
They hurl accusations.

Dust of doubt,
On the empty road,
A rocky path
Perforated by frustration,
And rigid filters.

Drinking the last sip
Of wild screams,
They say goodbye
To gentle humanity,
Selling the heart
to detectors, fallible tools
Of elusive dreams.
Quo vadis domine?
In exitium.

Do not ask a machine what is human.
Trust your sensibility to recognize what aligns with your aesthetic,
and do not attack those who think differently.

#quovadishomines

2d Jill Shields

Essence

2d Jill Shields

Agnes de Lods

Essence

I laid my body on the tall grass.
She wrapped me in a rustle of green.
I closed my eyes in the shadow of a tall pine,
curling up so the pain wouldn’t spill beyond my heart.

Consciousness sinks into nothingness.
I feel the particles of my “self”
breaking into a million molecules.
I flow through the grass and seep into the earth.

Now my body puts down roots,
nestling against the pine that weeps with resin.
My emotions pass through the trunk of the tree.

The thread of memories is a long earthworm,
crawling through the empty
corridors where once blood pulsed.
White bones remain still,
slowly dissolving into the vessel of eternal life:
Earth, water, air, lost particles of light,
and my longing for the final union.

Doubts hollow a chamber,
soft and warm – my new home.
When my dream ends,
I will dwell in it.

Now I am the pine.
My needles, bark, and resin
radiate invisible light
for this space, for this world.

Yes, I was once human.

#essence

3d Jill Shields

You are Not Gone

3d Jill Shields

Yashkrit Ray

You are Not Gone

Not gone,
You are just farther,
Far from me.
When it gets darker,
You are just farther.
Hanging in the expanse
Like a crystal.
Staring at your home,
You are not gone.

An extra in the collection.
A collection of infinite
Sea of stars,
And pages of memory.
Some packed in my skull,
Some hanging out
Like a treasury.
Staring at your home,
You are not gone.

In loving memory of my grandma....................

#love #memories #stars #presence

3d Jill Shields

It Easy To Dance Through

3d Jill Shields

Ryan Geoffrey Hayward

It Easy To Dance Through

Its easy to dance through
when the hole has broken whole,
I'm shiny holding a fish's tank
nothing rusty but winding the crank.
I can't be the cracked whole of you,
bad enough a demon sold his soul,
I wish for a warmth of fiery coal
but his number is upon my coat
and his grips are throttling throat.
It so easy to be so dizzy so soon
when I feel the thunder upon noon.
Upon the sleep, no-one to weep,
but how many trip wires to sweep,
as the combatants shall creep......
In the ocean, surprising my fleet.

#rhyme #dark #introspection #war

6d Jill Shields

Flowing are the rivers

6d Jill Shields

Ryan Geoffrey Hayward

Flowing are the rivers

Flowing are the rivers
with logs of smashed
dumb tourists
trying to
get to the finish
of this
aggressive test.

No, there's massive
jumps into
boulders
in the waters
Blood drips
and tears
and the
ultimate
is a water fall
of a chance
of
survival.

The lucky
can
get through it.
But karma
is caramel
and sticky
attractive.

and
our death
if no
subtle
respect
and
we breathe
how we live....

Aug 5 Jill Shields

Palestine

Aug 5 Jill Shields

Peter Gerstenmaier

Palestine

Roses are red
Netanyahu is a swine
I pray to the Lord for
A free Palestine

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#freepalestine

Aug 5 Jill Shields

Cigarette