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Dan Hess Nov 2021
07
Tremors

Every sound is a pin *****

forcing itself under my skin

injecting me with living

squirming irritant



It feels hopeless

I can’t focus on anything

and this rage is an infection

spreading through my veins



I want to bury myself

sleep in the peace of a silence

far away from the world 

which shakes my bones

and rattles my brain



Where does the chaos come from?

Where did the gentle warmth go?

Why is everything an unbridled explosion

of motion without reason?



I’m a sensitive being

keen to every tick and pitch

every vibration and interference

but I am not weak for feeling



I am a gaping skull and a plume of smoke

that swirls in clouds and blocks out the sun

and the earth quakes beneath my hovering body

rocking me without melody



Subtlety is enchanting,

the music of magic enraptures me

in times of peace, when only the wind breaks silence

and the mind is melding with arrays of light



But between every wind chime’s song

this fool is bashing a *** with a hammer

brutishly begging attention bestowed:

the tumultuous, trembling ego



Be alive with me, you fleeting thing

stop clinging to your suffering

the haste of your anxiety

is cause for your inner churning



When every glance is full of hate

and the speed of your step seeks to separate

I’d always wish to ease into the earth

find solitude and with it, mirth



So let me go, to fly upon the wind

let the breeze consume me, breathe me in

perhaps in our return to this union

you’ll find your peace of mind restored again
Dan Hess Nov 2021
06
Solace settles in
to soul’s reprieve

upon the wind

in autumn eve.



An ever revolving thing

but

today it was a wellspring

of widened eyes and sunlight

flourishing.



Warming me, deep

to where my soul was sleeping

previously.

Only waiting for consciousness
to embrace me.



Ah, and Love is a living thing,

a breathing being,

a deity of heart’s believing;

a seeing stream of meaning,

in energy, conceiving me.



Through resonance, this presence

condenses from an essence

to an evanescent lesson

in the grasp of the endless.



We are.



Born of blessings:

roiling and toiling through;

our lives are forgotten specks 

always expecting, but

never left. 



A celestial stew.

A potion of emotion

“without You.”



Afloat in the ocean,

with a sunlit view,

baking in devotion

when we only

need to choose.



To lose it all

and be reborn

again, returned

amongst the blue.



Only One.

One thing is True.
Dan Hess Nov 2021
05
There is music outside my window
in the breeze, when the wind blows
bells chime, and conjure up their melody
the birds join in chorus, the crows speak

sunlight splits the floating mist
somewhere high above me
to warm my aching, frozen heart
my guides remind me that they love me

i wake each day with a cup of coffee
sipping as I clear my mind and soul
and occasionally, when the moment’s lovely
a heart appears in the emptied vessel

a hint, I think, that I’m not alone,
and often, a message too
an eye or a tree, for a bird’s eye view
or somewhere to stretch my roots

i see numbers, everywhere
fours and ones and twos and eights
reminding me to take care
that when I open, abundance waits

things coincide on the road of life
that’s no coincidence
for when the mind and soul align
there is only resonance

we all join in the cosmic dance
when matter forms through music
a vibration encompassing endless expanse
if only we choose to see it
Dan Hess Nov 2021
04
When confronted with the inexplicable,
the human mind seeks to rationalize, 
explain,
and fit information into an established worldview. 


When confronted with the incomprehensible, the mind recoils. 

It shrinks into and attempts to consume itself.

It was true, at a time,
I was an unknowing thing
so self assured in my doubting
A wanderer in a realm between,
bepuzzled in my wilding

An observing eye,
in a dance with night
a twirling zephyr with an uncharted passage
no future dark, nor future bright
for the moment was my adage

And it was, that language came in gasps
a surefire eureka, when the heart’s contentedness 
could last for but a moment
as the ever shifting resonance 
would beckon me 
“Onward”

I learned to speak
in gesture’s grand expanse
to converse in my subsistence;
in the dance

A dialogue with fog
wherethrough uncertainty,
though doggedly I slogged,
I knew, though I’d be filled
with forlorn things
I’d make them bloom again
in my journeying

And bloom they did
returned to me
when on the wind
came sovereignty
incomplete
Dan Hess Nov 2021
03
I am
cosmic nothingness,
an augur of a fallen star

I wonder
who exists in the emptiness,
what belongs to time and time alone

I hear
whispers in the formless void,
a song that weaves itself into the fabric

I see
consciousness in colors blooming,
light cascading from beyond

I want
to create myself

I pretend
I am speaking with a love I've never met

I feel
elated by my evanescence, surrendering regret

I touch
the current of the endless ocean

I worry
I am lost

I cry
it is hopeless

I understand
we wake to live the day

I say
I am a cup of ocean

I dream
of memories I've never truly lived

I try
to surrender

I hope
to love again, be loved as much

I am
cosmic nothingness,
an augur of a fallen star



I breathe,
and I am being


I exhale,
and am released


I am
liberated in the 
instance of believing

for

I know
that I know nothing



What ghost of home exists within

the leagues between it all?

Who is out beyond the ticking clock?

Who swims in the deep?



In my dreams, it is a whisper in my ear

an echoing, resonant song

which reverberates in the midst of all existence

condensing energy into form



Whirling color,
in closed eye visuals

represents the self in schism

whilst light speckles the night

and blooms into being



From red and blue, purple

From light and dark,
I become myself



I am
fooling myself, dreaming of tomorrow

Wasting away in reverie

I exhale, and breathe

And water fills my lungs
as I sink into the deep



In waking,
I am
ever moving forward

still holding the ocean’s tears within my lungs


I dream
of memories I’ve never truly lived

release myself and love seeps in


I have
tumbled from heaven to earth

and gained substance
Dan Hess Nov 2021
02
This is my goodbye:

A moment, isolated
frozen in a mirror dimension
glassed in cataclysmic sunlight

a sliver of hope
a fading promise
a flickering, dying flame

no time left
to wish upon a falling star
nor watch your visage fade
in lightning’s breadth

I’d lived without,
a year before
won’t hold my breath
for closure

If you’re so blind
oh twinkling, little star
you cannot see the sun

I will not strain my eyes
to gaze upon you from afar
I have no wish today
but to see it done

Goodnight, withering love,
weeping vine who chokes

goodbye, you smoldering ash
ember in the gems
which once speckled eternity

now, relegated to waste
when I spend my nights
dreaming of what’s ahead of me
Dan Hess Nov 2021
01
A new beginning

whenever nothing changes

only “nothing” changes

and around me

the world is a blur of possibilities



impossible realities

teeming without being

bleeding into other colors

creating spectrums of watercolors melding



I am seated in the eye

unmoving, but

subsuming all



A solitary moon, in bloom

a copacetic collective tomb

an actualized reflection

of the Sun’s eternal truth



Who gazes upon a raptured earth

which whips around its center

never spectered, it is

the very essence of presence

the substance of birth

the metaphor of real things



Imaginary musings
excusing transience

mentality a sense, a lens

a consumption of cosmic

resurgent worth



I am bestowed,

to You, 

forever, immortal You
The All-becoming thing

I give of myself

becoming seen
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