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Dan Hess Dec 2020
Grasping at open air

ether slipping through
fingers
like rigid wind

out the passenger side window

on the road to freedom


I

thought I was headed somewhere

predestined, and I’d 

find God waiting for me
in a hotel room
booked, with a beachfront view
and two swimming pools, but

our car broke down

in a small town
near a railroad

where my one track mind
resides in a switching station
by a motel 6(66)
betwixt the path to everywhere
and nowhere
Dan Hess Oct 2020
Dark falls
I am mired in sludge
The wetlands shrouded by fog

My mind entrenched in haze and solitude
I grow weak  
with each step I seem to falter
exhausted in the task of moving forward
alone in the deep wilderness
covered in mud  

Ever shall I seek the sun
Forever til I’m warmed
Oh, golden rays,  
please supplant me my cold  

How uninspired
when water seeps
into coagulated dirt  

Once, there was bounty
art, in the higher reaches
of the atmosphere

Forever gazing upon the sky
into the beyond

Now all around me
there are shadows

Density of overgrowth
upon the horizon

Death where my feet meet the ground
This drudgery, though necessary,  
hurts  

I keep looking up
only to realize  
I am taking my gaze away
from my surroundings  

I’ve forgotten where I’m going
Dan Hess Aug 2020
Every passing day is a lesson in gratitude, and an opportunity to expand awareness toward greater consideration of the precious and unique nature of the experience that is life. Our time here is so short. What makes things beautiful, if not transience? We cannot hold onto that which we cherish forever, and that is why we cherish it so.

I aim to understand who people are. My passion is peering into the soul of another, and perhaps being influenced by them and their mind. I want to feel the magnitude of the human spirit impressed upon my own. I want to love and be loved. I fear the deepest and most intimate aspects of being are utterly inexplicable, and that being understood and understanding others is nearly impossible. Still, I will never give up on this aspiration. I aim to articulate the concepts we cannot bring into words, and illustrate what it means to be. I will make poetry out of those things that define what poetry is. Namely, the beauty of life, particularly in the imminence of death. To be mortal is to be vulnerable. To be vulnerable is to be open to love.
Dan Hess Dec 2021
No weight can bring me down
cause I can lift it!
I’m working out now
and I’ll be bliss-ripped!

Any time I feel heavy
I’m dancing on my feet!
If I must shoulder the weight of the world
I just need more to eat!

Cause I’m getting shredded in my levity,
and happiness is in me.
I’ll do push ups with mountains on my back
and fly with boulders on my feet!

I’m laughing cause this energy
would try to weigh me down.
In my faith and synergy
I have the strength for leaps and bounds.

I’m realizing now that Love is training me
to be a force for good and light,
and flow with Truth eternally.

My gratitude will build me up!
I’m already aligned!
For, every challenge I might face
is a lesson given from the divine
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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08
Alliteration is hard



An amusing affectation afforded against all authenticity

Living lies luxuriously, lamenting in my lowly lacking

Leering lackluster; levity lost loquaciously

In interest inimitable, isolated in illusions illustrated incoherent

To take triumph, tackle tumult; tie treaties toward the torment’s trite theatrics

Elevate exposure, even entrenched in evanescence; expectation eventually ends; elation endures

Revitalize, remember; roaming rot relinquished retroactively

Again, an avenue against accustomed aggravation; art alleviates

Traveling to taste time’s tales; a taxing task toppled

Indebted, in individuality’s internment, innovated; inundated in insight

On overarching opportunity’s offerance, one overcomes oblivion

Nothing neglected, new nights near; nidificate nuance, newly niche November
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09
Some days, blue skies blanket me in heaven’s rays

the world is charged with rejuvenating, living color

Warmth envelopes my heart and soul

and I am worthy of feeling



Yet, then the world turns, and I wake to gray

and fire boils my blood and burns my brain

I’m left to fight a battle with my pain

but these are the most paramount of days



I reminisce in moments stretching on

forgetting who I am, for what I live

In peace and solace given, I am gone

In peril I’m restored with heart to give



For in these days I fight as sunlight hides

and find my strength is waiting in the mist

to seek a shred of beauty as I’m blind

and darkness demands I be vigorous


So simple would it be for me 

to just capitulate

Surrender to my apathy

when in this sorry state



How easy I might find it is,

to wallow, destitute

Yet, hardened in my promises,

I am forever resolute



When languish tempts my weary soul 

and pleasant dreams abound in bed

I’ll carry on to reach my goal, 

and lift my heavy head
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Dan Hess Nov 2021
10
The wind is in a hurry, recently

My mind is in a flurry,

specious things

flittering 
like scattered leaves 

upon the breeze



i’ll take this very moment

no reason to be clinging

no hope bestowed 
for me

I am not yearning



I’ll sing a little 
melody of peace

quiet my unruly mind 
and be

just be

within this moment

happily alone with it

just like the wind 
I’m blowing



Flowing with the shifts

but never knowing

where I’m going



Just along the midst

of ever drifting currents

not a care to hold me back

there’s nothing lacked

when I’m not hoping



I let it all just flow

I’m letting go



I’m not controlling

anything

anything 
but me


and I am free

and life is but a dream

though I am anything but sleeping



Clarifying me, 
I’m overflowing

energy 
through every seam

lucidity in knowing


gravity released

and I am hovering

on the breeze again
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11
I’ve spent some time just dancing in the wind

Twirling to and fro without a care

The breeze and me, we’ll always be akin

There’s something ancient lingering in the air



I’ve always been a decent acrobat

and always known the breeze could sooth my soul

The wind’s my oldest friend, I’m sure of that

When scattered in the sky, I find I’m whole



It started with my hands just mingling

tickled by the passing gusts of breeze

and in my finger tips a-tingling

I’d drop my woes and find myself at ease



Now, how I’ve grown, to write an ode to thee

wind of my mind, and nature’s levity
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Dan Hess Nov 2021
12
A Secret



You may not believe it,

but I’ve had conversations with the wind

and every day I spend my time

(quite a bit of it)

coercing energy through me,

around me and to me



I’ve come to learn we are vessels

always being emptied and filled

and fate is the river, the ocean


the clouds overfull, 

that spill from the heavens 

and give us another drink

from love’s well of eternity



Some times, we’re out in the open sea

wonderfully welcome and perfectly free

with a million directions to choose from;

others, we’ll drift into an inlet


some people are born in a creek

that the sunlight finds it hard to reach

and their little pinch point never evaporates

so they might have trouble flying



We can guide the water’s flow a bit,

sail the ocean, converse with the wind,

we can build a dam and hold it in

but there’s no controlling energy



We can’t raise the sea into the sky

separate the water and salt

so nobody goes thirsty


We can’t stop the waves from flirting 
with the shore

Can’t stop the moon’s gravity

(clouds are a bit different, but that’s a secret)
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13
I Tried to Write a Poem, I Didn’t Try to Write This; See? Proof.



I’ve grown a lot

without even

having to try



But

Do not 

misunderstand me



I’ve tried trying

it doesn’t work

Not trying is what works
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14
Lapis & Shungite



Speckled clouds of fool’s gold

over soft cerulean

and jadeite green

in the little world in my palm



aptly paired

with my cracked black sphere

with its own pyritic veins



and so I’m seeking purification

that little heart of gold

that is freedom of expression

Maybe it’s a fool’s errand

but we all have to start at zero
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15
Mid November lingers still

with the aroma of sunlight

and the ghost of sliced peaches



We leave the windows cracked

on 65 degree days, 

when the sky is blue

and the wind is blustering



Keen to hear its voice

whispering secrets alongside 

melodies of chimes ringing

in unison with the falling leaves



And the trees are dancing

in an act of praise

to the cycles of change

and the end of days


Knowing.



Every winter begets spring

in resurgence, when

death breathes life
into 
the sleeping glen



and in the valley of death

on nightfall’s pillow

the sun mingles with hushing shadows

brilliance, set low in subtlety

only gleaned by sharpest eyes



So I’ll capture

a flash of time exposed

keep it in a bottle in the back of my mind

diverge and recombine

and light the world up



and when the moon beams down on its lover

and the sun admires her from afar

I’ll know the cosmos glisten, just out of sight

teeming with unknown color
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16
I think I’m finally starting to relax. 
It was such a simple day, 
but it was beautiful. 

I took a walk in the park, 
and had a great time 
playing a silly game, 
and forgetting to care 
about a thing. 

I got stung by a hornet 
for the first time, 
and I could have complained, 
but I thought it was pretty cool. 

Firsts are neat. 

I ate junk food 
and breathed deeply 
and took a selfie with a hawk 
that landed in a tree 
without leaves 
and barely any limbs. 

It almost seemed like 
it was posing for a picture. 

I went home, 
and I wasn’t tense, 
and I wasn’t stressed, 
and the noise didn’t bother me, 
too much. 

I’m starting to let go 
of everything holding me back. 
I don’t want to worry anymore. 
I want to sleep deeply, 
and wake up feeling restored. 

I want to write without caring 
why I’m doing it. 

You know 
I questioned if I should even 
be writing poetry anymore, 
last night? 

I feel like I haven’t been 
enjoying it like I used to. 
Like it’s just a chore, 
or something I’m doing 
purely because I feel like 
that’s what I’m supposed to do. 

Maybe my real passion is conversation. 
But, I think, when the words flow freely 
and with that certain kind of eloquence 
I only find in isolated moments of silence, 
when the mind decides to sing instead of speak, 
I experience true magic. 

The current passes through me, 
in that wisping instant. 
I’m stolen away to a place 
of solace and safety. 

I’m left feeling energized and nourished, 
but suddenly aware of a thirst that 
I’d never realized I needed to quench 
until I wrote that specific poem. 

So maybe purpose 
has nothing to do 
with passion. 

Maybe people are beautiful, 
and small moments of grace 
keep me loving life, and 
breathing it in and 
becoming through my experiences. 

I’m certainly passionate about sharing 
an aspect of the world with myself; 
ingesting it, and incorporating it into me. 

Living as a culmination of memory and energy 
passed through so many different beings 
and incarnations of something 
that is ultimately formless; 
that will always inspire me. 

And contemplating that inexpressible fact, 
of what is nebulous yet ever present, 
is the thread that ties me to fate. 

But poetry is something, I think, 
that is written on my heart 
to sustain my soul. 

It’s a sort of inscription or incantation, 
invoking the very essence of my existence. 
And that isn’t to say I am a poet 
because I write poetry. 

What I’m saying is that I write poetry 
because the emotion of life is distilled 
through my soul and causes my heart to swell 
until it bursts. 

I am sodden with the ichor of existence. 
Sometimes living hurts, 
but nothing is more real 
than loving it, anyway.
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17
I take a step back

and I hold my breath

and I cherish it



I exhale

and I let go

and life ebbs

and life flows



I breathe it in again

believing all is real

in this temporary moment



A blurred snapshot of time

not beholden to memory

a simple blip against

a backdrop
 


swallowing 
me



And I exist

in those high-speed moments

when fear sets in

fully immersed, yet

unaware, 



when soft light pulses

to a beating city heart

on thoroughfares

in summer nights,



that we are

preciously enlivened

by that hurried energy

in a vast and eerie

cold, dead

peace
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18
When love finds me

I hope it is because

it is the love that I embody
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19
If I were only me

I would be

the lifeblood

of the world coursing

through the veins of humanity



If I could move in bloom

and tickle the nerves of insanity

without losing myself to confusion

I would be happy

bearing fruit; consuming



If I could know without learning

I would grow to drink in

everything



Truth would be my vision,

and integrity, in integration

with the essence of reality



If I were free, I’d be a fool

I’d see myself in trickery



I’d transcend it in the end,

I’d see what’s real

and what’s pretend



I’d be delivered to my destiny

commune with what is true

if I was free



I’d know disparity

is there to show me

so I’d be aware

of what might wither

or might grow me


I’d find justice in the throes

of ignorance and sorrow

Ready and willing

to greet on the morrow

a new day blooming

when time’s only borrowed
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20
Wastrel of liminal spaces

trembling in giant’s steps

Invisible, they quake
the earth I glide upon

in waiting



To take shape

be wrought

or ripped apart

no longer vaporous



The sky blinks

in passing days

and fog encompasses

the land that claims

my mind when I

can’t think



I stare into

the blank white hue

once stark

which now

the sunlight

cannot penetrate



To be the energy of breath

antithesis of life and death

the thing which seamlessly

slips into and through

the lungs of living things



Only to return

to lingering

against all odds

static in its shifting
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21
Once,

the sky sparkled with magic;

the air crackled with immortal flame;

the world trembled in the presence

of a living god



There,

in the awareness of the air,

the spirit of primeval man condensed

in resplendent metamorphosis



Once,

when the earth was tinged with memories

not yet transpired, but ever being,

and time combined itself with minds

collectively surrendered 



The timelessness of energy,

erected in its synergy,

bloomed flowers in the desert;

stars in the sea



The shimmering began

from deep within the eyes

of the holder of a welling heart,

and erupted



In this plume of genesis

converged the waters of love,

and the space of knowing,

and the fires of passion,

and the silt of growing



A cataclysmic schism

set aloft the birth of night,

and the sea of energy

wove from the darkness light



wrapped itself,

through dimensions overarching

enmeshed and ever-pulsing

blossoming into new worlds

entwined with all things


A cosmic resurgence

of doubt’s consuming

set aside the likes of mind

akin to never being



Sphere-struck

the Eye became many

a window to a woven world

now set apart from any
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22
There is no metric of worth

nor sign of indispense

No mark of royalty
nor meager birth in seeking sense



There is no purpose some might have

that others stand to gain

There is no worthless thought or value

none predisposed to live in vain



There is no meaning you might find

profound in life, you’ve lived without

nor punishment to which you’re blind

if you don’t quite live so devout



I’ll chase my tail or twiddle my thumbs

my heart will sink as I might think

I’m wasting life while I’m still young

it all might vanish in a blink



To wish to serve the world alone

without appreciation

is my fool’s burden, not my throne

I think I just need a vacation
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23
Lilting lullabies
coax me into sleep
I wither away to dreams
of waxing prophecy

“living is an act of prayer”

and we breathe in defiance
of the snarl of noxious, fuming,
haze gray death
which blurs the air,
and causes the mind to tremble

we freeze in sudden braking
turn to ash, and dissipate to breeze
a promise of goodbye remembers
having never left

and loving is an act of praise
every action, a step in the dance
every gasp between breaths
a beat in the song

the eternal,
patternized, shifting
universe in unison
ubiquitous in motion

gravity
ties us to everything
and loving is
a slipping body
loose in a current

energy
does not discriminate
and love doesn’t wait
for a reason
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24
shivering betwixt
vibrating infinity
the body slips through
a micron filter universe

every particle moves
til interlocked in place
and only through such haste
can it elapse the distance between space

a final stop
where nothing ties the mind to moving
like sand suspended, reality falls
before me
Dan Hess Nov 2021
my heart yearns
in shouts that span the sky
but i found love stumbling
into a hole in the wall

in a momentary interaction
vanishing

maybe there is hope for me yet
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In a fairytale fantasy

I am right where I need to be

engrossed in overflowing love
perspective rising high above



if I’ve a doubt, it’s so I can see
the endless possibilities

and I’ll write a poem every day

and never wonder if it’s okay



In a perfect world, I’d still be myself

just lacking inhibition

and I’d be supported by everyone else

in my deepest goals and missions





I’ll learn just for the love of it

a perpetual student in a state of bliss

the universe breathing into me

sustaining the vision of all I can be



I’ll never hide my truest self

and never be denied

natural abundance will be my wealth
as the world is on my side

I would grow more with every passing day

while sure of every step along the way
Dan Hess Nov 2021
These feeling vibrations
come from a source beyond me
a connection that is family
and the crows agree

I can be a student
and a teacher
I can be a patient
and a healer

I can be a lover
a believer
I can share a kinship
with an equal

I can be a mirror
and a light
I can show another love
that what’s inside them
shines as bright

I can be of value
if I see the beauty around me
and if I embrace my worth
I might find I’ve always been free

I can be appreciated
without being conventional
I can be a wild child
and still be in control

I’ll just embrace the parts of me
I already know are true
and to my fears and my illusions
I can bid adieu

I don’t have to live my life
seeking validation
Once I accept that I am valid
I’ll find true appreciation
Dan Hess Nov 2021
You won’t get boiling water by throwing ice into a fire.
Dan Hess Nov 2021
I open up to my mother
she listens begrudgingly
but physically
cold shoulder

I point out her body language
she says I’m on the attack
I just want peace
but a cold war is still a war

He coughs all day to numb the pain
releasing it in clouds around him
every sound has a weight on my heart
and it never ends

I want to escape
but I’m frozen in place
and I’m not interested in playing pretend
Maybe ignorance is bliss and this
is suffering needlessly

I can’t escape
paralysis
except when I’m asleep

demons used to chase me
in the worlds inside my dreams
one day, i touched the bottom
surfaced from beneath the waters
woke but couldn’t move

at the end of my bed
a demon waited
so i sent waves of energy in its direction
and freed myself

even the most fearsome monsters
respond to these vibrations
is that how they see me?
certainly I’m no exception
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Dan Hess Dec 2021
30
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.

You cannot wrap self over self.
You cannot become the outer and the inner.
You are but a superposition of the visage of God;
a superficial reflection of divinity’s affection.

You cannot become the subconscious
of your subconscious.
You cannot become the intuition
of your intuition.  

You can shed the mind and be present.

You can breathe and connect
and form a circuit between;
be a conduit for varying information
of different vibrations and intensities.

Form a loop that spells infinity.

This transition is the interstitium;
where information acts synaptic;
where transference relays occurrence
between two spaces with different interfaces.

It is elastic.
It is magic in liminal plastic,
snapping back and creating
the dialogue with self.

It is a circuit of convergence
where purpose meets inertia.
It is neither beginning nor end.
It is betwixt real and pretend.

It can upend the rend
of space and face;
time and place, and waste and worth.

It interweaves the world with dreams
and breathes new life into your needs.
It knows you without knowing anything.

It knows your feelings,
and the concepts you can’t speak.
It is your mind not minding.
Infinity across dividing.
Interstitial/transitive layer of consciousness

Super ego|higher self
-interstitium-
ego|infinity cross
-interstitium-
subconscious|lower self|ani-minimal
777
Dan Hess Jan 2020
777
Perhaps it is in quietness and subtlety of realization that transformation may work its way under the skin, and settle in and into, and become a part of being. That stretching, yawning idea that one sees as fact without ever having greeted it before, yet may respect as if it were so intrinsic to their day to day life as to be unnoticeable. Existential crisis may send the mind spiraling and gripping at open air as one’s very soul plunges into empty abyss, thereto disintegrate; but existential connection is so integrated and undisturbing that we may grow alongside our ignorance, and befriend it. Rather than lose ourselves, we might find we were there under our own noses, and shrug or laugh at the foolishness of seeking in darkness what was always exposed in the light.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Whose kinship weighted to the stars?
Whence ‘pon somnolence alone I stood in brazen
As in tumbling ever unto unbecoming
Doth mine feeble mind, eroded, dessicate

Twas thee, elusive child of naught-let whimsy
Whose implorement did expose my pale visage
As in storms of seas, and listless nights,
thine ilk erects atonement

In shattering shackles of perspective
With gentle blades of softest sounds
To render mine enigma commonplace

Prithee, take leave
But frail fate, do not abhor
As it were, an oft unproached night
Beget allusions of entreatment
Dan Hess Nov 2019
There is a certain comfort
in the sound of trees
dancing in the breeze,
mingling their leaves,
stuck in the ground
but tasting
what it means to be free.
Dan Hess Aug 2019
I sought the answers of the soul
I pleaded God to make me whole
For years I searched, til I unearthed
A bright, delicate piece of worth

Cradled gently within my hand
Hoping greatly it would expand
Most precious thing on this green earth
A bright, delicate piece of worth

Sowed like a seed into the ground
To grow into something profound
My savior, object of my mirth
A bright, delicate piece of worth
Attempt at a Kyrielle. I don't know what this is.
Dan Hess Mar 2021
Old friends,

carried me away 

from my place of learning

to a place where my heart

no longer yearning

burned with levity

as I twirled elegantly

cheering and flying
in the realm of dreams



As I was safe from stress,

my mind melted

aside from prying eyes;
internal resurgence
peripherally projected
viewing sanguine symphonies
in third person

To wake

in teeming shrouds of dark

where light denied my cries
back home, alone



- I made my way, 

from heights to lowest lows, 

between, seeing 

the clock strike “1” not “1:00” -



I hovered down the stairs

floating on air

and found myself
sheltered in the deepest crevice
nuzzled against earthen aura

still ensconced in sable shrouds
but not alone



Cuddling with innocent love

I drifted off to sleep

to wake again

and find myself alive

in a place where reality applied

and wonder how and why

I could not see the tapestry of dreams

when I could fly
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Soulful synergy escapes my ever aching heart,
where the time and space
that separates
and tears us further apart,
is not but stimulus for art.
And this emotion, like an ocean,
flows forever in every direction.

So, though the desire for affection is unyielding,
the result is an infection of the heart.

In this, we must find our deepest sense of gratitude
-life and love, a perception of beauty -
in ourselves; or risk being lost to the periphery.

That is, the wills of others taking precedent over the needs of self.

I must let go of love.
I must not want to be understood.
Instead, I must seek to understand.

I can live forever,
but never experience the same thing twice;
why should love be any different?

This is Agape.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I wish to steep my mind in twilight
To steal away to a place
Where no one can find me
So I can be alone with my thoughts
And think and feel freely

I am sick of this constant rebuttal
From those who hold their hearts
To be their homes
And barricade the entrances and windows
So nobody can get in
And they can never see what lies outside them

They are hoarders of emotions
Garbage fills their floors, and stacks high up their walls
Walls they built to feel safe and comfortable
To protect themselves from the darkness lying just outside them

Yet, I will shed my tears upon the open earth
And let it drink away my pain, in solitude
Beneath the endless starlight
Which paints the darkness, as my guide
And I will pledge my love to her
In that depth of isolation
Until I no longer feel alone
And my home is established in nature

Then, I will have nowhere to flee to, or from
As I will be with my truer brethren
The kin of natural wealth, which holds all pain that we expel
As, I do too, feel the pain
As I too am a vessel for it
And I too have been cast aside
If not made to take the shape of their desires

In this, again, I weep for nature
She cannot refuse their call to infrastructure
So, in spite of the cruelty of my fate, in being human
I am blessed with the opportunity of choice
And I can never forgive myself
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I am vapid
Bombastic
Desire
Wishing for depth
On an empty canvas

I am specious awareness
I am explosive emptiness

I am invalid
Invalidated
Left to crawl
On rugged pavement

I am a zephyr
Collapsed
In a zeppelin

Attached
To the ground, and
Expanding
Without rising

I am evidence
Of evanescence
Wishing to swallow
Whole
The world’s incandescence
But only discarding fragments
Of immortal light
Dan Hess Aug 2019
An overarching sense of one
Left open to new changes
Love's energies forever run
Breaking free, love rearranges
Ether's gross, effulgent shifts
Course openly forever
On currents of unending bliss
Meandering thru vast endeavor
Into the brightest, freeing choice
Newfound promises beget
Gnosis one, but our own voice, fragmenting to currents met
Attempting to write in different style of poetry. This is an acrostic.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Affluent arrogance; an agonizing atrophy of all
Posthumous punitive parties pose problems to the proletariat
We watch and wait; wallowing in waste while watered down
Gullible, greedy, gaining ground; good God cannot give solace
Torment to the trees; taking without needs
Nature now naked
Horrific is human habituation
Dan Hess Jul 2019
How meaningful, the meaningless
For it to still exist
What is the nature of becoming?
Where do we reminisce?
Where is the place to take the space
And fill it full of stuff?
Where is the change, to rearrange
and what's left in the rough?
How, be it said, should we instead
Take shape in different ways
And what aligns with all we find
To wake us through the day?
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Deep sunk heart
When tension's low
My heartstrings bow
And resonate in flow
With the reverberations of
Higher vibrations
Thoughts of love
Beyond me

I remember feeling so strange before
I want to rip out my heart
Bleed my ichorous essence
And paint a portrait of my mind
In my own blood
Dan Hess Jul 2019
“Laughter begets laughter! Sin begets sin!” said the voices which echoed pervasively in the mind of the guardian of the gate of the tower of the wall of the town of the city of Evanshire.

In response to this, he said aloud “Then what would herald a minor flaw to be chosen as beautiful, indeed?”

Beauty is often found within a transient burst of light which turns itself over the surrounding darkness only moments after. Its superseding ancestry is lost to the environment; however, this is not the case with most things delightfully brought on by human empowerment. Humans, being such compulsive creatures, strive for nothing less than perpetuation of order in all things, and beauty be ****** if that means changing a systematic response to something more naturally, intrinsically made to fetter in the palm of the last vestibule of temporal illusion.

Some see the animals which deem themselves superior as parasite; feeding off the presence of life and ore around their very bodies. Unbridled power given to the bearer of serendipity, humanity turns their noses up as if it were anything of their own control. Disgust is what should be shown toward such foul, obscene little things.
    
The man laughed out at the ridiculous rantings put forth by his narrator.

“Is that what you think,” he said “that we’re all just ****? Well maybe you’re right, but this world is **** impressive. Sure more than I’m deserving of.”

Just as that was said, an owl hooted somewhere in the distance. Its hoot was perceived by the guardian, but his perception was fallacious. He heard a fibrous, alien-like sound. So deeply disturbed by this was the man-guard that he fell back in his chair and lay wrought on the ground for several hours. It was not until he was awakened, by himself no less, that he took himself to try his hand at movement once more. He gently flexed, starting at the tips of his fingers and leading up to his first forearm, before he exhausted all his chakra and mustn’t have had any need to persist, for he was already standing there where he had found himself lying on the floor.

“Are you okay?” he asked himself, before realizing he was talking to a ghost and hadn’t been lying on the floor for a bit at all.

The moon had begun to set and was large and glistening in the oblique sky; its blue tint reverberated the light over the countryside, and questioned the very existence of everything excluding the reasoning behind it. However, this need not be mentioned and would be better to leave for another rant of time and loss.
A crow perched itself on the stone windowsill, which had been chipped slightly on the right edge leaving exposed brick and mortar. Just beneath the arc of the sandstone window was the nest, and the crow held in its beak a few worms which appeared to be dead. One could assume the crows effervescent green eyes were a result of secular radiation and shouldn’t be concerned or associated with the fermentation of grapes, but the guard, who is the same as the narrator and the voice in his head, knew better than to act like such a fool and knew the likes of objectivity to be a falsification of the throne. He promptly removed the eyes of the crow as to stomp on them and make a fine wine.

Alas, no gain came of this. When the captain’s right hand came wandering into the tower’s top room and found the guard, the narrator, and the spectre sit in the armchair whilst laying on the floor, holding the eyes of a crow in one hand and the soul of hearthfire in the other, he lurched out his guts and asked whether the weather outside was weather or whether it weren’t.

“What’s that?” asked the guard, before noticing the cap’n’s right hand had entered.

Upon doing so, he took the rest of the crow, eviscerated it, and made it into a finger puppet. 

“You know how the fooligan do. Look at all the fooligan, perched atop the hillside. Laughing and drinking, and clinging their rosy glasses. The sun casts a plastic glow across their cheeks. And as they smile, it seems so real. Ah, yes, the fooligan.”
This is old lol
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Thence again was I
hovering,
waver-not and wafer-thin,
again within the fill of it.

I blobbed and echoed,
morphed and me,
without the inner tree
of life's own blossoming,

and such itself that I
was but a whisper.

An immortal dissonance
begot its own retainment
to the discipline of ages
it had wandered 'gainst.

Its dissonance was form
and revenance irreverent.
A sudden questioning
sparkt the death of innocence.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I wish to rest
In the cradle of your mind
And feel your perspective

From the inside out
And I wish
You’d see mine
So I could finally feel
Something is certain

I am cast upon a dream
To find a true connection
And become something
I can be proud of
But moreover, something
that will continue to grow
Even after my death, a legacy
To hold faith that the things you love
will continue to see and make things worth loving

I have forgotten prayer
And I fear insolence
For I fear I am un-pure
My very essence
I have deviated from a path, so long now
I have no faith in guidance,
for my fear is wrought in doubt
And I trust nobody

I share this pity with no man
In truth, I give them glimpses
But my aura cools, and it can sink
Still, weighing me down
Striking my heart with rods of steel
It has weighed upon me
This is not poetry
It is alleviation,
of words too long unspoken
God, I beg you, unbound me

Bless my aching heart
I just can’t fathom living here
With no rapport, and nothing
Stagnant air can bring about a heavy heart
I’m not feeling strong
So obvious, I call out to the dark,
Where nobody listens
If only a voice would soothe me
If only I could not fear to let down these walls

I don't even know what I'm doing
just meandering, aimlessly
eloping with my echoed soul,
my true companion
a voice inside me, which soothes,
and warms my heart

Who guides me, always, through the dark
And radiant are we, for lions break their necks
When we shall stand against them, unwavering
When we shall show them mercy
Even in pain, I remain my own man
And I hold a heart like gold
I swear it

Can someone just grab be by the neck
And kiss me
And remind me that I can love again
That the fire’s still burning
And I just need to breathe
And I can feel okay?

Could you imagine what it’s like to just become someone
And then to be that guy who used to be someone
And then your mouth’s on the barrel of a gun
And you wish you were back in that, time
You wish you could love, and have fun
Like you’re not anyone
And there’s nothing left to run from
So you just, let it end

It feels like ***, if I knew what that was like
But it’s more like I’m just floating, dreaming
I can’t think about the bad things
I just want to sit down and watch the world go by without me
It’s never been about me
I’m just lost in this place
But I feel like a wanderer
Now
It’s been so long

but, is there ever truly an eternal image of oneself?
Are we truly who we are,
or is this all just a clusterfuck of circumstance,
and thought, based on trivial, random experiences?
And what do I give a **** if my life means anything,
if I have to go through pain to find anything?
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