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308 · Jan 2018
Insights from my journal
Mark Brown Jan 2018
this is another place to begin (again)
do I think I am clever?
who knows?
when my inner alligator snaps
it’s like my facade collapses
I feel myself contained off
from the flow of life around me

there is truth in my reflection
do I dare say the magic words?
some moments are so deep
they are special, and try as we might
we cannot grasp it in our heads
at some point (I feel) we must heed
the song of our truths (of course)

what that involves can be very intense (indeed)
to follow the heed of our innate beats
but back to reality (yet what is reality?)
I often feel as if I exist outside regular time and space
I feel into my life and my reality
I try to feel my place in it
how can my purpose be most greatly served?

how can my evolving dreams take flight?
(it is very comical) all my recurring themes
seem to have a running motif
it feels as if my life has passed in a daze
yet each year has seen me evolve
deeply in many ways
shedding layers, becoming lighter

I have grown my hair out
because long hair in a man
has often excited in me possibility
the deep sensuality of what life can be
it is almost like I desire to grow into me
I feel there is so much more in me
So much still to be set free

I wonder about how the whole year
seemed to mystically slip away
I am not sad or depressed
I am relieved because it makes sense
(in some breezy ephemeral way)
It almost feels as if 2017 was a non-year
the energy felt of coasting (holding breath)

I am feeling into myself (who I am)
I can be so many things
I can be sneaky, and creepy
timid and passively cowardly
the shadows of some of these demons
have been deep strands in my life
here it is for me…

the poems of our shadows can be rich indeed
I will get rid of the flab on my belly
I will have the physique (and presence)
I will be such as there will be no question
no hesitation that I am beautiful
I will be the one people want to love
I will be the one who connects easy

I sit at the edge of my comfort zone
I will be the one whose art is praised
my inspiration is closing in
my discernment increases as life creeps in
it is unnerving as I peer out to the world
from my perch on the window seat
it makes the moment totally real
306 · Nov 2017
I Wake Up
Mark Brown Nov 2017
I wake up in the morning
I feel life, I feel its space
I ponder myself, I feel myself
I feel into truth and innate
possibility is wise grace
like the first rays of sun on my face
a reflection!
305 · Feb 2018
What Does My Heart Want?
Mark Brown Feb 2018
to feel innocent and pure
to partake in subtle simplicity
in the delicate intimacies around me
my heart wants to bathe
in the truth of purity
unclouded by mad mixtures
of awkwardly complicated life stories
to gaze into pure reflection
to let loose, to feel and be
to reflect eloquent majesty
to reflect eloquent majesty
in the great and sparkling sea
304 · Jan 2018
Some Days
Mark Brown Jan 2018
somedays I feel in between everything that goes on around me, not not in but not not out...I feel as if I am one of those people who is and who also isn't and who is something inbetween

I guess the bigger question is, does it even make a difference?
286 · Nov 2017
The Essence of Life
Mark Brown Nov 2017
the essence of life
is being in the moment
the moment is being
reflected in clarity

life is revitalized in the wind
we repent in crowded spaces
our heart feels innocence
a wise innocence

a subtle, a humble
fluid song, a retreat
resonating into
an infinite cosmos
a pondering!
267 · Feb 2018
...As Time Goes On and On
Mark Brown Feb 2018
Sometimes I feel like miss-mashed cookie dough
disorganized, inert, intense moody
yet sweet, sustaining and irresistible
sumptuously ****

I guess it doesn’t really matter
a friend recently posted on Facebook
about how everything is so important yet insignificant at the same time
I responded while we are here so much feels important

our embodied emotional, needy longing self
longs to feel real reasons to be here
ways to get through the day
things to connect us to life,

while we feel ourselves through each day
it all feels important...until it all becomes insignificant
then it is a completely new existence all together
this is the kernel of the truth
241 · Jan 2018
A Beautiful Composition
Mark Brown Jan 2018
A beautiful composition (of any medium) gives one the perfect moment out of time to feel truly and relax into the self of truth
226 · Jan 2018
Handsome Essences
Mark Brown Jan 2018
Handsome essences
stir my soul
into recognition of
spontaneous
possibility
a hint
of seduction
in every breeze
in every
vulnerably
careless
sensitive
breath
spontaneous
190 · Dec 2017
Being
Mark Brown Dec 2017
it's strange
the eeriness of it
the quiet, constant
depth of it
the full, eternal
depth of it,
the fear, the space
held in place
the rhythmic, silent
depth of it
the presence, the point
in simple understanding
the nuance,
the place
the presence
in it

2014
183 · Jan 2018
Nourished
Mark Brown Jan 2018
I am nourished
by the deep insights
in my songs
I feel truth
symmetrically
focus in
164 · Dec 2017
Passing Through
Mark Brown Dec 2017
cemeteries are thoughtful places
I share space with them who came before
I will be them   they were (a) me
it is early afternoon

I could sit forever
personifying the life
the inquisitive soul
recognizes in death
163 · Dec 2017
Names Wash Away
Mark Brown Dec 2017
in fifty, one hundred years, two hundred (or more?)
all that may remain is an eroding stone
to someone who once was a me

walking dapper down the street
or hobbling with a cane in the park
or a little boy with messy blond hair...

how many hairs have blown in the breeze?
how many have yet to blow in a breeze?
160 · Dec 2017
Butterfly
Mark Brown Dec 2017
humbly elegant
purely free

a character in a moment
a truth and a possibility

a knowing and a dream
in perfect reality

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