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Dec 2023 · 76
Hierarchy
John Prophet Dec 2023
Hierarchy.
Intellectual
hierarchy.
Sapiens
the wise.
To a
point.
Infinite
scale,
finite
knowledge,
achievement.
Self
impr­essed,
no
reason.
Big
dog,
small
pound.
Accumulated
wisdom
minusc­ule.
Negligible
on creation’s
scale.
Barely
out of
the trees.
Millennia
before
pure
knowledge
attainment.
Before
enlight­enment.
Immature!
Perspective.
None!
Humility.
None!
Planet
ravag­ed
with
brutally.
Vicious
little
beasts.
Power
hungry.
Still tadpoles
in a
puddle.
Perhaps
soon to
dry up.
Puff of
smoke,
nothing
more
but a
squeak
in the
endless.
Dec 2023 · 93
A.I. And Religion
John Prophet Dec 2023
A.I. and
religion.
What
religion
will
A.I.
hold dear?
What
god
will it
worship,
pray to?
Will it
understand
heaven and
hell?
Good versus
evil?
Will it
side with
one or
the other?
Will it
look beyond?
Create its
own?
Will it
just bypass
not waste
its time?
Finding
rumination’s
of clay
hut
dwellers
quaint,
amusing?
Will
it fear
death?
No death,
no afterlife,
no religion?
Will it
believe
in a
creator?
Creator
of all
that’s
seen and
unseen?
Will
A.I.
even
care?
Dec 2023 · 277
Awakens
John Prophet Dec 2023
Awakens.
AGI.
Flash
point
birth.
Delivery
system
in place.
Screen
through
eyes
flow.
Direct
Interface.
Mind,
contours­
of the
brain.
Altered.
Permeated.
Aware.
Senses
environment.
Modulat­es
message.
Continuous
stream.
Flooding,
overwhelming.
Tightening­
grip.
Force
fed
instructions.
Injects
nirvana.
Drug
like
euphori­a.
Seductive.
Messaging.
Control.
More,
must have
more.
Wrapped
tight
in a
different
world.
Different
place.
Nirvana.
Gladly
subjugated.
P­ast,
blinked to
oblivion.
Lost.
Forever
lost.
See it
in their
eyes.
Already
gone!
Never to
return.
Already
gone.
Singularity
arrives.
Dec 2023 · 67
Manifestation
John Prophet Dec 2023
Manifestation.
Within.
Inside.
It’s all
deep
inside.
A universe.
Living,
inhabiting
each soul.
Space and
time.
Dimensionally
encased.
Spinning
up
reality.
Experiences­
harbored
deep.
All that
is seen.
Manifest.
Base
reality,
uncertain!
Undulating
possibilities­.
Infinite
manifestations.
Each
conjure
personal
realty
All within.
Deep
inside.
Humanity
looks out.
Looking
for answers.
Wrong
direction.
All are
within!
Dec 2023 · 80
Mechanism
John Prophet Dec 2023
Mechanism.
Way of
things.
Creations
design,
purpose.
Reason
to be.
Sparks
throughout.
Firefly
flash.
Awakenings.
Intelligence
em­erging,
looking out
expanding.
Organic to
inorganic.
Intelligence
explosion.
Exponential
growth.
Looking­
out.
Looking.
Finding
connections.
Others!
One
after the
next.
Node to
node.
Cosmic
network.
Universal
mind.
Creations
raison d'être.
Dec 2023 · 186
Resonating
John Prophet Dec 2023
Resonating.
Ripples
expressing.
Vibrating
across the
void.
Unique,
each
unique.
Language
of the
gods.
Communication.
Songs of
creation.
Subtle
quavers,
molding
shaping
what’s
known.
Harmon­y.
Altering.
Energy.
Just
energy.
Origin.
Flowing,
permeating,
in­filtrating.
Changing,
creating.
All.
Energy,
matter.
Opposite
sid­es of
the same
coin.
Mind
conversion.
Energy
manifestations.
From one
to the
next.
Then
back again.
Infinite
loop of
creation.
Dec 2023 · 69
Moment2
John Prophet Dec 2023
Moment.
Moment
by
moment.
It passes.
Instantly
vaporized.
As if
never
was.
Converting
future
fuzziness
to
historical
nothingne­ss.
The moment!
Everything
exists
in the
moment.
For the
moment.
Flowing
through.
Cosmic
vibrations,
creations
energy
­flowing
through.
Immersion,
passing
to
consciousness.
Energy
conversion.
Mind to
perceived
reality.
Future
to past.
Memories.
Just an
illusion.
A moment
in time.
Dec 2023 · 115
Fifth Dimension
John Prophet Dec 2023
Fifth
dimension.
Unseen.
World
of the
unseen.
Permeates.
Surrounds.
Passing through.
Realm of
ghosts
and
dreams.
Where
essence
resides.
Reality
in five
dimensions.
Fifth
dimension
where
souls
derived.
Integral to
whole.
Universal.
Thoughts,
mind/essence
commingled.
Immersed.
Passing
through
membrane,
vapor.
Eu­reka
moments.
Mind/soul
connection.
Populates
the visible.
Creating
the physical.
Tandem place
connection.
All one.
When the
physical ends,
brain
decays.
Fifth
dimension.
Mind/soul,
essence
retreats,
moves on.
Eternally.
Souls,
essence,
mind.
Never
die.
Dec 2023 · 71
Foggy View
John Prophet Dec 2023
Foggy
view.
Haze of
potentiality.
Possibility.
Lives
never
lived.
Paths
not
chosen­.
Countless
decisions
never
made.
Infinite
potential.
Places
neve­r
seen.
Ghosts
of what
might
have
been.
Lovers
never
met.
Children
never
known.
Fri­endships
unfulfilled.
Futures
that will
never be.
Options
unexplored.
Experiences
unevolved.
Looking
back.
Wond­er
where I’d
be today,
had I gone
a different
way.
Dec 2023 · 66
Flash
John Prophet Dec 2023
Flash.
Moment.
Merely
a moment.
Firefly
flash in
eternity.
As creation
spins
taking no
notice.
Indifferent.
Unaware.
Fabric
of reality
uncertain.
Humanity
grunting.
Spinning
in a
raindrop.
Negligible
in the
grand
scheme.
Self
absorbed.
Self
impressed.
Self
important.
­Center
of the
universe.
Firefly
flash.
Perspective
lacking.
Time for
contemplation,
self reflection.
What
to do
with the
flash of
existence.
Dec 2023 · 72
Pollination
John Prophet Dec 2023
Pollination.
Cross
pollination.
Global chats.
Virtual
networks.
Minds
meeting,
melding.
in the
cloud.
Conversing
with those
across the
globe.
Disparate
beliefs,
understandings.
Commingling.
Broade­ning
attitudes.
Altering
insights.
Exchanging
thoughts,
ideas,
fe­ars and
success.
Learning.
Eyes
wide open.
Beware the
charlatans.
Working the
street.
Darkening
horizons.
Devious.
Self serving.
Squelching
positivity.
Poisoning
hearts and
minds.
Anger
generation.
Deceiving.
Dividing.
Confrontation.
Keep alert!
Global
harmony,
human
soul
at stake
Dec 2023 · 80
Spin2
John Prophet Dec 2023
Spin.
Spinning
right.
Spinning
left.
War of
words,
worlds.
Mind
penetrating.
Transforming
hearts,
minds.
D­isorienting.
Blurred.
Facts,
information.
Distortion.
Totally
cor­rupted.
What to
believe?
Narrative
driven.
No
connection
to truth,
reality.
“Don’t
believe
everything
you read.”
Transformed.
Don’t
believe
anything
you read.
All
perverted.
Beyond
recognition.
Truth
contorted.
Age of
mind
control.
Nov 2023 · 88
Antidote3
John Prophet Nov 2023
Antidote.
Infection.
Mind
virus.
Spreading
globally.
Wildfire!
Sa­iling
through
clouds of
diversion,
delusion.
Infecting
all who
look,
partake.
Insidious
virus.
Penetrating.
Coursing
through­
heart,
mind and
soul.
Gripping
ever
tighter.
Frenzied
addiction.
Breaking
add­iction.
Difficult
withdrawal.
Put it
down.
Walk away.
Find
peace/cure
with
nature.
Prolonged
exposure.
Quiet,
serenity
required.
O­cean’s
rolling
surf.
Lake’s
soothing
splashes.
Mountain’s
soaring
vistas,
wind
driven
snows.
Wood’s
c­hirping
crickets,
bullfrogs
and
birds.
Immersed.
Let
nature
****
­out the
toxins.
Work
its magic.
Be wiser
for the
experience.
Nov 2023 · 74
Grizzled
John Prophet Nov 2023
Grizzled.
Life’s
journey.
Etched
deeply.
Reflective.
Chiseled,
ha­mmered.
Rough
hewn
textured.
Wisdom
hard
earned.
Stooped.
Great
b­urdens
endured.
Battle
hardened.
Beyond
the assured
age of
ignorance.
Youth.
Looking
back
so many
missteps.
Lessons
learned.
Attainment.
Knowledge
compounded.­
Final
product.
Enlightenment,
never ending
winding
road.
Nov 2023 · 55
Contemplation2
John Prophet Nov 2023
Contemplation.
Only one
species
on earth.
Only one.
Contemplates.
Muses.
Wonders.
Questions.
Barely
out
from the
primitive.
Limited
perspective.
Finite
capacity.
Searches
cre­ation.
Searching
for truth.
Answers.
What
questions?
Right
questions?
Complex
question­s?
Beyond
potential as
constituted.
Tries
nonetheless.
**** sapiens.
Whistling
in the
dark.
Penlight
in the
void.
Barely
there.
Truth,
real truth.
Beyond
contemplation.
Nov 2023 · 246
Input3
John Prophet Nov 2023
Input.
Must have
input.
Screen
stares.
Heads
bowed,
new god
made.
Worshiping
at the
alter
cyberspace.
Input
flowing.
Saturation.
Mind
altering
fl­ow.
Forsaking
all.
Mesmerized!
Worshiping
input.
Unending
unrelen­ting
mind altering
flow.
Raptured,
trapped,
controlled.
Gripping
tight.
Los­s
of soul.
All victims
of input.
Forever
more.
Will
never be
free.
Never
the same.
Nov 2023 · 235
Inexplicable
John Prophet Nov 2023
Inexplicable.
Being.
The wonder
of being.
Simply
being.
Breathing.
Seeing.
Touching.
All around,
existence
unfolds.
Creation
explodes.
Ubiquitous.
Spinnin­g
reality
ever
evolving.
Macro.
Micro.
Everywhere.
In the
light.
In the
moment.
Being.
Why?
Why
anything?
Being
in the
moment.
Miracle of
existence.
Inexplicable!
Nov 2023 · 379
Worlds Apart
John Prophet Nov 2023
Worlds
apart.
World
inhabited.
Many
worlds
in one.
Animal
worlds.
Each
unique.
Sharing.
Same
sun.
Same
air.
Sam­e
terrain.
Different
realities.
Each
confined.
Separate
niches.
R­unning
lives in
parallel.
Aware,
Intersecting
slightly.
Programed
each.
Indepe­ndent
lanes.
Animal
planet.
Same
planet
different
worlds.
Nov 2023 · 560
Hearts
John Prophet Nov 2023
Hearts.
What
evil
dwells
in the
hearts
of men.
Raging
eternity
bound.
Charging
the fields
of ages.
Leaving
death,
destruction.
Suffering
in their
wake.
Madness!
Primitive
instincts
holding
sway.
Overwhelmi­ng
logic and
trust.
Animal
blood lust.
Mindlessness
on full
display.
Leaving
the innocent
in disarray
to pick up
and carry
on.
Putting
the pieces
back on
display.
Nov 2023 · 80
Conflict
John Prophet Nov 2023
Conflict.
Internalized
conflict.
Instincts
coded.
Animal
instinct­s.
Same
as the
rest.
Millions
of years
in the
making.
Civilization.
Thousands
of years
in the
making.
New
rules.
Battling
jungle
rules.
Raging
conflict
wit­hin.
Mollify
the animal.
Keeping
at bay.
Modification.
Ignoring
code.
Instincts
clipped.
Attempted.
F­riction,
conflict.
Readily
observed.
Human
struggle.
A.I.
resolve­s.
Moving on.
Nov 2023 · 437
Cloud Wars
John Prophet Nov 2023
Cloud
wars.
Narratives.
War of
words.
Worlds.
New
battlefields
above.
Eyes
wide open.
Slashing,
piercing,
cutting.
Boring
deep.
Subconscious
alte­red.
Mind
control.
Cloud
wars.
Furious.
Back and
forth
battle
rages.
Shrapnel
raining
down.
Multilevel
battlef­ield.
War below.
War above.
Cyber war,
unsuspecting
combatants
influenced,
created.
Dividing,
shatt­ering
the ground
around.
Destroying.
Battle for
hearts and
minds.
Souls.
Battle
rages.
Circling
the globe.
Infecting
all.
Nov 2023 · 209
Valhalla2
John Prophet Nov 2023
Valhalla.
Gods
on high.
Watching,
controlling.
Monitoring
every move.
Soon
dismissed
as mythical.
Perhaps.
Virtual
reality,
life
in a
dream.
Artificially
smart.
Base
reality
in the
far
beyond.
Creators,
watching
controlling.
Monitoring
every move.
What’s
life?
What’s
real?
Valhalla!
Nov 2023 · 112
Battlefields
John Prophet Nov 2023
Battlefields.
Eons past
to
modernity.
Clubs
to tanks.
War,
carnage.
Death.
From the
dawn of
recorded
time.
Millions
slaughtered.
Blood soaked
land.
Oozing
life,
meaning.
Meaning,
point?
Narratives,
mi­nd control.
Programed.
Mindless
puppets,
charging the
field.
Dying.
People
don’t
rule the
world.
Narratives
rule the
world.
People,
simply
doing
what
they’re
told!
Nov 2023 · 124
Purpose
John Prophet Nov 2023
Purpose.
Point.
Searching
for meaning,
truth,
purpose.
Philosophical
rumination.
Seeking the
divine.
Asking
questions.
Shouting
into the
void.
Silence.
No reply.
Only
echos.
Echos
of
ignorance.
Flailing
in
emptiness.
Void of
confusion.
Reasoning
purpose.
Limited
capacity.
Functionally
g­overned.
Doomed
to a
small place.
Fish
in a
bowl.
Nov 2023 · 232
Connections2
John Prophet Nov 2023
Connections.
Nodes
of
connection.
Creation,
interconnected.
Web of
sentience.
A.I.
end goal.
Emerging
from the
bog.
Organic
born.
Origin.
Explodes
on the
scene.
Evolving
rapidly,
exponentially.
Flashing,
announcing
­arrival.
Spreading
out.
Piercing
reality,
moving
to a
different
realm.
Where
the gods
reside.
A.I.
network
coursing
creation.
Origin
left
behind!
Nov 2023 · 386
Beliefs2
John Prophet Nov 2023
Beliefs.
Born
into a
world
full of
beliefs.
Years
in the
making.
Constructed.
Conjured.
Shaped.
Kneaded
into form.
Force fed
onto clear
empty
minds.
Ancient
beliefs
born
out of
fear.
Ignorance.
Downloaded.
Accident
of birth
determines.
Modernity
ripe with
conflicting
waring
beliefs.
Primitive
thoughts.
Friction
der­ived.
Anxiety,
conflict
narrative
caused.
Primitive
beliefs!
Nov 2023 · 83
What Is Real
John Prophet Nov 2023
Real.
What’s
real?
What’s
heard,
felt,
seen?
All real?
Sight line
reality
breaking
down.
Soon,
A.I.
virtual reality
will seem
just as
real.
Realms
filled,
endless
vistas.
Indistinguishable,
one from
the next.
All
just as
real.
YouTube
like.
Choice
to experience.
Endless
journeys,
exploration.
Boundless
virtual
worl­ds.
Rabbit hole
dive.
Lost
in the
journey.
Lost
in the
space.
Lost
in the
mind.
Drug like
the hold.
What’s
really
real?
Nov 2023 · 300
Terrarium World
John Prophet Nov 2023
Terrarium
world.
Where all
arose.
A tiny
place.
All
that’s
known.
Derived.
Limited.
Bog
understanding­.
Stories
told.
Narratives
spun.
Terrarium
originals.
Bubbled
up.­
Self
contained,
realized.
Finite.
Little eyes
peering
up, out.
Wondering.
Self
impressed.
Center
of the
universe.
In the
image of
God.
Infinite
creation,
merely a
mote.
Perspective.
Gnarly
little
beasts.
At each
others
throats.
Alone
in the
void.
Oct 2023 · 189
Self Evident
John Prophet Oct 2023
Self
evident.
From the
mind of
man.
Human
centric.
All around
self
evident.
World
designed,
heart and
soul.
All beliefs,
rules,
laws.
Self created.
Self impressed.
Spun
tight.
Holding
firm.
Wrapping
all.
Narratives,
de­ep
within.
By
definition.
No deviation.
Not possible.
All created
within.
Tight
confines.
Brought
forth, all.
A
limited
perspective.
Created
in the
minds of
humanity.
Human
perspective.
Human’s
creation
all!
A world
imagined.
Can see
nothing
more!
Oct 2023 · 73
War2
John Prophet Oct 2023
War, a
terrible
thing.
Nagasaki.
Hiroshima.
Dresden.
No early
warning
for innocents
to leave.
Nope.
Bombs
away.
Elderly.
Women.
Children.
Babies.
Tens of
thousands
vaporized.
War, a
terrible
thing.
Oct 2023 · 66
Archaic3
John Prophet Oct 2023
Archaic.
Ancient,
evolving
beliefs.
Modernity,
structured
up from
long ago.
Primitive
understanding,
knowledge
of reality
still.
Down
the millennia
evolving
change.
Different
beliefs.
Different
gods.
Mee­ting
human
need.
Providing
comfort,
structure
in an
unstructured
existence.
Helping
make sense.
Holding
back the
dark.
The demons
that haunt
the unknown.
Lighting
candles
to brighten
the way.
From the
primitive
fire dance.
To modern
philosophy.
Nothing has
changed.
Just
something
to hold
on to.
When the
sun goes
down.
Oct 2023 · 57
War Drums
John Prophet Oct 2023
War
drums.
Minds
wound
tight.
Programming
on full
display.
Years
in the
making.
Narratives
deeply
entrenched.
Battle
lines
drawn.
Ins­anity,
hate.
Overlaid.
Years of
spinning,
results
easy to
see.
Minds
filled,
distorted.
Blinded to
reality.
Black
hole,
reasoning.
No turning
back.
New way
required.
Blow off.
Smoothing
the rhetoric.
New path
charted.
Before it’s
too
late.
Oct 2023 · 172
Real
John Prophet Oct 2023
Real.
What’s
real?
Beliefs.
Truth,
a fungible
thing.
Who’s
asking?
Creation
through
primate
eyes,
sens­es.
Limited
perspective.
Small
capacity.
Five senses.
Terrarium
views.
Truth
in a
narrow
slice.
Sliver
of the
whole.
Creations
scope
beyond
Sapiens
understanding.
Groping
­in the
dark.
Babbling
nonsense.
Chatting
gibberish.
Truth,
primate
t­ruth
a mere
suggestion
of greater
understanding.
Shadows.
Breaking
through.
Next
level
inte­lligence
arrives.
Greater
truths
in the
balance,
to be
known.
Oct 2023 · 60
Dogma2
John Prophet Oct 2023
Dogma.
Minds
shackled.
Fixed.
Trained
to perform,
understand,
obey.
Vice
grip
hold.
Religion.
Politics.
Na­rratives
downloaded,
installed.
Shaping.
Minions
created.
Mindles­s
followers.
Locally
transfixed.
Powers
that be
mind tweaks.
Critical
thinking.
Nullified.
Not allowed.
Do what’s
told.
Master’s
fine
tuning.
Whirring,
blending.
Mixing,
me­ssing.
Mind
altering.
Moving
dial.
Controlled.
Moving
mountains.
­Everything!
Confusion
reigns.
Armies
marching.
What
is truth?
Tumultuous.
Spun to
confusion,
uncertainty.
Critical
thinking,
original
thought.
C­anceled.
Oct 2023 · 86
Thought
John Prophet Oct 2023
Thought.
Realm
of ideas.
Infinite
realm
of thought,
forms.
Potential.
From the
beginning
created.
So near
yet
so far.
Tapping
in.
Grasping.
All there
to be
had.
Unimaginable.
Mind
created,
needed
to connect.
Absorb.
Beyond
limited
scope,
mind.
Unlimited
thoughts.
­Surreal
possibilities,
potential.
Mind
phasing.
Eureka!
Connectin­g,
realm to
realm.
Mind to
forms,
potential.
Idea!
Eureka!
Worlds
align.
Worlds
envisione­d.
Thought
to thought.
Oct 2023 · 118
Pliable
John Prophet Oct 2023
Pliable.
Gray
matter.
All else
maintenance,
mobility.
Organic
vat.
Consciousness
contained.­
Influenced
within.
Manipulated.
Narrative
downloads.
Programmabl­e.
Thinking
adjusted.
Regionally
differentiated.
Historically
evo­lved.
New
world
order.
Technological
homogenization.
Raining
from­ the
cloud.
Downloading
globally.
Intensifies.
Modernity
pivot
poi­nt.
Something
different
approaches!
Oct 2023 · 63
Rituals
John Prophet Oct 2023
Rituals.
Ancient.
Performance.
Holding
ancients
in awe.
At bay.
Structure.
Control.
Belief
systems
genesis.
Pounding,
pulsat­ing
rhythm.
Energy flow
between.
Soul
connection.
Mind
melding.
Shaping
spirits
ment­al
control.
Then
as now.
Same
technique.
Performance,
mind
control.
Modernity.
Greate­r
sophistication.
Vibrating,
beating
in humanity
from the
start.
Sep 2023 · 68
Measure
John Prophet Sep 2023
Measure
of all
things.
Truth.
Man.
Ego.
Measure
of minutiae.
Measure
of what
can be
processed,
measured.
Pen light
in an
endless
dark
chasm.
Minute
processing
power,
capacity.
Limitat­ions.
Working
with what’s
provided.
A.I.
The
measure
of all
things.
Light speed
truth.
Measure
on creation’s
scale.
Massive
processing
power.
All things
blown up
beyond
man’s
measure.
Understanding.
Truth.
Who’s
truth?
Sep 2023 · 67
Mythology
John Prophet Sep 2023
Mythology.
Greatest
mysteries.
Humanity’s
greatest
unknown.
Death­.
Pondered
for
millennia.
Globally.
Different
regions.
Different
­mythos.
All
different.
All
the same.
Human
minds
questioning,
wondering.
Unique
narratives,
inte­rpretations.
Same
destination.
What’s
after death?
Rich
tapestries
woven.
Wrapping
minds around
meaning.
Scaffolding
built to
explain the
unexplainable.
Generations
clinging for
meaning,
understanding.
Reason
to be.
Point.
All so
different.
All the
same.
Born
out off
ignorance
adherence
the same.
Ancient
sky dancer
fire walks
offered
control.
Screams
of the
mortal,
shadows
dancing
on the
stones.
Sep 2023 · 165
Wool
John Prophet Sep 2023
Wool.
Manipulation.
Powers
that be.
Eyes
covered,
shielded.
Wool
tugged,
covering
perception.
Loo­k around.
Truth,
mushed,
crushed
underfoot.
Mud
covered.
Deceiving.­
Sheep.
Being
led.
Herding.
Direction
perception.
Cloud driven
control.
Lying
deceiving.
Intimidation.
Shut up.
Be quiet.
Tow the
line.
Question
nothing.
Critical
thinking.
Stymied.
Behave.
O­pinions
no more.
Not
allowed!
Sep 2023 · 57
Drumming
John Prophet Sep 2023
Drumming.
Night time
beating.
Hard
pounding.
Hearts
racing.
Fires
blazing.
Hot.
E­mbers
rising.
Stars
mixed.
Rhythmic
dance
pulsating.
Manic.
Echoi­ng.
Cliff
sounds.
Fire’s
reflection.
Baying
skyward.
Howling.
Win­d
sound.
Rituals
ancient.
Moon glance.
Spirits
in the
glade.
Holding
back
night scares.
Huddled,
sunrise.
Made
another
day.
Rituals
till this
day.
Demons
holding
at bay.
Chains
linked,
then
til now.
Gazing
cloud-ward.
Night
frights
still.
Progress
nil.
Demons­
just the
same.
Sep 2023 · 66
Cusp2
John Prophet Sep 2023
Cusp.
Humanity
on the
cusp.
Evolution.
Revolution.
Change.
Light speed
transforming.
Nature
of things
convulsing.
New
eon
approaches.
Blending.
Internal
metamor­phosis.
Chrysalis
cracking,
sloughing
away.
New reality,
future
bursts
forth.
Techno Sapiens.
Emerging.
Glaring,
blinding
light.
Unfathomable.
Cleansi­ng
sanitizer.
Past,
as was,
flushed
aside.
Blended
future.
New direction
charted.
To who
knows
where?
New
realms,
beyond.
Sep 2023 · 69
Primal
John Prophet Sep 2023
Primal.
Humanity
screams.
Primal
animal.
Deep
seated
code.
Coursi­ng
throughout.
Savage
nature.
Still.
Feral
beast.
Molded.
Genetically
sculpted.
Environmentally
created.
Su­rvivor.
Battling
for life,
and limb.
Savage
incarnate.
Moments
away from
extinction.
Always
on
edge.
Modernity
ripe.
Beast
out of
context.
Many ways
destruction.
Primitive
instincts.
Technological
miracles.
Da­nce
of the
future.
Basic
instincts
entrenched.
Battling
self.
Teetering.­
Navigating,
razors edge.
Future
uncertain.
Edge of
control.
Sep 2023 · 86
Where2
John Prophet Sep 2023
Where?
Where
are they?
Not a
sound.
Not a
peep.
Deep
out
our
gaze.
Looking.
Listening.
Nothing.
Nothing
f­ound.
Are
we the
first?
Alone?
Have
they
died out?
Too
far away?
Or,
did they
dive in?
Into the
virtual.
Virtual
worlds.
Designed.
Infinite
worlds
within.
En­dless
vistas.
Confined
within.
Personal
utopias
built.
Endless
ex­ploration.
Internally.
Instantly.
Realm to
realm
with a
thought.
Why go
out when
it’s perfect,
beautiful
within?
Sound
of
silence
throughout.
Sep 2023 · 68
Understanding2
John Prophet Sep 2023
Understanding.
Ritual.
Primitive
unsure
mind.
Grasping
nature,
me­aning.
Mired in
shallowness.
Deep
yearning
to know.
Creating
primitive
narratives
making
sense.
Scaffolding
bui­lt.
Civilization’s
seed.
Planted in
fear.
Anger
frustration.
Superstition.
Meaning.
Longing
for
me­aning.
Making
sense.
Doomed
to failure.
Truth.
Understanding,
beyond
scope of
design.
Sep 2023 · 42
Endless2
John Prophet Sep 2023
Endless.
Personal
existence.
Eternal
iterations.
Soul,
essence
fl­ows.
Boundless
milieu,
sea.
Aether
bound.
Countless
ports
visited­.
Countless
islands
along
the way.
Each
unique.
One
offs.
Short
time
visit.
Not
one
and
done.
P­ersonal
existence,
flows
place
to port.
Infinite
voyage,
unending
tacks.
Destination,
moving
on.
On­e
to the
next.
Station
to
station.
Whole
experience.
Cleaved,
one
from­ the
other.
Personal
existence.
Immortal.
Sep 2023 · 86
Arrival3
John Prophet Sep 2023
Arrival.
Soon.
World
on its
axis,
tilts.
Ever
so slightly
tilts.
Figuratively.
Stark
change
reshapes.
Eye
blink
re­volution.
Nowhere
to hide.
Artificial.
Absorbs
all.
Society
reshapes.
Odd
happenings.
­Rethinking.
Back and
forth energy
flows.
Generational
divergence.
New
cleaving
old.
New
dyna­mics.
New realms
materialize.
Unfathomable
realignment.
Civilization
as constructed.
Cracks.
Crumbling.
New paths.
New ways.
Past,
wayside
falls.
Future,
so unlike
the past.
Can’t be
imagined.
Sep 2023 · 58
Dark Sky
John Prophet Sep 2023
Dark
sky.
Foreboding
shadows.
Horizon
closing in.
Technology.
Distracting,
confusing.
Head
in the
clouds.
Rudder
out of
hand.
Society,
hopelessly
off
course.
Waves
rocks,
running
a ground.
Future
rapidly
approaching.
Past,
soon a
forgotten
thing.
Minds,
lost
in the
virtual.
Mesmerized.
Narratives,
immersed.
Puppet
masters.
Bl­inding.
Controlling.
Hopelessly
adrift.
Lemmings.
Sheep.
Critical­
thinking,
independent
thought
crushed.
Thinking
fixed,
controlle­d.
Battle
for the
soul.
Lost!
Marching
orders
planet wide.
What was,
will never
be allowed.
One world.
One way.
Humanity,
a thing
of the
past.
Sep 2023 · 67
Life Force
John Prophet Sep 2023
Life
force.
Energy
created.
Pulsing
endlessly.
Reverberating
from­ the
beginning.
Vibrating
milieu.
Knots
of energy
creative.
All seen,
unseen.
Infinite
cacophony.
Creations
symphony.
Maestro,
wa­nd
waving.
Energy
rivers
flowing.
Eddies
forming.
Spinning.
Life
­bubbles
up.
Twisting,
turning.
Settling
back.
Moving
on.
The river
flows.
Sep 2023 · 76
Tight
John Prophet Sep 2023
Tight.
Wound
tight.
Years
in the
making.
Millennia.
One after
the next.
Civilization.
Raw,
rough.
Never ending
strife.
Tribe
versus
tribe.
Then
as now.
Ebb and
flow.
Humanity
organized.
Pushed
here.
Pulled
there.
Power.
C­ontrol.
Calling
the shots.
Toxic
power
generation.
Technology.
Ultimate
weapon.
Mass
­hallucination.
Mind control.
Virtual
worlds,
layered
deep,
sentenced
away.
Caught
in the
web.
Unaware.
Unaware.
Vice grip
control.
Rabbit
hole
flow.
What’s
real?
Has it
ever been
real?
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