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Mark Wanless Nov 2017
How do we stand upon the world
And shape each facet to our liking.

Knowledge is pain to some, who's
Soft emotions overly chafe and bleed.

While others, calloused in life's toil
Know and do with a hearty will.

Each sees with a singular eye
And deems their limited view, whole.
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
The t.v. barks i freeze not moving
          even a brain cell
          evolved from the golden sun i want
          to kiss
          the holy place i've never been
          is ittsy bittsy
          at thoughts end

Ther is a mountain crunching sound
          i do not hear
          a purple crystal lack of vibration
          smashing
          the holy place i've never been
          to soul
          at stars end
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Hit The Fan"



The honey has hit the fan
Widely to splatter perhaps
Perhaps not
Whatever
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Hesitation"

God's will echoes through my mind
        And slowly is neglected,
A hollow timber to my soul
        Betrays His way rejected.

The path to walk is not so hard
        It's not a difficult task,
Yet fear's allowed restraining
        Keeps me stalled at this impasse.
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Hesitancy"


hesitantly breeds hesitancy
deep inside right brain limbic
fog of sense shade of dark
drift of feel heavies and weighs
now and again this view awake
i perceive i am not am

night rain aggregate
world entire drizzle mist
light wind autumn leaves
beauty mind is mind beheld
soft brush feather touch
itself to itself merge is i am
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Here Now and Simple"


Master, participant, observer, slave
I do not know which one is and when
It manifests as awareness in six
Realms of consciousness all together me
There is this that is the inexpressible
Deep covered with self and self-created
That does roil and boil and cause a blight
Of suffering within the form which is the emptiness
Here now and simple as the emptiness is form
Here now and simple yet so very hard to live
empty is cool
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Here I Am"

                             Here I live
                    humbled by disease
                    forced to accept a weakness
                    dependent on the kindness of others
                    for life
                    here I am, a man.

                             Here I live
                    taking pills, doctor's pills that
                    alter states of consciousness
                    today's science stopping the pain
                    and most assuredly cheating death
                    here I am, a man.

                             Here I live
                    in the ***** of the state
                    learning lessons of love and life
                    supplied with warmth and care
                    eating the bread of taxes
                    here I am, a man.
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