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More proof the organs of the body are limiters rather than perceivers:

Dementia onset grandma sees all time at once unfold to her
in the hospital
I am her grandson, son, father, and brother in scattered fragments

The brother amid a manic schizoid crisis can read
your thoughts and see auras
despite my practiced techniques of staying stonefaced and neutral


Eternal Recurrence
Is this where you want to be when YOU come back?

Numbing our faculties with drink and smoke to
forget the faults of our individuality
Unconsciously strive for death
the hallowed and forbidden no man's land of
some universal hum


Forgive all your past
because we're all faulty radios seeking to
receive that same AM static

They used to say to be like the ocean
who take in polluted rivers, but not be polluted itself
Now the ocean's dying

We achieved an unthinkable number of polluted rivers
It's high time us kind folk dry themselves off and
stop the apocalyptic Millerites from killing us all
prematurely

We need to convince ourselves we're blameless to
grow a backbone and point a collective finger at
the selfish flimflammers we've let rule us so long
berating the fish for breeze / randy on the shore
a casualty of the seaside seas                                
                            ­­     they preach until they bore ;
the gulls and their crustaceans / tide and tale  
but no end of their frustrations                          
                          ­    light up the slick of oil
and bathe the night            
    maddened with acceleration
Saish Itankar Jun 15
The books are closed, the exams are done,  
A chapter ends, a new one's begun.  
No more the rush of schoolyard days,  
Now life's ahead in countless ways.  

The friends we made, the bonds so tight,  
Will shine like stars in the darkest night.  
Yet paths will change, and so will we,  
As we step into what’s meant to be.  

New dreams to chase, new goals in sight,  
A future waiting, bold and bright.  
Though school is gone, its lessons stay,  
To guide us through each step, each day.  

With open hearts, we move ahead,  
No fears, no doubts, just hope instead.  
The world is ours, so vast, so wide,  
A new beginning—let’s walk with pride!

- Saish Itankar
Zywa Jun 14
The sun wakes me right

in my face: impossible!


Is the earth tilted?
Collection "Local inconveniences"
A G Osborne May 28
Aerate my mind,
Plant the bulbs of new thought,
As germination of your methods begin, roots take in other parts of my brain.
The soil of my mind, so rich with life, do not give me ericaceous ideas.
Know my temperament, know my methods, know what to pollinate.
Let me blossom on my own accord,
While you may be deciduous, let me be
Evergreen.
Steve Page May 3
We thought we'd tamed the dragons.

But they were simply waiting,
Watching us methodically
Create an environment
More suited to their needs.

Heated, unpredictable, and
Increasingly hostile.

We never tamed the dragons.
We became them.
Prompted by a painting, River Scene, 1935, by L S Lowry, now hanging in the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle.
Kayli Kilzer Apr 29
Today was the end of my life,
yet tomorrow I see all.

I am a rocket creature      /      My bones lie melted,

in the forest, the trees are  /   tire tracks which scar my mangled body:

my landing strip. No better     \    flesh and bones and

sanctuary than this     /          humanitarian malice.

God-given world,             /       Betrayal by the ones we preceded,

untouched; delicate arboretum    \      metal glowing eyes above,

Palm fronds— my blankets and    \    screaming rubber wheels,


everlasting life felt through the wind in my fur.


Anti-anthropomorphic heaven,     /     throat charred of secondhand;

  I take   /   the blood of my posterity stained

green for granted. She     \   sees the world I am at the mercy of,

     who does not belong to me,      \      I am a slave to what he wants

yet I am a microscopic essentialist     /    and a blink of robotic velocity

                        to her                   /           in which I cannot keep up.


Born of Gaia and a martyr of Growth.
A poem about the perspective of industrialization from road ****… a squirrel probably… read both sides individually or together.
What torture ignorance is!
When you treat ignorance as such,
Perhaps it is.
Being so ignorant,
I could see it.
For the foolishness of it
Is that it is the only route to wisdom!

In how we define it?
By how we describe it?
Of how we perceive it?

Perception birthing perspective,
Yet both products of their environment!
"Self-copulation?"

Of course, given context,
The definitions fluctuate.
So, then our perception of it
And thereby our descriptions of them,
Change or fluctuate also.

Like the rain falling.
Like ice forming.
Like water flowing.
Shambhavi Apr 7
I asked God,
What happened to this world...?

Chirping birds became noisy horns,
Majestic trees replaced by haunted thorns.
Dense forests turned to toxic crowds,
Now heaven is hidden in denser clouds.

Humans became demons in daylight,
Every festival now ends in fight.
AI paints beautiful trees,
But a painting can't make us breathe free.

All relations turned into jokes,
Children leave their parents chasing hopes.
Even animals sacrifice for their children lives,
But here a mother killed her own child.

I again asked God, weeping in my silent tears,
God replied me,
Don't worry my dear,
THE END IS NEAR!!
Every religioius textbooks have warned us about the ending of the world because of humans desires but no one cares and soon we will see the circumstances.
Archer Apr 7
Thereunto Sky Filled with Scars
O’er our beheld Ocean of Teeth
Seldomly Throwing Up Clouds and Stars
In sets of three for three sets of Crying Trees
Up and upon each Screaming Mountainside
Till moons pass half past a Quarter to Live
Or they shan’t view their Island in my Eye
Instead betwixt a Desert and Crude Sieve
Alas, nary a River Through our Sun
Nor a Volcano up the Arctic
Dost commit to Minds Overrun
Or coups for Governments Oligarchic
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