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Norbert Tasev Aug 31
The intended solitude and proud-stubborn silence seem to be his second self; since he is already trying to completely isolate himself from the outside world, since the world has already lied to itself a lot behind its petty bargains. He cannot, although he has tried not only through the pores of his skin, but also viscerally, to withdraw, because for some reason most people still believe in the growing suspicions.

Now, feigning innocence, those who once kicked the younger ones with spiked boot marks, just because they were unwilling to pay defense money in the schools, are defending themselves. All unnecessary, unworthy attempts and resistance were pitiful. Stubborn braininess these days is just an occasional deaf brainwashed awareness that even the average person can have something to add to their milk.

A historical short circuit can occur with an unexpected bird rustle again; a nuclear mushroom cloud here, an expandable Katyusha rocket there. And the stripped man from the distance of historical ages cannot resolve in his soul the concealed coordinates of the so-called zone of silence. Since everything today is so complex, delighting in opacity, it is quite natural that he can give petty reasons for further, inexplicable suspicion.

Hectically trembling, the charm of one wrong idea that wants to innovate collapses one after another; an inevitable confrontation passes from one soul to another in a petty-compromising manner, until an artificially manipulative betrayal occurs. The infinite depth also perhaps changes as it reflects the conflicts of interest of selfish Reality. Consuming the bruises caused by sins, the subconscious uncertainty grows in everyone!
Norbert Tasev Aug 30
Because some ******, pitiful excuse almost always pulls me back, and later immediately pushes me back; some tempted, inner restlessness locks itself in the most vulnerable inner bird nests of the soul, about which only I can know, since others, even spies and accomplices, can reveal what is only conveyed on the surface.

Secrets should be kept, even in this current world, the agents-reporters of the tabloid media go and go in and out of each other's private lives, like cheap paparazzi after a juicy gossip-hungry sensation. Tigers with claws are already rubbing against Being, sharpening their teeth, hoping that they will be able to have the useful, moxing-mongrel, at the expense of others, like when someone whispers unexpected buried words, still softly rocking before finally severing the umbilical cord of relationship after the immortal Everything.

The streams of the jellyfish-Times are still swinging on the horizontal plane of hourglass minutes, like adrenaline-addicted tightrope walkers. If loyalty and trust are now blossoming in your empty palm, it is no longer just a suspicious undertaking, but also an enterprise to be trampled, since it is of no use; the spear of goodness is rusty, chipped, broken into them one by one, petty suspicions break the tempted, lasting mistake into small syllables, perhaps it would be better to walk the tiny rungs of the ladder of sighs with loyal friends; because prolonged silence and procrastination also have their octopus claws.

The rusty, creaking gates in the spiral staircase of memory rarely open at the command of Alzheimer's; the groans of the mute are heard, the chronically crippled limp on crutches to collect the money of fat insurance companies, while the fat merchants now pawn everything and everyone, even their treasures. Somewhere, the locks of Being have begun to open unconsciously, like a sharp pimple that cannot be squeezed out - it can only be scratched!
Norbert Tasev Aug 29
Thunderous, wild, unbridled noises break the intimate laws of silence; on deaf porches greedy, barking dogs howl their petty verbal sermons about livable lifestyles. Many people are already so eager to immediately open up to - not only - the all-knowing Universe as a curiosity, the superficial duality penetrates to the marrow and viscera, from which it may seem that even the common man is unable to escape. Not only technological development has reached an exponentially dying point, reaching astronomical distances: healthcare, education, etc. The race for the cane has been deliberately abandoned after one seemingly unattainable project after another. They have been inoculated into an oversaturated hopelessness - perhaps - and a little bit of the ecstasy of envious jealousies.

The inventory of culture entrusted to us by thinking, modern minds is getting poorer; promises are receding on the far edges of a sinking horizon, and stray hopes, crumpled dream images can still be dug up from the past, like precious treasures believed to be priceless.

As if the voracious, gluttonous Time were now deliberately swallowing everything and everyone. It would be good to finally bring to the surface the aimless goals believed to have sunk; because now, locked between the horizons of brainwashed minds, independent free thought is hesitantly teetering, because even the stately apple tree of ignorance is shadowless. Millions of cat cries throb in the depths of wasteful minds.

Today, the mass-man is produced on nimble, busy assembly lines, just like a resold commodity that can be sacrificed and neglected; They must stumble hesitantly, like the souls of the dead, through an entire standing life!
I:
The drunk says he can handle bars— but I just
handle handlebars, chasing thoughts downhill,
gripping acceleration on life’s crooked road,
her words tasted like lightning—a storm reigning
in my chest. If the truest lover’s tongue can write
the truth, truth still needs a page— so promise
me this time I won’t crash in the margin.

                        She:
         But darling, I gave you shape; I traced
                                 your edges in circles, crossed out the shadows
                                 of your past. You were a box caged in squares,
         I bent the lines, bisected all of your fears—
                                 in the middle, we met like intersecting skies.

I:
Your kiss felt like a riddle— a puzzle mouthed
in motion, syllables pressed against skin, body
language shelved in cynical libraries. I wanted
to read you without tearing the pages.
   
               She:
        I am neither saint nor sin, just a storm
                             pressed close to your skin. Claustrophobic,
                             yes— but don’t mistake that squeeze for chains.
                            I’m the thunder that reminds you to breathe,
                            the silence that steadies the wheel.

               Together:
     Handlebars shiver, storms bend the ride,
     but still we grip, still we glide— every fall,
                    every bruise, a geometry of love rewritten
                    in motion. Here we are, pedalling into the
                    pulse of rain. Handlebars & Hurricanes...
Norbert Tasev Aug 28
Loneliness has struck many times, even if it was a chronic, unexpected heart attack, in the catacombs of subconscious existence something may have happened once before birth; as if in the mutual exhibitionist role-playing that is now spreading like wildfire in the World, most people have been reduced to mere petty, corruptible tools by the weight of everyday life.

He clings uselessly between the gaps of seconds, because the persistent guilt of lives clothed in bodies pursues him for an entire mortal eternity. The stubborn-childish resistance that was called persistent has long ceased to exist in rebellious hearts: the time of nothingness has now come, he has been able to viscerally learn the nature of his chains that bind him in a tangle during his manhood dressed as an old man, the trap of vanities surrounds his conscious perpetrators.

Because almost everyone has known for a long time what stupid flock-admiration and love are good for, it is still easier for brainwashed sheep-betov to submit the formulas for sunken budget deficits. Late wills cannot yet prove the unfair judgment of a deliberately forgetful, stupid posterity. Stepping on nothing, fate will sooner or later only be fulfilled.

Now cosmic nuclear barking dogs are barking at a frantic pace in the corridors of the Zhivág wind; unconscious drunkards, ready to stagger, wander among dead souls, even false prophets give up the idyllic illusion-weight of memories, among the troubles of historical incompatibilities, we should be plucked like tadpoles among profit-devouring predatory fish, powerful sharks. Who was the hired hand and who was the lying subject?! In their squinting eyes, a false sympathy, a malicious gloating, a narrowing suspicion all at once growls; nothing and no one can be rock-solidly certain anymore. To sense the telepathic, visceral loathing, like a malicious, nauseating ***** odor.
LL Aug 27
ask me how I've learned
to crave before I've tasted —
and I'll answer not in words
2025/121
In the new world of books,
Where the hungry mind's meal is cooked.
Laid ancient artifacts.
Golden treasure that the unborn yearn to behold.
This treasure caught my busy sight,
Which hungers for root of the rare gem.
My legs drove me here like a fast bike.
It covers 5 meters in a second,
Just to take a glimpse this diamond.
A mountain of books.
An ocean of map, a guide to today's writers.
Their quills had dried up long ago,
Yet their words still drip ink on our tongues.
Scrolls of Aristotle and Shakespeare won war.
The war against time that makes things lost.
Your words are not trend that are visitors.
But your ink is like the earth that never stop.
Your ink shine as though made now.
I use your ink in writing this scroll.
Ink men of today still drip your ink on their scroll.
Will our ink still shine if time tests the scroll?
In "The Ancient Ink", I pay tribute to the timeless voices of literary giants like Aristotle and Shakespeare, whose words continue to ignite the pens of today’s writers. As the debut poem in the HISTORY RECLAIMED series, this reflective piece explores the enduring power of great writing—how ink from the past still stains our present with wisdom, inspiration, and creative fire. With vivid imagery and poetic rhythm, the poem reminds us that while trends fade, true words endure. It is a call to every modern writer: draw from the well of ancient genius, and let your scroll stand the test of time.
Norbert Tasev Aug 27
You wouldn't even admit it to yourself now, but you are forced to guard your own inner silence with open eyes, before being violated again and again every day; you couldn't believe that, like the beasts, you still await the Lack or the executioner's rope as your fate, you are chewing away the iron door of your prison cell of existence instead of yourself, because you have to jump into the subconscious nothingness, so that later you can safely catch yourself like a goldfish.

All that is now referred to as a solid fact-Reality may sooner or later become a terrifying fate, because even the enraged, snarling wild animal is increasingly stalking you; you pick up tiny crumbs as steps, while you only bend down with a sore back for a good bite, because your birth-beginning could never really begin, and yet it is forced to pass.

The thought keeps stumbling faintly, so that it can finally lie down in your melancholy mouth, because karma holds it captive. You are either forced or unwilling to drag your own weight every day, like many, many self-reliant millions of ants, who have a goal floating before their mental eyes; to climb the besieging sacred peaks of the social pyramid, laws, petty, meaningless rules of the game are binding you tooth and nail in the name of the broken balance, so that everyone is now hunting, slapping, or scraping for themselves.

On your bumpy, worn-out path set out from your heart, it would have been good if at least one person had accompanied you, but you yourself can easily see how much of a phrase this is now, a bumbling speech. You will remain locked in yourself for life, silently following your own beaten shadow, like some limping, confused Sisyphus, because you can hardly do anything else. Your wrinkles write your apocryphal will on the clown wall of your eternal childish face...
Norbert Tasev Aug 25
Because now man can hardly do anything else: mere Existence is a pile of straw and a foolish faith in survival, needles and thorns constantly wound his bare feet until they bleed. Afraid or just an addict, a blind eye, a solid fairy tale about the promised dream lives, which at most only flow through a few tabloid media sewers every day at their pleasure.

A sluggish indifference coordinated to the inexorable rhythm of life instincts follows as a paid extra, to walk on the edge of the threshold of Existence on black and white squares, - it is true - only a few dare to do this.

As if restless, rebellious minds could hardly walk in slow motion through the undulating peaks and valleys of the soul believed to be immortal, like a buzzing link, like an ant together with the excluded inner loneliness of man creates the system theory of its symbiosis; because only great powers are able to rid extreme living conditions of pests. Stripped vacuums of timelessness are created and destroyed in seconds.

Each and every outgrown situation is increasingly strangely devalued, because the intentionally tamed childhood, which should never have been intentionally forced out with its raw brutality, has become a paper coffin in itself. Some similar, petty finite beings may sooner or later still recognize the one-essence: only seconds separate the bearable struggles of existence from falling towards the certain depths. The uncertainty hasn't made the days any more predictable.
Heavy Hearted Aug 24
I was hoping that maybe we could talk...
Or that you'd be willing to receive
My truth, in private agony
& unkind leisurely reprieve

a nuanced  air of psychic assemblage,
As wordless paint- always says more
Like of the eyes, their silent language
Abstracted it expresses, as Intuitions deplore.
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