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Rich Aug 2021
_ _ , _ _ , 2 0 1 9 is a day gone to the ashes of kismet’s pages

the midday zephyrs and wino meditations that ran through streets like rainfall now live in the hippocampus

the bright side’s gone with the dark
the whole day, for what it was, is no longer
and it bugs me out

that through any endless combo of permutations and planetary rotations, the same circumstances that built the ground of yesterday
will never repeat
or will they?

I’ll never know like the licks that reduce a Tootsie Pop to crumbs
I’m not intelligent, I’m dumb
because it took me 27 years to learn the value of 24 hours
to learn that a lotus bloom is something to treasure ten times more than scraps of pure gold

we are the children of nature
what does that make our creations?

Humans birthed a cosmos
of currencies and chambers of computer generated concoctions. . .

are they not descendants of the Mother?
In some abstract way?

Idk, dude, I’m out of it,
if you know me, you know exactly what that means - -
but I digress - -

It’s just that I never got the chance to tell the day how grateful I was to have it
and I now know that wasting time is a luxury modern civilization can enjoy after epochs and eras

this day and age is as far from perfect
as the brain is from perfection,
tech grew faster than the collective consciousness
and we still limit worth and love
to skin and heteronormativity

but at least
for a small sliver of time
things were, in a single moment
.
.
.
pretty good.
dilshé Jul 2021
Summers
of months that end in minutes
Songs
in minutes that end so fast
Youth
that has suddenly evanesced
Moments
of happiness never last.
Winters
drag time in cold slumber
Crisis
prevails for days on end
Seniority
feebly inches away
Past
seems eternally deranged.
Jason R Michie Apr 2021
In sweltering sun
Love sprouts as a light rain falls
Gently nourishing

Struggling for life
Flowering despite fall's chill
Passion thriving still

Embers gently glow
Flourishing in winter's cold
Lighting a dark soul

Humid heat ignites
A warm thaw bringing new growth
Inspires passion's oath

Harvest yields discord
Fierce frost freezes fallen tears
Baleful blizzard nears

Starry night darkens
A fearful reaction wounds
Jealous shadow looms

Condensing spring clouds
Anger and lightning lacing
Summer storm racing

Drifting in silence
With autumn's leaves fall our dreams
Drowned in icy streams

Denied human warmth
Blossoms wilt as winter fades
Left frozen in shade
Life will show us incredible beauty and replace it with indescribable sadness. Impermanence is the only permanence.
It is this transience itself that makes all of our experiences so vitally important, so beautiful.

Mono no aware describes both an appreciation of this beauty and a gentle sadness at the ephemeral nature of existence.
It is generally regarded as nearly impossible to translate, but I have done my best lol. :p

I wrote this as an homage to a very important person/relationship.  I have struggled most of my life to overcome the loss of this person's friendship, and this concept has helped me begin to view this in a way that I can actually process.

I attempted to capture the beauty, love, strife, and sadness of this experience in a 'mono no aware' style for this reason.

I rewrote this one a bit so I am shamelessly reposting. ;)

© 04/17/21 Jason R. Michie All Rights Reserved
Technosmith Feb 2021
I am the observed
A specific configuration of particles
Manifesting for a short moment in time
A seemingly stable consciousness
Flowing within a volatile river of all

An ever changing experience
of pleasure
of fear
of joy
of pain
contentment... until

I am the observed
A specific configuration of particles
Manifesting for a short moment in time
A seemingly stable consciousness
Flowing with in a volatile river of all

We are the observed
Specific configurations of particles
Manifesting for a short moment in time
Seemingly stable consciousness's
Flowing with in a volatile river of all

I am the observed

We are a river
Based on some thoughts as I drifted off to sleep, pondering the impermanence of life and the how its our choice to package as much or as little into this "blink of an eye " existence. More importantly that we roll with the punches and appreciate each second.
Amy Ross Feb 2021
I want all my idols to be false
All my effects the placebo kind
All my monuments temporary
My loves the fleeting type
Cause I’ve got bones of gold
And I bend easy
Impermanently made
Permanently desiring
Permanence fearing
So make all my monuments temporary
All my loves the fleeting type
I find myself loving things that won't last, to save myself from having to end them. So here's a little ode, to craving but fearing impermanence
unnamed Dec 2020
there was a boy
that i knew for an instant
he was the eye of the hurricane
when it seemed as though i would drown

I lived a life in that week
one which often runs amuck
through the boundless halls of my wandering mind

His laugh
like the harmonious seraphic melodies
which ring through heaven's walls

His Smile
as if you had bottled up
that great reunion of the sun and the horizon in the evening
coming home after a long day

His Eyes,
like brilliant emeralds
reflecting the blossoms of flame
from the burning within me

And for one shining moment
our souls were the earth and the moon
forever entangled
in that infinite waltz through the stars

"RAGE" The Wind Screams
and suddenly I am the hurricane
and the hurricane is me
and my winds billow against myself
and it is dark once again
but I have seen the light.
Julian if you're out there, it's hard to believe that week was 3 years ago now, I wonder if you felt the same as me? And what could have been if we had ran off together...
Raghu Pratap Oct 2020
Why does it take long to write a poem?
are months consumed into few fleeting feelings?
a poem is severed.
Of feelings that need to be let go of,
a delusion of a listen,
poem doesn’t listen,
what does it do?
An appearance for
no purpose,
but to be outside
is like braving the wind
to tell the wind you have braved it,
is this a poem?
None of us know yet.
Mounting feelings in an abandon,
a poem deceives,
and leaves them for dead,
for forgetfulness is eternal,
and the rest rot in several lifetimes,
but the burden?
Unburden, eventually?
The poem is ******,
Can we let go of it at all?
It persists.
We let them know we were there,
to come face to face with selves of us,
that we have avoided,
does the poem really look out for you?
And asks, pretending you know?
Do we need no end?
We are here to while away time
and tell them
we whiled the time away.
Oskar Erikson Aug 2020
the ones who stray
are as important
as the ones who stay
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