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This life is just a onetime passage,
For the soul, inside of you,
It’s not about, how much you have,
Or something you did, or think you can do,
Always, look ahead, when a decision, in in front of you,
What could the outcome be, think, when you pick, or choose.

It is not easy, to discover yourself, today, to many, man - made distractions, in our way,
Many become addictions, they keep you, and your soul, confused, each day,
We are each a part of nature, go out by yourself, pack a lunch, leave cell phone, at home away,
Forget the this, and that’s, and other excuses, you can make up, not to be alone, are you afraid?
Nature is the only thing, around in this life, that is not man made, take time, relax, listen,
Nature does give us messages, of where we are, and guides us, at the perfect time in special ways.


                                                         ­                                                                         The original Tom Maxwell©  09/01/2025 AD
We’re drowning in internet people
who’re usually live-in-regret people
saying, “get in the net people”
so we can easily dissect people
into the right or the left people
until discourse is dead people
and the rest of us have to wade through the filth
of the loudest cretins looking for attention to milk
making the world seem full of their tedious ilk
cascading complaining onto our heads like it’s raining
with conversations unproductive but instead draining
using inflammatory words that has our rhetoric straining
to survive the constant bickering and blaming
when this country starts aiming
to cater to the most toxic aspect of our culture
because internet people amplify messaging best
so we reward obnoxious grifters and vultures
politicians cracked the code but failed the test
becoming internet people, just better dressed.
George Krokos Aug 31
I don’t think it’s such a good idea
to prey upon other people’s fear.
It may scare them out of their wits
and come back to haunt us in fits.
____
From 'The Quatrains' ongoing writings since the early 90's
By birth I’m Gen Z, that’s true,
but their strange standards I just can’t do.

I can’t be polite and abusive in one breath,
or worship celebs like they gave me life or death.

I won’t wear brands just to prove I belong,
or sip on a drink and call culture strong.

I can’t post my life just for Instagram views,
or cry “period, slayy” when I’ve nothing to lose.

I won’t call lust love, then hashtag “forever,”
or stage breakups in reels, claiming “healing’s so clever.”

So yes, I’m Gen Z by time and by name,
but with a little common sense, I don’t play that game.
Wtff wrong with most of the people nowadays they just live to showoff things. I'm just afraid about the future Generation. Well all the people aren't like this but few with words period and slay make me feel so high that I wanna punch their faces literally they literally lack common sense and they introduce new thing like benching situationship *** are they??
SpiritHeart67 Aug 29
If I am going
to Dance
I don't want
to be part of
a Dance
that is a manifestation
Of something that is existent.
If I am going
to Dance
I want
to be part of
A Dance
That brings something new
Into existence.
Sometimes, the only way to win, is not to play.
Know your place in people’s lives,
Have people who also strives.
It helps oneself to behave and act,
It is not pride, its self-respect.

Do not fight for things two,
Friends and love, it is true.
They are like comic’s nature,
They come and never departure.

Remain with people who makes you happy,
Resist the ones who are too shabby.
Keep people who adds to your life,
Avoid those who help you land in grief.

We need people to inspire us,
Not the ones who make a fuss.
The ones who can put together,
All broken parts of us, not to wither.

Friends who will not be in our lives,
Yet we are inspired by their words.
Friends whose presence on earth,
Makes our life meaningful and worth.

Ones who create a good spark,
Will always leave us with a good mark.
Everyone we meet in life has a cause,
Some end up as friends, love, or a spouse.

By
Sanji-Paul Arvind
Maria Aug 27
Look, what a wonderful night
Is setting like a gentle mist
On these houses, on these people,
And on those two, with a saffron sweet.

And everything’s silent under this night.
And everything sleeps under the dark gaps.
It’s so quiet around, no footstep’s heard.
Only the night sets its own traps.

Those two don’t sleep in this velvet kingdom.
Those two remain silent as guests of dark.
They’re not casual travellers of the Night.
They’re forever and perfectly loyal to their heart.

There’s nothing more magical than these moments!
There’s nothing more beautiful than this love!
The world seems to stop, afraid to disturb them.
This night is for two. They are both above.
Thank you for reading this love story.💖
Women can be men
Men can be women
People can be people
We didn’t write the feeling...

Stars can be supernovas
Meaning can be mending
And paintings can bend
And walls can return...

And shapes of architecture become earth

Lovers can be lovers
Leavers can believe us
Lights, camera, action, order, disorder
Dysphoria, euphoria
Academia, abracadabra
The moon, ***, sun and laughter

Instantaneousness

Osmosis

Fear, friction, distance, pure bliss
Bubble toting aqua world
Top this...

Freedom, collaboration
Emancipation, cognification
Celebration...

Millenniums of us saving, changing...
What we actually are eventually...

One surging sway of soul-light soldered angels
Growing out of a morphing abyss ocean
neth jones Aug 19
fuelled summer  from my balcony        
                       fumes  and the deep night in heat
wilming  frequency  ridden under a flight path
        the red and green eyes of the airliner
stare us down whither                                        
           descen­ding the smokey stair
forest fires out west                                  
                     my eyes are wiltered against
aggressive peppery air   ***** creosote vapours

the view from my balcony                      
neighbours walk dogs
people earn their way back from the pubs
and restaurants      and concerts  
and some  greatly received  comedy show
and there’s the streetlight          
; orange wash              
this season
Kyle Kulseth Aug 17
These 4 walls, the only friends
The hours tick away, but swelling
Winter, hurry — freeze my blood.
Sweating through these supine steps,
           I'll stumble on.

A/C buzz, electric hum.
The room lit yellow, bathing jaundice.
          Fante & Hamsun.
     Folding pages, scratching dog ears.
          furrow brows.
     "**** this color paint."

     "**** the Summer."
         I say it, always.

4 new walls, my only friends.
The seconds boil away, but slowly.
Solitude, please freeze my blood.
Snowfall in my reptile dreams,
               all serpentine

Heater hum, alone again
Wish they wanted my chanting voice, now.
Footfalls hustle. Frozen, crunching.
Clothed in funerary coat
          The wine explodes.

Shake this thrumming midnight buzz,
and rooms lit dimly, sweating blizzards.
          Trudge & debate Blake —
     —use my degree for ******* something.
                    Shoulders hunch.
           "Just me. In falling snow."

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright—"
    
                      Here I stand, a dwindling flicker—

"In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fires of thine eyes?—"


        —I can barely see tonight. And thicker lines
                            have failed to lead me home.

Alone.
And kindred with the cold.
References to one of the best to ever do it.

"Tyger Tyger" by William Blake

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger
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