#tidal
Our lunar orphan has but
Reflected light to offer
As does a monolithic orphanage
With cold harsh policies
Being furtively undermined
By beautifully wise children.
Mar 24
Mar 24, 2026 at 12:51 PM UTC
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I’m writing all aforementioned while sitting on the edge of the building, in the silhouette of the morning sun. A waft of breeze departs me from the dreariness, unhinged. I found myself in and out of a tidal wave, as if drowning is the only way to stay afloat.
It all serves, too difficult to confess.
In susurration, the landscape exhales something in the color of trees, the temperature last night, and the slant of daylight.
How carried I was (still am) by the unexpected field we encountered, the confidant dialogue we built, the emotional walls we broke. There is a part in my brain that grief won’t grow. Summer in Cangyuan was not lachrymose. The lyrics of Under the Flying Clouds alludes every one of those who are too heavy for me, whom I can’t let go of.
I was not ready for my unscheduled departure from nowhere to nowhere. Many were the tears shed by me in my last adieus to a place so much beloved, and to everyone who makes the place the place.
Do I continue the same, unconscious of the pleasure or regret I occasion, insensible of any change in those who walk under my shade?
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM UTC
{three brief acts on thinking and doing at once}
Sunday, August 17, 2025
9:31 AM
An exercise in the art of word smithing
proud prodding from a know it all to another,
persuading one the other of the best and greatest
people can pertain to, aspire to artifice goodness,
per se
this way
simple
plain step by step, processionally, professing
experience
in living many ways,
in working, functioning usefully to those paid in
bread and drink and circuses to think about, clowns
slap plays to allow the lowliest to laugh at pain,
pie in the face, shock and awe, to laugh at payback,
and gasp at the daring Wallendas, did you see that,
the fall at Detroit,
in 1962,
Did it stick with you, the awe at the folly, asking
why do performers perfect their act, and do it
and do it
and do it
until some one dies trying, first time or last, falls
and dies to emphasize the possibility, imagine
the mirror neuron rush at the crushing fall,
the vicarious oh no
the unforgettable day at the circus
bubbles up in therapy prep for dementia,
we all recall the fall…
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Words alone, in context,
in your head said as read,
by whomever you imaging saying,
look,
listen, can you hear birds singing?
If you can, do you know what kind
of song, is it signaling safety, certainly,
birds of so tiny a song fret not, clearly,
I can imagine a world so quiet, nearly
any day, I can remember winter quiet,
and think of where others are preparing
cord wood to feed stoves, chain saws,
dangerous as any ax, imaginably worse,
gameland killings projected on silvered screen,
daring immersion in the projects, home alone,
adapted to the syndrome, latch key kid,
in a small desert town
on any main cartage route, welcoming
passers through to spend the night
indoors, at the Loma Vista Motel
or the White Rock Motor Court,
as listed in the Green Book, in 1954
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Suffering Socrates
requires trusting Plato
One must, you know
suffer so, to say you know,
quid pro quo, all you know,
bet against all you call unknown,
as if for the sake of innocense,
shunned, to maintain purity,
burn the heresy, defined
blasphemous and disrespectful…
think again, mimic the ritual reenactment,
let this mind be in you, you were there,
you saw Cassavetes suffer in agony, the shame,
the shame that rightly is yours, and yours alone,
the price Christ paid, if that story were ever true,
that suffering is your just dessert, persuasion
insists, you must accept the premis, Christmas,
the whole message, Peace on Earth, Greetings,
lowly mortal sufferers under lying leader rules,
Goodwill, and final judgement, last prayer,
fear not, fret for nothing,
forgive all who have no clue what they do,
living and breathing and having being on Earth,
so far from the nearest life supporting star system,
fitted anthropomorphically perfectly as patient
in the active agency of truth freed life on Earth.
This is life. We can imagine it ending suddenly,
and we can bet it only does that at the me level,
the we I was in lives on in all the good seed my fruit has in it.
Aug 17, 2025
Aug 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM UTC
•~ A tidal strait is a strait connecting two oceans or seas through which a tidal current flows. Tidal currents are usually unidirectional but sometimes are bidirectional. The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. (Wikipedia)~•
The river by my dwelling is miscalled by all,
in verity, it is a tidal strait, a battling diversity of fresh and saltwater, with currents visible, bidirectional, clashing eddies underway, are
underwater arguments boiling up to the surface,
!a perfect metaphor for a New Year!
<•>
each year seems like a tumult survived,
the currents of joy and its many alternates,
seem to always clash, spot staining
and yet
the estuary of life flows on and on,
the two seas remain connected,
the salt and the fresh intermingling,
waters
surf~officially calm, stoic,
but appearances misleading
every year different
every year also similar,
substance may vary,
the surprises differing,
but we for-see troubled waters
neath the glassine superficial surficial,
and we hold hands,
knotted fingers until
we raise out arms heavenbound,
asking why,
but expecting no answer
for we
knowingly
live our lives in a
tidal strait
Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM UTC
you can’t be stagnant
when there’s an ocean
outside your door.
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022 at 10:08 AM UTC
Am I
here,
or am
I in
your
tidal
stars
of my
eyes,
seeing
your
light
in the
little
skies
joining
leaves,
they are
not far,
rather,
they
shine
near
as my
own,
the cells
of one
cosmic
glow,
a drop
of rain
falls from
the heavens
and I catch
upon it
my delicate
finger,
the dew
cascades,
I close
my eyes
and feel
the ocean in
my hands,
in silver
scales, I
dive,
in colors
of blue,
golden
and
green,
I will
forever
dream.
Sep 4, 2021
Sep 4, 2021 at 6:34 AM UTC
Bending to the moon forevermore the waves collapse against the shore,
The push and pull a rhythmic tantrum abiding by natural cause,
A sparkling realization to the infinite balance vested beyond our reach,
A tale predestined transcending script and linguistic compression,
Oceans galore.
Jun 8, 2021
Jun 8, 2021 at 9:48 PM UTC
I buried your name in the sand, deep down
where the tidal waves will not touch it.
Where it can't hurt me.
Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 11:27 AM UTC
It's not the barnacles that do all the damage
Figure this out too late
It's not the destination that makes the difference
It's the freight
Everything becomes a blur from six feet away
Get used to this
Every card ever turned over remains in play
Get used to this
Not every wave is a tidal wave
Not every wave is a tidal wave
It's not the mutiny written down in the diary
It's the manifest
Forgotten cargo in obsolete measurements
Anybody's guess
Even the proud, even the very proud
Probably die on their knees
Twin masts out on the open seas
Mistaken for trees
Not every wave is a tidal wave
Not every wave is a tidal wave
Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 1:37 AM UTC
Streams— relay the slumber
Tributes to— the Waterfall's Sprite.
'Twas when— the compass— Dismantled
As the bedrocks gruel— Distort the ledge,
Confronted by— tidal waves;—
Imbued the Crush— of a Carapace
That let the Visions— Sprout;—
Abandoned— With the Barriers..
So long,— I do not know..
Sights— Times— are enclosing
Onto the lost,— And the Seafloor sinks
Slowly— Diminishing— The Sirens' Call..
Jun 24, 2020
Jun 24, 2020 at 10:53 AM UTC
The liquidity of rage, swoons like a red ocean.
It is a tidal fury that rises, rises, rises.
Within its climatic ascension, exist an anxious torture.
Thoughts rush in, pacing on what conclusions will come.
These waves have come before, the carnage is extreme.
And while the destruction strikes the shore, the bastions will stand.
Ruin though, shall come, and each storm stands testament to that reality.
The walls will fall, and all will breathe a final sigh of relief, at the end.
May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020 at 6:55 PM UTC
She washes over me like the tide,
The water feels cool on my skin
The salt burns from within.
I'm lost in the sands of time,
As the world goes rushing by
I can exist for a minute here
If I just close my eyes.
She crashes down like waves
Pulls my hands and sways
Watching as that world fades.
Does she see this place from miles away
Is it just a dream we create
Or is it life for another day?
Tell me what you see in me.
As the night falls, waters recede
As the sun sets at the sea,
So did the day where everything. Felt right.
A little piece remains there, I believe
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 12, 2019 at 10:21 PM UTC
I'm going to ride this tidal wave of euphoria
until it
crashes
on the
shore
and the feeling exists no more.
Apr 9, 2019
Apr 9, 2019 at 9:34 AM UTC
Crashing and turning
So beautiful yet destructive
A young girl reaching out to someone
she can never quite catch
Maybe thats why tidal waves are so strong
Wanting to talk to the land
Tell them how their destructive humans are destroying it
Drowning in lack of love
Drowning in itself
So confusing
So overwhelming
Tidal waves rolling out of her eyes
Crashing into her soul
Cracking it
Until there is nothing left
But tidal waves
Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 3:56 PM UTC
Mania is like a wave,
High tide, and I'm drowning.
I take on water, feel it fill my lungs.
As the pressure builds, I fade into white.
I'm riding the wave, a ******* tsunami.
But no, that's not quite right,
I'm a part of the wave, this rage,
This powerful force of insanity.
And there lies the shore, closing in.
If I was of right mind, surely,
I would at least hope to cry pardon.
But I'm not, I see the imminent crash,
Only laughing, maniacally.
With thunderous approval the shoreline
Falls, within the vast ocean beneath me.
When the waves pick up,
When they come crashing down,
They ring with power, but mostly pain.
So I'm left in this basin of contamination.
The sewage of mind eats away the euphoria,
Leaving cancerous tumors of depression.
Now growing rampant, and lingering.
The tide in time recedes, the world grieves.
Sometimes there is healing, though often
There is only suffering and the waiting.
Knowing for any better or for worse,
The tug of war between the shores
Of mania and depression, goes on.
Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 10:39 PM UTC
He came like a tidal wave,
And engulfed me in his ocean depth.
My joy crossed all boundaries,
Happiness seared through my very being,
I found the lyrics of my love life in his arms,
We were one large heartbeat.
And when it was over,
He threw me with the surf that rolled and crashed on the shore.
It left many ripples of grief,
With me, abandoned, a forlorn seaweed,
Overwhelmed with bitterness and regret.
Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 6:49 AM UTC
Beneath a wave
as it rolls overhead
there's a moment of fright
in missing the crest
but it comes again
and goes off
no end
Though crashing now
in the tumult of water
eventually resurfacing
beginning to grow
and rolling over
the peaks
of once before
Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 11:07 AM UTC
The distorted beauty perception
These girls have
All because you’ve told them
What they are and aren’t.
Bold sacrifices
Of timorous females
All for your only
Empyreal praise
There is no harm for you
To give them the sky
And see their glory
In the morning light.
For that every girl
Is a stardust
In her own shape and color,
In her light.
For that every girl
A tidal wave
Of glowing morning
And a silent night.
Mar 13, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 at 5:25 PM UTC
How can you find beauty in something so ugly
Because your lies twinkle down my spine
Like sharp rose thorns in the spring time
You’re a rose and I’m afraid of being pricked
Everyone wanted me to see that we could not thrive, so gouge out my eyes.
Because if this is reality then I guess I'm not alive.
You’re like the Dead Sea I sink when you are with me
Covering me with sand all over my sunburnt wounds
I used to think you were the resilient hues in the sky bringing out sunlight
But you’re a tidal wave you rip right through me
The tears in my eyes are seen as cold and sad
The darkness of the rain you overcast breaks upon me
Take what you can from me
Take only what you need
A family of trees wanting to be haunted
Control yourself control your needs
Dreaming in the lows, I never thought I'd see this high
Now I'm shooting for the moon, you're calling me a lunar light
Staring at the roots, nobody there to help me grow
I was longing for the rain, you were the flood that made me overflow
You're everything that I hoped for
That's why I gave you my all
You're everything that I prayed for
But you were stolen
Why did everything change?
Everything was ours
Everything was stolen and now it’s all gone
We found the rain, but if we start to peel away the grey
Maybe we're home
When your heart weighs down on my shoulders
And your eyes wide lose me at sea
and your words make a smoldering fire
You are the moon pulling tides over me
Giving me grey notes that sing through the windows
Let’s,
Step out into the wild
There's a beautiful storm in your eyes
We're perfectly intertwined
And if it's quite alright, you could be my way of life
Sea salt sits on your lips
Birds fall earthwards from cliffs
Thought I couldn't do this
But I'm fine 'cause you're by my side
Now where do you go?
Why do you leave?
And as the waves grow in between
Harder the days go
Darling I'm folding
I'm on my knees
You give me nothing
When there's nothing else
So deep the water
But you're hiding in the shallows
And I'm left here drowning out
Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 3:13 PM UTC
the waves of words so silent wash over us again
there is no boat to ride these phrases over to the end
but should you need to breathe this love's a vest that you can wear
and we can both stay on the crest to feel the ocean air
Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 2:22 PM UTC
i am caught in the tidal wave. stuck in the motion; falling back and moving forward, falling back and moving forward. there’s something calming in the consistent control of the moon, but i know the truth: an ocean wave is powerful, and i will be crushed, broken and bruised, in it’s cycle.
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 12:20 AM UTC
she drowned in blue everyday I swear whether it was her dress or her eyes she was swimming in it. maybe that's why nobody questioned it when they found her lifeless corpse sinking under the bluest waterfall in that town.
Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 4:17 AM UTC