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"dichotomous" poems
I watched the snow descend to earth Attention sought as flakes give birth Submit to all her majesty Surrender clouded canopy A freezing fox that runs across The curtilage wild turkey's toss A lofty oak tree hides raccoon Two fledgeling birds lose their platoon The strapping deer takes off in flight See squirrels flee with all their might An Owl concluding calls of whoo The animals know too eschew All happens when the snowflakes fall Am spellbound by one flake or all The memory each one contain Unique like us and our domain Snowflakes and animals I see We all are different you and me Is random chance its proximious? Creation not dichotomous Am thankful I could see this view And freedom too believe it's true _______________________________________________
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 1:03 PM UTC
Snowflake
Melancholic misadventures and misanthropic moments make meeting men more and more meaningless, Meaning less and less to those who undress to convene in the act of adulterated *** Flex: Point! Sit down, Smoke a joint, Go to sleep, Work, Eat, Wash (sometimes, not too often) Feign attraction and smile with your eyes as you die on the inside Darkness outside Whilst wintery winds whistle, the worldly-wise whittle on and on in their wordy way of the other-worldly wonders they have witnessed. We can but wish that their wily whispers will soon diminish with the melting snow Or else go, Turn your back on all that you lack before you step on a crack, break that back and see it refract through the prism of the microcosm of your mind Colour-blind Lost Trying to find Be found My heart beats yet I hear no sound As plasma pumps passionately through my pallid passages and I ponder partially perceptible pursuits that preside in my past Digging deep down into the depths of my ***** deeds discloses a discerning dichotomous divulgence of doctrine and dogma Two mothers Three brothers One sister And a whole load of Misters!
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Dec 22, 2012
Dec 22, 2012 at 7:59 PM UTC
A Litter Raid Shun!
Is trust really a delicate dance of uncertainty? A lamb may skip with innocence over the bright dandelion-covered meadows of our majestic urban constructs, whilst Mother Nature unravels her thick carpet of jeopardy, without reservation or shame. It is possible for us to refrain from captivations which allure us to the psychological precipice and to appreciate the chords of the blues which beautifully tantalise the innermost recesses of suppressed and forbidden yearnings. So, join hands with the sonic waves of Saturn and respect the psychological precipice with sober awareness. Darkness and daylight are not dichotomous astrological differences where fatalistic determinism stands in diametrical opposition to authentic internal equilibrium. Contemplate the soothing and beautiful anticipations of dusk, where the flight of the bat reveals a miraculous contrast against the deep pastel curtains of the night; and acknowledge that twilight exposes her morning glory in the simple droplet of dew. The shadows hold no substance. Metamorphosis is a tangible possibility in the realms of existence. Do you believe it?
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 4:01 PM UTC
Sonar and Lunar Psychological Opposites
There’s a place of perfect simmer where the flame runs just so high, never quite to boiling over, neither still a tepid bath.    At least that’s what you insisted to me in your frustration at my inability to find a soft place to land between pulses of ecstasy and re-heated casserole.    Even still you love me like a whirlwind loves the dust, gathering it in by picking it up, steadying it's spin by collecting debris.    I thought we would make a respectable tornado, together, instead I find myself breaking loose from your gentleness and destroying homes, alone.    If only the weather could tell us whether we were headed for perfection or destruction.    If only the *** I stir could be a crystal ball. If only I could love you as much as I do.
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Jun 29, 2014
Jun 29, 2014 at 2:09 AM UTC
A Dichotomous Love
My anomalous trip thus far has been dichotomous. Harbingers motivate my advent: a chorus. Acceptance of frolic ventures sent: a quest. My sneakers meet familiar soil at last. Designed to be a panacea, yet I fall ill. Sleets of rain impact my soul: a slight chill. Hazed trance, awashed clean of all acrimony. A lurid stroll, downhill, parallel, perfunctory. I, a stoic mercenary, avenging my ties tonight. Arcane magic flow through my veins, my sight. Moisture sparkle, glistens through my mental maze. Resistance, control: I attempt to regain ablaze. Synaptics fuse, burn, misfire, discombobulate. Higher functions remain: calculus, formulate. Veritas! Visual focus be on 2D layer sharp. Disintegrated data sung with melodious harp. Laissez-faire slayed by Communist meritocracy. Mental hierarchy arise from wayward sorcery. My affection for her nets only melancholia. The amity cease... yet reborn by spying cornea. Upon a hill from sea to sea brings forth diplomacy. Lively lads, enshrouded in black; they be prodigies. Persons of worth: one stranger joins their ranks. If my creed offend, beg you pardon pranks. Silent drizzle softly sings of night and majesty. Lament under moonlight, behold gray sanctity. Ne'er shall dreadful turmoil befall our facilities. Literature conceals such divine secrecy.
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Aug 28, 2010
Aug 28, 2010 at 5:15 AM UTC
Felicitous Hindsight
All perish whence they quest for immortality, Such foolish dreams will result in fatality. Critters struggle in nets of ersatz reality, Hormonal clashes unbalance our morality. Under the influence by budding, ravishing thyme, Oft' that sunny beam leaves me doing pantomime. Chaste clues and envy droughts left me mellowing, Such pain ipso facto I can't kiss this porcelain. My seat of notions drives me to calculate, While undead, fatigued, I falsely formulate. Floundering in viscous fluids, I am drowning... My verdant sail is half-mast: lonely, frowning. Within moon-lit meadows, shadows flow cursively, Beyond the kaleidoscope lay a rustic key. Beg you pardon the rust and blackened fissures, Pardon those slights to open eternal treasures. To crave two heart beats align in synchrony, To sluice my fingers through the strands of memory. Embracing silvery asps soaring on the breeze, My sight spies thy adieu and I shatter apiece. Un-writing errors, distantly, unstumbling, The abyss: now a star, wings unfurling. 'Tween the heavens fell meteoric golds, Sinusoidal cascades of such sublime codes. Traversed steadily upon the gilded firmaments, Was so small, blind to the unseen monuments. To be offered aristocratic absolution, From my humble plebeian resolution. I am sublime. 'Hold my dichotomous, nay, Such cantankerous introversion within, eh?
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Sep 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM UTC
Dichotomy of Insanity
He’s trick, like enrapturing Wherein lies the paradox of his pantheism parapet’s paragon Extraversion embezzlements and euthanasia extortions Diction’s enunciation echoes of opaque opulence Its redolence a savory waft The evolution of psychic clarity’s élan vital Bizarre dichotomous augur the singer’s aural austerity Gypsy Queen, his guitar’s moniker, romanced aimed intention Elaborate elliptical empathy endeavors for posterity’s predication Pandemically  phatic  propriety venerations Their apex crux axis beyond finite solution Carousel ceaselessly ceremony chaos character charisma Cerebral cortex’s ****** matrix The individual must remain sacrosanct Traipsing through the fallow furrows of assimilation’s xenobiotic barratry Like capillaries' capricious and intravenous intrepid Incalculably sensual beyond emotion’s expression Impetus intrigue's intuitional verve Ethology’s entelechy, theosophy’s theophany Zoomorphic zoolatry's social contiguities Futurity's corporeally preternatural fatidic
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Jul 20, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 at 7:13 AM UTC
Salacious mesmerism's endemic impromptu
Flittering feathers write sonnets in soaring frequencies; taking in the ocean at once, I felt ripples brought to standstill, damped by second's refrain, curled back into the picturesque blue written ahead, but no cloud harbours the ceiling, no late words shown, jotted down by the indifferent and invariably disappearing breeze. The latterwork of these days took it up, and hung it out on lines stretched across skies and time, betraying tender surfeit, in moments torn out, and, leaving only vague traces of woodworn prose, spilling out my last sentiments: *"we, once, were alive, if only for a moment."* In dreams she holds small collections of sandy flowers, above the shoreline, as the dichotomous cluster takes theirs, behind a fragmentary grain in the blacksmith's hide; written, again, are those seasick letters, wrung out in the dead heat of the forge, the demands of strangers, in stone buildings by the fireplace, electric heater, off, the inbetween reeling of slightened accomplishments, the scent of oil, left over, from the husk of noon. Miss and want, over again, missing beguilement in afternoon's repose. "come back...", but she ain't the one gone.
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Apr 5, 2013
Apr 5, 2013 at 7:12 AM UTC
penguins, at home
Girl down the way Carrying large brown-bagged bottles of liquor, Nectar to the saddest poets who Consume, Consume, Consume, In order to consort with the sordid, dichotomous entities, Enticing visions of vicious enemies Crouching, kneeling, fighting, feeling, Fleeing at their visage- Does she get the message? One more night of drinking alone. Calls a far-off friend, Sad and ****** She asks with a tragic shake in her voice, “Where did I go wrong?” In a New York loft she Groans, Sighs, Fumbles over words That might not mean a thing. Emily finally declares, “You are more, So much more, So much undeniably more to this world Than the blood in your veins, Than the letters in your name, But the facts remain; Sometimes you are in love, But sometimes, You are never the same.
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Feb 9, 2010
Feb 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM UTC
Oh, Erica
He’s trick, like enrapturing Wherein lies the paradox of his pantheism parapet’s paragon Extraversion embezzlements and euthanasia extortions Embark embargo extraditions Diction’s enunciation echoes of opaque opulence Its redolence a savory waft The evolution of psychic clarity’s id conclusions Bizarre dichotomous augur the singer’s aural austerity Gypsy Queen, his guitar’s moniker, romanced aimed intention Elaborate elliptical empathy endeavors for posterity’s predication Pandemically  phatic  propriety venerations Their apex crux axis beyond finite solution Carousel ceaselessly ceremony chaos character charisma Cerebral cortex’s ****** matrix's vertex vortex The individual must remain sacrosanct Traipsing through the fallow furrows of assimilation’s synthetic synthesis Like capillaries' capricious and intravenous intrepid Incalculably sensual beyond emotion’s expression Impetus intrigue's intuitional verve Ethology’s entelechy, theosophy’s theophany Zoomorphic zoolatry's social contiguities Futurity's corporeally preternatural fatidic Elan-vital's apotropaic apotheosis
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Nov 7, 2016
Nov 7, 2016 at 3:20 AM UTC
Salacious mesmerism's endemic impromptu (reworked)
There’s a place of perfect simmer where the flame runs just so high, never quite to boiling over, neither still a tepid bath.    At least that’s what you insisted to me in your frustration at my inability to find a soft place to land between pulses of ecstasy and re-heated casserole.    Even still you love me like a whirlwind loves the dust, gathering it in by picking it up, steadying it's spin by collecting debris.    I thought we would make a respectable tornado, together, instead I find myself breaking loose from your gentleness and destroying homes, alone.    If only the weather could tell us whether we were headed for perfection or destruction.    If only the *** I stir could be a crystal ball. If only I could love you as much as I do.
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May 20, 2012
May 20, 2012 at 12:38 AM UTC
A Dichotomous Love
silent poet thinking words, never i must write lucid wretched loving words all bark and half the bite silent poet thinking thoughts the ink refused to make mind and pen are separate an unyeilding opaque if i tell the tale to you of love and praise and good you'd laugh and laugh and laugh some more naive misunderstood my mind a chasm of infinite good the world dichotomous strange the vines do seize me gently to a velvet padded cage my head is a bed of roses the thorns pierce me not i am safe and free and happy delusional, deep in thought **** me softly make me smile your intoxicating rapt exile silent poet thinking thoughts writes symphonies in his head the writer and the audience will dance until they're dead silent poet thinking words is struck by stockholm syndrome perfect captor perfect world illusion is his home
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Apr 4, 2021
Apr 4, 2021 at 6:06 AM UTC
Mirage - maladaptive daydreaming
there is a universe inside your chest infinitely expanding though infinitesimally slow at times boundaries stretch, breathe though confusing at times destruction feeds growth, dichotomous paradox forms whole, stars implode, give way to supernovas, give way to planets filled with lava and snow there, inside, a universe constantly churning, the incessant spin of all burning that births light and shadow here I stand on the precipice. here, in an amorphous dusk and dawn, unclear if day or night is about to kiss the horizon unsure if I should call to moon or sun or neither, or    you. here in limbo, arching my spine to sneak under the guardrail of loving here, instinctually shoving myself into bottlenecks and genie lamps oh, how my gypsy soul wants to run, yet feels so enchanted it stays, here on the precipice, itching to gain entrance into the universe brimming inside of you there there, inside your chest there I said it.     and I'll say it again, and I'll say it even louder: I confess! I'm enchanted! I'm enamored, enthralled, enraptured, I want my heart to know your heart, I want to dive chest-first into your outer space galaxy nest an astronaut without a helmet, I want to explore, awestruck never trying to label, box, or understand - simply experience your universe there, I finally said it I'm finally starting to write the poems I'm afraid of, the ones I don't want to say out loud I'm starting to write out shadows and solar flares and floods, starting to let my heart bleed out of my pen, cause what the hell am I hiding from? what are we all so scared of? we were ****** into this strange world blind and wet, groping in the darkness for heaven meant to rip ourselves open again, again meant to feel with the depth and tempest of oceans meant to risk and be fools and fall to meet rose-hued ends I just want to make love with the light of a thousand candles, a million stars, and the moon turned on and panting silver dripping from her tongue, dizzy with the heat of solar undulations, stripping down to the heart of the matter down to the simple truth of it all: I was born to feel, and my god, you... you make me feel universes you make me feel thunder and lightning and bedroom churches and power surges you make me feel sunrise stillness and it makes me fall silent. so here I am, writing the poems I'm afraid of and sending them out, messages in bottles, adrift in the endless oceans of your universe
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Aug 10, 2016
Aug 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM UTC
parallel universes
there is a universe inside your chest infinitely expanding though infinitesimally slow at times boundaries stretch, breathe though confusing at times destruction feeds growth, dichotomous paradox forms whole, stars implode, give way to supernovas, give way to planets filled with lava and snow there, inside, a universe constantly churning, the incessant spin of all burning that births light and shadow here I stand on the precipice. here, in an amorphous dusk and dawn, unclear if day or night is about to kiss the horizon unsure if I should call to moon or sun or neither, or    you. here in limbo, arching my spine to sneak under the guardrail of loving here, instinctually shoving myself into bottlenecks and genie lamps oh, how my gypsy soul wants to run, yet feels so enchanted it stays, here on the precipice, itching to gain entrance into the universe brimming inside of you there there, inside your chest there I said it.     and I'll say it again, and I'll say it even louder: I confess! I'm enchanted! I'm enamored, enthralled, enraptured, I want my heart to know your heart, I want to dive chest-first into your outer space galaxy nest an astronaut without a helmet, I want to explore, awestruck never trying to label, box, or understand - simply experience your universe there, I finally said it I'm finally starting to write the poems I'm afraid of, the ones I don't want to say out loud I'm starting to write out shadows and solar flares and floods, starting to let my heart bleed out of my pen, cause what the hell am I hiding from? what are we all so scared of? we were ****** into this strange world blind and wet, groping in the darkness for heaven meant to rip ourselves open again, again meant to feel with the depth and tempest of oceans meant to risk and be fools and fall to meet rose-hued ends I just want to make love with the light of a thousand candles, a million stars, and the moon turned on and panting silver dripping from her tongue, dizzy with the heat of solar undulations, stripping down to the heart of the matter down to the simple truth of it all: I was born to feel, and my god, you... you make me feel universes you make me feel thunder and lightning and bedroom churches and power surges you make me feel sunrise stillness and it makes me fall silent. so here I am, writing the poems I'm afraid of and sending them out, messages in bottles, adrift in the endless oceans of your universe
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The black chair sits in the garden, selfsame shadow. The mirror is mirrored:    reflection.   Humans are: humans are, that is, dichotomous, self-fulfilling neurosis.
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Oct 10, 2013
Oct 10, 2013 at 3:12 PM UTC
Reflection (Dasein)
The coldness of my unleashed disinhibitions have gracefully succumbed to the wisdom of cosmological forces, despite my ravenous salivations for all that is vehemently forbidden. As I bark inside the relief of this solitary pound of articulated and socialised liberty, like an expression of abstract artistry within an ethical mudslide; I continue to teeter upon geographical tightropes which span unforgiving terrains across the ancient divides of propriety, where the baron plains of deuterocanonical origin are populated by restless spirits with gnashing teeth. So, if they could ever be personified, I could easily butcher a myriad of depravities which tangibly characterise my inner Astarte and Ishtar demons – although, such an event would have to occur after we have engaged in a myriad of abominations where raunchy and indulgent copulations shamefully expose our brazen wantonness to animalistic inclinations. Never offer to tie me down. Restriction diametrically opposes my socially skilled yet nomadic being, as it sojourns across a psychedelic array of vibrant gardens, and weaves through present pathways which are timeless in their being. It just is. That is the essence of ontology. Can we ever effectively contemplate the philosophies of predetermination and predestination? As I am not dichotomous in my thinking, there is a legitimate place for being an omnivore within the walls of our societal fabric. Although I radically accept that of which I do not approve, the psychology of ambivalence has led me to raise questions around the validity of horticulture. My clock has melted down the flamboyance of those multicolored mountainsides of being and nothingness.
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 1:20 AM UTC
Our Protective Sanatorium
The coldness of my unleashed disinhibitions have gracefully succumbed to the wisdom of cosmological forces, despite my ravenous salivations for all that is vehemently forbidden. As I bark inside the relief of this solitary pound of articulated and socialised liberty, like an expression of abstract artistry within an ethical mudslide; I continue to teeter upon geographical tightropes which span unforgiving terrains across the ancient divides of propriety, where the baron plains of deuterocanonical origin are populated by restless spirits with gnashing teeth. So, if they could ever be personified, I could easily butcher a myriad of depravities which tangibly characterise my inner Astarte and Ishtar demons – although, such an event would have to occur after we have engaged in a myriad of abominations where raunchy and indulgent copulations shamefully expose our brazen wantonness to animalistic inclinations. Never offer to tie me down. Restriction diametrically opposes my socially skilled yet nomadic being, as it sojourns across a psychedelic array of vibrant gardens, and weaves through present pathways which are timeless in their being. It just is. That is the essence of ontology. Can we ever effectively contemplate the philosophies of predetermination and predestination? As I am not dichotomous in my thinking, there is a legitimate place for being an omnivore within the walls of our societal fabric. Although I radically accept that of which I do not approve, the psychology of ambivalence has led me to raise questions around the validity of horticulture. My clock has melted down the flamboyance of those multicolored mountainsides of being and nothingness.
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There's too much prose in this world, Sermons are more than service Money is more than mind Polemics dominate over resolution Truth crumbles under loads of lies. While millions go without food Poverty is researched Sustainability is analyzed Cost of survival is determined By people living in luxury! Baffled I turn to poetry, To seek symmetry In this dichotomous world!
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Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013 at 2:23 AM UTC
Asylum
Dichotomous mind, making me an idol then a liar my mouth should have remained closed so you could not have reached in and twisted my tongue the drama unfolds in passive-aggressive turning my apology into Medusa only reminds me of why I stayed away it is enough for me to know; I did not look down on you and I did not lie
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Mar 22, 2014
Mar 22, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
Backlash
Predicament of the zero hour enabling brave or foolish decision Even mélange of both Hitting home physical structures oppose Unfleshly Holy Ghost takes over, very much also Divinity and arousal Only human perched on brink of flight dwelling is no perception of freedom Apprehending bigger picture "To judge is not to love" or something Mother Teresa said When Pops referred to "The Bible" it meant, bring him the sports page Dichotomous our separate ways revealing conscious decisions Tridented a third eye When a vision of something further sends to sentiment beyond Cast and flung Stealing home plate and called, "Safe" Pondering what only a god may leverage
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Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017 at 11:37 PM UTC
Allowing The Great Umpire His Call
Alphabetical Order   amazing are the stars, that fill the eyes of a woman in love, broken is the heart of a man, who has been turned away, crowded are the stairways of the souls, searching the ****** glove, dichotomous minds each separating, between month and day, emulating the desires, that never seem to be quite filled, forever left behind in the wake, of the steamy encounters, gratification comes so close to the edge, of tears that spilled, humbling the spirit of drive, as she casually saunters in and out of her trances, thus requiring a special technique, just as your about to capture, the flag of your quest, keeping your head above the line, you get just one peek, lovers separated, never owned, still merely a guest       might as well step into the path, of an oncoming fist, never was any remote chance, that this would be resolved, over and over the words are repeated, like reading a list, permanently bringing injury to the dreamers involved quietly, you grab your bags of lost promises and regrets, resolving to the facts, that are right in front of your face,   securing the one of you dreams, don't be placing your bets, trying to hard, seeking too much, another time, another place underlining the failures, that are displayed on the page, verification of these unwanted responses, we certainly don't need, when oh when, can this heartache release built up rage, xylem pumping the fluid, will it finally bleed you're standing there now, with nothing to show for the time, zanyism is quite commonly blamed for the entire episode. Gomer Lepoet...
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Mar 25, 2010
Mar 25, 2010 at 8:39 PM UTC
Alphabetical Order
Alphabetical Order   amazing are the stars, that fill the eyes of a woman in love, broken is the heart of a man, who has been turned away, crowded are the stairways of the souls, searching the ****** glove, dichotomous minds each separating, between month and day, emulating the desires, that never seem to be quite filled, forever left behind in the wake, of the steamy encounters, gratification comes so close to the edge, of tears that spilled, humbling the spirit of drive, as she casually saunters in and out of her trances, thus requiring a special technique, just as your about to capture, the flag of your quest, keeping your head above the line, you get just one peek, lovers separated, never owned, still merely a guest       might as well step into the path, of an oncoming fist, never was any remote chance, that this would be resolved, over and over the words are repeated, like reading a list, permanently bringing injury to the dreamers involved quietly, you grab your bags of lost promises and regrets, resolving to the facts, that are right in front of your face,   securing the one of you dreams, don't be placing your bets, trying to hard, seeking too much, another time, another place underlining the failures, that are displayed on the page, verification of these unwanted responses, we certainly don't need, when oh when, can this heartache release built up rage, xylem pumping the fluid, will it finally bleed you're standing there now, with nothing to show for the time, zanyism is quite commonly blamed for the entire episode. Gomer Lepoet...
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i may be maybe be he that which is (and isn't) both: that or This an i and we the center and th e boundary inseparately separate physically meta i wish i wish i could define that thing that i call: me
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Apr 16, 2010
Apr 16, 2010 at 11:57 AM UTC
dichotomous rex
A minute portion, an iota of matter That actually doesn't matter at all. It just about sums up the motes of life. Our fragment of life may touch one, May touch many, but in the end we're all Small grains of a larger whole. The sands of time, the granules of the host at Eucharist. The scientific nucleus How dichotomous Religious and scientific particles Floating in either a Petrie dish or religious fervour We are particular particles forever searching Searching for us, for truth and our beginning.
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 8:01 PM UTC
Particle
There is a calm center within me; It flows from deep rivers of breath, Spiraling up and out in every direction. There is a calm center within me; Grounding me with sturdy roots, Soaking up the sweet soul beneath My rocky hard surface Through twisting tunnels, tumble torrents. There is a calm center within me; Laying soft and still under rushing currents, Reflecting patience, serenity, consistency To my mistaken misplaced preconceived perceptions, Oh they appear to be everchanging, While the truth is they're stuck going round and round and round Over the same cyclical trap, making me dizzy. There is a calm center within me; It is my mountaintop of mercy, Where my mind meditates and marvels At the we of conscious connection, Spreading from me, reaching out to other frequencies Emanating from peaks which surround me, Where the dichotomous You-Me, ***** Us-They; Melt into a spectrum of WE -- And oh, I am just beginning to see. There is a calm center within me; There is a calm center; There is calm..... There is a calm center within me, Let it flow out.
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 7:35 PM UTC
Mantra
I agree....just simply through my Experience. I understand the fine tuning acquired & required as we unVeil New & refined Capabilities ~Waves of Revelation, surging inside of You ~ as you feel a Personal Amazement of all previous Moments ~synchronized~ in Cosmical interconnectedness The Entanglement ~that directed the bigger Picture of the a transformative situation (Testing Ground). I realize I gain in blessed gifts for my service through proper conduct, awareness through dichotomous states of Eagle Eye Concentration, incorporating full sensory ~Engagement~ ... at the same time I Release a part of my Conscious Attention into ~Extended Awareness~ Bless my Befuddlement...I..I..mean I am having a recent frustration causing conflicting feelings about the role I see Myself contributing as in the Grand Procession of These Kind of Things.... I am mainly Elated , Honored, Focused, Excited, and, Well, gawddarnitt...Git me ma horsee ma...We's gots a good long ride, Theys'alls a'beans tellings....I hears
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 5:12 PM UTC
Eagle Eye
1 I say I'm a designer of systems, plans Man's Parts that stand together, set in place to serve Trees and planets, too, which are unplanned by us The observant, wise man Tries to understand Name the parts, pistil and stamen Rocks, eskars Elements. Winter is shuddering to an end, mud roads Cardinal pairs Robin flocks return that will soon pair off Buds Soils swell Will I live to smell it again, learn the lobelias Understand and name the parts It ought to be a great comfort to be so insignificant Go among weeds, a wind Thinking to myself One's never alone A dichotomous key is needed, a book of twigs and fruits Accumulated over time and generations Without it mine would be a blank mind To be blank but knowledgeable Without any machinery In a perfect silence That is the definition of death for which we have only to wait But in my panic last night I thought death's inert Grace requires consciousness Hold on long to the senses At least a century, maybe more A boy hanging upside down from a fence at sunset, counting       clouds 2 Now we go to our daily practice And chosen disciplines Sustained by the satisfactions of being good men among our       fellow men Women Choosing to do this and not that With the finite days allotted us that at first seemed like a lot They're now few But the chickadee's life to the chick and the cankerworm       moth's to the worm Seem as long to them as ours to us What question am I asking today By now, past half a century, I should have chosen a discipline And been satisfied To be a war president one must have war May you live in interesting times - wish or curse? Squirrels, high in oaks, Fiber, fat and protein in acorns Strong runners, leapers, climbers Should stay off the roads which some cannot avoid being       where they're born Natural selection is occurring Those that look for machinery in motion Hesitate or don't as needed before crossing Live in larger numbers than those whose modus operandi's Guessing The ravens eat the fur and guts of bad guesses off the roads I impose my own small order Having chosen mountains over plains or shore Go to my daily discipline And estimate the motions of the seas and stars Measuring my satisfactions by my children's satisfactions
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
A Designer of Systems
1 I say I'm a designer of systems, plans Man's Parts that stand together, set in place to serve Trees and planets, too, which are unplanned by us The observant, wise man Tries to understand Name the parts, pistil and stamen Rocks, eskars Elements. Winter is shuddering to an end, mud roads Cardinal pairs Robin flocks return that will soon pair off Buds Soils swell Will I live to smell it again, learn the lobelias Understand and name the parts It ought to be a great comfort to be so insignificant Go among weeds, a wind Thinking to myself One's never alone A dichotomous key is needed, a book of twigs and fruits Accumulated over time and generations Without it mine would be a blank mind To be blank but knowledgeable Without any machinery In a perfect silence That is the definition of death for which we have only to wait But in my panic last night I thought death's inert Grace requires consciousness Hold on long to the senses At least a century, maybe more A boy hanging upside down from a fence at sunset, counting       clouds 2 Now we go to our daily practice And chosen disciplines Sustained by the satisfactions of being good men among our       fellow men Women Choosing to do this and not that With the finite days allotted us that at first seemed like a lot They're now few But the chickadee's life to the chick and the cankerworm       moth's to the worm Seem as long to them as ours to us What question am I asking today By now, past half a century, I should have chosen a discipline And been satisfied To be a war president one must have war May you live in interesting times - wish or curse? Squirrels, high in oaks, Fiber, fat and protein in acorns Strong runners, leapers, climbers Should stay off the roads which some cannot avoid being       where they're born Natural selection is occurring Those that look for machinery in motion Hesitate or don't as needed before crossing Live in larger numbers than those whose modus operandi's Guessing The ravens eat the fur and guts of bad guesses off the roads I impose my own small order Having chosen mountains over plains or shore Go to my daily discipline And estimate the motions of the seas and stars Measuring my satisfactions by my children's satisfactions
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