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"dispelling" poems
Fabricated. Fictitious. A fake floating feeling Falls short Of my fleeting fantasy. This insidious infirmity Isn't what I intended. I've been inflicted With internal indisposition. In need of an ideal identity. Who am I without This ****** to make me whole? How do I heave my heart Away from this hole? Have you seen how hard this is? But it's been short of a year, Of believing I can simply be. And before I break Bleed me of my bane. And for me, bear no malice. Tightly take me Away from my terible tempest. Time tells me it's time to stop. Too long I've tortured my tenemet. Tame the tantrum tearing through me. Sober seems strong, But it's systematic survival. Stopping the surrender To something stimulating. Learning to stand sedated. No I'm no longer numb. No longer neglecting my need For new novcane. Knowing I'll never need This vaccine again. You are all my ambition. Dispelling my ailments And afflictions. I am hard to adore, I know. You are my new addiction. You have me dreaming, Praying we are real. Made me feel. Don't decieve my brittle belief. Keep me, don't leave. I'm not the kind to fly. For you i'd try to dive. Unafraid I might die. I don't hide from the night. This is what I've been trying to find.
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM UTC
Tip of the tongue the teeth and the lips
O Krishna, Lord of Hindustan, I sorrowed by the lonely Jumna river bank, where Thy flute-notes thrilled the air and led the lost calves to their homes. O Lotus of Love, musing on the sad absence of Thy delusion-dispelling eyes, I saw Thine invisible Spirit take form, frozen by my devotion's frost. Thy divine form of sky-blue rays, with feet of eternity, walked on the banks of my mind, planting lasting footprints of realization there. I am one of Thy lost calves which followed Thy flower-footprints on the shoals of time. Listening to the melody of Thy flute of wisdom, I am following the middle path of calm activity, by which Thou hast led many through the portals of the dark past into the light. Since all of us are of Thy fold, whether moving, sidetracked, or held stationary by the fogs of disbelief, O Divine Christ-na, lead us back to Thy fold of everlasting freedom. O Krishna, Thou reignest on the heart-throne of each knower of Thy love. From: Whispers from Eternity A Book of Answered Prayers 1949 Edition
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Come To Me O Krishna
This poem is a toast to our love, to pure love. Let peace, purity & contentment prevail everywhere evenly dispelling hatred. There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! Whether it's writing poems, Whether it's riding horses, Whether it's reading books, Or it's roaming nooks... There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! Whether it's blooming flowers, Whether it's raining droplets, Whether it's crooning lullabies, Or it's draining tensions... There's a hint of you, In everything I do...! There's a hint of you, In everything I do...!
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 9:29 AM UTC
There's A Hint Of You
A lone wolf; Solitary soldier. Too comfortable you have become stumbling down a path for one. Blinded by eyes closed to the world that truly lays beyond your chosen screen of wool woven, cross-stitched with Denial. Hands you refuse to hold as you boldly trek down the dusty trail; howling out silently so no one may hear. Sporting a mask made of self-loathing and fear, vulnerability the enemy you choose to slay, for surrendering to a state of naked, raw passion seems more frightening than the darkest dungeon, stormiest night. Gulping down another shot of loneliness on the rocks, not even a splash of soda, for you like the way it burns. Inhale solidarity, snorting your line after line of self-destruction, acidic dispelling of feelings chosen not to be felt. Sometimes, though, in the quietest of the night, sitting on the lip of a deep substance-induced-slumber, you may whisper in a tone you would hate to be called sweet, and the mask comes off; till 2 PM, waking and at it again, alone, a lone wolf howls at emotional sobriety and takes another drink.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 8:46 PM UTC
A Lone
Never feel alone, my friend - dormancy is also transient, same as your winter depression... Only yesterday I heard a flock of geese overhead in the twilight announce their return while a heedless scampering squirrel repeatedly circuited the trunk of an oak. The Pervasion is always complete; embrace it in your awareness as the Sun's virility will soon embrace the fields and countryside. Regrouping the sacred elements through delicate processes, rugged mating rituals, and rebirth - Forming a symmetry of vital love incarnate dispelling all loneliness. -fr
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Mar 26, 2014
Mar 26, 2014 at 8:05 AM UTC
March 20
there are no limits on speed, no bumps to impede that singular rush of inspiration, that surging wave we ride to euphoric highs defying doubt and disbelief within and throughout these paths least-travelled where rhythmic beats of compulsion thrill the air way beyond the mean, and we glide over ambiguous bell curves dispelling conspicuous myths and null hypotheses with relative ease where iambic warriors and wordsmiths, high on lyrical amphetamines, wage  epic battles of verse and rhyme and the blood of creativity is spilled onto finite scrolls and screens where the thoughts and dreams of poets, peasants and pimps reign eternal ~ P ( Pablo) (8/2/2013)
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Aug 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013 at 3:32 PM UTC
Poets, Peasants & Pimps....
A cool December morning! Today I rose much earlier than usual I watch the night stealing away Like an accused convict under cover Sunlight peeks through the leaves. In the haze of overhanging mist, Only the blurred silhouette of trees in sight The crows have begun their raucous call The leaves of grass are misted with dew A cool zephyr blows from the south Clouds float like shredded cotton Even Sirius, the brightest star has paled Life is slowly beginning to unfold And men like shadows have begun to move The sun has now climbed to the Eastern hills In scintillating glory like a mighty king Shattering the mist with his lance like beams He exults like a victorious warrior His crystal rays rouse the sleeping birds And they begin their chorus in wondrous rhyme I enjoy the sweetness of this lovely morn In serene silence, I stand and watch The light that slowly fills the Earth, Dispelling all trace of overhanging darkness!
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Dec 8, 2016
Dec 8, 2016 at 7:28 AM UTC
A December Morning
These days, I find myself reaching out. Reaching out for love, Reaching out for 'like'. Reaching out for anything That can make me feel whole. Reaching out for the feel of hands that caress; creating hope, dispelling hopelessness. ...If only for a while. Excuse me, Mister Optimist. I prefer not to be called A pessimist. Because a realist Realizes His situation. And mine is always Very grim. So how am I a pessimist, For learning from the past Of this..?
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May 16, 2010
May 16, 2010 at 3:18 PM UTC
Reaching Out
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Shoutout to the unsung heroes! Whose noble swords still rise higher and higher In this world where broken shields are dire We disregard our weapons of steel. Oh, And bards who sing of loot and money Gems, precious stones, and gold a-plenty Perhaps if I sing of these unheard vigilantes The world would be so very jaunty! Fame, loot, tales and territories; Unsung heroes have never earned any of these Despite all efforts to bring about justice, Despite dispelling all forms of avarice… Alas, no recognition to lay up front! No form of appreciation, only gaunt… Gaunt expressions, an unwelcome chanting of desolation That's what an unsung hero faces - tribulations. But look at the bright side! The future isn't dark, nor no grim eventide I will sing of these unsung heroes In short, sweet verses as mementos For that fleeting moment in time When they took up the courage to halt crime. So again, I'm calling out to all the unsung heroes! Who rose from the bottom the others called zero.
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May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017 at 11:48 AM UTC
Unsung
To our darling Veronica With affection, she I call “Sweet Pea” The lady’s smile, I always see When she waltzes by with sponge and mop With a cheerful wave to all that lot Who never see her scrubbing there... To tidy kitchen, loo and stair, Who never see her great technique Let alone defer to speak..... Sweet Pea we’ll miss your great finess Your bright and cheery fix of mess, Your happy way of making right That which most refuse to sight, May you find your life’s real gain Dispelling old folk’s aches and pain. May you have sweet days of bright Without a cleaning mop in sight. Love and a great big kiss of gratitude For the wonderful sparkling world you have given us. Love from us lot @ VPT
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Feb 22, 2012
Feb 22, 2012 at 12:47 PM UTC
"Sweet Pea"
The weight of sorrow, heavy on my chest, In shadows deep, my mind finds no rest. Echoes of silence, haunting and stark, As I navigate through the labyrinth of the dark. Each passing hour feels like a century, Lost in the depths of my own solitary reverie. Tangled in the threads of memories old, As the night unfolds, its mysteries untold. But even in the darkest hour, a flicker of hope, A beacon of light in the vast expanse I ***** For dawn shall break, dispelling the gloom, And with it, a promise of a new day's bloom. So I'll endure this journey through the night, For beyond the darkness, awaits the morning light. With each tear shed, a seed of strength is sown, Guiding me through the darkness, I'll find my own.
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Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024 at 8:28 PM UTC
Lost
O God, may Your light of love and truth always shine through illuminating all the darkness and dispelling our ignorance too. You are the Only One That eternally shines by Its own infinite light and everything’s a reflection of Thy glory witnessed by divine sight. _____________________
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Apr 19, 2021
Apr 19, 2021 at 7:34 AM UTC
Quatrain #409 - O God, may Your light....
**Dear Nat, When I grow up, I think that my Wonder Woman cape, that flys behind so gracefully, as I wrestle villains, intent upon World Destruction will morph into a ***** dish rag that hangs limply from my shoulder, as I tend too, mountains of folding and training of hysterical toddlers to be stable products in society Is what shape, this cape, marking me "all-grown-up'? Signed, Helen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** Dear Wonder Woman, (Borrowing from and with apologies to Arthur Herzog Jr. and Billie Holiday...) This ball you tossed, Arrived early morn, Forcing me tocontemplate the choice between Shaving, and /or poetically, dispelling your Grand Confusion. Fancy that, as I pondered How to best express, The obvious reply, the BS&T; sang the answer Obviatin' the need, To discuss your heroics, The care, the feed, Those you care for, Attend their needs. *God bless the child that's got his own, God bless' the child who can stand up and say I've got my own Ev'ry child's, got to have his own, His very own.* I could  be more explicit, That when I was a child, A red dish cloth was a Perfectly good ASAP cape, That defeating bad guys Hungry work that needed Ring Dings + milk, to soothe a Superhero's Superman And both arrived courtesy of Wonder Mom. So rather than ramble, Let this preamble suffice: *God bless the child that's got his own, Wonder Woman* N.B.  This message has been approved by the Justice League of America, Australia Branch.
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Oct 10, 2013
Oct 10, 2013 at 12:20 PM UTC
Playing Catch with Wonder Woman
*my rough and tattered edges like sea glass smoothly rounded by her passions relentlessly polished by intimate contact with her welling water and earthy grit the reality of her excites me humbling any romantic doubt dispelling any fantasy skepticism instilling a will for the moment she is energy in pure spherical form encircling this scattered life she holds for me a sense of place a bookmark to poetic existence just as bands bind magic barrel staves as rainbows secretly circle underground as concentric rings indicate growth love will revolve even as it expands*
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 4:26 PM UTC
Inextricable
Though miles may separate us dear friend, And days fly quickly with each irksome chore, Our bond on such trifles does not depend, Only serves to enrich our love the more. Although skies may darken with clouds of grey Dispelling happiness with blackest gloom, Glad sunshine dances in sparkling ray When mem'ries of you flood as sweet perfume. Melody of robin and woodthrush blend; Gentle breezes through meadow grasses sigh. I am reminded of my lovely friend Causing worries and grief from me to fly. I am so happy to call you my friend! Happy Mother's Day Wishes I do send.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 6:12 PM UTC
Happy Mother's Day! Lori
I've been awake for too long. Sleeping every night you'd think I would've got the hang of it by now But the last year, sleep has eluded me. Now I sit pre-dawn hour. Preparing myself. Settling an upset stomach, Turmoil of emotions. A sea of anxiety - Chaotically churning chyme As time goes turning on. Fooled myself that I was neutral. That I would be happy no matter the outcome. Yet, here I am. Sweating fear. Like I'm out gun so I have to out run bullets. Radical Critical Acceptance. Is my only line of defense Against the offense of uncertainty No point worrying about what I'm going to be dealt - pointless action. Deal me the cards and I'll work from there. We're all **** in the new dawn. Naked in our actions, our motives All wanting a plethora of letters In a hundred different combinations. So as that sun rises Like a single old wise iris Dispelling it's light on me I wonder - what will today bring? Either way, I'm certified that I'm leaving.
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 12:38 AM UTC
**** Dawn
Cosmic serpent Flies in circles Orbits earths Visits vessels Stings and wrestles Prowls the plain The desert arrangements Faces fire no fear Takes one look at the spider Sees through the fire Undresses the only envy The necessity plenty Of spiraling ascent To meaning manifest A plunge into the nest of the fortune cookie prophecies Fate pulled from a hat In the terraforming visions of the seven breasted harpy speech devours itself The visioneer’s ouroboros precludes ovals of assimilation clinging tight to the exoteric The vessel rejects the half digested An ammonia laden upheaval Dispelling folderol with blinding reverence Inviting tragedy with nostalgic foresight Wet nightmares Logic abandons the visioneer ****** into the opposite of static
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 9:59 PM UTC
visioneer
Sometimes good intentions Bring the worst of outcomes We must take the incentives Of dispelling ignorances To prevent ourselves From failures
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Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 3:51 AM UTC
Intentions
A voice echoes through my head-- My name, sounding Over and over again. A thought flits across my mind, And a smile alights on my face. "Maybe it's my soulmate," My heart thinks. My head shakes, Dispelling the romantic fantasy. Because hearts don't think, And a stranger's voice can't speak in my head.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 2:23 PM UTC
A Solemate's Echo
A pull or a falling feeling At the heart Head fuzzy, blood drawn below The touch of another, so new, so full in its sensation, Dispelling the separation of the world fueling the engine of desire. Entering, she holds me wetly and warmly. Encouraging, finding sounds to exchange love and lust and awkward sentences. No, yes What am I saying. Discovering, touching, thirsting, Release, collapse, silence, holding A new beginning.
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 6:22 PM UTC
First
There's something incredibly southing about taking in this frigid air Its chill flows through me Dispelling the tired leaves of a long sweltering season I'm left bare An opportunity to appreciate the strength of my roots Admire my branches Though they be crooked, brimming with knots, and countless broken branches Will I survive this time of reflection and blossom in time for Spring Or cower in fear of another snapped limb
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Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC
Autumn Breeze
Dear Calpurnia Mockingbird, was it you I lately heard, singing in the night. You sang so soft, so sweet and low-yet to the high c's you could go. and all below. You sang as in a dream, dark as chocolate- smooth as cream. A wordless song-yet full of love. What star gave you birth to sing-to sing your song to men on earth, dispelling all complacency, and false worth. Humbled now I will review and try to hone my skills anew.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 5:13 AM UTC
Dear Calpurnia Mockingbird.
Still more, in words In experience Confusing Familiarity with Comfort Confusing Comfort with Peace Reifying confusion, but not successfully Yielding, on my knees, heart to the sky Forgetting Seeing through, a single pinhole in a perfectly realistic backdrop Pinholes everywhere, more than can be contained Not containing Torn all over Dispelling everything Stripping away the Stripping away Trying to stand very still and very quite so I can feel, hear, sense Perfect realism Wanting to be convinced by rage Agitation, but only conceptual Feeling tight Feeling rehearsed Feeling like an imposter Wanting to impress Wanting to be convinced of Self, of Realness Fortified by others knowing, or preferably- admiration Like being constructed out of sets of other peoples' eyes Like being made real by propagating in more minds, many more minds, specific minds. In countless beating and virtual hearts, likes, thumbs up Not wanting to be forgotten, while alive, while dead Taxed by maintenance and constant imminent collapse Compassion, like collapsing into a safe lap Relinquishing No pretense Bare being More naked than when unclothed Total exposure Outed, in the light of knowing Self forgetting and glimpses of freedom Trusting sighing Always loving Sad, not despondent, just sad Feeling continuous Feeling fragmented Feeling like motion, like flow Feeling like thousands of still frames, constant flickering Grasping at impermanence, visceral Resting in the middle Dancing down the tightrope Knowing perfect poise, brief equilibrium Reifying stability. Gone. Everything is hysterically funny Hysterically But also, sometimes, just plain humorous And absurd Crying Loving people Grateful for people Seeing beauty everywhere Encountering this, intimate, me, indistinguishable being, but everywhere Ouch Awareness Always coming back Like an epic Like a great love story Like the last wring of that silk dress you weren't supposed to squeeze dry Feeling like I shouldn't know what I know, like I couldn't. This must be illegal, cosmically illegal Knowing the inside of my hand Knowing teenage shame Knowing being yelled at, towered over, by my dad, in a narrow hallway, eyes glued to speckled floor tiles, feeling small Loving with my body, with my hands, with my mouth, with my whole entire strong softness Loving with understanding Loving with teeth and nails Music, lacerating Crying with tears, and snot, and heaving Becoming one single, concentrated point Wanting to envelope everything. Really. Actually. Like physically with my body. Knowing I am not this voice Or this writer Or this narrator Though I am also all that
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Aug 6, 2022
Aug 6, 2022 at 12:07 AM UTC
Being is like this
Still more, in words In experience Confusing Familiarity with Comfort Confusing Comfort with Peace Reifying confusion, but not successfully Yielding, on my knees, heart to the sky Forgetting Seeing through, a single pinhole in a perfectly realistic backdrop Pinholes everywhere, more than can be contained Not containing Torn all over Dispelling everything Stripping away the Stripping away Trying to stand very still and very quite so I can feel, hear, sense Perfect realism Wanting to be convinced by rage Agitation, but only conceptual Feeling tight Feeling rehearsed Feeling like an imposter Wanting to impress Wanting to be convinced of Self, of Realness Fortified by others knowing, or preferably- admiration Like being constructed out of sets of other peoples' eyes Like being made real by propagating in more minds, many more minds, specific minds. In countless beating and virtual hearts, likes, thumbs up Not wanting to be forgotten, while alive, while dead Taxed by maintenance and constant imminent collapse Compassion, like collapsing into a safe lap Relinquishing No pretense Bare being More naked than when unclothed Total exposure Outed, in the light of knowing Self forgetting and glimpses of freedom Trusting sighing Always loving Sad, not despondent, just sad Feeling continuous Feeling fragmented Feeling like motion, like flow Feeling like thousands of still frames, constant flickering Grasping at impermanence, visceral Resting in the middle Dancing down the tightrope Knowing perfect poise, brief equilibrium Reifying stability. Gone. Everything is hysterically funny Hysterically But also, sometimes, just plain humorous And absurd Crying Loving people Grateful for people Seeing beauty everywhere Encountering this, intimate, me, indistinguishable being, but everywhere Ouch Awareness Always coming back Like an epic Like a great love story Like the last wring of that silk dress you weren't supposed to squeeze dry Feeling like I shouldn't know what I know, like I couldn't. This must be illegal, cosmically illegal Knowing the inside of my hand Knowing teenage shame Knowing being yelled at, towered over, by my dad, in a narrow hallway, eyes glued to speckled floor tiles, feeling small Loving with my body, with my hands, with my mouth, with my whole entire strong softness Loving with understanding Loving with teeth and nails Music, lacerating Crying with tears, and snot, and heaving Becoming one single, concentrated point Wanting to envelope everything. Really. Actually. Like physically with my body. Knowing I am not this voice Or this writer Or this narrator Though I am also all that
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It is in the absence of your presence that I stumble along. How could I have taken you so for granted? My constant. My North Star you always guided me home. Now I am so far from you here and I can't escape the gratitude You were simply there. A form of comfort that loomed beside me and brought warmth while dispelling my fear. How could you not know? When every encounter with you brought a smile to my face? Every moment was so precious. It was enough to have you stand beside me, in the warmth and strength of heart. Like a lion you protected mine. Now, with skills you taught I stand alone protecting it. And I miss the shield your love provided. I miss your face. And I am sorry, not that I told you but that in telling you I changed everything. The dynamic changed when I spoke, and everything silent that was taken for granted suddenly came crashing like an elephant into the room. But you are not a china shop and this is not insurmountable. I am not a bull. Time has passed and will continue to do so. And you look at me with eyes that sees this for all it is and you say "Another lifetime." I smile, "Yes, Love, another Lifetime." ~ for TJB (August 30th, 2013)
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 11:29 AM UTC
Not a China Shop