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"hierarchies" poems
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs. The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of the sea! And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunk delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods. Then the great bull lies up against his bride in the blue deep bed of the sea, as mountain pressing on mountain, in the zest of life: and out of the inward roaring of the inner red ocean of whale-blood the long tip reaches strong, intense, like the maelstrom-tip, and comes to rest in the clasp and the soft, wild clutch of a she-whale's fathomless body. And over the bridge of the whale's strong phallus, linking the wonder of whales the burning archangels under the sea keep passing, back and forth, keep passing, archangels of bliss from him to her, from her to him, great Cherubim that wait on whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale- tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end. And bull-whales gather their women and whale-calves in a ring when danger threatens, on the surface of the ceaseless flood and range themselves like great fierce Seraphim facing the threat encircling their huddled monsters of love. And all this happens in the sea, in the salt where God is also love, but without words: and Aphrodite is the wife of whales most happy, happy she! and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
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Whales Weep Not!
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs. The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of the sea! And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunk delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods. Then the great bull lies up against his bride in the blue deep bed of the sea, as mountain pressing on mountain, in the zest of life: and out of the inward roaring of the inner red ocean of whale-blood the long tip reaches strong, intense, like the maelstrom-tip, and comes to rest in the clasp and the soft, wild clutch of a she-whale's fathomless body. And over the bridge of the whale's strong phallus, linking the wonder of whales the burning archangels under the sea keep passing, back and forth, keep passing, archangels of bliss from him to her, from her to him, great Cherubim that wait on whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale- tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end. And bull-whales gather their women and whale-calves in a ring when danger threatens, on the surface of the ceaseless flood and range themselves like great fierce Seraphim facing the threat encircling their huddled monsters of love. And all this happens in the sea, in the salt where God is also love, but without words: and Aphrodite is the wife of whales most happy, happy she! and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
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An abstract of an academic paper written by a doctoral student: "In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability."--an abstract of a paper by doctoral student Whitney Stark Atomic particles, how can it be so that your purpose is not just to flow in and out of existence, building reality-- the stars, cosmic gas and galaxies-- but to “ally” with groups of humans fighting “hierarchies” and demanding “safe spaces” (even though their entire race is at the top of their planet’s food chain). In this mysterious universe there is no safety, accountability or identity, only elements, and energy. Brief combinations make life legible for a nanosecond in cosmic time, and doomed to strife. Biology does not know oppression, only generation, reproduction, until our growth chokes us and we fall like so many of our ancestors, who lived and died on this blue-green ball. And one day the sun will explode and blow even our atoms, which have endured (despite oppression), and the particles will go far until maybe they sow new life, in bodies unfamiliar, on planets unknown.
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Jun 11, 2017
Jun 11, 2017 at 9:31 AM UTC
The Universe v. Ideology
An abstract of an academic paper written by a doctoral student: "In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability."--an abstract of a paper by doctoral student Whitney Stark Atomic particles, how can it be so that your purpose is not just to flow in and out of existence, building reality-- the stars, cosmic gas and galaxies-- but to “ally” with groups of humans fighting “hierarchies” and demanding “safe spaces” (even though their entire race is at the top of their planet’s food chain). In this mysterious universe there is no safety, accountability or identity, only elements, and energy. Brief combinations make life legible for a nanosecond in cosmic time, and doomed to strife. Biology does not know oppression, only generation, reproduction, until our growth chokes us and we fall like so many of our ancestors, who lived and died on this blue-green ball. And one day the sun will explode and blow even our atoms, which have endured (despite oppression), and the particles will go far until maybe they sow new life, in bodies unfamiliar, on planets unknown.
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therapy and resistance how is it that therapy becomes the excess of class war or the oppression thereof? When the struggle of the individual is made to seem self induced when it is easily and clearly directly a result of the failures and complacence afforded by the majority of the group. When in a therapeutic environment it is important to distinguish the opportunities of resistance from the experience of trauma. there has always been individuals who establish groups that are in a realm of desperation. Understanding how this process has unfolded institutionally is just as valid as treating the individual. This gives the individual the choice and resources needed to heal. The healing could look like resistance rather than assuming aspects of class war or oppressive culture to be normal. Otherwise therapy is nothing but the means to normalize the process of oppression. The traumatic state needs to be able to decipher its organic existence from that of organized oppression and its institutional cooperation. the neglect of deciphering or distinguishing these differences causes individuals to make a competition out of trauma. This minimizes certain trauma of individuals and causes the group to have less of an opportunity to resist organized oppression of the institution. Those that are in the realm of desperation or traumatic state are given no choice but to repress in order to continue being social or a member of the group. in excess the hierarchies of gender, race and class are reinforced to an almost superhuman level. To the desperate or traumatic state… what needs reinforcement is that there are humans just like us who have resisted oppression and caused the normalcy of the group to be more inclusive and aware of the processes associated with organized oppression.
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Apr 20, 2017
Apr 20, 2017 at 7:30 PM UTC
poetry on essays
therapy and resistance how is it that therapy becomes the excess of class war or the oppression thereof? When the struggle of the individual is made to seem self induced when it is easily and clearly directly a result of the failures and complacence afforded by the majority of the group. When in a therapeutic environment it is important to distinguish the opportunities of resistance from the experience of trauma. there has always been individuals who establish groups that are in a realm of desperation. Understanding how this process has unfolded institutionally is just as valid as treating the individual. This gives the individual the choice and resources needed to heal. The healing could look like resistance rather than assuming aspects of class war or oppressive culture to be normal. Otherwise therapy is nothing but the means to normalize the process of oppression. The traumatic state needs to be able to decipher its organic existence from that of organized oppression and its institutional cooperation. the neglect of deciphering or distinguishing these differences causes individuals to make a competition out of trauma. This minimizes certain trauma of individuals and causes the group to have less of an opportunity to resist organized oppression of the institution. Those that are in the realm of desperation or traumatic state are given no choice but to repress in order to continue being social or a member of the group. in excess the hierarchies of gender, race and class are reinforced to an almost superhuman level. To the desperate or traumatic state… what needs reinforcement is that there are humans just like us who have resisted oppression and caused the normalcy of the group to be more inclusive and aware of the processes associated with organized oppression.
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Eternity is closed ! - come back another day with flower smears for eyes and sincere passion on your palms          (weathered) I need another Russian Doll - Princess to frequent curtains fashioned from fire & lead equaling out to crimson folds which mysteriously call to the mystical hierarchies of imagination Silent requirements signal beneath the steps which welcome one (a stranger/ an Ibis-Beak cane & dark coat stamped with August rain) They arrive unexpectedly, as if to play the game of cliches, they carry promises fashioned in foreign ports tapping my knee instead of my shoulder having only known or recognized entombment                                (there is no hyperbole which lacks within                                 Nature's haunted heavens) My strange visitor leaves / glass umbrella in hand / to privacy / our brief interaction begins & ends with simple eager undertakings implemented in the afterword   What is in another's contemplation of me? whiling in manifest Theosophy - - Thought form - Primal child-rage / whisp of violet smoke & inksplotches abolished, mutually panting. Our decorated four-legged hunter has arisen and impatiently craves for the Earth to partner at last with the Sun ..The Sun a blazing dime I can smell crispness in the air
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 1:20 AM UTC
Summer Visitations
*My heart Feels like a frostbitten cave nobody should ever go in. My soul Feels exhausted, drained and spread really thin. My mind Feels like its fighting battles it can never win.* I find my thoughts Consumed with anger and despair, Evil feelings who have created a lair – A base of operations within my mind, Staring at the world with a terrifying glare. And yet, despite all this, Nothing kills me more than being alone. This need to experience humanity Is not simply an act of vanity, Or a call for attention, But an attempt at reclaiming sanity. We are the loneliest generation of all time; Previous overlords used force to rule, And whoever didn’t follow was lambasted, Marked as a traitor and a base fool. Now, force is merely a tool, One in many of a lethal arsenal. Social hierarchies are fake, sometimes downright farcical – Now, we are divided and conquered. Our communities have collided, Our love for each other is drained and flustered. We are armed with shields of prejudice, Careening towards a perilous precipice Of watching out only for ourselves, With no room in our hearts for anyone else. I just wish I could let go – I wish I was an atom of boiling water, About to break free and become steam, I wish to taste of true freedom, To at least get one, tiny gleam. Yet, I find myself weary, tired and trapped, A torturous routine so well-travelled That, at this point, I could say my brain has it mapped. I close my eyes And see visions of you I wish I could forget. I wish I’d looked before I leapt, Rather than live with this pain and regret. I close my eyes, and see Years of seeking somewhere I belong, Brothers and sisters with whom I can stand strong. Yet, All I seem to find Is people struggling with their daily grind, Souls that are just as tired as mine, if not more. *And so, I find myself Dealing with this constant craving, Ranting and raving, Hoping that this frosty cave is still open to reclaiming, Hoping that my soul is still worth saving, And that my mind still finds this battlefield worth braving.*
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 4:06 AM UTC
Desires
*My heart Feels like a frostbitten cave nobody should ever go in. My soul Feels exhausted, drained and spread really thin. My mind Feels like its fighting battles it can never win.* I find my thoughts Consumed with anger and despair, Evil feelings who have created a lair – A base of operations within my mind, Staring at the world with a terrifying glare. And yet, despite all this, Nothing kills me more than being alone. This need to experience humanity Is not simply an act of vanity, Or a call for attention, But an attempt at reclaiming sanity. We are the loneliest generation of all time; Previous overlords used force to rule, And whoever didn’t follow was lambasted, Marked as a traitor and a base fool. Now, force is merely a tool, One in many of a lethal arsenal. Social hierarchies are fake, sometimes downright farcical – Now, we are divided and conquered. Our communities have collided, Our love for each other is drained and flustered. We are armed with shields of prejudice, Careening towards a perilous precipice Of watching out only for ourselves, With no room in our hearts for anyone else. I just wish I could let go – I wish I was an atom of boiling water, About to break free and become steam, I wish to taste of true freedom, To at least get one, tiny gleam. Yet, I find myself weary, tired and trapped, A torturous routine so well-travelled That, at this point, I could say my brain has it mapped. I close my eyes And see visions of you I wish I could forget. I wish I’d looked before I leapt, Rather than live with this pain and regret. I close my eyes, and see Years of seeking somewhere I belong, Brothers and sisters with whom I can stand strong. Yet, All I seem to find Is people struggling with their daily grind, Souls that are just as tired as mine, if not more. *And so, I find myself Dealing with this constant craving, Ranting and raving, Hoping that this frosty cave is still open to reclaiming, Hoping that my soul is still worth saving, And that my mind still finds this battlefield worth braving.*
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You don't care about me Or your best friend in the school You don't care about the people who think that you're cool The world worships you Build you up so high Now all of my friends Have left me for a guy A guy who doesn't care If they love him or not A guy who just thinks he's the best in the lot But he's not the best But you don't know Because what is the truth Is not what your hierarchies show
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Jun 5, 2012
Jun 5, 2012 at 11:10 PM UTC
A False Hierarchy
Wisps of fog dragged upon the ground, as errant raindrops bided gray time. Eyes fixed afield, sharing an inertness that revitalized our gray matter. Robins and blackbirds scattered their weightless will upon the damp field. As nearly imperceptible twinges of sunlight interrupted the air, then vanished. This occurred in confidences, everytime the sunlight gained upon itself. The fog began burning off in decrepid scraps...put asunder by the field's thundering anticipation. The fog was lifted to spring's hierarchies of light...as blackbirds electrified puddles in a flurry of wings. Spraying droplets of water adorning the sunlight, then flying to a favored branch shaking dry. Eyes fixed afield, I was showered below by accolades of rebirth.
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Mar 29, 2016
Mar 29, 2016 at 8:52 AM UTC
Accolades of Rebirth
did you see love died yesterday? – like an unwanted baby in the gutter, in the bin without a whimper without a moan; O did you see love died yesterday? first we shouted this is mine that’s yours and this is us, that’s you and drew bold black lines round the earth and cunning prevailed over oceans and sky – O did you see this way, love died yesterday? and we instituted societies and hierarchies and had measures so the many would serve the few and so love died, did you see, yesterday? and we came back from hills and caves and deserts and we said: *God spoke to me and this is the Word that is in the Book and if you disagree, you’re dead meat!* and so we killed one another but O, it’s love we killed did you see that how love died yesterday? and some grew insane the inspiration became depravity and they said God sanctioned killing *God wants blood! God wants me to **** That’s what they say. O, do you see love died yesterday? did you see love died yesterday? – like an unwanted baby in the gutter, in the bin without a whimper without a moan; O did you see love died yesterday?
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Oct 16, 2010
Oct 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM UTC
did you see, love died yesterday?
We grew the earth, grew it around us and grew into it. We grew into pairs of shoes after pairs of shoes and we grew into our names. We learnt to tie the laces of our shoes and to tie our tongues around our names, and the names of other things, other people, and around other people's tongues. We planted our cultures, cultivated them, and they blossomed into traditions and stereotypes and generalisations and rituals. We broke in our shoes, broke the ice, broke our voices, broke promises. We broke glasses, hearts and bones. We built hierarchies, looked up, looked down, bowed down. We broke down into dictatorships and demonstration. We found solutions like democracy and diplomas and delegated. We fixed fountains and freight trains and falling trees in the forest and faucets that leaked. We formed partnerships, made promises, pledged to parties for both politics and both parents. We made marriage and then we annulled, we divorced. We fabricated the faiths that we fed on. We invented stopwatches, reality television, pedicures, lampshades, philosophy, greenhouses, dictionaries, exclusivity, feng shui, hand-holding, ****** medication, street art, lawsuits, lingerie, car boot sales, snow days, karaoke, comics, psychics, boarding schools, toast, baseball, psychiatry, bird-watching, plaid, research, stag nights, slasher movies, salads, and interventions. We wanted and we wished and we waited and we wanted for more. We were growing faster than we invented. We were outgrowing ourselves and our earth and our shoes and our names. We forgot what we had found and fixed and formed. We broke down and went broke. We are waiting to invent a new way we can fix ourselves.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 8:43 AM UTC
Our growth
We grew the earth, grew it around us and grew into it. We grew into pairs of shoes after pairs of shoes and we grew into our names. We learnt to tie the laces of our shoes and to tie our tongues around our names, and the names of other things, other people, and around other people's tongues. We planted our cultures, cultivated them, and they blossomed into traditions and stereotypes and generalisations and rituals. We broke in our shoes, broke the ice, broke our voices, broke promises. We broke glasses, hearts and bones. We built hierarchies, looked up, looked down, bowed down. We broke down into dictatorships and demonstration. We found solutions like democracy and diplomas and delegated. We fixed fountains and freight trains and falling trees in the forest and faucets that leaked. We formed partnerships, made promises, pledged to parties for both politics and both parents. We made marriage and then we annulled, we divorced. We fabricated the faiths that we fed on. We invented stopwatches, reality television, pedicures, lampshades, philosophy, greenhouses, dictionaries, exclusivity, feng shui, hand-holding, ****** medication, street art, lawsuits, lingerie, car boot sales, snow days, karaoke, comics, psychics, boarding schools, toast, baseball, psychiatry, bird-watching, plaid, research, stag nights, slasher movies, salads, and interventions. We wanted and we wished and we waited and we wanted for more. We were growing faster than we invented. We were outgrowing ourselves and our earth and our shoes and our names. We forgot what we had found and fixed and formed. We broke down and went broke. We are waiting to invent a new way we can fix ourselves.
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wings of birds were stolen by the gods, centuries ago an earth's day lasts for 86, 400.002 seconds children are roaming in the mind of these lines they are counting, playfully and without feelings days come and go, they float through our lives i wrote about the stages of dreams and dreamt of an ******** the ruins of old poems are silver, blue and red remains of a day's thoughts, decoded and clear, similarly it is not wise to count seconds while you are breathing it is not wise to count on people while they are leaving it is strange to use "wise" in order to refer to cleverness people of color may feel excluded by our languages in german, "white" is called "weiß" and that sounds like "wise" explain to me the origins of such a word, i demand it before the river will have swallowed me; i demand an answer poems come, poems go, leave a trace, stain – and a change fools are flodding the streets in order to have a five o'clock tea proudly, they are talking about their old heroes, bearded conquerors these guys nevah really wanted to dig strangaz, dey killed 'em. they killed unknown people, they stabbed my dreams they murdered ancestors because they were used to murdering they invented words without speaking but grinning power is an invisible instrument that consists of hierarchies power is what we see and oversee, power is the origin of wars wars are the origin of despair; and that is nothing new wars, though, may be invisible and silent, just in the mind what is a war, does a war need bombs, guns and soldiers? wars occur everywhere, daily, within 86, 400.002 seconds the length of a day is measured in numbers; they are just inventions numbers are man-made, animals orient on the sun and the moon humans celebrate planets and write poems about them we all will surive as long as we keep writing and tolerate each other
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Jun 19, 2020
Jun 19, 2020 at 9:16 AM UTC
States Of A Dream
wings of birds were stolen by the gods, centuries ago an earth's day lasts for 86, 400.002 seconds children are roaming in the mind of these lines they are counting, playfully and without feelings days come and go, they float through our lives i wrote about the stages of dreams and dreamt of an ******** the ruins of old poems are silver, blue and red remains of a day's thoughts, decoded and clear, similarly it is not wise to count seconds while you are breathing it is not wise to count on people while they are leaving it is strange to use "wise" in order to refer to cleverness people of color may feel excluded by our languages in german, "white" is called "weiß" and that sounds like "wise" explain to me the origins of such a word, i demand it before the river will have swallowed me; i demand an answer poems come, poems go, leave a trace, stain – and a change fools are flodding the streets in order to have a five o'clock tea proudly, they are talking about their old heroes, bearded conquerors these guys nevah really wanted to dig strangaz, dey killed 'em. they killed unknown people, they stabbed my dreams they murdered ancestors because they were used to murdering they invented words without speaking but grinning power is an invisible instrument that consists of hierarchies power is what we see and oversee, power is the origin of wars wars are the origin of despair; and that is nothing new wars, though, may be invisible and silent, just in the mind what is a war, does a war need bombs, guns and soldiers? wars occur everywhere, daily, within 86, 400.002 seconds the length of a day is measured in numbers; they are just inventions numbers are man-made, animals orient on the sun and the moon humans celebrate planets and write poems about them we all will surive as long as we keep writing and tolerate each other
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Oh, it’s pain, it’s struggle you move through light and sound you are sensitive and indoctrinated and take in everything like a sponge, when you are a young you are confused and desperate and humiliated, very little makes sense everyone has a story and this is true, we are so different, even though we are a lot alike, we figure out reasons to segregate each other. we try to figure out each other, form tribes and hierarchies a lot of people want power and influence and when you become a teenager you want *** and that becomes so important and people want to be considered smart, good looking a great athlete, make great decisions, make someone proud, make themselves proud yet, there is something always trying to **** you, something trying to ****** you, something always to be ashamed of, you know and then there are people who think or pretend to KNOW but they do not KNOW, nobody really KNOWS we play games with each other, sometimes funny and nice but quite often very cruel games: like fights, and war one tribe against another tribe, a battle to death some of us are very complex, and others’ not so and this is what makes us human, yet we all feel, some more or less than the others some of us search meaning, and others are fine with meaningless. Until the hearts stop beating, and the blood stops flowing
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Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 6:42 PM UTC
What It Means to Be Human?
Let’s move to a hippie commune. Let’s grow out our hair and spend our days sitting under the shade of sweeping, graceful trees. Let’s spend so much time outside that our hair goes blonde. Let’s write poetry in notebooks and not be afraid to read it out loud. Let’s make friends who care about things. People who want to help other people. I want to be a person among the noise but who does not always need to contribute to it. Let’s listen. Listen to what our fellow people have to say—and then let’s support them. Can we just sit around a campfire and let that be the thing we do that night? Now and then, let’s go out and be whatever the community needs. Not because we should nor because of some religious mandate, but because we can. I want to be part of a community that leans on each other. No hierarchies. Common good. Putting forth what one has, be it material or otherwise, for the sake of sharing. Let’s feed birds, squirrels and children. Let’s make love on a blanket in the shade. I’ll let my long hair swing while I’m on top of you and kiss you hard on the mouth, completely out in the open. Hard. Let’s forget about time and live by the sun. Let’s be awake when we’re awake and be sleeping when we’re tired. Let’s eat when we’re hungry and not because it’s time. When a cool breeze floats in, let’s stop everything we’re doing and breathe it in. Let’s smoke a joint. Let’s bathe in a river. Let’s float in the soft current and let it ease our minds. Let’s take all our worries to the water. Let’s leave them there. Let’s build our social network by shaking hands. Let’s solidify those connections by singing together. Let’s slow our hearts by talking about books. Let’s cry when we’re sad. I want to feel something real and unabashedly open myself up to its profound ability to change me. Let’s laugh when we’re happy. Let’s smile so wide we can’t help but let a giggle escape. Let’s allow ourselves to experience moments so deeply that we are shaped by them. Let’s be together in a field. Let’s make wishes on flowers and tuck them into my hair for safekeeping. Let’s make music a vital component of our love. Let’s never go anywhere without each other and a guitar. Let’s dance. With closed eyes, let’s swing our arms around and let our bodies move however they please. Let’s sit on the ground and feel the earth. Let’s sleep under stars. Let’s go to sleep in each other’s arms. Let’s rock each other to sleep. Always.
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Nov 14, 2011
Nov 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM UTC
Daydream
Let’s move to a hippie commune. Let’s grow out our hair and spend our days sitting under the shade of sweeping, graceful trees. Let’s spend so much time outside that our hair goes blonde. Let’s write poetry in notebooks and not be afraid to read it out loud. Let’s make friends who care about things. People who want to help other people. I want to be a person among the noise but who does not always need to contribute to it. Let’s listen. Listen to what our fellow people have to say—and then let’s support them. Can we just sit around a campfire and let that be the thing we do that night? Now and then, let’s go out and be whatever the community needs. Not because we should nor because of some religious mandate, but because we can. I want to be part of a community that leans on each other. No hierarchies. Common good. Putting forth what one has, be it material or otherwise, for the sake of sharing. Let’s feed birds, squirrels and children. Let’s make love on a blanket in the shade. I’ll let my long hair swing while I’m on top of you and kiss you hard on the mouth, completely out in the open. Hard. Let’s forget about time and live by the sun. Let’s be awake when we’re awake and be sleeping when we’re tired. Let’s eat when we’re hungry and not because it’s time. When a cool breeze floats in, let’s stop everything we’re doing and breathe it in. Let’s smoke a joint. Let’s bathe in a river. Let’s float in the soft current and let it ease our minds. Let’s take all our worries to the water. Let’s leave them there. Let’s build our social network by shaking hands. Let’s solidify those connections by singing together. Let’s slow our hearts by talking about books. Let’s cry when we’re sad. I want to feel something real and unabashedly open myself up to its profound ability to change me. Let’s laugh when we’re happy. Let’s smile so wide we can’t help but let a giggle escape. Let’s allow ourselves to experience moments so deeply that we are shaped by them. Let’s be together in a field. Let’s make wishes on flowers and tuck them into my hair for safekeeping. Let’s make music a vital component of our love. Let’s never go anywhere without each other and a guitar. Let’s dance. With closed eyes, let’s swing our arms around and let our bodies move however they please. Let’s sit on the ground and feel the earth. Let’s sleep under stars. Let’s go to sleep in each other’s arms. Let’s rock each other to sleep. Always.
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if you are reading this, then, you aren't alone. your being -right now- by virtue of reading this is with mine; and mine, with yours. and even when you go away, you are still here, existing in my little poem, smeared light remnants rubbing up against mine. and even when i go away after sending this off, i too will still be here like you. all of our weird written words penned at a distance are always connected by some strange residual angle and spin emitted, leftover from our small but eternal interactions; alignments of the light which do not discriminate, nor create hierarchies of strict titanic binaries that demand and interrogate.. your big red hearts make my little grey lightning bolts light up: bright yellow strikes fluoresce over and over and o v  e    r, again and again. your tiny torch forever charging   me, even as i cool off and darken, is much appreciated, dear poets of mine.
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Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 1:47 PM UTC
red hearts make yellow lightning
on this sea of social turbulence skin dictates the price of the ticket rotating rainbows-no more whites red is distinct black is forbidden fruit cast into the ghettos of the decaying mind banished from the beauty of eden. why? we all came from a pinpoint in evolution in clusters we migrated to the corners of the globe seeking multi-verses of origin yet we create hierarchies of skintone. why? the gaps in our thinking are like holes in a doughnut spiraling galaxies of hate into whirlpools of ignorance.why? cast into the seed core is a colorless quantum of choice the difference -your destiny. think. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, 17 days ago - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/poem/11673701-Castaway-by-Marshall-Gass-noguest#sthash.alhKPVLX.dpuf
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Oct 12, 2014
Oct 12, 2014 at 8:14 PM UTC
Castaway
on this sea of social turbulence skin dictates the price of the ticket rotating rainbows-no more whites red is distinct black is forbidden fruit cast into the ghettos of the decaying mind banished from the beauty of eden. why? we all came from a pinpoint in evolution in clusters we migrated to the corners of the globe seeking multi-verses of origin yet we create hierarchies of skintone. why? the gaps in our thinking are like holes in a doughnut spiraling galaxies of hate into whirlpools of ignorance.why? cast into the seed core is a colorless quantum of choice the difference -your destiny. think. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ago
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 2:07 PM UTC
Castaway
I closed my eyes today to meditate And of course the flow began That endless stream of words But this time is was of a different kind It was a strong rush rush of forgotten words that loomed over me And whilst still breathing I started sweating For it was the scent of an old world Those words Of rigidity and rust; rules and atrophy Layers and layers of shame A world so deeply rooted; tied with a thick rope To the words that built it I tried to get the flow of words to halter So as to not evoke the emotions stitched into those idioms Flooding into consciousness I've spent years toiling To create a universe sprouted from new words So what could this be but an utter attack on my new reality But they become an outpour, the words This sort of multi-sensory experience… and I'm fixed to them with glue To the fiery words like Tznuis, Bas Melech, Shidduchim That I'd heard all too many times Because I'm only a women The rabbis would tell me And my hands were meant for baking bread My ******* for giving milk Never really mine at all And also the Tume, Trief, Off the Derech, Goyim Words that rang into my ears constantly   Maybe because they were always said, or maybe because These were words I couldn’t close my ears off to hearing But I hear them again now even louder Painting a purity and an impurity An us and a them A superiority and racism Endless hierarchies But then the good words began to flood my mind The Zmiros, Little Tzadikel, Kinderlech Words that built the sounds of my family singing The Love and shelter Joyous togetherness The simple Simplicity The words that know for real Mashiach will come Then there were the greetings The Good Yontifs, Gut Vach's Because who are we but one large social unit Bound by the words we share And the Boruch Hashem's, Kneina Hara's Secured that the bad things don’t get too bad And the good things don’t ruin themselves The flow of words continued Like a tragic comedy A bad and a good And a nothing and a everything The grief of a lost innocence; the shadow of brick walls But I remembered that joy of breathing deep into my uncaged lungs Accessing a fresh new whiff of clean air For I have built a world of new words A new vocabulary of Words like Mind, Body, Spirit ****** freedom Intersectionality, Sustainability Kindred Souls Unity Compassion Holding the Space But what to do when the flow of an old world Built so powerfully by its words Strikes at me suddenly Unexpected And all the new words I've forged don’t seem to matter At all
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Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020 at 8:48 PM UTC
Old words and new words
I closed my eyes today to meditate And of course the flow began That endless stream of words But this time is was of a different kind It was a strong rush rush of forgotten words that loomed over me And whilst still breathing I started sweating For it was the scent of an old world Those words Of rigidity and rust; rules and atrophy Layers and layers of shame A world so deeply rooted; tied with a thick rope To the words that built it I tried to get the flow of words to halter So as to not evoke the emotions stitched into those idioms Flooding into consciousness I've spent years toiling To create a universe sprouted from new words So what could this be but an utter attack on my new reality But they become an outpour, the words This sort of multi-sensory experience… and I'm fixed to them with glue To the fiery words like Tznuis, Bas Melech, Shidduchim That I'd heard all too many times Because I'm only a women The rabbis would tell me And my hands were meant for baking bread My ******* for giving milk Never really mine at all And also the Tume, Trief, Off the Derech, Goyim Words that rang into my ears constantly   Maybe because they were always said, or maybe because These were words I couldn’t close my ears off to hearing But I hear them again now even louder Painting a purity and an impurity An us and a them A superiority and racism Endless hierarchies But then the good words began to flood my mind The Zmiros, Little Tzadikel, Kinderlech Words that built the sounds of my family singing The Love and shelter Joyous togetherness The simple Simplicity The words that know for real Mashiach will come Then there were the greetings The Good Yontifs, Gut Vach's Because who are we but one large social unit Bound by the words we share And the Boruch Hashem's, Kneina Hara's Secured that the bad things don’t get too bad And the good things don’t ruin themselves The flow of words continued Like a tragic comedy A bad and a good And a nothing and a everything The grief of a lost innocence; the shadow of brick walls But I remembered that joy of breathing deep into my uncaged lungs Accessing a fresh new whiff of clean air For I have built a world of new words A new vocabulary of Words like Mind, Body, Spirit ****** freedom Intersectionality, Sustainability Kindred Souls Unity Compassion Holding the Space But what to do when the flow of an old world Built so powerfully by its words Strikes at me suddenly Unexpected And all the new words I've forged don’t seem to matter At all
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Twelve billion years, I’m still here Existing beyond the void of love and fear Where nowhere becomes somewhere And emptiness becomes me Bound by the hierarchies And called of spirit to be free Subjectively pursuing the objective life’s best My soul ever fighting this simple-minded quest Still I proceed and the vanity never ends As fast as I can put it down, I pick it up again A god that ascends or a god that descends It makes me no never mind I probably worshipped one or the other In a better vanished time Time in a moment disintegrates Love like a molecule evaporates Thoughts are like clouds passing over real loud On into this world they penetrate Solutions with new problems that complicate Blinded by neuroses my desires run wild I turn over control to my inner lost child Developmental damage on the ladder of my soul Pretending not to notice my issues become my foes Twelve billion years, somehow I’m still here
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Mar 1, 2018
Mar 1, 2018 at 8:50 AM UTC
THE SUMMARY OF MY EXISTENCE
He is held captive you needn’t farther search In temple’s precincts within the walls of church God is a prisoner in religion’s domain They flock there to worship him men and women. As I see them I get this impression They’ve struck a deal forged a relation One that is need based apparently mutual God provides care in exchange of ritual. At the cost of sounding atheist I must say I notice Churches and temples are organized like office Hierarchies are set in these god’s abodes Complete with rules regulations and codes. In each of these god-houses is a god’s messenger He is the supreme priest faith’s treasurer He leads your prayer cleanses your soul Becomes god’s face assumes the divine’s role. The followers don’t question their faith inhibited Asking and probing questions are strictly prohibited I feel places of worship are too stern and rigid Where in the hands of his caretakers god goes frigid!
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 10:55 AM UTC
Faith's Prisoner
Twelve billion years, I’m still here Existing beyond the void of love and fear Where nowhere becomes somewhere And emptiness becomes me Bound by the hierarchies And called of spirit to be free Subjectively pursuing the objective life’s best My soul ever fighting this simple-minded quest Still I proceed and the vanity never ends As fast as I can put it down, I pick it up again A god that ascends or a god that descends It makes me no never mind I probably worshipped one or the other In a better vanished time Time in a moment disintegrates Love like a molecule evaporates Thoughts are like clouds passing over real loud On into this world they penetrate Solutions with new problems that complicate Blinded by neuroses my desires run wild I turn over control to my inner lost child Developmental damage on the ladder of my soul Pretending not to notice my issues become my foes Twelve billion years, somehow I’m still here
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 7:57 AM UTC
A SUMMARY OF MY EXISTENCE
Hustle and bustle of underground merry plaza showcase, the underbelly, the underlife, the true essence of the show going on at 8, men speaking rhythmically, eating quickly, with waste boxes, recyclables, the news is digestible, a man forages for answers in his phone, digging with his thumbs, and another reaches through the speaker to try to hear the close, the head anchored up, the scarf hanging at the direction towards the sun, oh the glamorous walls and the anxious souls, oh the marble staircase and the jansport backpack, more cleaning services than surfaces, less times more money, more money, less time, time is like money, it freezes and then it flows, what was the expression again? Only the smell of coffee is lucrative, only the stench of ***** diapers, babies, in a place like this, where murmers are murmurs and eat isn't required but fufilled then joked about over digestion, a proper coffee break, he is of an ash tray the men gossip, not directly, but imply, stick to facts but hierarchies fill in like water into a ravine, never obscene, silent struggles to an invisible top held by Rockefeller who is no longer in this world, his spirit keeps some sort of hope driving noses into the pizza lunches, and the limitless contemplaions, the tough desicions, men around coffee are women amidst vultures, who has a higher grasp, whose the one getting cursed, overdone, overpowered, the cards turning in silence, literally in glances, a polite face turns to a disappointed hatred in seconds, perfect, like a diamond
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 1:38 AM UTC
Rockefeller Plaza
Hustle and bustle of underground merry plaza showcase, the underbelly, the underlife, the true essence of the show going on at 8, men speaking rhythmically, eating quickly, with waste boxes, recyclables, the news is digestible, a man forages for answers in his phone, digging with his thumbs, and another reaches through the speaker to try to hear the close, the head anchored up, the scarf hanging at the direction towards the sun, oh the glamorous walls and the anxious souls, oh the marble staircase and the jansport backpack, more cleaning services than surfaces, less times more money, more money, less time, time is like money, it freezes and then it flows, what was the expression again? Only the smell of coffee is lucrative, only the stench of ***** diapers, babies, in a place like this, where murmers are murmurs and eat isn't required but fufilled then joked about over digestion, a proper coffee break, he is of an ash tray the men gossip, not directly, but imply, stick to facts but hierarchies fill in like water into a ravine, never obscene, silent struggles to an invisible top held by Rockefeller who is no longer in this world, his spirit keeps some sort of hope driving noses into the pizza lunches, and the limitless contemplaions, the tough desicions, men around coffee are women amidst vultures, who has a higher grasp, whose the one getting cursed, overdone, overpowered, the cards turning in silence, literally in glances, a polite face turns to a disappointed hatred in seconds, perfect, like a diamond
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Let's not talk about our ethnicity. Let's,for a while, we don't see our races. Let's not,for some individual's fault, blame the whole community. Let's not judge someone just by looking at their faces. Let's not isolate someone just beacuse he prays some other God. Let's not detach those strings just because he's not one of you. Let's not, by seeing someone's clothes, feel odd. Let's just peep into those inner feelings which are always true. Let's not create hierarchies in caste & treat everyone equally. Let's not differentiate any man or woman. Let's not think ourselves superior & become bully. And Let's, just for once, we all become human.
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Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 12:20 AM UTC
LET'S BE HUMAN
Fear not humanity For I know you're out there In the midst Of this fanatical continuum Anchored by compassion Hearts still able to grieve The ones who know Without a doubt Their leaders do deceive The tears that fall For the fallen souls The dreamers of peace The Devil's Foes Hear me now My fellow human Break down these walls These institutions of soul Take charge and guard The Hierarchies of reason Embrace Humanity And refuse to let go...
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 8:52 AM UTC
EMBRACE HUMANITY