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"limen" poems
do you know what liminal means? liminal comes from latin limen meaning threshold a place of entering or of beginning a fine line between the was and will a place of transition waiting unknowing and i suppose you could say this is liminal this poem this life this concept of eternal that we seem to attribute to our (sadly impermanent) art this body of mine is so very liminal this voice that i roll around on my tongue is liminal this world itself, a blink compared to infinity can only be said to be a threshhold to somewhere else h.f.m.
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Jun 1, 2018
Jun 1, 2018 at 2:31 PM UTC
LIMINAL
Of Burden I will not be made to forget that I am a beast—a mythical creature of ash and snow—of sunsets and tree branches—of supernovas and singularities—and my transcendence will be not be held at bay—will not be stifled, even by those forces that permeate worlds—even by those entities whose existence straddles dimensions. I am that I will never again be naught—that my existence has changed—is changing—the whole of creation. That those changes cast themselves both backwards and forwards through reality, is the stuff of magic and myth but I assure you represents a truth unhindered by the pettiness of perspective—a truth the size of at least one universe—a contorted, pulsating blob, the width of ten dimensions and length of four temporalities… nourished from its own individuality and infected by notions of shared sovereignty—notions of descendancy or dependency. The creature of that truth is a mighty beast that we have been beset to watch—to be—the gate—the liminiality—the hearth of our existence and the fortitude of our would-be destruction. Seize yourself. Walk the stunted and corrupt path through the limen and discover firsthand what the footsteps of divinity could never tell you. Breathe in eons of creation and destruction and exhale the causality you were born to wield. The strength in which we reside is never above—never beyond—never outside of “I am”. And it is through this notion and unto the world that I cast together revelation and contingency—sincerity and artifice—bared skin and mask—not to see between the lines of reality, but to witness everything at once—the gestalt—the whole of things—the miracle and awe of a conscious universe in which the proverbial neurons make war with each other—with the axons they slide down—with the very entity whose existence is represented by the house in which they dwell—I wish to see it all—to widen the scope of the collective eye—to manifest the spiritual evolution of the whole ******* world into just One Single Thought.
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Feb 27, 2014
Feb 27, 2014 at 9:03 PM UTC
Of Burden
Of Burden I will not be made to forget that I am a beast—a mythical creature of ash and snow—of sunsets and tree branches—of supernovas and singularities—and my transcendence will be not be held at bay—will not be stifled, even by those forces that permeate worlds—even by those entities whose existence straddles dimensions. I am that I will never again be naught—that my existence has changed—is changing—the whole of creation. That those changes cast themselves both backwards and forwards through reality, is the stuff of magic and myth but I assure you represents a truth unhindered by the pettiness of perspective—a truth the size of at least one universe—a contorted, pulsating blob, the width of ten dimensions and length of four temporalities… nourished from its own individuality and infected by notions of shared sovereignty—notions of descendancy or dependency. The creature of that truth is a mighty beast that we have been beset to watch—to be—the gate—the liminiality—the hearth of our existence and the fortitude of our would-be destruction. Seize yourself. Walk the stunted and corrupt path through the limen and discover firsthand what the footsteps of divinity could never tell you. Breathe in eons of creation and destruction and exhale the causality you were born to wield. The strength in which we reside is never above—never beyond—never outside of “I am”. And it is through this notion and unto the world that I cast together revelation and contingency—sincerity and artifice—bared skin and mask—not to see between the lines of reality, but to witness everything at once—the gestalt—the whole of things—the miracle and awe of a conscious universe in which the proverbial neurons make war with each other—with the axons they slide down—with the very entity whose existence is represented by the house in which they dwell—I wish to see it all—to widen the scope of the collective eye—to manifest the spiritual evolution of the whole ******* world into just One Single Thought.
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The uncontrollable urge To gaze upon the macabre We're trapped here Our consciousness cannot escape But only cease So some are drawn to the dying A morbid curiosity To catch a glimpse Of what lies beyond The prison walls of living Temptation Coming from somewhere so deep And so dark To wander just a little closer to the edge To peek behind the curtain To take a step closer to the edge of the void To look for answers On the edge of a razor blade Or at the bottom of a bottle of pills The thought is equally nauseating and exhilerating
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Mar 3, 2021
Mar 3, 2021 at 9:06 PM UTC
Pulling at the Limen