view2022/6/9 #poetry
The uncertain future makes for such discomfort.
What could mollify this fear? If these unmet needs had some baseline guarantee? If the expectation was of fulfillment? If the current circumstance were acceptable?
If I didn't care. Detachment.
view2022/6/8 #poetry
Enjoying the lake? I must be. A lack of generally positive feelings doesn't mean a lack of enjoyment. I notice the details that delight with subtlety. Wind moving the reeds, gliding birds, the wind, again, on the water. As well as the larger picture, delighting with its grandiosity. The imposing panoramic wall of trees above the water sparkling in the sun.
Things would certainly be even harder if I wasn't enjoying the lake.
view2022/6/7 #poetry
Yes, I had dreams, visions when I closed my eyes, but I couldn't catch them. They all escaped from memory so I couldn't record them, or use them as inspiration. With some practice, surely, it would become easy. For now I'll just head back into the dreams.
view2022/6/5 #poetry
When you get the chance you shouldn't consider it a choice. You should only give yourself one option, to take it. You should be prepared to avail yourself of the opportunity. Don't trick yourself into thinking it will come up again.
view2022/6/4 #poetry
With everything
I am
Separation can't be
Would be cessation of existence
With everything
The delight
The pain
Again everything
is pertinent
view2022/6/3 #poetry
Both rest and activity seem awesome when they are in balance. But, as with most things, you can have too much of one & then only the other seems awesome. When that happens, it will seem more awesome than when they are in balance. It might even make up for the lack of awesome from overdoing it sometimes.
view2022/6/2 #poetry
Free fall nothing to stand on nothing to hold on to
Drowning overcome by all of it
Chaos lack of clarity
view2022/5/31 #poetry
It's just a clock. It doesn't own you.
It's just measuring something.
It may not even be accurate.
Let yourself make of it what you will, but don't blame the clock for counting time.
view2022/5/30 #poetry
Plants is a term that encompasses such a wide variety of things. Too much certainly. You can't take it literally and must infer its meaning from context.
Like a grunt. Water the plants means just some of the plants, not 'the weeds', probably not the trees, just certain ones that should be prevented from drying out.
Don't step on the plants excludes the grass, tree roots, moss on the stepping stones.
You just have to know.
view2022/5/29 #poetry
Over by the water the four senses remind you
with each lapping wave that things are alright
you can smell & feel the moist cool air
the light plays off them into your eyes
the sound pulls together all the other noise
or washes it away