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#28298333 - 04/28/23 02:27 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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When trying to sleep at night, instead- my thoughts turn to the severed head.
In cupboard dark beneath the stair, newspaper wrapped with matted hair.
Its lifeless gaze trapped in a scream, the pillow now, and back I dream.
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#28306672 - 05/04/23 04:20 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Modern Mystic
It’s not easy being new When you will highlight the old But it offers up a spectral clue To all the brash ones and the bold
To seek out the purest Light Foretold by the saints and sages Is to seek scriptural might And the wizards, warlocks, mages
The multitudes are deaf To all forms of mystic feeling They say it’s a waste of breath And spend birth to death a-reeling
It comes in many colors, many hues And truth from this agenda is no stranger In fact, the whole explodes with many truths And such explosions expose to danger
Modernity casts peculiar tints But ones that are indeed compelling It’s really all about the many hints Nature to us is ever telling
Science alas opens up dimensions That our progenitors did not need Bestowing many new contentions Or not so new, y.m.m.v. indeed
The salient yet still remains the same Truth after all is quite immortal Involved in a complicated game On both sides of the dreaded portal
For one thing, you see, all is possible Which has meaning deeper than you think Making easy, however, is impossible Standing so absurdly far back from the brink
Brinksmanship it’s true a human factor In a rather abstract purple way The human specimen an ornate actor Invents oblivion to seal the day
If you can now perform this daring task: Holding the Light proudly while alive Wear not lies nor any facemasks And God won’t know that you have died
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#28307096 - 05/04/23 11:48 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Modernity is a fallacy. Truth is found therein. When difference is herecy. Admitting progress is but spin.
Battleship like strategy. Where guesses become sound play. Luck assumes constabulary. Confusion rules the day.
Advanced beyond understanding. So much we think we do. Our problems will continue compounding. Until its time..and we see it through.
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#28307917 - 05/05/23 02:55 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The Great Work
When our destiny befalls us Harnessed to our drear fuss We center to our star None thus would this nonplus Heralded from afar
Like a cork on bobbing sea Or huddled in the lee Most haven’t wind direction Nor are inclined for tea Nor have inner perfection
But to orient one’s soul To point it toward the goal The goal I mean down here Remaining in the shoal One goal: abolish fear
If lightning strikes our being And if for once we’re seeing The Great Work strikes apparent And it is very freeing When we find our Self inherent
Indeed, each one a bright Star Pounding on her sand-bar When truth arrives, it’s welcome And really, there you are! Now to err quite seldom
Now incumbent upon all To resurrect after the Fall Each in his perfect place Doing one’s Work withal That no one can replace
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#28310189 - 05/07/23 11:43 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Chaos Mysticism
Causality and Chance Contingency and Must The Chaos Mystic’s dance Alway from dust to dust Yoga being Union A game for yellowbellies The truest consummation Forsaking napalm jellies Conjuring with your magic Invoke the varied being Objective way of seeing Fall out the circle, tragic The Model isn’t shallow Fairly feigned or fallow Synthesis of the ages The truth of human stages The realm of olden’s Reaper The taker and soul keeper The object of this exercise Some after-realms are steeper No longer out of human eyes Reaper approve, Devil despise In the end returning to The burning we are yearning through The real and the apparent The same, it’s doubtless true
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#28312751 - 05/09/23 01:20 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Freedom
No mon, no fun The modern sages say Punch out, work done At the end of day
Tragic, yes it is Everything should be free Sadly, that’s the biz We’re in, you all and me
Each penny a sin And a stupid mistake That biz we are in Will bend and will break
I do not know how To address this, howe’er But almighty cash cow Must its throat vein be sever’d
Bill Hicks once, he said: Try going somewhere Without cash; you’ll drop dead Eventually—no one cares
All the world’s sin All the world’s sickness Derives from our chagrin At our wallet’s thickness
This all may seem naïve Or stupid, plainly so But not if you believe In Nature and her flow
Any system shy of The egalitarian Is one that you will die of There’s nothing left to win
Children understand all this Adults are too far gone Another item on God’s list For saving primate spawn
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#28315786 - 05/11/23 12:59 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Miserable Spirit Part II
And lo all these many years have passed And the spirit, his forces remain amassed Logic out the door, only chaos reigns It should make sense, but it don’t, and it pains
There was once a harmony, normalcy, sanity And today only irrational glum inanity I don’t know what happened, I can’t say just why They have such weird beings that just try and try
These try to disable, disarm, discombobulate And about 2019 they had me at sate Fast forward to now, and the misery’s mutual The damn thing has grown so nauseatingly usual
If the aethyrs are like this, then I am so sorry That all the world thinks they’ll go on bliss safari The whole thing’s not pretty—a jungle, a mess And there isn’t much point to your priest go confess
Holy Guardian Angel, I hope others have luck In finding one pleasant that keeps one unstuck ‘Cause what I’ve got here is a realm cluster**** I tell you, in part to be me, it does suck
So if you ever get in a pickle like mine Enjoy your desserts, enjoy your fine wine It may give you respite from craziness base With a Miserable Spirit, do not interlace!
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#28318502 - 05/13/23 04:28 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Two-One-Zero
Philosophy might be boiled down To whether one likes the notion (It’s no time now for emotion) Of two-ness, one-ness, or to drown
That is to say, this essence Deals with dualism, for one All spectral beneath the Sun A transcendental presence
Or, we look, on the other hand At wholeness, oneness, truth The swirl in your vermouth Belies the complex grand
Lastly, the opinions of men Fall on nihilism Existential schism (It ain’t exactly Zen)
Perhaps this oversimplifies But maybe it’s a clue To just what humans do When one boils down to size
Dualism, monism, nihilism Man can engage all three In this frothy sea Truth refracts through the prism
I have my favorite, yes, indeed But who am I to say? Interesting to see it this way But in the end, we bleed
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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum]
#28319469 - 05/14/23 11:56 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Crazy
I have a little theory I’d like to try on you Perhaps not so flattering To Earth’s varied crew
Indeed, and take a moment To exercise restraint It does apply to you, dear So popular, it ain’t:
Everyone is crazy That right, I said it straight This planet is a madhouse Full of greed and hate
This malady I see Touches every soul Sure, involuntary With no thought of the goal
From time immemorial History, all the way down Operates from neurosis From the peasant to the crown
Spectacular today As the race is dying out So many causal factors Ourselves, you see, we rout
It could not be otherwise We live in gilded cages Our brains: they do not work right And everyone just rages
So yes, we’re all insane We ought to tear our eyes out That we’re not doing so Leaves little room for doubt
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#28319751 - 05/14/23 05:24 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The definition of crazy. Includes you believing you ain't. The understandings complacency. Cries of technological prowess quite qauint.
When the patient's overrun the asylum. The easiest fix is change the name. Throw away the uniforms. Let's pretend were all the same.
The communal delusion. A still pictured mirror. Surety within confusion. Success no matter what we deliver.
It's likely always been so. We slide down a slippery slope. How it ends no one may know. When will we run out of rope.
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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: pineninja] 2
#28320026 - 05/14/23 11:35 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Golden Teacher
I Fasted for 12 hrs,
sat alone in quiet darkness
and ingested 5 dried grams.
Had FaceTime with the good the bad and the ugly
and heard the deafening silence of the lambs.
Childhood trauma played like motion pictures on the silver screen,
I saw the hurt and sadness of abusers
and came to understand forgiving them would make me clean.
Forgiving and blessing my enemies can heal,
this much I know is true,
my pain and suffering can become medicine or poison for the world
depending on what I choose to do.
What will you do with yours?
-Gremlin-
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#28320508 - 05/15/23 11:50 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
pineninja said: The definition of crazy. Includes you believing you ain't.
For the record, I do not exclude myself.
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#28320512 - 05/15/23 11:52 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The Constitution
You guided us Straight and true For about 200 years
But along about now You’re starting to show cracks
Doubtless, it is a fine document But, as with all things Obsolescence takes its inevitable toll
With the hyperconnected And hyper-complex Nature of the 21st Century You do not do as well as you did When, say, we didn’t have electricity
And now that we have the internet And the cyber-universe And long-term threats Like climate change, habitat destruction Surging populations and their environmental impact The advance of radical technologies And endless complexity and uncertainty You’re a bit less reliable Than you were In simpler times
Unfortunately Everyone seems to be obsessed About what you have to say About this, that and t’other
Interpreting an 18th Century document For the 21st Century Is perhaps counterproductive
Dubious interpretations Ought be replaced By taking the correct action For modern times
By doing what most of us know is the right thing
As things stand, the opinions of the Supreme Court Are thoroughly subjective
It’s time we did something about this But since there’s no recipe for it In you, the Constitution itself
Paralysis seems the only course
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#28322171 - 05/16/23 04:19 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Reaction Action
The behaviorists seem to have it right In certain circumstances The little will provides no light To shine on reflex dances
But though they were indeed insistent That it all stops there The position, see, is truth-resistant But is freedom anywhere?
Though it’s true primarily That we mostly are reacting Do not dismiss summarily That sometimes: we are acting
The little will is little, yes (Though it can grow four sizes) When it seems we’re at our best Nature doles out prizes
Act, react, it’s all the same When one ponders the fact That true control ain’t in the game When we “freely” act
I suppose we can dismiss all this When our circuits fire clean Anyway, we’d be remiss To say we’re all machines
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#28323538 - 05/17/23 04:07 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Reality Overhaul
For the sake of argument Let’s suppose there’s a God As a hypothetical Some feel that this is flawed In a West where God is dead It may seem somewhat odd
Forget all that and just suppose Nature and God are two This seems to be sensible High Heaven and hot stew It really can’t be otherwise To a discerning few
Supposing that, it follows then That Nature’s mostly free She’s able to control herself She needn’t God, you see But sometimes Nature’s in a bind That can harm you and me
So miracles are possible Though clearly they are rare Sometimes it’s merely necessary To avoid a bad scare Judicious use of such a power Saves lives just everywhere
However, one step more than this That God has endless powers Does not quite seem to be the case Yet further beauty flowers He mustn’t be omnipotent No more than Nature’s dour
So I just have to say here That God can’t overhaul Reality in real time An order far too tall Nor is he obliged to Such thinking is too small
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#28325073 - 05/18/23 03:51 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Our Blue Planet
Fragile azure marble Jewel suspended in the firmament How I wish existence could Somehow, some way, be permanent
When seen from Lunar vantages Your wholeness is apparent Your beauty, inescapable Your uniqueness inherent
All man’s paltry trifles Are seen as ludicrous Division, greed, all-out wars The rest, too numerous
What we really have here Is a precious, joyous gift And we do not deserve it If we can’t repair the rift
Photos of your majesty Taken from outer space Clinch the truth infinite While billions are debased
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#28326211 - 05/19/23 12:08 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Re-Boot
Reality’s inscrutable Too bad it’s not re-bootable The present intersects The future it perfects
The rolling past is so imperfect When skyward it is truly perfect The only character to blame Is Man, who fights in good God’s name
Yes, Man, the constant factor A nefarious actor If the dom species were canine This place would be just divine!
Siriusly now, it’s a fair point Reality has us in dis-joint Will we stay to see tomorrow? Or is our morrow one of sorrow?
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#28326738 - 05/19/23 07:57 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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People
We all know many individuals An actor seems to know a trillion Upon parting, happiest residuals Relationships by the billion
And we also all know this salient fact: People can simply be quite precious Their look, their laughter quite infectious (Some with remarkably bad tact)
It’s once you get on to the group level That all those crazy issues arise Socially at times we may freely revel But groupthink makes everyone despise
Irrespective of individual versus group The fact is indeed utterly plain This species with its glands and brain Runs this planet like poop
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#28326893 - 05/19/23 10:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The Last Raver
The stage is too far away My friends suck I hate this song Why did I come here
Apathetic minds, squashed under colossal nothingness
Visions of joy, show them lights and songs, thrash wildly beneath the rising sun
Yet
They tell me my hope tastes bitter
Back to sleep for them, the last raver spins alone in bittersweet revelry
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#28326902 - 05/19/23 10:27 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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PS thank you to Divided for regularly contributing to this thread Cheers
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