deff said:

nice

i like the title 'butterfly' for it

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desert father said:

hey just wanted to say i appreciated your poem, nice work.

i considered your titles, but i couldn't help but repeating the word "transformation" in my head while reading, perhaps that could be a consideration?

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thx as well!  hmm, and thanks for the feedback, i will keep that in mind.

FishOilTheKid said:

So where can I find this highway...??

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You're living it!

To me, the one-way highway is a metaphor for life's journey, and perhaps one's own sense of freedom and non-attachment to the material world.  No matter how long you have been stuck in the same old sickly scene, the freedom of your journey is always waiting for you to return to it, given you have the will and capability to do so.  And even after death, in my view.  The one-way highway has no start, and no end.  It is never-ending, and always changing.  Beautiful and free, so long as you can see it, and remember that it is, or should be, despite your present situation in life.

Shrooomtastic said:

FishOilTheKid said:

So where can I find this highway...??

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You're living it!

To me, the one-way highway is a metaphor for life's journey, and perhaps one's own sense of freedom and non-attachment to the material world.  No matter how long you have been stuck in the same old sickly scene, the freedom of your journey is always waiting for you to return to it, given you have the will and capability to do so.  And even after death, in my view.  The one-way highway has no start, and no end.  It is never-ending, and always changing.  Beautiful and free, so long as you can see it, and remember that it is, or should be, despite your present situation in life.

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Wayness coolness Penis.   

Thanks to all for the feedback!

Yeah I'm definitely keeping the original title, Butterfly.

c0sm0nautt said:

I also vote for Butterfly. Butterfly, as I'm sure you know, is an esoteric symbol for transmutation.

I like your poem. It read very well but you might want to consider taking the two "And"s out of the first stanza - I'm no master poet or anything but I think that would really make it come together.

Your poem resonate with this new idea I am trying in life which is to not know or understand as much and just "do it" so to speak. I'm talking about really harnessing that intuitive in-the-moment faculty which is paramount to thoroughly enjoying life.

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Shrooomtastic said:

This is why I love mushrooms, because they have shown me that it is still there underneath the layers of rational mind.  But can we ever truly get it back?  That is the pressing question.

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I was about to say the same thing! The first time I did mushrooms I was able to really re-experience the world again. To this day nature and trees have a magical quality from how I saw them on mushrooms. It reminds me of that quote Jesus said about "taking on the eyes of a child."

LunarEclipse said:

You got some poet skills My Man.  I should know sometimes I lay down some of that shit too.  I think if I still were doing shrooms I would be laying down more of it.

Sometimes I think people are adverse to my verse. 

For better or verse.

When the Moon Is Full

When the Moon is Full
The Crazies come Out
Time To Jump and Shout
And get Bailed Out
For Disturbing the Peace

But in the still of the Night
When that Full Moon is oh so Bright
Much to the Crazies delight
It's a beautiful sight
In that Moon light
Right?

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you had me at "for better or verse."

c0sm0nautt said:

Shrooomtastic said:

This is why I love mushrooms, because they have shown me that it is still there underneath the layers of rational mind.  But can we ever truly get it back?  That is the pressing question.

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I was about to say the same thing! The first time I did mushrooms I was able to really re-experience the world again. To this day nature and trees have a magical quality from how I saw them on mushrooms. It reminds me of that quote Jesus said about "taking on the eyes of a child."

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Nice, they still have a magical quality sometimes, even now?  I rarely have a sense for the magical in nature much anymore, more like a sense that something is missing

Yeah those quotes by Jesus are some of the ones that speak to me the most now, after doing mushrooms.  Like how we must be like a little child to enter the kingdom.  And how the kingdom is within you and all around you in every passing moment.  As if the goal of our practice should be to return to our innocence somehow  

Though this is one of the main themes of Sahaja yoga if you have ever looked into that.  And which reminds me, listen to this song! Gave me such awesome vibes for so long in India.

Enigma - Return to Innocence

The Chronic said:

Whenever i felt that magic on shrooms i always got the sense that its really simple to be in that state but our minds overcomplicate it.

And then the search began! Pretty nice looking back on it...

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Hmm, so what do you think?  After all your searching do you think it is possible for one to reprogram the mind not to over-complicate things as much as it once did?

I believe it is for sure possible, but that the complexity of our lives and the people around us make it much more difficult to live in simplicity and better appreciate the present moment.  A kind of, "we awaken as one, or not at all" type thing

Shrooomtastic said:

The Chronic said:

Whenever i felt that magic on shrooms i always got the sense that its really simple to be in that state but our minds overcomplicate it.

And then the search began! Pretty nice looking back on it...

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Hmm, so what do you think?  After all your searching do you think it is possible for one to reprogram the mind not to over-complicate things as much as it once did?

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