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“Liber Novus” Life is read it bleeds continually we simply need to stop and breathe forgive ourselves for tripping over misspent thought too caught up and enraptured in the chapters we imagine we always dream best beginnings and tidy arduous ends unicorns in black matter Life is real hell it reels us in we are what passes through, processed light steaming we enter in screaming a new mission older memories forgotten needles in haystacks sifting for what we lost long ago in the fields of each other it is hiding recalcitrant we are forever seeking for something golden for what is missing needle point we stitch our stories into the fabric of us time – we think it’s slim it never ends we read the signs from other's stories they turn our pages, looking for something they are missing validation of existence they read us in the watchers count good deeds and sins the light laughs in the dark there are wars coming and going never meant for winning losing is the lesson love erupts at some point for the forgiving what remains the remnant a softer kernel of belief beggars in what truly writes our stories edits our looming unfinished mysterious chapters are answers truly found in sacred verse poetry becomes for some a new religion all manner of hymns walking stories that are larger than oceans across watery pages whales tales swallowing tears in time pilot fish listening in each of us enters through the strange place crying novices we break in cracking the door like bungling burglars on our unearthly missions the pages turn in us all a new story is always born red door like a book opens and closes Liber Novus life screams rapturous or not portal wombs waiting rooms and exit strategies all too soon Liber novus closes us out lets us in ... again (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) “Gimme Shelter”, The Rolling Stones https://youtu.be/RbmS3tQJ7Os “Paint it Black”, The Rolling Stones https://youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg “The voyage began at age 11. "On my way to school," "I stepped out of a mist and I knew I am. I am what I am. And then I thought, 'But what have I been before?' And then I found that I had been in a mist, not knowing to differentiate myself from things; I was just one thing among many things." Jung, 1959 The Red Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung) 'The Red Book': A Window Into Jung's Dreams https://www.npr.org/2009/11/11/120129676/the-red-book-a-window-into-jungs-dreams Liber Novus / original with Illustrations Jung/Art https://archive.org/details/RedBookByJung/mode/2up?view=theater Liber Novus The Red Book (English Translation) https://www.d-pdf.com/book/1471/read “How an existential crisis precipitated an artistic masterpiece” https://www.theculturium.com/carl-gustav-jung-the-red-book-liber-novus/
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