Bedouin

"Bedouin" I stand here holding time in my hands for you yet you remain hidden watching black sands on closing air bedouin messages written in code invisible to most it blooms you open the envelope silently spits words, they escape into you you breathe what's left quietly in consider the path between dreams and reality I hijack your solitary cells daily you’re a Skinwalker like a Selkie shedding freedom for a bad marriage the godless god considers you not worth a conversation, like a stalker he follows you silently without speaking swallows what’s good from the black buzzard perch he sets the trip wire unknown in the dark there he sits hidden in his vestry shuffling the bad poetry parishioners he weighs your worth smirking he watches on turns your music off (LadyLabyrinth/2021) https://youtu.be/WU8m9m58XFI

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Ts Poetry

Date: 8/11/2021 1:06:00 PM

There are forces that are other worldly that even the brilliant can't explain...keep moving to the beat of the music

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/11/2021 4:22:00 PM

dedicated to my jolly band of 'trolls' :)

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 8/1/2021 6:44:00 PM

"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/1/2021 6:44:00 PM

It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 8/1/2021 6:40:00 PM

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding." Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 8/1/2021 6:40:00 PM

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne, No man is an island

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 8/1/2021 6:42:00 PM

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”