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Crazy Is As Crazy Does

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"Crazy is as Crazy does" Crazy is as Crazy does poets and musicians come undonne fresh plots till the soiled, their artful passion twists a je ne sais quoi madness in the measure of their melodies - there "It" sits within, an articulate climbing ivy de Sadeness, when silence comes to this words paint a wall like flowers blooming tale feathers flying angels and their demons swooning, dance enthralled across white territory open spaces close tired doors the dead, fuelled and reborn surrender red flags in bed with the romance of new frontiers where ancient lovers call Crazy is as Crazy does poets and musicians all cultivated mercenaries eventually come undonne hungry monsters to speak and sing of war and love times past long ago, and history yet to come words worn like monks wear habits hearts are verily strummed warm then rolled over raw seeds and wild oats sown thoughts like manna placed in others' minds and on their tongues to speak and dance of never-nevers and cloudy kingdom comes impress to all, heed this, they espouse it's all quite quite quintessential perfectly prophétique, murdering ALL their little darlings fresh plots till the soiled, their artful passion twists Crazy is as Crazy does the loons all hum and nod when silence comes to this (LadyLabyrinth / 2022)

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 1/22/2023 11:07:00 AM

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." Robin Williams (1951 - 2014).

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 1/22/2023 11:07:00 AM

Some more than others. xx

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 12/19/2022 10:57:00 AM

Your "Crazy is as Crazy does" is deep but a wonderful write. Your added pictures speak out loud. The last one, liquid sunshine???? Have a great day..............

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/19/2022 3:09:00 PM

lol...surely this for most families, skeletons, closets etc.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/21/2022 1:56:00 PM

"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 6:05:00 PM

We all go through our sandstorms...sometimes, they can be quite vicious. I always loved this quote by Haruki Murakami, who is one of my most favourite authors. He loves his music too. Xx

Joe Dimino
Date: 9/21/2022 5:40:00 PM

Wonderfully stimulating information, perspective. Great advice: Doubt not, open up, and one will experience self as a cornucopia of worlds and wisdom. No darkness in God's creation...only self keeping out the light. Such a joy to read your writings! Thank you.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:57:00 PM

This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:57:00 PM

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:57:00 PM

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/21/2022 1:54:00 PM

“You can usually tell whether a new writer's work is going to last by whether or not the style has a sense of rhythm. From what I've seen, though, most literary critics ignore that element.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:54:00 PM

They mainly talk about the subtlety of the style, the newness of the writer's vocabulary, the narrative momentum, the quality of the themes, the use of interesting techniques, and so forth. But I think that someone who writes without rhythm lacks the talent to be a writer.” Haruki Murakami, Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/21/2022 1:50:00 PM

“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching what goes on around them, trying not to make waves, and looking for the easy compromise are not going to be able to do creative work, whatever their field.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:50:00 PM

To build something where there was nothing requires deep individual concentration, and in most cases that kind of concentration occurs in a place unrelated to cooperation with others, a place we might even call dämonisch.” Haruki Murakami, Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/21/2022 1:20:00 PM

"Monster".

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:20:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/monster_1342643

Joe Dimino

Date: 9/21/2022 10:49:00 AM

This is a fabulous poem! You get a Fav! from me. I will be back later to say more. It is a very encompassing work, going off in many directions but they are all related brilliantly. Indeed, our words build walls...tear them down, as do our thoughts and deeds. While on different dimensions of consciousness experienced or acknowledge, that is not to say one is more real than the other. Thank you for posting.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/21/2022 1:17:00 PM

For the 'Walking Kintsugi"... who have risen from the dead...