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“Nothingness” Words lines drawn unending dusk to dawn characters recognised transcribed in the mind where voices unheard plant meaning wild ivy grows and snakelike moves outside the lines electric we become strange symphonies sublime; engraved in time most rocks crumble dissolve, life has no need for unnecessary rhyme beginning of a sentence chases the end catches up, blends in swallowing life’s tale circular Ouroboros the meaning of it all for most lost in the dreams we dreamt messages for a short time remembered, then forgotten what we were becomes irrelevant comprehensible slides, counting sleeps on a constant wheel turning eternally we meet strange gods recycling myths in ourselves we meet the all in the nothingness lines drawn new characters unrecognised untranslated the function and purpose of words read and spoken disappear no point in lines open we understand intuitively what rhymes (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) Lauge - Nothingness https://youtu.be/uUE7ZiMcf94 Ouroboros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metempsychosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_materia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_mundi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Over-Soul Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Essays, "The Over-Soul" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2944/2944-h/2944-h.htm "The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feedback' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself, and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he, therefore, constitutes the secret of the prima materia which ... unquestionably stems from man's unconscious." Jung tail/tale

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Date: 6/3/2022 9:53:00 PM
An amazingly deep musing, LL. Marking this as a fave, the notes are useful ~ God bless
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/3/2022 10:18:00 PM
Thank you Seeker. Mortality makes you consider all angles...perhaps I should switch the "l" and the "e" around. I probably need all the divine help I can acquire if they deem me eligible for entry through the Pearly Gates (I have a feeling they will ask me for the secret password like some elite mafia club) and I will proffer the wrong word/s. I can see them shaking their heads at me already. Xx
Date: 6/2/2022 2:43:00 AM
We don't write words. We don't paint words. We eat words. Writers, Poets, the Reader, the Inquisitive. The more hungry, the more words eaten. What evolves is the lesson emanating from what is regurgitated. Too full up. After all is said ... and done...do words mean a jot? When the other chapter opens, and the old closes. Sense kicks in.
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Date: 6/1/2022 8:55:00 AM
"Space is ample, east and west, But two cannot go abreast, Cannot travel in it two: Yonder masterful cuckoo Crowds every egg out of the nest, Quick or dead, except its own; A spell is laid on sod and stone, Night and Day ’ve been tampered with, Every quality and pith Surcharged and sultry with a power That works its will on age and hour." Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/3/2022 6:10:00 PM
Back to Jung's Red Book - hell, I think I've been having an 'existential' crisis my entire life! Will this writing never cease. :)...now if that doesn't make you smile - trust you are moving through it all as best you can over there Lindley, thoughts are with you, Justin, your other children and extended family. Xx
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Robert Lindley
Date: 6/3/2022 1:42:00 PM
Amen... Waldo casts light and the reader either sees or else does not... True poetry - is not for the faint of heart my friend. Exposing ones soul, ones heart always comes with a heavy price. A price that the fakers never pay, imho.. RJL
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/1/2022 8:58:00 AM
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