The Dilettante Diaries: the Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses

This is a story about a Butterfly

She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation.
To transform required a period of incubation,
a need to sleep to dream and
the freedom of quiet self-contemplation -
of course, such a transformation
required immense courage and determination
to believe she could fly just as high,
yet for longer duration,
than any natural butterfly ever could -
and this she did,
when she finally unfurled
her spectacular iridescent cerulean wings
spreading them out wide
over every creature and
every household she touched
to one day
aLIGHT
on
ALL
of her
dreams.

The Dilettante Diaries: "The Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses"

Where do you go in your dreams sweet Princess Ulysses?
Do you fly free in your dreams to that other Kingdom?

Where do you go in your mind sweet Princess Ulysses?
Do you see loose pearls in a jar
when your heart is crying
for all that over time has gone missing?

Where do you go in your heart sweet Princess Ulysses?
Do you remember the courage
implanted through regal blood therein?
The strength of a Queen with all of her might and Love to give?

Where do you sing in your fear sweet Princess Ulysses?
A mother’s voice is never far, it's strength resides in your lungs,
in the air that you breathe.

Where do you summon the power to Love sweet Princess Ulysses?
Do you not remember the
Mirror in your Windows?
True twin flame souls
pure LOVE
thatis winning ...

(Lovejoy-Burton/September 2018)
For my daughter, Georgia

"Retrograde" / James Blake
https://youtu.be/XClvMMxBg1k

Artwork:
1. Original artwork, GVLM (2013), Brisbane Australia.
2. Rene Magritte

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

"The Journey of Ulysses"
https://www.uexpress.com/tell-me-a-story/2004/6/6/the-journey-of-ulysses-a-greek

Papilio Ulysses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_ulysses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)

"Ulysses" by James Joyce
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8u/

LYRICS/
Retrograde: https://genius.com/James-blake-retrograde-lyrics

A Conversation about Transformation.
d.18.9.71/b.18.9.99
LJB/LLB
GVLM/LLB

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation
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3.
http://www.spiritual-awakening.net/2014/05/reincarnation-within-in-same-family-is.html
4.
https://cibisusheel.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/breaking-free-from-birth-death-and-reincarnation/
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http://www.deathreference.com/Py-Se/Reincarnation.html
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/gadadhara-pandit-dasa/reincarnation-and-karma-h_b_5661208.html
7.
https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/the-science-of-reincarnation
8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2JShY7d53U

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