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I BREATHE

I BREATHE

In the beginning, new to this world
I breathe, and probably cry in shock
Then the search for mother’s breast
Some comfort restored, a life to live

And in the spurting growth of youth
I breathe, with a readiness to engage
As challenges appear on the horizon
To trigger that life experience thing

As hard-won maturity slows the pace
I breathe, partly to welcome a pause
Both brain and heart had their time
Lessons learned, when remembered

At the end, now all’s said and done
I breathe, as if finally sensing liberty
No more heavy armour to be worn
And now feel that lightness of spirit


Premium Member When It Comes To Us

Sometimes it seems to me
Death is the ultimate anti-climax.

We live in expectation,
but when it comes to us
we’re no longer around
to experience it,
or what we do experience of it
is gone in a heartbeat.

On the way 
we pass through all kinds of emotions,
from avoidance and denial 
to curiosity and conjecture,
but in the end
it’s one of those things we’ll never really know.

Death of a friend or loved one,
whether human or animal,
is perhaps the life experience 
that cuts the deepest,
and yet, when it comes to us
who is there left to feel.

And when we step through that door
what is there left to feel?

(for George - 1/20/23)

Responsibility for your mentality

The soul is a funny thing the mind a curious thing the heart a powerful thing
       together you would think they would make the most perfect of things but
       though I have seen moments of pure glorious, beautiful shining perfection
       the hours days and months are dominated by monsters alive and well inside
       all of us

       I can't pretend to be perfect my life was great until it wasn't and I had my share
       of bad decisions to make however I always tried to put out good for any bad 
       put toward me which in true irony brought a lot of hate toward me and that
       for a long time weighed on me along with the habits my decisions made

       Then I look at the circumstances around these habits and they seem almost
       acceptable because those of us who keep are monsters in check or have managed
        to only have a secret to hide and not a demon to incarcerate in our soul space
        can't understand things that they learn and see as reality we don't fit in, we feel
         too much hurt to easy and often leave the world by means chosen freely 
         that is another way "only the good die young" is used accurately

         Now no one who reads this will think they are being referred to, understandably, 
         but though that is true it is also false because everyone has the hole opened
          up at some point in their life where pain suffering or just the lack of diplomacy
          manages to rip you open, and you lose some of that naivety and refill it with anger
           and negativity that you put out into the world to grow eventually it explodes into
           reality rather its still with you is of no matter it is you either way and you cause what
          you let hurt you to begin with a cycle that never ends 

         The Heart, Mind and Soul built through experience in life and learning through strife
          so the negativity you let get to you and you don't hold and turn into positivity
          contributes to the life experience of others including me so every time you let 
          that negativity go remember it changes the entire world in that moment you 
           made the world so desperatly seeking light a little darker and your soul a little light.

For a Reason

They say everything happens for a reason,
People come into your life at the exact moment you need them, some stay for ever, some for a while , some even more briefly.
It doesn't matter how long they stay everyone of them make an impact in some significant way.
 Maybe they helped you get strong for a situation or move on from one. 
 Maybe they shared a big life experience or played a big role in a small one.
 It could of just been that smile that you needed as they walked past you on the street.
Either way when they turn up it always happens for a reason .
When they go it can feel really sad like someone has died, or when they are ready to go sometimes you don't want them to so you hold on to them not willing for them to go.
 Confusing your feelings of gratitude and love for something bigger.
 Until suddenly one day you realise they might be there in body but there soul left long before.
That's when it goes from love to dependency. It's not that they don't love you it's just that their soul has stayed too long, as it more than likely was meant to be somewhere else. But you loved them and didn't want them to go and somehow urged them to stay.
You will know when that time comes, when that spark isn't sparking, when there's no more talking, or making plans together for the future.
 When you wake up in the morning no kiss or cuddle and your days are spent seperate not together like in the beginning. 
 When togetherness is sitting in silence both minds wandering thinking of different things. No "guess what's" or talks of everything that happened in the day. 
 Sadly eventually leading into "You didn't tell me that", or "Your invited by the way".
So when that soul and yours don't connect anymore it's time to say thankyou and let that soul go on its way. 
Because remember there are no coincidences in life, they were in your life when you needed them to be.
So let them free, You both have new things awaiting for you...  that will happen exactly when and where and with who it's ment to be with.
Basically everything works out in the end and it always "happens for a reason".

Children Happier Than Ever Lie

Here's a question for

Whomever may have the answer

Because I am not in possession of it

Neither am i a fan of massaged statistics

And so called experts who them through

The media supply endlessly in droves 

But how many young children are choosing

To take their own lives and commit suicide 

Today more or less

Than two decades ago

Given that they are told they can be

Identify as anything they want or wish to be

Cancel culture has defeated hate

Racism and sexuality are no longer an issue

And expressing our feelings and opinions

Will set them free and in doing so

Help countless others out there

Who feel exactly the same

And always leads to positive change

Social media and living your life out

Online is far better and a more productive

Way to learn than from say actual people

Who may not have to look up

Have actual life experience in matters

That may be of use if asked for council

Not scoffed at disrespected and treated
as a joke

Which when you yourself will probably 

Much later older and wiser become 

Will eventually in time as well realize 

When your time comes around as it will

That you weren't quite as smart as you

Initially at first thought

When the numbers are all counted and in

And they paint a pretty grimm picture

As every year more and more

They expedientially go up and up

And expose the sad but real truth 

That modern day children are being

Forced into sacrificing their childhoods

By being exposed at a far to early 
formative age

To such adult themes

They are simply not well adjusted enough

Or prepared to handle or deal with

As it's not only killing their innocence

And happiness in the process 

But it's also taking and costing

Lives as well 

And yet we tolerate this

Believing it could never possibly happen to us

Or in fact it's ours that could be next


Part of Me

Part of me 
Like a spark
I was sparked by life 
Cos in it I was abused
Brutalized suffered
Cried and bleed
So now I read the 
Plsams of my soul
Cos from life experience it's a
Part of me 

Part of me 
I was moved by the 
Feeling 
I wear when I become brave
Cos with fear in life 
My destination will 
Always be behind
The clock 
So I save my time 
Instead to waste it
In fear of life 
This fear I don't need to be a 
Part of me

Part of me 
Play me the songs
Of freedom
And I will raise from 
The den of death 
Where darkness is the 
Only force of life 
Where nature is 
Turn artificial
Cos life is the other
Way around in this era
Of destruction 
I let my life be a light 
To the world 
And truly this is a 
Part of me
Form: Epic

Premium Member To every'

To every bogan, woman and man..Who ride the surf
Who tread our sands.' To every city 
dweller and  professor too.' The crop
Dusting pilot or Jackeroo.' Let all the shearers
Hear my call..Mates i'm beside you (one and all)
Brian Woodly and daughter Claire, are national treasures
I put it out there.' Then there are doctors like Hobart bold
 i tell you Melbourne ( he never sold.) And Nick Patterson
He ain't forgotton, unlike old dan andrews.' Completly
Rotten a ' SHOUT OUT TO KERRY.' OF Silver top taxies
You brought me to tears, when i made t
hat call, i fell to pray on my knees
For they forced the needle into their people all.'
I won't forget victoria brews..With their poisionous
Jingles..You can go and stew.' Hey theres an education
No money can buy..' Its the spirit of Australia
I keep it close by.' So listen up now do and not fear, reject
That bloody; morbid mob so drear.' Go out and lend a hand
And smile..And bear with each other all the while
Observe those who'd; shut out all discourse
And only frown.' and avoid them as the
 plauge, they'll only drag us down; of course'
Look out for those who took the hits.' And
Back them up..And never quit.' Learn from your
Land beautiful and rare.' You will find real education
There.!

The Alchemy of Truth Includes the Lens

The alchemy of truth
may be from a particular perspective

or colored by youth
and sprinkled with objective

For your truth can hold your own view
your lens through which you see the world

And naivety can lead astray 
and reality fall subject to that doom

And you may not have the ability yet
to completely read the room

When you don't have wisdom
You have less fear and conclusions are reached quickly

But life is so much more complex 
and taken in context its sticky

Was that what was really meant
or did it happen by chance

Was it deliberate inference
or laid out by happenstance

Most times most things are not architected
they happen in real time whim

And though the outcome can be devastating
the creation is less of a sin

What leads to what
and how can that happen 
isn't always clear to see the cause and effect

And so truth be known, 
good intentions implode
and things go off track on their own

So don't hang the actors with the act
they alone did not write the script, it's a fact

Life is all improv 
with a heavy dose of chaos

And giving to much credence to the feelings caused
can ruin what may be right there

A living pachinko machine that happened to play out 
that way, this time, here

The alchemy of truth includes the lens - Artimus 9/24/23 (C) Susan Manley

Premium Member Poets Curse

The Poets Curse.

A poet sits alone somewhere, 
it’s the middle of the night. 
Longing just to find a way
to find the words to write.

Reaching out from deep within
to touch another’s life.
Like a mother touches babies,
or a husband his new wife.

Drawing from the times they’ve known
sharing good and bad.
Taking life experience 
and love they one time had.

Putting thoughts in writing
their emotions take control.
Tear drops stain the paper
as the words pour from their soul.

Not seeking validation
for the things that they confess.
What one time was a gift
now a curse that they possess.

Taking others feelings
they give to them a voice.
What once was only killing time,
they no longer have a choice.

Driven from where they once were
to the place they want to be.
Driven from a place within
those in the world can’t see.

Still each time as they return
to reach into the night.
Longing just to find a way
to find the words to write.

Edwin C Hofert
12/2/2017
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Life and Death of Supremacy

The difference
between RightWing political
and economic autism,
and Religious Right monotheism,
has been greatly exaggerated

To this post-millennial tipping point
of monopolistic omnipotence
predicting sacred Earth's matricide

By LeftBrain-RightHand 
dogmatic dominance
of a judgmental (straight-white) Jehovah
or a militaristic Allah
or a dogmatic YHWH
or a patriarchal Buddha
or a capitalist Krishna
etc
etc
etc

Made in
anthrosupremacism's
competitive evolutionary
win/lose 
Yang v Yin
human v divine
body v mind
predative man nature v nurturing womb spirit

RedRight v GreenLeft
Universal-MonoTheistic Dogmatism 
insisting on ego's sacred right
to overpower Unitarian-PolyCultural Synergism
survival-of-fittest v thrival-for-fit-in-ingest,
colonization v creolization.

Wildly exaggerated images,
polarized 
partisan
disassociated
traumatizing 
schizzy-autistic 
rabidly over-populated 
weak-X neurosystemic

Defying Yang/Yin resonant relationship
natural resilience 
of peak neuro-sensexual 
spiritual 
organic
love-life experience

LeftBrain totally ignoring RightStrain
while justifying dogmatic divine right
to a manifest EarthTribe destiny
of Hell on Earth ecocide.

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