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Premium Member The Dancer

It was her poise and grace 
that set her apart;
a gentle rhythmic walk. 
Soft velvet tones of 
gracefulness as she talked. 

Her voice danced as she spoke. 
Her eyes glistened in animated 
interest as she listened, 
focused, undeviating from 
the intense conversation 

she was involved in. 
Expressive, long-fingered hands. 
Gesticulating with the ebb 
and flow of torrid words. 
Stopping only to smooth a 

straying hair back to perfection. 
Interjection of soft salsa 
verbal rocking, picking up 
the tempo to tangoed crescendo, 
waltzing in three time, 
quick stepping to conversational conclusion. 

As she stood to leave, 
long legs unravelled, rising 
to pose in balletic stance, 
her bar a chair back, a smile, 
a graceful backward glance.... 

Drifting on a cloud of chiffon 
she floats away.  Willowy limbs 
carrying her noiselessly, 
stunning her audience as heads 
all crane to admire her as she leaves. 

Always a dancer. Her life her stage. 
Carefully choreographed. 
Her earthly progress mapped 
in song and dance on every page 
of score and libretto.... 

Disciplined. 
Majestic movement from head 
to tiny tapped toe. 
Always a dancer. 
Applaud her as she goes.
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Premium Member Interesting

Something very interesting happened
I looked at some poems that won in a contest
The winners were all top ten winners 
There were very few winners in the contest
Just out of curiosity I copied and pasted 
Each one, one by one into an AI checker
Guess what that AI checker found 
All of them were written by AI 
The top AI was 88 % and the least was 80% AI written. 
I wonder if the AI checker was correct or 
Was the AI checker wrong????? 

So just out of curiosity
I put in part of Robert Frost's poem
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
It said it was 80% AI written...

LOL, LOL, LOL, ROTFL, Ha! Ha!!!

Premium Member Happy New Year-2025

Where’s twenty-twenty four 
Standing by the door 
Ready to leave 
Would you believe? 
Another annual cycle is done 
Completing three hundred sixty-five day run
Fifty-two-week span 
Now inserted into the time capsule can 
Events remembered 
January to December 
Moments treasured 
Memories pressured 
Take the good with the bad 
Happy and sad 
There were tears 
Cheers 
Nothing fear 
Going to twenty-twenty five 
Healthy and alive
Starting with bitter cold 
Quarter term getting old  
Half way home 
Heat tans our skin tone 
Then the crispy air 
Fall we will share 
Once again together we will fight 
Freezing temperatures with a bite 
Since the next chapter will be here soon 
Circling the sun and moon 
Monitoring rotations on the clock 
Never stopping the tick and tock 
As it makes another lap around the anniversary block 
Do we say good riddance? My dear, 
Or just grabbed the new aged barley beer 
For the traditional good luck toast 
Before digging into the reason for the New Year’s roast
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Advent Overtures of Birth

Where are my richest arteries
for struggling with
as, in, through
fertile flowing 
compassionate light?

Where is that taproot
going in 
to deep rooted
LoveSongs ego/eco-balancing dance
crossing Tao's revolutionary Tipping Point
of ego crucifixion 
gracing polycultural bi0hemispheric
evolving
revolving
co-arising
co-messianic
bicameral karma?

Where resides optimally positive psychology
with multi neurosystemic therapy 
opposing monotheistic pathology?

Ecotherapy of organic political-panentheism
as personal-mind/cultural-body 
co-revolution?

Baptism of Left brain competing for dominance
into co-redemptive Left-Right
Convex-Concave
Vertex-Vortex
dialectical fullness
 
Dipolar ego purgation
engaging eco inflation,
stopping right on MidWay's
eco-normative birth of ReGenesis

Where are my Shamanic Cooperative Warriors
of LeftBrain truth
felt as RightBrain win/win trust
resolving scientific mind revolutions
inside sacred natural evolution bodies
of Right-Left balanced mind-embodiedness?

CoArise PostMillennial CoOperators
Evolve-Solutionaries

Adventure into global cooperative re-membering
struggles virgin-pregnant
with polypathic nutrition-rich seeds
of risky opportunity
drawn from diverse win/lose
zero-sum paradigms
hoping to experience 
round 
resonantly resolving 
proactive octaves

Dreaming up resilient 
panentheistic 
local/global perspective
mind/body musing
inside/outside dipolar
spiritual/natural wisdom
empowering/enlightening peace.

The Winds of Change

The Winds of Change


Within every life there will be trials and tribulations to overcome
There will be times when it seems the pain is too much to succumb 
When you feel all alone and everything seems so strange 
You hope for a new beginning within the winds of change

The winds of change can be likened to gentle summer breeze 
Or can be like a violent thunderstorm, making you feel unease
When you look deeply within your life and try to rearrange 
Is when unexpectedly comes forth the winds of change

Though you may try to fight off these changes in your life
Denying the events that have transpired causing you strife 
Within each passing moment, other meetings and exchange 
There is no stopping nor disallowing the winds of change

The most constant event in the universe is change everyday 
Disavowing change leads to other changes in some strange way
Learn to embrace change within your life, in all that interchange
It’s a fools game to try and stop these wondrous winds of change


A Delicious Emotional Stew

I genuinely like myself for most of the things I do
And it brings me joyous pleasure when it pleases you
When we do things for each other it seems to work just fine
And trouble will come calling when I think too much is mine

We’re in this life for sharing, to that there is no doubt
Wisdom, inspiration, humour, all have their unique clout
But being home and lonely has a vocabulary of its own
Lonesome thoughts hauntingly dictate such a different tone

Sadness, depression, and grief, such strong exhaustive notions
Stopping me in my tracks, conjuring such negative emotions
Attacking my sensitive ego and deflating my self esteem
And feeling sorry for myself, what does that even mean

The words that I am thinking and playing in my mind
Should be of greater wisdom, inspiring and more kind
Making me feel better and making you feel better too 
Holding us together like a delicious emotional stew
Form: Rhyme

. . . Let's Talk It Over

The nocturnal routine call started but I was certain
There is fire along the mountain, yet don’t know
If I should run or wait, get water and quench it
I insisted that she share her feelings with me  
For I can be trusted or I cut off the day’s duty
She bogged at last, “it wasn’t you or anything”
Then, what?, who is it or what is it in your mind?”

“My spirit is no longer down with the relationship
As I was praying, I felt my spirit no longer agrees” 
I got lost on phone for I wasn’t thinking straight
My feet became very cold, yet my body was all hot.
“What did you just say? “ “I’m sorry, you heard me”
Well, break it down, I need to know all, tell me
At least why you’re stopping this dream and fantasy now
 
I can’t get it myself, please, I am confused  . . .
But I still want you to come over as planned
Sorry, so that I can be embarrassed by you abi? No
You just said your spirit was negative about it
I said what did the Lord say about us? Sorry, about me?
Did HE say that I wasn’t good for you or that I’m fake?
Please, I’m sorry, just stop it now or else will cry . . .
I am waiting if that will make it clearer to me, talk to me
“Please, just come over, so that we can talk it over, please”.

Two and half hours gone by on this new puzzle
Still find it very unbelievable, me again on phone?
Quitting another relationship with me on phone
Within six months interval, Lord! Why me again?
“Talk it over and declare the relationship as being over
Or talk it over and see the darkness era being declared over! “
I will go and see her, will not chicken out at this stage.




Alayande Stephen T.
Monday 19th November, 2007
4.56am


The tangle continues, IBK unveiling new gears.

Timeout

Just because I'm working on my mental health
Doesn't mean I think I'm better than a person who chooses to stay unwell
It just means
I'm working on my internal dialog daily, and I'm not perfect, at the very least, well.
I'm working on making myself content with knowing the past versions of myself
For instance, 
Today, I had to set a 5-minute timer to allow myself to wallow in my own guilt surrounding yesterday's choices
This my sweet little psyche always chooses to think and ruminate on during the worst times and hours of the following day
90% dramatized, I guess I should say
Apparently, I really need to feel that sharp impale during the 5 minutes of living today's moments with yesterday's guilt and shame, during
that timeout period
I chose to take today with yesterday's pain that is actually 10% real
This I realize when I am out of my anxiety driven panic state because
let's face it, when we're in it
Time's just an illusion; the world is ending and
The sky is falling yet still
I am stopping to focus on 
Yesterday's spilled milk? Haha 
Guilt... 
I hate you
You make me lose moments in days
Focusing on hours you already claimed
To re-live feelings that were derived from 
False impersonations of the characters those
past versions of me played
Why the heck am I still walking onto this unappealing, applaud lacking stage
Only to draw center to all things I wished I could reclaim
Guilt, you are the main villain in this play
Still, you, too, have a significant role to play
So yeah, I'm working daily on myself
The thing is guilt, regret, and shame are just reoccurring roles
I sometimes get in costume to play and recreate, for those 5-minute timeouts I need to take 
In those moments, I feel unwell
I think it's a way to keep me regulated and on the forever path to improving wellness within myself 
It's more a timed woe is me opportunity 
As I still have to take a bow out and do a few oh hell no's
To save my sanity
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Fishing With Dad

Mostly they are good memories, up early in the morning
and heading to the foothill’s lakes and streams. 
I’d fish near the car, while he'd go further off 
coming back with a basket full of trout. 
One time at the Kananaskis beaver ponds, 
he came back early because he’d lost his 
glasses when he’d disturbed a beehive.
When we went back to look for them,
the bees were still mad and we had to run
but never found his glasses. Another time, 
I played peek-a-boo with a young otter and 
neither of us fished. Then we’d head back, 
often stopping at the Cremona Hotel, where 
he’d buy get me a soda pop and chocolate bar 
and I’d wait in the car, while he went inside 
for a beer before driving home.

A few years later, I had my own waders and 
the Zebco reel, I’d saved months for.
I would fish upstream, while he’d walk downstream 
before turning upstream to fish, catching up with me 
in a couple hours, always with more and bigger fish.
Once on the Fallen Timber, he met me on a deep pool where 
I’d raised a big brook trout and we spent about ten minutes
teasing that fish to no avail and again I ended up 
waiting outside the Cremona Hotel.

A year or two later, a glorious Indian Summer day
I headed upstream as usual and caught some good trout.
Around dusk, Dad hadn’t joined me, so I hiked up to 
the road and walked back towards the car, 
to meet him driving up the road and this time, 
I had more and bigger fish. Nothing was said but
we didn’t stop that night at the Cremona Hotel.

Finding Jesus

Story of Jesus from Luke chapter two --
Mary, his mother, was coming undone,
anxiously searching midst those trav’ling through,
hearing her Lord ask, “You can’t find my Son?”

“Was it yesterday, that I saw Him near
Joseph's side?” but quickly dropping her brow.
“How could we lose One most treasured and dear?
Should we return to Jerusalem now?”

Safe in the Temple, at end their pursuit,
capably teaching, God's Son sat unfazed.
Hearing this Boy/Man’s replies so astute 
those who attended His words stood amazed.


Story of Christians from that time to this,
quick three days' journey away from your Lord.
Noticing nothing of what’s gone amiss.
"When did I lose Him – the One I adored?" 

Busy with church, His presence you exclude
without knowing He's been out of your care!
Stopping to listen, fellowship renewed,
your heart's engulfed when Christ speaks to you there.
Form: Quatrain

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