I can feel it in my bones
ringing in my ears
the words I long to utter
the things I hold near
For a long time I held them close
did not say them aloud
I learned to pen them into poems
But the words learned how to escape
they clawed and they scrabbled
and eventually it was even in song
that I learned to dabble
And now the words come out
sometimes even without me thinking
I reply in song or poem
call it what you will
They just bubble up
from the depths of me
out in rhymes and hymns
sonnets and whims
And I have made friends
confessed my many sins
go on with life
less burdened
but deeper in conscious thought
©The words found a way 4/03/2025 - Artimus Susan Manley All Rights Reserved
Enigma Is no Mirage
Creation station
that's you
imagination
every idea
becomes a new thing
You are unstoppable
I love it about you
I am so damn proud of you
and love to be around you
You make me think all the time
and spark me up in time
nothing is out of line
we just love to be together...
My Enigma is no Mirage
even with his idea barrage
they are very tangible
so many are substantial!
Enigma is no Mirage to Peter 1/10/2024 12:56 AM (C) Susan Manley
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By Myself © Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 12-09-2024 All Rights Reserved
It's been a year
and you have gone to rest
and I have done my best
to move on
I met someone
and he is amazing
but he is busy with life
so I am just star-gazing
You know me
I motor on
I have spent a lifetime
mostly alone
I look out
at opportunities
with want
and occasionally need
But I refuse to budge
or even respond to nudges
of what others think I should do
I think of him and you
If I don't get that kind of vibe
I know they aren't my tribe
and my spirit would not survive
I can adapt alone provide
It can just be me
I can be here for me
I can do what I want
whatever I need
I can step out
If I please
But mostly there is no need
I have you both in my heart
- Life Alone, for now, ©Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11-17-2024 All Rights Reserved
Truth isnt what you think today
truth will be true tomorrow too
Truth isnt just what you feel
Its what happened, the facts, the data...
Interpreted truth is our own reality..
Our "rose colored glasses" on life
Psychiatry calls it our "filter" that we interpret the world through...
I dont know how to explain the truth in any simpler terms
To those that dont practice it
I am constantly amazed at the deception and self deception I see
The manipulation and meddleing in others affairs
You gain nothing by bending others to your will... They ususally snap back and are resentful
The truth on that is you can only change yourself...
The Truth... (C) Artimus - Susan Manley 7-19-2005
So how do you like your sushi
just sashimi on a plate?
or do you prefer it wrapped in nori?
decorated with microgreens and eggs?
And is there wasabi?
that heat to the tongue?
just a dash or a dab?
Does it make your nose run?
Do you dip in soy?
or is it the modern aminos?
without that salty it seems a bit drab....
Do you like your fish as an appetizer to your meal
or can it be the main course?
Do you want a bit of surf and turf
alternating between beef and fish
culinary exertion almost unreal?
Start with seaweed salad, edamame or just some simple hot green tea?
And is it chopsticks or handrolls?
or do you eat with your hands?
Are there other accompanying tricks?
I long to hear of your distinguishing traits
as you tempt me with your stories and wit
So tell me your tales of sushi
and I will tell you mine
And then perhaps we shall have some saki
and find another way to pass the time
- Do you like it raw? - Artimus (C) Susan Manley 6/15/2024 2:48PM
Yeah... I am a bit salty today
The opposite of addiction is connection
Riptide provides a strong direction
Gathering us up and bringing us along with a pull so strong
It took us a long time to get here
both of us a bit worse for the wear
and now that we are near we won't ever let go
We were always each others
The bond we made was strong
and we could never go wrong
The bindings now sprinkled with wisdom and experience
The love delightful and delirium
Why did we wait so long we ask?
Because neither of us could risk what we had for what might be
And now we can't risk what we have
The pull to strong
the day to long
and we both need, want and desire the other freely
Lets just be together
Lets just be together Susan Speaking to Alan (C) 8/29/2023 Susan Manley
Its only 4-2
and with nothing else to do
I pen you a poem from my new temporary home
I am in Grants Pass Oregon for 5 days a week
And it's the temp home of which I speak
I put up a Facebook friends looking to hang
but ran into a bunch of dudes who wanted to bang... ah yeah
So I modified my post, made it clear it's karaoke or a meal
and not a come on for sexual appeal
lets be friends hey, well opened it up to ladies too
and bam, I got a slew of... women wanting to date ( and a few who want a sugar mamma...
So ... My days have been spent reading mostly
And a bit of naps, this radiation is frightening
And I hung out with a local friend for a day
and I am watching webinars to educate my ways
And I am working out to get fit
and I am eating well, home made
last night was salad and shrimp.. scampi (yeah)
And I am only 10 more days in the bug zapper YAHOO
and then its recover my mojo a bit and take stock too
And life begins again in 10. - Artimus (C) Susan Manley 4/2/2024
Envy the green eyed monster
can be harnessed to achieve a goal
I currently have a want for fitness
it's eluded while my life was on hold
So I am mustering up my health
and working on my stamina
And feeding up my ego
because in the end its chutzpah thats its anima
You have to attack with vigor
and have a plan you adjust along the way
You have to be single minded
and self congratulate to make it stay
For envy does not really serve
and it can actually deflate your cause
Because you don't ask for advice
and align with those who have achieved what you want
For those that have blazed those trails
can tell you their recipe
It may be the thing you can exactly do
or it may be an energetic zing
But use your emotional energy
to fuel your restless tide
And keep an open mind
and move ahead with pride
Turn Envy the Green Eyed Monster to you can do this!! You can! - Artimus (C) Susan Manley 3/11/24 8:43AM
So I added a new word to my description of self
Sapiophile, romantically attracted to intelligence wealth
If you are smart and have that laser keen mind
I want to know you, explore you deeper in kind
I enjoy finding out the things that make you tick
your accomplishments, your passions, your bucket list
It is a discovery for me and the deepest of sharing
and after that deep intellectual exchange it leads to caring
So if you want the keys to me, the thing that drops me into the emotional being, And gets me past the logical, philosophic seeing
Able to drop into feeling space
and more similar to the rest of the human race
Its brains.
Its brains, the Sapiophile - Artimus (C) Susan Manley 2/05/23 12:03 PM
P.S. I give good brain :D
I am ticklish. and silly, and sometimes sarcastic.
I like conversation, the more intelligent, fantastic
I wrote this poem just to answer you
as a testament to some of the things I do.
(C) Artimus AKA Susan Manley 2/2/24
If you sit down and do it
Eventually you intuit
and the words flow with rhyme
and you can do it anytime
They do write themselves
from your unconscious self
And they flow and they rhyme
and are a fun way to pass the time.
That way with words (C) Artimus AKA Susan Manley 2/2/24
So the death sentence is lifted
I kicked cancers ass
They found no trace of it with surgery
free of that sh*t at last!
Now it's on to radiation
to become a spiderwoman queen
Not exactly what I want to do
but it erases all traces unseen
Those microscopic morsels
the little single cells
that may have escaped that toxic elixir
as we nuked them all to hell.
And they can find no trace of cancer
past the breast I am clear
And it was a lumpectomy
so I still have the breast, Oh dear!
And yes that heavy burden is lifted
my docs original decree
It was you have a 60 percent chance of being alive
in five years you see
And well I think the odds are now much better
something like 98
And for now at least I don't have to carry
that heavy weight.
It's nice to be back Artimus (C) Susan Manley 10:28AM 1/26/24
Blackest night is my heart
into its depths I can not see
All my life is mists of gray
nothing plain for me
I look deep into your eyes
and know what we had is gone
And still I see the shadows of love lost...
and wish it not bygone
Perhaps I will never learn,
at least that's what some would say
And all my life, wishful thinking
controlling all my days
The dilemma of dissociation (C) 1986 Susan Manley
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