Metaphor Mentor Poems

Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy

Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often, 
feel stressful

Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self...

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Heavy is the brow that sits the crown of power, 
fame or shame it is a wonder that we live with 
greed to want for...

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Here I sit...
Behind steering wheel.
My back is numb
My head reels.
Cars pass me left and right
Ribbons of crimson taillights 
Leave traces behind my eye
Deep in my...

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On days like these.
I feel the need. 
When lovers roam.
Driven a part, I need these
Feel my hand the reason it bleeds
and most of all I...

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When gigantic planets by slow procession in orbit meet,
special energies and its significant will find it’s deed.
Every 20 years or so Jupiter and Saturn conjunct,
and...

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An enlightened spirit who lives in contemplation
The one who has witnessed the inner condition
A spirit whose flight is beyond superstition
Mysterious, enigmatic, valid and the odd
An...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Social influence that influence ones belief and behavior,
being the sheep idiom in suit of group as inferior identity savior.
Compliances and obedience for the hero or...

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I walk around your garden
among flowers and fruits, 
under the Summer rain.
I walk alone and alone I think 
of the seeds you planted 
and the...

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Those who have the muse of madness in the soul,
passing through the doors of intuition very artful.
Where music and poetry play the touches of mad,
from...

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he engaged the endeavor
to be successful
they sited his past
successes
and marveled at
prospects each current condition
allowed
effectiveness and likability
began the outline
each move anticipates
an answer
each word was marked
by consequence
they...

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MARKED CONFEDENTAL, THE EVELOPE WAS SEALED WITH GLUE.
WHAT WAS INSIDE WAS AGAIN IN A SMALLER EVELOPE SEAL, "BEWARE OF LEAKING INFORMATION!" WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN...

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IT’S NOT ABOUT HORSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



There Is a Truism That to a Few Is Known
Search Deep the Archives Were it Is Sown

"AIN"T A HOSS THAT...

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Push it right there,
it's schematic addictions dismantlement in prisms,

push it all along the way-
rotation of grapes,

push it into the grey-
for we cannot fake our face...

Slow...

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"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of] 
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
     ...

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