All Earth's sacred tribes
From seeds
to nuts
and eggs
and embryos
and guts
Organically start sacred life
as faithful panentheists
Receiving nutritional manna
from MotherSky's
Gaian healthcare
wealth of heaven.
I am going through the motions
In a fog all around -
Chores, errands, work pursuits
Yellow leaves are falling like confetti
As my mind spins, twirling thoughts
Trauma will do this -
As it takes effort to focus on things
I am going through the motions
My heart is blowing in the wind
Working on things until the next wave of tears
Praying for healing, trying to absorb the shock
Life can throw things like a straight on pitch!
Hitting you at the plate, where you were grounded
It is the way it is, so enjoy every precious moment
- Before it is too late -
Tell those you love, your love
Give a smile to those who bring happiness
Show gratitude for all that people give
Laugh with them, put them first and unite
We are different, but the same - we are equal!
Heidi Sands
10/4/23
Fear jumps out of sweat that drips
Cascading down to bead up on lips
Salt licked tongue to the throat it slips
The recycled process of hydrated trips
Scared little geese bump into everywhere
Sensitive light breeze skin brushed up air
Usually uncovered tiny little stand up hairs
Completed by the shivers of warning beware
Fear falls into a sort of suicidal embrace
Dried by the elemental surprise of disgrace
Vanishing into where by confidence it's erased
Pushing through the exit door that slaps it's face
for Jim)DEVOTION POEM - ENTANGLED. (for Jim)
For me he’s The One.
As I’ve been for him
his Only One.
From the beginning when
Our fates embraced.
I listen to his breathing, while concerned,
He watches how well I’m moving.
Around him, I am a verdant vine.
He rises near — as a braid of wildflowers
around me to twine.
Our holy Lord sees our love for each other as
The poetry of twin pendulums — joined signs in
The physics and mathematics of His space and time
As we move together — entangled.
Forever our love is synchronized.
The scales of our music harmonize.
We see starlights shine — during the any
Moments of time when we embrace the highest
of love within each other.
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(c) sally young eslinger
With thanks to reading here on PS
got me to ask Jim about entanglement theory, resulting
in the inspiration for this. Thankful we inspire one another.
Neolithic stones
Majestic motions upward
Bathed in fairy prances
Ancients questioned the meaning
Of the skies above,
Many assuming they knew the truth
Pertaining to solar systems and solstices,
Those humans were created,
Along a perilous journey
That led them to Paradise
In ancient spiralling motions
Why everyday I go through emotions?
When life goes through its twists and turns,
I need to get my gears in motion,
For these thoughts they burn.
Sometimes I can't believe how people can be?
With greed, and envy for everyone to see.
How can people feel no empathy?
I will never know because to be honest that's beyond me.
For some are careless,
Some are weak,
Some feel hopeless,
I just take each day as it comes, even if my days are bleak.
Unfortunately
Today's world isn't for the mild and meak.
Let's hope for change, even if it's years, months or hopefully next week.
Emotions are hard to explain
Some are similar or bring disdain
Excitement can feel like fear
Loneliness mistaken o my dear
Smiles can cover a frown
Arrogance can get you down
Yet smiling is such a relief to do
Tears of joy can also hurt you
Can be hard to feel your heart
Worse to leave a love torn apart
Beautiful words can be spoken
A love letter written
Or a gift as a token
So many to try and explain
Some you cant even give a name
Emotions are so much easier to see
Said the woman in the mirror
Looking at me
sad people ~
day after day wallowing in misery
sad and they don’t understand
running and running
content in their clouds of misery
empty people ~
ignoring what’s down deep inside
empty and they don’t understand
running and running
ignoring the void they feel inside
shallow people ~
living a shell for an existence
shallow and they don’t understand
running and running
like robots a superficial existence
blind people ~
insensitive to light
blind and they don’t understand
running and running
refusing to see what’s in their own heart
dead people ~
mimicking the motions
dead and they don’t understand
running and running
dead~ they've tuned out their emotions
AP: 3rd place 2021
Author Dana Redricks
January 22, 2017
I’m hurting
I’m laughing
I’m crying
Sometimes I feel like
I’m dying
I’m living
I'm loving
my life feels like
Emotional roller-coaster
so many emotions
So unsteady like the waves
On the ocean
This is my life going through
The motions
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
The boat takes me back
Home today without love or devotion
A mechanical process with a lack
Of sticky messy emotion
A journey of duty, not desire,
As a soldier goes to fight
Machine-like in ice or fire -
No break in the darkness for light
Oh, that the ocean swell
Would obliterate this boat entire
And let the icy waves knell
The bell that drowns the fire
My head spins
My eyes roll
I am going through the motions
Tongue is dry
Loosing my breath
I am going through the motions
Walking through with no gazes
The path seems never ending
I am going through the motions
Day by day, among clouds.
Just going through the motions.
Day by day, I'm dead.
The past is there,
But I try to ignore,
The feelings that I had before.
But all in vain,
I slowly slip,
Back into your loving grip.
Indecisive,
I can't explain,
The reasons that I feel this way.
Inquiring now,
I ask the truth:
Do you still feel the same way too?
Nervously,
I pass you by,
And still keep in my mind of why.
I can't approach,
I fear the worst.
But most of all, I fear the word:
"No."
loving and long hugs
embracing me on sad days
holding me, so close
arguing all day
saying I love you at night
truely liking me
when I am not likeable
taking the bad with the good
could not thank enough
for your overflow of love
even to my soul
A momentary lapse of reason
Has brought me back to you
Even though I'll always know
The hurt you've put me through
With blinded eyes I come again
My heart won't let me leave
I can't deny the tears I cry
The evidence, on my sleeve
Doubt has now replaced the hope
That made my world worth while
Dread and fear will reappear
And steal away my smile
Like a puppet on a lonely stage
My strings are in your hands
I have no will to even feel
Just following your commands
I'm just going through the motions
Tired and feeling used
I tried today to stay away
But my heart again, refused
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