The glass once lucid
now deflects glow differently.
A chuckle clenched in the wind,
blanching and flaming.
Where were we?
Footprints echo, retreat, advance
sagging floor, missing nails.
Not long enough--
like a wheeze folding in and out,
a beam of light held in a still moment.
Sagging floor, nails missing,
steps forth, then retreat.
Where were we,
blanching and flaming,
a chuckle loosed in the wind—
now the glass, no longer lucid,
deflects the glow differently.
Categories:
nonlinear, memory, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Waves in my brain
to your cliche songs they entrain
Background music in the store
It takes me over to my core
Others keep looking for merchandise
Or converse with each other to break the ice
But I sing along with nothing to prove
Just taken over by a nonlinear groove.
(chorus)
Waves in my brain like a tidal refrain,
When you can't think, the vacuum's the pain
I sing other people's words, can't think alone
cobwebs grow on a stalling stone
My cortex resonates to the rhythmic beat
I start dancing in the aisles, pounding my feet
It's like I'm under a spell by a witch
As my brainstem resonates to a higher pitch
The people with the white coats come for me
My shrink is puzzled, he just can't see
When your brain is one big empty hall
Music rules it, better than nothing at all.
They were right, I'm just an empty suit
So don't play that piano, guitar or flute
Thinking is hard, But I'm going to be brave
I'll find a way to make my own wave.
Categories:
nonlinear, art, character, dance, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Mind, the architect of life’s structure,
obeys what is learnt as the art of living.
Heart, the carrier of nonlinear abstract intellect,
breathes emotive truth in the framework of being.
If the diktat of mind is not pursued,
life is sucked into the whirlpool of chaos,
and not listening to the subtle urge of heart,
life turns into an unfulfilling objectified entity.
Intangible confrontation with either this or that,
designs the dubious dilemma of option,
for lack of equanimity valuing one over the other
causes the onset of neurotic inner conflict.
The foreseeable forks in life’s pathway tests
if judgment and wisdom falter in internal strife.
The rational balance of mind and heart
finds psychic route out of cognitive dissonance.
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August 18, 2022
Contest : Inner Conflict
Sponsored by : Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
nonlinear, conflict, confusion, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Vastness defies the point of no return
Immense
Greater then great
Above and beyond
Above the clouds
Beyond Mother Earth
Beyond Universes
The illusion of space and time continuum
Exceeding every point in time
dimensional and interdimensional
Of which is nonlinear
Consciousness expands as it extends
Flows in harmony
Never ending
Unlimited
Perceptions define the world in which you observe
A world in which you live
What you perceive the eyes have seen
You may have your entrance points
You may have your exit points
You may identify as a limited existence
When in truth you are endless and everlasting
Categories:
nonlinear, deep, meaningful, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The ultimate consciousness is strong at the base
But what is beyond it in celestial place
Like a beacon for souls in space
Like of divine it is the face
Blue and silver yet never melancholic but vibrant and alive
Towards perfection it does not need to strive
It has incredible power and drive
The kaleidoscopic beauty of colors of the soul will arrive
Words I cannot lace to make it plain
But the wonder of Milky Way is insane
It is not easy to explain
But it is like snow of million colors crystals that million hues and forms retain
It is definition of unknown without reference point
It is maximal from most profound nonlinear word’s view point
It is by divine anoint
It is what soul wills appoint
Like a thousand trumpets it plays its tune
Discharge of electricity weaves very time this afternoon
It is the depth of unknown itself mesmerizing power of spiritual typhoon
You will see it not on dark but the other side of the moon
Categories:
nonlinear, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Wind blows through dandelion clock as far as eye can see
The wind also blows through poplar tree
Wind symbolizes change and destiny
And passage of time in all its majesty
When one feels summer breeze one wonders about meaning of life
And perhaps in the time of fall the afterlife
As opposition it can represent strife
Yet he is the groom and spring is his wife
That which makes wind interesting even sublime
Is that it reflects ultimate lord of all forms of time
Even the philosophical and supernatural glory that beyond time can climb
And the nature of nonlinear growth of that God is also beyond time
Categories:
nonlinear, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Nile stretches towards the horizon
In the Valley of the Kings pyramids have arisen
But before pyramids were at the Nile basin
And even before Ra had head of a falcon
The Egyptian Hermes divine scribe
The Gods themselves would describe
And spawn their tribe
And flesh and blood copy of world’s soul he would transcribe
The spider web of intricacies is full
Same can be said of writing as a tool
It is important because it can express ideas in full
But writing is linear for which our limited minds are thankful
But as Hermes’s orb cascades like waterfall
The cascades create nonlinear and beyond soul
And unlike everything on Earth not from down up but top down the soul will fall
And Hermes knows high end nonlinear philosophically largest number of all
Categories:
nonlinear, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The mountains are covered by violet mist
No one knows they even exist
Yet the legend will persist
In old ballads reminisced
As mountains are high golden eagle flies above
He is pure power but also pure love
With talons that can pierce steel glove
And mouth that can shout a high octave
Beyond a mist bridge appears formed by nonlinear soul
The eagles’ force it will extol
Eagle strike lifts the soul
And great power becomes permaximum of all
Categories:
nonlinear, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The photo of a rose is black and white
The sharp thorns are visible to the sight
It lays motionless in dim light
Yet the crown bright blood red against pale background to the eye is delight
The photo is still but crown’s soul like raging fire will move
Bursting with life in every groove
The hidden dimension of motion to which ours being still will prove
The divine hand is only thing that this motion can approve
Beyond it continuum confinement is created by the base
If done by fifth element yield is master of universe
If used as an essence a psycho pump with God you can converse
As its version of ever-growing druidic star through nonlinear increase will transverse
Categories:
nonlinear, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Slippery is my mind since its unbinding from Time,
Affectively rendering the Solpsist's Soliloquy as the Engine of Being
...and so I AM a relentless Empirical Overlord
Allways in this instant,
Existence is Allways mine.
Categories:
nonlinear, introspection, life, philosophy, social,
Form: Free verse
What an enigma
Unknown, hidden thing,
My future
Although to
Find my future, I must
Find myself
Who am I?
And why don't I know?
Leave, society
I can't be alone
But that is all I feel
I have freedom, but am not free
Nothing works
I go around in circles.
Many thorns
Wanting dearth
But I must have more.
Too much trash
Pressure also
Wrecks havoc in my quest.
Do this, that
I have to be alone
To be by myself,
Before I can find who I am
Who I am
Writes my future
In a way
Because I can't
Just change instantaneously:
I folly steps
One form-Next form
I change piece by piece
In a line
But nonlinear lines
I move in directions unseen
To further the future from past
Here I stay,
Stuck in my circles
Of chasing
I follow
No leading, for when I lead
No one follows
I must improve.
This hole is deep, an abyss
Fly I should
The only way out
Would be taking to the sky.
Safety is far to high for climbing.
Categories:
nonlinear, lifechange,
Form: Verse
What a deceiving world we have today.
Progressive technology, here and there,
wonderful advances throughout our lives.
At the marrow, hate, prejudice, and intolerance.
So many by the book,
in this land of the eternal band,
Zealot, each and every one.
Driven to the core, repeated orthodox.
To live outside is errant.
We are all loved by the One,
no matter how far we stray.
Pushing ideas from father to son,
permeated hatred of the wayward child.
Seeds of intolerance, planted deep.
Drenched with the blood of brothers,
those daring few who came before,
unable to reveal their nonlinear life.
Should rise upon a pedastle,
Shepards of a diverse herd.
Categories:
nonlinear, confusion, family, passion, prejudice,
Form: I do not know?