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First,
the stubborn angle of light~
wrong where it always felt right.
Then,
the floor tilts beneath your feet,
but no one else seems to notice.
Words you trusted thicken in your mouth.
The old map bleeds new rivers.
You could scream,
but instead~
you breathe.
The world reshapes itself
around that single, quiet act.
A situation or an individual always has two sides or even multiple sides
Its just that you don't tend to knows about it or never got to know one
A laugh , a beautiful smile which I knew for decades can be an evil smirk that wants me to decay
Perspective matters and so does the person
One's happiness is taken granted , while others aren't even granted to take it
We run , and run more hiding numerous pain or even calculating a situation's side gains
In the marathon we all run is a life's game chasing just happiness and not pain .
The most unrealistic thing nowadays is happiness
Bit is it actually happiness or its our willingness to be happy ?
Just sit down and think a bit... An individual and a situation is not what we think it is but always we want to believe it to be
The cycle of thoughts running and running until the chain springs
Your thoughts define what your action would be
Rage continued or thinking cleverly
Well anyways listen to the elderly but do what you want to do dearly
A person always has an earful to say but don't let it stay
As perspective matters but opinions too as it takes toil on you two
How many paradigms and how many paradoxes
can you stuff into a pair of pint-sized treasure boxes?
And the answer is not,
"Oh teacher, I forgot,"
because I taught you to reason like wily little foxes.
i knew i had crossed the final bridge
when i stopped grieving what i had lost
and started treasuring what i'd been given
AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2022
Paradigms Temporality
David J Walker
There is no question
That the evening
seemed to come
to an end
too soon
The temporality of
your days
The glow of
a full moon
On the rise
bright are the stars
beaconing’s
as if distant skies
were attainable reckonings
wearing nothing
but our own
flesh & bone
the paradigms new
Grew
From the old
You can always change your paradigm
By looking closer at the thoughts in your beautiful mind
What beliefs can you say are truly your own
And from all that you know, do you think you have grown?
Our paradigms come from generational beliefs
Passed down through so many generational defeats
What we were all taught was how not to grow
And you are an adult now, question what you'll always be told
Ask yourself where do you truly want to be
When you reprogram your subconscious mind, it's you who is free
Your mind opens the doors that God gave you at birth
When he put your unique soul on this beautiful earth
When you remove past ideals and beliefs, you'll know true self-worth
And each time that you think great thoughts, smile with great mirth
It's you who has the power, to rid your life of shame
And when you open your mind's door, you will never think the same again…
(c) Giggles the Poet
the triumphal cross
bunnies, eggs and fluffy chicks
schism of festival
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5-7-5 (howmanysyllables.com and syllablecount.com)
16th April 2017
For the "Easter Haiku or Senryu" contest sponsored by Laura Loo.
(First Place)
This text is silly?
I think your mind is chilly...
Read between the lines,
It's less about making rhymes
Than it's shifting paradigms
What's the difference between a regenerative-revolutionary outcome
and an evolutionary process of gradual development?
It depends
whether you are looking for the baby
or listening to the new mom.
But,
if you listen and empathize with both
communing together,
then probably none.
If 2 times 2 is 4
because each 2 is either or
rather than both and,
then why is 1 times 1 not
not the same 1,
and also 2?
If me and you grow two
because each me and you is either me
or not you
yet also both-and me as appositional to you,
then are we not each 1,
and also both part of 2,
as one appositive (nondual) co-defining pair?
When 1
gives birth to another 1,
then this is a revolutionary event
for the newer 1
and an evolutionary process
for the original 1
of any both/and Non-oppositionally gruesome
appositional 2-sum.
enigma's question he tells no lies when asking the wrong question truth is the truth that equals Y when asking aright some how you already knew
I could tell you the tale
of the philologist who
dreamed of his death
in rhetoric.
I could tell you that words
become symbols to
manipulate into
poems,
but silence suits the
sentence well, right now.
Somewhere, a man takes a flight
across the country.
Nowhere specific, a woman tries
to clear her mind.
The advent of Humanity
is a mere speck
in the world’s history.
I’ve learned to live it
wistfully,
dreamily,
wondrously.
I don’t ponder over his
negativity,
over his brood nor his
silence.
I enjoy it,
I adore his thoughts;
the words which wrought
my creativity.
The artist is empty without
its counterpart,
its doppelgänger...it’s muse.
Becoming something from anything
was a great bliss of paradigm.
I take a dip in anonymity.
You will never know
where you start a rough patch
on the road ?
A prehistoric site could not outlive
the humiliation of proximity to hate.
Violence chewed the dust.
My knees give way to anguish of morality:
horror of captivity of dawn.
The eyes are going to collapse in endless night.
Tapping of kernel in hard shell of truth bothers me,
like a mountain dew under the stone.
I will destroy the anxiety of grass.
Death of desire may take place
Fragrance still devastates the moon.
SATISH VERMA
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