The Way the Body Remembers
...Cliché: “Time heals all wounds.”
(Irritation: It implies passivity, ignoring the ache, the effort, the mess of healing.)
Better Version:
Healing is not the passing of time—
it is the choosing t...
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Categories:
passivity, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the thin veil of humanity, where the heart flutters like a trapped butterfly
...Beneath the thin veil of humanity, where the heart flutters like a trapped butterfly,
Lies the stir of an ancestral cruelty, a seed deeply buried,
In the soil watered by the tears of compassion and...
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Categories:
passivity, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
My Country, My Canada
...My
country
Canada
True North, strong, free
a land of beauty
prosperity, riches
subs...
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Categories:
passivity, appreciation, patriotic,
Form: Etheree
Drowning In A Daylight Nightmare
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Where are we heading
Human nature helplessly wondering
Mother Nature hopefully warning..
A submerged universe
By a torrent of floods curse
What is coming hope not worse..
A world of l...
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Categories:
passivity, engagement, evil, faith, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Musings on aversion
...averse to noise
people talking loudly
whilst yet accepting what is
we make peace with incongruity
recognising the looming gap
between desire and reality
yawn and then move on
averse to rel...
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Categories:
passivity, introspection, nonsense, silence,
Form: Free verse
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 23
...If it is of the nature of the not-Self,
how can there be Samahdi?
If it is of the nature of the Self, how can there be Samahdi? If it is both "is" and "is not", how can there be Samahdi?
If all...
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Categories:
passivity, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...
Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
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Categories:
passivity, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Auscultation
...Hearing vibrations
passivity strains
Learning to listen
hearkening reigns
Sound and resonance
euphony binds
Volition the ears
— eternity finds
(Herb Alpert: June, 2024)
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Categories:
passivity, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person
...Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person...
hashtagged introvertedness trademark
silently exorcised, ostracized, and vilified
Impossible mission to resuscitate...
a forsaken prom...
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Categories:
passivity, 7th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...
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Categories:
passivity, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
Ego shorn we are reborn
...when we know the light is
but see it not
we are aware of separation
from truth of our being
denied and yet we may not seek
that that is innate to us
because the entity that seeks is not
rat...
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Categories:
passivity, self, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
It's too late, beloved, for our dream shattered
...It's too late, beloved, for our dream shattered,
Under the night sky, chimeras have us buried,
Intoxicated with illusions, wrapped in cigarette perfume,
On deserted streets, we are shadows of drea...
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Categories:
passivity, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Rest In the Promise
...Under the shadow of a maple tree,
Green as summer, wistful and praising
Like the peace blowing dandelion seeds
Risking the rain’s rhythmic showers,
Against blades of tempting July sprinkling
Hap...
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Categories:
passivity, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Hunger For Progression Must Meet Rejection
...Pain is often the fountain of direction in our lives
We will experience rejection in this life
But it is the pathway to the direction we often need!
The hunger for progression must meet rejection!...
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Categories:
passivity, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Avoiding Kryptonite
...expand without edge
Let your thoughts become ripples on your surface
then follow them to seek wisdom and knowledge
Do battle with the stagnation of complacency
It's a human fault we often label, "satisfaction"
but if truth be told, it should be called "passivity"
Always push one step further by taking action
Escape from entrapment in dungeons of darkness
Brush away the leaden clouds from your vision
that may be guilty of having obscured your ...
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Categories:
passivity, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
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