ELAN OF LIBERATION
prescriptive
pontification
resemble
transitional
identification
options
consolation
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enlightened
identifications
harmonise
figural
situations
&motivate
impetuous
elements
conniving
authenticity
cherished
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8
Four for the Road..!!
The seeker
Is seeking a story
Bringing relief
Without dissolving
The story...
It
All comes back
To nothing
A word
A seeming something
Which is and is not
It...
It
Can appear
Prescriptive or
Descriptive
But always
Empty...
Purpose
In life is
A story arising
Identifying me
With a unique
Purpose...
Not a house
Not a garage
Not a place for tools
I shouldn't be prescriptive
Yet these have to be the rules
A chair, a lamp
A heater
A kettle is the max
A place of peace and quiet
So that nothing then distracts
I will allow a volume
I will consume the words
I will restore my whole
With poets and the psalmists
Strive to elevate my soul
Turn away all of the gadgets
Turn connection down to null
Turn my mind to still and quiet
Volume up on natural
Orientate myself to try it
We all need a sacred harbour
We all need that peaceful place
We all need to sit and dwell
To pursue the 'inner sanctum'
So internal noise will quell
Do you hear me when I say this
Do you sense the inner call
Do you long to calm the din
Find that place and don't deny it
For that space is deep within
Subservience, domination,
a foot on the throat,
religion taught them that, did it?
oppression, decapitation,
suffering, death through starvation,
divine ordinance they have, do they?
symbols of their belief on their faces,
books from heaven they read,
fountain of their education, is it?
prescriptive attire, deny women education,
breed through them future,
yet slave them in God’s name, will they?
every man is born of a woman,
nourished in her womb,
yet he deems himself superior, does he?
time for civilisation to reject these notions,
bury untruth, burn beliefs of such bigots,
let life flow as nature chose, shall we?
I reject religious symbols that chain me,
reject all lies sold as words of God!
I am a free person today! Are you?
written 29/10/2022
free verse
Mystic Rose sponsored
Tell it as it is contest
in support of the many who are not as lucky as some of us!!
Most of our lives are lived
in an in-between world…
yesterday and tomorrow the bookends
to what has happened
and what is yet to come
ordering the mayhem in an artificial attempt
at unity and control
escape becomes an option for the very few
who no longer believe in the prescriptive banner,
the forecasted promise,
the dogmatic challenge
—or the printer’s ink
(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
Your dog has an indispensable dispatch,
a critical communique.
Are you listening?
Your dog is howling at sirens,
annoying all your neighbors.
Have you noticed?
Your dog’s evolutionary chain from wolves,
a prescriptive instinct.
Are you appreciating?
Your dog’s howling though, is much more,
the opening of a primordial door,
the call to a roaming distant pack,
a whining ballad to wilder tribe crying back.
Your dog prays to something larger than himself,
and because you are leading the pack,
it includes you.
This then, a necessity to survive.
This then, the most fundamental meaning
of God!
Your dog is howling at sirens.
Listen to your dog!
He found what he was looking for,
his shadow turned inside out
He moved beyond prescriptive cure,
all questioning and doubt
He left the future-past behind,
silhouette of all he’d missed
Impregnating the moment within himself
—to light the dark abyss
(Winston Salem, North Carolina: October, 2017)
inscriptive
descriptions
prescriptive
dipictions
translated
transcriptions
pictorial
pictograms:
professed
processes
precede
perceived
guesses
touch a screen
Me, I know it's not all in your head --
Some of it is also in mine.
I know the platitudes they spout
And I know how they feel --
Dismissive instead of constructive
Because prescriptive is not instructive.
And I know there is nothing you can do.
Embrace this.
Recognize it.
It will never go away.
And it will never subside, until you give it a name.
And the space it demands.
And know it dearly.
Only then, place it smartly
Where it will stand, another beam to reinforce your temple.
Love yourself the more for it.
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