Wednesday, November 30, 2016

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Abnormal energy swirls. It floods this physical plane with a tangible, uneasy vibe that rests heavily upon the spirits of this realm.

Thoughts and feelings are commandeered. They are hijacked by entites whose influence seeps unwanted in spheres previously inaccessible.

Ethereal light shines brightly yet is hindered by a fog of contamination and chaos cloaking this orb.

Truly, we find ourselves wandering aimlessly, groping blindly in the ever growing dark; searching for humanity and locating only humans.

Armed only with our courage to exist, we shuffle along this life.  Harming and healing, loving and judging, including and isolating, we try to find a way through this world to a place of belonging.

Disillusioned by the fantasy of control over others, we neglect self-discipline. We solidify a recurring process to search outside of ourselves for a validation only obtained by searching within.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Dare to share

Emotions are something that we are taught to hide, to be ashamed of, to fear. Emotions are highly useful tools designed to help us communicate and connect. Human connection is one of our most powerful and under utilized resources. Without emotion, those connections become thin and easily frayed. Sometimes fellowship is all that we need to make it through the storm. Dare to share how you feel. 

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Random rants and chants

Life is love
Love is truth
Truth is cruel
Cruelty is pain
Pain is alive
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If life is the flame of a candle
Then laughter is the flicker
Desire is the heat
Love is the dance
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Silken kisses on silver wings
Powder blue sins in canary dreams
Caramel love on chocolate skin
Vanilla sobs on strawberry winds
Sage disappointment and olive lies
Bourbon secrets and maroon cries
Indigo fears and turquoise tears
All are housed within our years
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Can you feel in the void of thought?
Can you hear the silence of reflections?
Can you touch the absence of light?
Can you smell the bittersweet of experience?
Can you breathe in the toxic of truth?
Can you see the reincarnation of energy?
Can you taste the expiration of time?
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A writer writes

A writer writes
Consistently imperfectly and occasionally profoundly.
A writer writes
To hear the sound of their voice inside the mind of their readers.
A writer writes
To create syllables of sincerity, sentences of passion and paragraphs of enlightenment.
A writer writes
To woo the world one word at a time.
A writer writes
To see
To feel
To dream
To grieve
To breathe
To create
To demolish
To understand
To clarify
To exist
To live
A writer writes
Because that is their purpose.

Nouns and verbs

Stress cripples
Indecision waits
Depression nullifies
Anticipation paces
Appreciation beautifies
Loneliness amplifies
Pain blossoms
Imagination wonders
Travel educates
Anxiety surges
Laughter cures
Tears relieve
Sleep soothes
Faith repels
Fear multiplies
Bitterness spoils
Prejudice festers
Joy strengthens
Love conquers

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Proper culprits

Stop blaming love.

When we are heartbroken, we aren't hurting because of love. We are hurting due to being rejected, abused, unappreciated, betrayed, etc. Give credit to the proper culprits...Love has shouldered the blame for far too long.

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Disappointed hopes

He was, to me, the taunting line on the horizon: beckoning travelers forward, promising wonders untold, visions  unimagined and experiences unrealized.
Yet, just ever so out of reach.

Try as I might, his heart was securely ensconced between hurt and distrust; long ago, it was locked away and the key disposed of.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Appreciation

We took everything the other dished out, ugly, grotesque and monstrous, and dared to love each other because of, in spite of those things.

Coping

How do I cope with all of the ugly in the world? The same way that I handle the beauty:

With soul music, wild dancing, awesome movies, wicked art and profound books; great conversations with good people, big hugs from loved ones, deep kisses from my sweetheart, all while consciously trying to remember to never let go of God's hand.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Absence

In moments of immense joy or severe sorrow there comes a moment when you are surrounded by the intense vibrations of the emotion. You are encased in the frequency and experience the truth of absence; a complete relief that accompanies desensitization.

You are weightless. Your spirit floats in the warm nothing that fills that moment and for an instant you are free.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Doubts

Think bumblebees...
not working cohesively in harmony for the good of the hive
but an individual bee captured in a mason jar,
shook up mercilessly until it is bruised and angry.

now think about two dozen bees
captured in the same mason jar and treated identically...

now imagine that the mason jar is your brain...

Doubts based in fear, insecurity and anxiety
are like those two dozen, dizzy, angry bees swirling around in your head
stinging and abusing your sanity.

Open the jar, release the bees.
Easier said than done, right?

Anxiety

It starts with a single ant
crawling down the length of your spine.
Keeping time
with your breaths,
deliberate, steady, calming
if not for the tickle of the single ant's journey
up and down your body.


Yet, where there is one ant there are many.
Shortly, they congregate en masse
across the expanse of your shoulders and back.
They travel up the nape of your neck
and along the breadth of your skull.
They play with every strand of hair,
slowly coaxing every nerve ending alive
with agonizing accuracy.


Calm gives way to the creepy, crawly sensation
slithering across your sanity,
giving birth to a shriek that bursts
from your very soul
and rattles your core in unending waves
of fear and shame.