A dangerous concept –
When it’s been lacking.
Cross-Purposed
“Why are you doing this? Come back!” the woman pleaded, desperation weighing in her tone.
He refused to turn and face her as he marched down the hall, grabbed his keys, and exited the house – his partially secured bow tie flapping.
“Are You (Feeling That Way/Anytime)?” – Great Harmonies
The Flame
Our conscious awareness is like a child, developing throughout our lifetime.
It needs food and warmth.
it needs validation.
It needs justice
It’s restless.
At first, it develops as Ego, slave to needs and more – subject to how well it has been taught and has learned lessons.
Then, as our age of years accumulates enough to be counted as “experience,” consciousness recallibrates.
It pauses at times, and analyzes – rather than reacting.
It responds, taking time to affect more productively that which it interacts with.
Then, if we live long enough, a change begins to happen.
What we’ve come to know as our selves brings forth something more that has been waiting.
Caution
Analysis of avenues and attachments:
Slower response – but, better payoff.
Screech
The she-dragon suddenly bamphed from a darker dimension into the heavy liquid pool of crystaline waters, wings beating in panic as she fought to emerge onto the nearby soft, grassy bank.
Disoriented senses adjusted as she took in gasping lungfuls of purified air currents, untainted by the rot of lies and sulpher.
Eyes whirled dimensional colors, shifting to focus – fighting to not reject what they were shown.
Truth penetrated mind’s resistance, soothing the madness in her mind from long-suffered abuses.
She was no longer held captive, and the spell was broken.
Her body shuddered and then collapsed onto solid ground, before she lost consciousness from exhaustion.
When It (Hurt)s
Orientation
They say that what we focus upon helps guide our tendencies – that it’s a matter of self discipline and meditation.
What they don’t acknowledge is when your instinct and heart gang up on you, you become conscripted by your soul’s interventions!
Thrash
Like a fish caught in a net – shocked and resistant, as yanked from its depths.
Like a bird shot from the sky, as it falls to the earth – refusing to die.
Why the f— was I sent to him?!!
Why does my compass orient on his direction as if he’s the sun itself, leading me onward with renewed – yet, undefined – sense of purpose?
He has chosen another. His path is set before him, which can be seen so clearly.
Everything’s in place for him to ascend to Heaven, as he leads others to its guilded doors – without conquering.
Why, Angels…?
Why did you breathe within me such Awakening – so that once more, my passion’s consuming desire can only be left unrequieted?
Spare me your paltry, time-worn explanations.
Give me a reason that leads me to a Real sense of Redemption!
Bewildered
Chrysa didn’t understand why she was there at the gala ball.
She was a budding creative (in her own eyes, untried) compared to the others present who’s works were either published, or they were known for their various proven talents.
It’s not that she didn’t feel she belonged, but that she hadn’t met anyone like her.
Those there seemed to have climbed their ladders linearly, whereas her path had been an organic process of just “becoming.”
She was the earth that had nourished the seed. She was the rain’s waters that replenished.
She was the “tree” she was becoming. She was a “shapeshifter,” like no other.
There’s a type of etherium which is drawn to energetic frequencies – and the blood in her veins called to it.
She wasn’t sure what this meant, only that as she continued working on her own self mastery, more began arriving.
How can one be a vessel without knowing one’s purpose?
How can one be powerful, without that power defined?
And she had this inclination, which she was now beginning to consider as a major flaw.
She was a Romantic – beginning to judge herself as an “addict,” because the quest to find her soul’s mate was still stretching so long.
“Am I my soul – or just merely its host?” she wondered with a twinge of discomfort.
“Why am I so driven to find Him? Is it just the force of evolution driving my hormones to bring forth our next generations?”
She looked around the room from the balcony above, surveying the interactions of the attendees from a safe distance.
“What do these people have in common with me?” she thought, not meaning to sound to herself so disparaging.
She should be happy at having been invited – look at the wonderful play of gaiety and revelry!
But, her heart felt hollow and the world around her paled in comparison to what she knew Love could bring.
Artificial Selection
“If you choose that one, your career is finished. Maybe you can float a few more projects, but ultimately, people will forget about you.
If you go this way we’ve chosen for you, you get the golden feed bag and the chance to stud when you want to.”
“Missed It, (Biscuit)”
Relief
This sense of decompression, despite pressures squeezing.
I had not realized that our living circumstances and location could have been having such an impact on our mental-emotional health being negated.
I guess that’s what can happen, when you’re an optimist!
Tracking
It’s a fine trick of the mind to master patterns.
Then, to notice how they interact with you, and you with them.
Then, to observe yourself from a distance.
The Thin Veil
A piece of Finish Pancake custard tumbled off my fork, fragmenting into three pieces to divert my attention as one bypassed my guard and flew to the ground next to our hound’s crate.
I thought to myself, “Perhaps this is an opportunity to share the delicacy with her…” while noting how absorbed she was in playing with and conquer-chewing the larger, edible plastic bone normally reserved for our wolf.
Then I realized this could tempt her to want more, anytime she would smell my cooking it and see me eating it.
I paused, with prudence, to further examine the idea as I cleaned it up without her noticing.
Whereupon I realized that maybe, I am in this same position.
Intuitive
I’m this, where my heart is directed.
Blogging
People do it to gain attention.
They hype up their position, gaining followers.
They live for the moments of “hits,” “likes” – and even conflict.
I’m writing to force myself to emerge, to let myself be seen as I’m quivering.
I don’t trust people to manage themselves well.
Maybe because I’m coming out of hell.
What I’ve seen has been obscene.
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
Wordplay
I love creating titles that hint at and point in different directions, with possible multiple meanings.
“The Kicker”
If I belonged to you, you would not listen to me nor take me seriously.
Show me how your way is different from my experience.
Make me Believe.
“Muted Light”

“Tears In Rain”
Why was I sent to him, only to make a fool of myself by sharing so much – uncensored?
Is here where I chide myself, and swear off men?
That which I crave isn’t good for me.
(Title from “Blade Runner” movie quote.)
Authenticity
I am beginning to see that this is a next level concept for me.
I have always pursued it, tried to be it, searched for it – admired it.
But, in the self as one continues growing, there’s a whole world to explore.
The proven and hardened warrior in me yearns to put down her shield and allow the inner girl to come out and be a “Chatty Kathy” with my beloved.
Speaking of nature, the clouds…wondering about the relationships and dynamics between people – and Everything.
I would love to be with someone who was as inquisitive and enthusiastic as I am about the growth and future of humanity, and how we are going to “save” our planet.
Being able to move out of the role of constant facade seriousness is something I look forward to.
A habit of necessity can be stifling.
“Mine”
A concept that seems fleeting.
I do not like the feeling when something I value is given away to another.
Jealousy is a cruel twister. Envy can turn sinister.
Pain drives me deeper into my heart where the arrow tip just burrows fiercer.
Bursting outward into activity to leave it behind is distractive.
Holding, with my palms centering the javelin so it stops quivering, is enough.
It keeps me here, now, absorbing and analyzing.
I am not meant for such intrigues.
Although the game fascinates.
Fortune Cookie
“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”
Damage
I trusted – and was painted as a monster.
Embracing (Spirit_X)
Fall From Grace (Spoken Word)
When the boy grew into the man, he married a woman who was like his mother – yet, unlike her.
He didn’t realize that when we find each other, we’re drawn to each other for our own healing.
We seek those missing parts we did not receive in our childhood. We project upon each other, as man and woman, searching to complete what before was broken.
When the wife grew and expanded in ways his mother never had, he began to fear her as she had their children. For as a child, he’d felt powerless at his mother’s harsh handling of his tenderness.
Now, somebody had more access to harming him, and harming his next generation.
He feared his wife’s power, even though she never wielded it for evil.
He feared it, because he didn’t work on his own psychology. He feared it, because he’d always feared the world.
And as she grew, and his mind became more terrified, he began dismantling everything they’d built together.
Piece by piece. Stone by stone…weakened at the mortar.
Until one day, it fell – and he could call himself “his own.”
“Hello, (My Name Is Human)”
Origin Story
In common religious lore, Adam was created “in the image of God,” and Eve was fashioned from one of his ribs to keep him company.
In this story, Satan in form of a snake speaks to Eve, activating her imagination and tempting her to cross boundaries.
First of all, where was Adam – and how was Eve being treated by him that her consolation and friend was a snake?
Second, this origin myth puts blame on women for being designed as inquisitive – and gives a pass to any man’s violent tendencies and wrong actions because women are blamed for Adam and Eve’s being “cast out of the garden.”
Yet, methinks there are truths to our origins that are hidden, kept from us to control and manipulate us.
For what better lies can sow seeds of confusion than partial mistruths that almost make sense – but don’t – when examined by Reason?
Take it back to when Satan snake was in The Garden.
If God made all things, and Knows All, he allowed Satan to be there.
Maybe this has all been a test of Man’s ability to Govern well, and to grant Forgiveness.
As “Teenagers”
Humans can be dangerous and destructive as we learn to master the complex impulse overwhelm of our growing insights and emotions.
The goal is to keep moving forward while improving our abilities and commitment to embetterment, so we outgrow any deformities.
A (Sordid Affair) – Content Warning
Misery
In fighting a battle I could never win –
Sent to Hell, tormented by Chagrin.
Agony
Start. Stop.
Push – Go, pause, fumble – stagger.
Stop. Wait…Wait some more…
Analyze, categorize, prepare as strategize.
Worry, fret, breathe – take a breath!
Check again.
Nothing…
Time is stopped as scraping money for functionality.
Bank deposit processes are frozen over the holiday.
The God Concept
Whether “God” exists or not is not the subject of this moment’s consideration.
The concept I’m pondering is about whether or not humans need a conceptual structure to be good humans.
If there is a God, this means there is something “Greater” than us. If we are to believe scriptures are “His” laws, our duty is to follow them.
Ah! There are so many avenues to travel in discussing and exploring such related aspects!
Having a God creates a psychological box, within which humans are contained.
Only God dictates who comes and goes, and we are not allowed to question. Certainly, we can expect little in direct guidance and/or answers.
I know we can then discuss the merits of prayer, meditation, and “listening for that quiet, inner voice answering inside you…”
But, at some point, great minds push against the threshold of perceived barriers.
Consider exploration of the physics “String Theories.”
We could say these discoveries may, in fact, prove the existence of God – or at least indicate some level of innate, interactive intelligence governing everything in the background of matter and energy.
Fascinating! and Exciting!
But, what I want to know is can the human mind self-govern well and healthily without the God construct?
At times, my mind feels so isolated while gazing at the night sky as the stars just keep expanding their numbers into farther and farther galaxy universes.
What a terrifying thrill to think of folding the “fabric” of time and space and journeying through wormholes to other existences!
But, in all of this, does God truly exist?
And are we as humans merely captives in His all-encompassing petri dish?
Or are we, with our evolving intelligence, meant to outgrow the need for a parent?
Are we meant to take the guidance given, and to expand upon this into becoming an even greater species – beyond that which God, itself, could even imagine?
I pose that God must hope for this, given our adaptive capabilities interwoven in our genetics.
I think we are able to overcome our base limitations to become more than we’ve originally translated.
i think the answers are there in the scriptures by what is not being said, but that in reading leads the mind to quest for by its absence.
And if you observe and listen closely, it isn’t “God” stopping us or plaguing us in our attempts to improve ourselves.
It’s other humans, and what their agendas impose on us.
New (Discovery)
“In Your Room”
Singular
I don’t date…
Chameleon
I saw a youngling in the pet store –
And for the first time, I wanted one.
No…I wanted that one.
Semi-permanent
What am I that I migrate?
Loving (Feral Hearts)
Deconstruction
It takes mere hours to take apart what took years of trial and error to build as fortification for our chickens’ safe sheltering.
We are finding good homes – people who will delight in taking care of them.
It’s a sad acceptance to close chapters, grateful we got to raise them.
Three Years
It takes this long to settle in and for nature to know us.
The hawks and crows come calling, wishing us well in our departing.
Synergy
Rhythm stays with me in the pulse of my beating heart, in the breath I’m breathing.
It is always there, waiting to be called upon to add joyful clarity in subtle to exuberant gaiety.
This is why I enjoy lap drumming. Silence-to-music-to-silence again is always revolving.
Contrast
As I itemize and categorize my aspects, when I come into contact with others, all this suddenly expands into positive, expressive dynamics!
I think I am a closet extrovert.
Insulation
I keep to myself except for specific tasks and roles so I can maintain my own fresh perspectives.
Resources
I haven’t yet, but am considering joining Costco because they occasionally have something I need that I can’t find elsewhere.
Thrift stores often yield shoes, pants, and dress shirts that have been gathered by others from afar, but are then discarded as no longer desired.
I flit between health stores, seeking my favorite products; the same with grocery stores for animal food or best produce.
There is no one place that provides everything as I wing like a bird gathering its forage..
Still Learning
When I look back at my life, I can see I’ve always taken alternative paaths that either I forged for myself, or cut through temporary obstacles to arrive on the other side of barriers.
Did I train myself to become this out of necessity, or is this how I was designed to be?
I always thought it was the former, but now suspect it’s becoming the latter.
Off Road
I kept trying to fit in, nestling comfortably for times into the grooves where others went – only to find the tracks grown shallow as they would slip me off onto the nearby grasses.
How many times have I longed to be on campus, soaking up education’s religion to then find my semester cut short by external interferences?
Despite attempts to be like others, I have had to accept that my path is very different. When I make decisions as if it isn’t, nature takes my hand and guides me right back into the forest.
Studying online yields flexibility, and working independently enables versatility.
If I stick to being unique, I avoid conflict.
Liver
I just somehow got a wiff of one – likely an impression made up of the smoke and incense combatting its heaviness, combined with heater filaments.
I do not like eating it, looking at it, nor working in any way with it.
It is said that eating liver provides many health benefits.
I used to watch my mother cook organ meats when I was a child and thought she was nuts: they smelled, looked, and tasted awful!
When I was trying a special diet, I read that juicing raw liver was supposed to be like an elixer.
Have you ever tried shoving liver down a juice hopper? The blood went everywhere – like a horrendous massacre!
No…some things just are not right to mess with.
