By Bruno Talerico
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In the absence ofsatellite, cable or cell phone,connected to earth and sky,I am constantly learning to listen to somethingmore interesting than the talk of men.No need for academic literature,analyzing and sorting worries,or mystical literature,presenting prayers and praise,but occasional, oblique,unformed words.Sunlight reflecting wisdom off rare puddles in the sand. © 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 131/365.
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The watchers, the critics,the onlookers sitting on the sidelines,the ones who have never taken a shot,will never be as close to the bull’s eye as the arrow that hits the outer ring.It’s Okay to miss the mark.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 130/365.
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Everything we do is fictionuntil it becomes fact.Dreams of flying,dreams of space travel, dreams of speaking your mind, dreams of not dyingor of returning after life, fiction.He died, but his adventures,the legends he started, live onunimpaired by his presence.Everything we do is fictionuntil it becomes fact.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 129/365.Inspired by Jeannette Winterson and…
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Baby blues eying the rarest of blue moons.Blue thoughtson another blue Monday:Singing the blues is sometimes happy—vibrant like bell bottomsor cool as ice. Not always pale like blue blue skies or black and blue like fading bruises.Blues are rarely comfortablelike faded indigo, or royal as turquoiseand never clear as crystal.Like the saddest deepest sadness,the bluest…
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The intent of this dumb little poemis not serious.Do not take offenseat this comic(not cosmic) poem,for that would be likebeing naked at church,and would revealyour inadequacy as a reader.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 127/365.
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I think we produce too many things,use too many words andthink too many thoughts.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 126/365.
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Drawn to places you’ve never been,it seems there are many paths,but in reality there is only one.To reach full potential,to find your true self,take a risk.Give up who you are.There are many paths to truth,but for you there is only one—the one you have chosen.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 125/365.
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Mindfulness is waking upto the here and now. Focus on the past can be depressingPeering toward the future can induce anxiety.Living in the present induces peace-of-mind.You imagine being someplace elsebut in reality you are here.Sometimes our brain gets confusedand we imagine we are somewhere else.We imagine we are there and then.You are always here.Mindfulness is…
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Close your eyes, breathe deeply, listen.All of us are fantastically complex beings, pretending we’re not.Like breath that is bothvoluntary and involuntary,what we do and what happens to us is arbitrary.When I wake up, I awakenfrom illusions that imply.Illusion that black implies white. That self implies other. That life implies death,and death implies life.I am no stranger, not a transient, not here…
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Nature is efficient absurd, confusing,and intriguing.Nature isloud, quiet, colorfulchaotic and balanced.Nature isgorgeous, entertaining, trippyand wonderful.Nature is—necessary.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 122/365.
Desert Dweller 