By Bruno Talerico
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Within time there exists onlypast, present and future.Three bizarre constructscreated by our imagination.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 121/365Image created with AI.
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Is it real or a product of ego?Is the fear I feel, fear of loneliness,fear of the pain of connectionor rather, fear of the inevitable separation?© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 120/365.
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Everything you love will be lost.Change is inevitable for growth. Embrace it, shift paininto wonder and love.Create the connection consciouslyand with intention.In the end, love always returnsin a different form.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 119/365.
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Desert hikes area sacred passage—or a gauntlet.Desiccating windssearing heatfreezing nightsdrowning rains.Insects that buzz and sting,birds that hover and hum,or circle,ominously searchingfor the dead and dying.Desert visitors may not enterwithout blood sacrifice.Plants armed withspears, hooks and barbsgrab, poke, scratch,as if saying“all who pass must do penance”.The reward for travelers who endure:stark moonlit landscapes,velvet star-studded skies,coyote song,solitude…
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Behind desert sandstonelie coiled secrets of serpent wisdomdrawing attention and advising caution.Insects that buzz and sting,birds that hover and hum allied with cacti and shrubs,armed with spears, hooks and barbs,warning: “all who enter must do penance.No one shall pass without blood sacrifice,”Weary wanderers,wary of each hiss and rattle,clumsily navigate invisible paths seeking the well of…
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Sunrise,justification to watch the day unfold.Sunsetjustification to snuggle.© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 116/365.
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The knowledgethat really matters in lifeis how to purify water,how to grow food,how to cook and how to build. We’re not taughtany of that in school.I need a home,a safe place where my seedstake root and become.Neither stars nor desertserve physical needs,but I also need sunsets,the Milky Way aboveand vast desert spaces.© 2025 Bruno Talerico…
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Hornless stag.Thornless roseBeyond the grave,only the soul can go.Formless void.Stormless seaGravity the only guide,rainbows the only landmarks.Aimless sailorwithout chart or sextant, adrift rudderless.Helplessly headedtoward the X on every human map,toward the destiny of every life:the grave.The grave, doorway to the unknowna burrow, a tunnel,express train to the underworld.Beyond the grave,the sea, the vast sea of…
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violent splashingcrowded undersized birdbath fine feathers flocking© 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 113/365
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If we want to be exceptional,we have to do exceptional things.There is no nobility in being miserable.No one gains from negative stories.Being unhappy doesn’t help the world.All growth begins with change.Even when things seem to be falling apart,they are changing, making room for growth.Let go.Stop trying to force outcomesSurrender.Fully accept each moment as it is.After…
Desert Dweller 