A taste of my skewed view of the world
Designed with WordPress
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 Talerico
Stafford challenge 130/365.
Everything we do is fiction
until it becomes fact.
Dreams of flying,
dreams of space travel,
dreams of speaking your mind,
dreams of not dying
or of returning after life, fiction.
He died, but his adventures,
the legends he started, live on
unimpaired by his presence.
Everything we do is fiction
until it becomes fact.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 129/365.
Inspired by Jeannette Winterson and Ernest Hemingway.
Baby blues
eying the rarest of blue moons.
Blue thoughts
on another blue Monday:
Singing the blues
is sometimes happy—
vibrant like bell bottoms
or cool as ice.
Not always pale
like blue blue skies
or black and blue
like fading bruises.
Blues are rarely comfortable
like faded indigo,
or royal as turquoise
and never clear as crystal.
Like the saddest deepest sadness,
the bluest blues are never true.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 128/365.
Inspired by Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton
The intent of this dumb little poem
is not serious.
Do not take offense
at this comic
(not cosmic) poem,
for that would be like
being naked at church,
and would reveal
your inadequacy as a reader.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 127/365.
I think we produce too many things,
use too many words and
think too many thoughts.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 126/365.
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.
Mindfulness is waking up
to the here and now.
Focus on the past can be depressing
Peering toward the future can induce anxiety.
Living in the present induces peace-of-mind.
You imagine being someplace else
but in reality you are here.
Sometimes our brain gets confused
and we imagine we are somewhere else.
We imagine we are there and then.
You are always here.
Mindfulness is waking up
to the here and now.
We are all here.
We are all now.
Be Here Now.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 124/365.
Close your eyes, breathe deeply, listen.
All of us are
fantastically complex beings, pretending we’re not.
Like breath that is both
voluntary and involuntary,
what we do and
what happens to us is arbitrary.
When I wake up, I awaken
from 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 by fluke, not here on probation.
I am fabric, structure, existence.
I am reality.
I am
stars exploding across multiverses— I am
a celebration of infinite fireworks.
When I dream reality, I dream that I am separate,
that I am not God.
When I awaken, I awaken from illusions.
I awaken to the reality that
I am,
that we are all— ultimate existence.
We are all God, pretending we’re not.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 123/365.
Inspired by Alan Watts.
Nature is efficient
absurd, confusing,
and intriguing.
Nature is
loud, quiet, colorful
chaotic and balanced.
Nature is
gorgeous, entertaining, trippy
and wonderful.
Nature is—
necessary.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 122/365.
Within time there exists only
past, present and future.
Three bizarre constructs
created by our imagination.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 121/365
Image created with AI.
Desert Dweller 