• The Song In My Head

    invisible bells  ringing in silence  toes tapping  to absent rhythms © 2024 Day 11 NaPoWriMo

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  • Cracked

     perception of reality is as much social as personal. what does it take for a thing to be convincing?  qualia  are part of it.  sensory input: visuals,  movement, air currents, scents, tastes, sounds. meaningless without intentionality, meaningless  without evaluation and confirmation. why do psychotics disturb us? because they see things, taste things, hear things that…

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  • Creative Challenge

    being human has no boundaries except those self-imposed. nothing more enriching than attaining self-knowledge. living creatively demands mysterious powers that lay dormant within. deep within thorny forests of questions about life and the universe, liquidating taboos,, daring to embrace the unusual, the strange, the quirky, the bizarre, is the wellspring of creativity. surrendering to social…

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  • After The Hunt

    broken wings.satisfied wolflicking burnished teeth.eyes glisten with griefblood and bones remain. © 2024

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  • Hero’s Stories

    blossoms flutter on ancient tree, still capable of bearing fruit black bird fully formed, takes flight. some paths more hazardous than others. select a wrong one, and destination  grows farther with each wing beat. each detour, each obstacle, an opportunity.  the Quest its own reward. some words old, significance forgotten. bits added to bits over…

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  • Dreaming Desert

    bolting storm. night defined  by flashes of insight. truth seems capricious. is it something else to honeybee or coyote? fulfilling, foreboding or light in flight, like fairies dusting blue sky. fact becomes fiction, fantasy masquerades as thundering reality. beneath gray clouds, realities fade silently screaming. unbidden truths capriciously  lying in wait. © 2024

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  • Darwin’s Fox

    cool water trickles over ferrous rock, tasting of blood. bones glistening reflecting  light beams, moonbeams, laser-beams. cavern doorway gleams, leonine, canine, whiskers alert to medicinal breeze. esoteric incense wafting beyond mystical pink horizon. boughs swaying, ebbing like oceanic flow, lunar tides. quick feline movement. forest fox dances from light to shadow. pausing. sentient. pondering big…

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  • Endings And Beginnings

    it is not by chance you are reading this. words come into our lives when we’re prepared to understand whoever comes into our life is the right person people interacting with us, are there to help us learn. whatever happens is the only thing that could happen. every situation is perfect, even if mind and…

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  • The Rocker

    the rocking chair, the old one on the south porch, rocks. moving rhythmically  back and forth empowered by an unseen being. ghost? an apache warrior who died in battle, a spanish explorer claiming new territory, portuguese priest saving souls, Scottish settler taming the land,   italian farmer planting seed, or is it just the wind? ©…

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  • Waking Paradox

     waking up, ordinary waking that occurred this morning  to you and me, is a paradox. we cannot will it to happen, but it happens anyway. © 2024 

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