Living Well — Dying Well

precepts of destiny

bookends of fate

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

+  — 

 

Patience and time

Courage or fear

Pleasure then pain

Smiles and tears

 

Future and past

Joy or remorse

Vision when blind

Blessing or curse

 

Borrow or steal

Praise and then blame

Life unto death

Loss or a gain

 

Reason and anger

Random or fate

Plussing the minus

— open the gate

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Body & Soul

 

Disease …

robs you

of your health

 

Dementia …

robs you

 of yourself

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

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Politics and war

twin pillars of conflict

“Charge into weakness

retreat if there’s strength” 

 

 High in the tower

dividing to conquer

Fate looking down

— as your destiny waits

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Closing his eyes

one last time

 a man can finally see

 

Opening his heart

time undone

 feelings Joie de Vivre

 

Moving beyond

future and past

 returning to the source

 

Hearing that voice

bathed in the Light

—  love his Tour de Force

 

(The 1^st Book  Of Prayers: February, 2024)

The quicksand of anticipation

— the fire below

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Chameleosis

 

A changing experience

— is not an experience of change

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Dark Feelings

 

Captive of emotion

— prisoner of deceit

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

He died

the day before

his birth

the curse had worked again

 

Generations

in the womb

their feticide

a last amen

 

The garden path

a stepford trap

whose fruit trees

bear the scorn

 

Enoch built

to hide the curse

the Mark of Cain

— damnation born

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Running off with tomorrow

divorcing today

The moment is orphaned

— all time left astray

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

Camels in the

brush

Memories in the

fire

Voices in the

wind

Panic in the

mire

 

Messages

conflict

Enemy

conspires

First shot

breaks the silence

Last shot

— lights the pyre

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Future horizons

tomorrow in embers

 

Sparks in the distance

— time set on fire

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

Adding together

numbers and colors

red + 7 sku’d

 

Living in another

event horizon

yellow + 1 = Q

 

Orange + 31

sweetness defined

Euclidian paradox

 

Counting + feeling

the universe prime

— nth truth outside the box

 

(Villanova University: February, 2024)

 

 

Sands Of Time

 

Memories in the hourglass

  tumble and fall

  feelings receding

— meaning recalled  

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

 

 

The timid

find courage

in the well

— of another’s fear

 

(Valley Forge Park: February, 2024)

 

 

Call Me Ishmael

 

Mediocre writing

spawns editing

The Great Works

— born unchanged

 

‘Thoughts of: Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, John Lennon, Steve Winwood, Kris Kristofferson’

(February: 2024)