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[asoulman]

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Inside me is a black-eyed animal”]

BY TERRANCE HAYES

Inside me is a black-eyed animal

Bracing in a small stall. As if a bird

Could grow without breaking its shell.

As if the clatter of a thousand black

Birds whipping in a storm could be held

In a shell. Inside me is a huge black

Bull balled small enough to fit inside

The bead of a nipple ring. I mean to leave

A record of my raptures. I was raised

By a beautiful man. I loved his grasp of time.

My mother shaped my grasp of space.

Would you rather spend the rest of eternity

With your wild wings bewildering a cage or

With your four good feet stuck in a plot of dirt?

[maryoliverpoetry]

Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and crotchety– best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light– good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

[yama-bato]

©yama-bato  

[asoulman]

The Sea is History by Derek Walcott

Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?

Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,

in that grey vault. The sea. The sea

has locked them up. The sea is History.

First, there was the heaving oil,

heavy as chaos;

then, like a light at the end of a tunnel,

the lantern of a caravel,

and that was Genesis.

Then there were the packed cries,

the shit, the moaning:

Exodus.

[asoulman]

Hi it’s been a long time.

I’m happy to come back. Life happened and I re-trained and spent very little time on the internet. I work as a full time gardener now with muddy hands and a head in the present moment as often as I can. Anyone who’s crazy about gardening will know about being present in nature - it’s natural, or as I think of it super-natural.

I work at a beautiful country hall in the wilds of County Durham in Teesdale. From here I’ve found peace, sanctuary and stability. I had no idea that living in a city and working at a computer screen since the first Apple Mac was launched, would have kept me hypnotised for so long.

Eventually the call of nature which seems to be the voice of my Higher Power kept talking to me and by surrendering any and all stability I embarked on a journey of hard work and unconditional acceptance of the direction that life would take me.

There have been many bumps in the road, but here I am. I wish you Peace, strength & dignity.

[artpropelled]

John Olsen

[asoulman]

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”  ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom | Art: linsey levendall 

[embodyilluminati]

It is useless to attempt the development of spiritual faculties while the mind, emotions, and the body are without coordination or intelligent and sufficient direction.

- Manly P. Hall

[http---globallightminds]

[asoulman]

The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things, it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.

~ Steve Forbes

[hellohellohellohoney]

[asoulman]

“silence is the language of god,  all else is poor translation.”  ― rumi / cyanotypes by alexis mire 

[asoulman]

“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” 

― Mary Anne Radmacher

Gif image: Nuance by Marc-Antoine Locatelli 

[butterflieswhispertodeath]

[asoulman]

“Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity.” 

— Kent Nerburn, from Simple Truths

Tibetan Inspirations by ~mandalena

[asoulman]

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behaviour. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain." — Eckhart Tolle

Image: Anne Fløcke

[snuh]

[asoulman]

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED:

[observando]

[asoulman]

In the end, only three things matter:

[contextfreeborges]

Beyond my anxiety and beyond this writing the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Jorge Luis Borges, “Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf”

[artpropelled]

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

Chinese Proverb (via artpropelled)

[asoulman]

"Teach me how to trust my heart..." -- Lakota Prayer