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Tag Archives: confusion
Gaining Experience Points
Assuming that simply being alive and making any kind of progress is a never-ending hamster wheel, an ouroboros where the outcome you worked diligently toward is swallowed up in the gaping maw of the next problem, challenge, or opportunity, there’s a certain point in any cycle where it seems unlikely that you’ll make it back around to the starting point. Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, confusion, Dungeons & Dragons, enlightenment, experience, Krishnamurti, participation
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Smoke and Mirror: poulter’s measure
The world of late is full of crashing sound and blurry vision, a thunder crash inside a cloud – lost in indecision. Some claim that sunshine lurks around the corner, only waiting for those who dare beyond the haze, past … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged #BookofForms, alexandrine, confusion, darkness, fog, fourteener, hate, illusion, poetic forms, poulter's measure, sight
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Journey’s End
Every journey starts out simply, with a single thought: where am I, where have I been, and is it where I ought to imagine is my place, my center in this life, or is there more to me than this, … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged confusion, decisions, destinations, destiny, illusion, journeys, NaPoWriMo, travel
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The Possible
The possible surrounds us all: an unseen swirling smoke that clouds our good intentions. Proceed carefully, the joke is that too many options can confuse the way ahead, and leave you in committees wanting progress, but instead debating some great … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged chaos, choice, committees, confusion, decision, NaPoWriMo, possibility
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The Holy Fool’s Lament
My blood is thinned from summer’s passion; where I once could stand the chill of winter’s disposition, now I am unmanned by this untimely season; and the harvest I once sought I find now sells for such a price it … Continue reading
Why Things Burn
A moment of brilliance, shot through the heart and left for dead on the side of the road; An instant of insight, unclouded by the circumstance of reason as the teardrop explodes; A spark from a fire too long extinguished, … Continue reading
See You There
If you listen to the chatter they’ll convince you it don’t matter, more or less; as long as your wallet’s fatter, never mind those ‘neath the ladder of success. There’s no need to feel an instant of distress, or a … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, companionship, confusion, friendship, relationships, success, union
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