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Go Ask Alice
Do without doing, make something from nothing; recycle, repurpose, revise on and conquer. Gather resources, interpret instructions; imagine assembly as other-directed. Practice inclusion, leave nothing untended; let symmetry guide you off-balance at times. Do, or do not do, remake while … Continue reading
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Tagged action, activism, Alice Guffey Miller, art, awareness, consciousness, summer solstice
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Wake Up: sonetto rispetto
Wake up! The dawn is rapping at the shutters! There is no time to lose, nor waste away; you must begin to clear out all this clutter that gives you an excuse to sleep all day. Believe this: if the … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, convenience, dawn, machines, poetic forms, resistance, sonetto rispetto, sonnet
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Call It Madness: mad song
You gawk and call it madness, a sickness that afflicts the weak of mind, the poor, the kind; by gods, you’re such a prick. You practice looking sideways, avoiding the fool’s eyes: a damning mirror, where you see clearer your … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, hypocrisy, madsong, nonsense, poetic forms, sanity
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Let Loose: hir a thoddaid
Let loose the chains that bind you to the past; though they restrict, they cannot hold you fast. The future is not set; no die is cast. Whatever plans and schemes you make, don’t last; tomorrow’s rain and sun mind … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, hir a thoddaid, plans, poetic forms, presence, Welsh verse forms
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Not Those Kind of Blues: blues sonnet
There is no need to holler or to shout, no need to raise a holler shouting out; those ain’t the kind of blues I’m talking ‘bout. The world is in a worry, sure enough, the world is full of worry, … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, blues sonnet, blues stanza, daily poems, depression, fear, poetic forms, resignation
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I Think Therefore
I think; therefore I am whatever in here gives a damn and whatever lays inside the lines that separate me from my mind. I think; therefore I am, at least for that brief moment’s span until I stop and think … Continue reading
6. Use Little Tricks
Every mystery or philosophical tradition from the beginning of time has invented mechanisms to help adherents pay attention to the right things, or stop paying attention to the wrong things. I’ve always been fascinated by Zen koans, Sufi teaching stories, … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, knowledge, mind games, Montaigne, religion, tricks
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