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Tag Archives: relativity
Galileo
The stars are fixed; they do not move. Instead, what we call firmament is just a shifting lens that’s bent to suit the seasons. To approve or disapprove such things is vain and futile; our whole history, that we would … Continue reading
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Tagged connection, deities, destiny, fate, Galileo Galilei, relativity, sight, wholeness
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The Heart of Beauty
When Beauty stands alone at last upon the wretched reefs of time and watches as her suitors sink beyond the pale horizon line where tied to masts of providence they’ve closed their senses to her charms and set their sextants … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, beauty, coersion, illusions, loss, opinion, Persephone, regrets, relativity, slavery, time
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After Our Summer is Gone
Just because we stop, the world does not see fit to up and quit: although we think our present season the focus of the universe. Just because our silicon has returned back to native dust, and what we’ve turned with … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, illusions, inevitability, maturity, relativity, seasons, summer, time
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To Those Who Would Have Use of My Time
Each moment of my time has its own price; and some cannot be purchased with mere coin. Let my donation of it be my vice, and cursed be those who would by ruse purloin five minutes, nay, one instant without … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, employment, importance, relativity, respect, self-respect, time
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Samadhi
Fumbling to ecstacy One nerve cell at a time Approaching some nirvana Piecemeal, by the inch, sublime At the end of fingertips Extended like a drawl Until the whole skin breathes in each moment’s alcohol From the toes along the … Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, devotion, enlightenment, epiphany, Nirvana, presence, relativity, samadhi
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Clouds (Nuages)
Watch the sky slowly unfold in an array of hues across the edges of the world touching every single thing underneath for only just a moment, and then move altering its entire pattern enough to blur and shift the whole … Continue reading
The Pebble and the Wall: a ballade
A pebble leaned against a towering wall (at least that’s how it first appeared to me) just barely seen beyond the shadow’s fall, not much more than a speck of loose debris, looking like it had been carelessly knocked free … Continue reading
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Tagged ballade, connection, daily poems, importance, poetic forms, relativity, significance, size, support
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