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P A  R A D O X

1/23/2019

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​​What an interesting Paradox...
The game of life is a push and shove
The finest gift of drunken purity,
The finest shift of sober reality
Always moving this way and that,
Always staying on the same circle
The spiral of relationship, the spiral...
Fabulous communication fraught with
Distress and intense connection.
What curse?

What gift...
What creation of, of, of...
Low battery.
You can do better.
You can create, you can.
Here I am.
What gift, what g.i.f.t.
Here and now.
I don't know a thing
Except what I create next.
What I create.
It is all a new scene, a new start, a new this and that and the other and forward motion.
Back to the beginning and around again.
What do I know.
What an interesting paradox.
Here I start, at the end.
Cold.
Tears and years and not any more understanding of the process than when I began.
Fuck it.
Here it is.
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SHould

1/21/2019

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I may have, sort of, accidentally not been living the life I should.

I suspect that either my imagination created, long ago, images that kept me vaguely grasping for ideals based on belief systems or expectations consisting of confusing magic castles filled with hopes of grand fulfillment, illusions of rebellious independence and immutable acceptance combined.

Or perhaps said same imagination remained stunted by so many fears, wrapped in keeping me safe and "good", or at least the appearance of good, as an application of one's desire to not tempt the fates or anger the gods of my parents, or those that control superstition or judgement, and "the rules".

Either way, creating life from this point on, feels at once like a precarious, monumental labor of love, then at second glance, of delicacy, preciousness, and confusion.

Untangling the knots of life paths intricately entwined with age and practice, consistency and outsourced motivation. 

​Habits grown deep like wire fences swallowed by live trees continuing to grow.

Living the life one "should" after all, is an undoing and an awakening to creative forces of choice and awareness.

Who's to say whether I am capable, able.

Changing directions of a life set in motion supposes infinite challenge or questions.

Perhaps starting again for the millionth time, merely listening to the whisperings of my soul,

will at last be enough.

Perhaps the spiral of
repeated steps indeed leads in new, upward directions.

With combined practice and
pure acceptance, maybe, just maybe, I am actually creating not so accidentally, my "Should" life.

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Grounded

1/15/2019

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To be grounded sometimes means
To have your feet above your head
And your mind in places that dream
Beyond the solid soil of mortal realms.

Stay not in places of satiated calm,
Though calm may serve aim and purpose;
The purpose of life, if I may be so bold
​Is to create, create, create, create, create, create, create...
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For The Love Of Mother

1/15/2019

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For the love of Mother
She speaks through the spiritual
Language of science
Not always thoroughly understood
Hidden in plain sight
We must willingly search and pry
Open to simple truth
Ever changing, in which belief plays a part
Parcel to hunger
Eat money, drink oil, breathe smoke
Stacks of capital
Gains traction for greedy derelicts
Deny and die
As children cry, the end draws near...
Listen and live
Better yet, believe and engage

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INverse

4/22/2017

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​You don't know me
I barely know myself
My face is mine though
Every day it looks different
I am different, diverse, variant 
Change upon change upon change
Much hidden to present a cohesive exterior
Much given to allow connection and bearing 
Switch, swap, flip-flop, exchange
I am common, related, human
Every night we look similar
My world is your world
I know this truth
I know you too


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SelF Portrait

4/21/2017

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How do you know a thing that is changing, moving, flowing, arriving and departing all at once?
In the flux of impermanent creation floating realms of construction and destruction coexist
The twins of duality cannot abide without each other
Death over and over gives way to life
Second by second spiralling into a new moment, only to be lost forever in the next
Spilling out in waves sucked back into oceans of unending possibilities
Who is this flesh covered soul, colored in hues of passion and grief, anger and joy?
What is it to know in the expanse of the infinite?
"Who" is different every passing second
Every breath is to make a decision about creation, all the while building on a moveable foundation
How to bend flame, to see wind, to walk on water, to train a cat...
To know oneself is to greet the master of surrender; yielding and unyielding forces collide 
Watching becomes action as awareness takes shape and form, only to start again 
Circling an ever wider universe the canvas meets with a vast array of explosions, no two alike
Days and age and seconds and years,
time is not even a constant, only a fleeting tool of imperfect frequency 
A self portrait exists only in the yesterday
Soul aperture peaking through with a glimmer of something much bigger than knowing can presume 
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    I'm Rae... welcome to Luminous Universe!

    "I will not die an unlived life.
    I will not live in fear
    of falling or catching fire.

    I choose to inhabit my days,
    to allow my living to open me,
    to make me less afraid,
    more accessible,
    to loosen my heart
    until it becomes a wing,
    a torch, a promise.
    I choose to risk my significance,
    to live so that which came to me as seed
    goes to the next as blossom,
    and that which came to me as blossom,
    goes on as fruit."
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