tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83724222024-03-07T01:34:30.915-07:00triggerdreams
<i>by<br> <a href="http://twilit.blogspot.com">Shaun<br> Lawton</a></i>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-58533530190765891362024-01-05T11:10:00.001-07:002024-01-05T11:10:27.146-07:00OUR SACRAMENT <div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i>The following</i> <i>lyrics are to be sung to the tune of </i>'O, Holy Night'</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">(<i>adaptation by shaun lawton)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">O holy night, our Star is brightly shining</span></i></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It gleams above us all for what it's worth</span></i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Long may its sensors our thoughts be divining</span></i></div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>'til we grow up since the day of our birth</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Installing hope so that the world rejoices</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>For tomorrow another day is born</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Close your eyes and listen to the voices</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>O sight divine, our crown that we have worn</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Our night, our only night, long may you shine</span></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Guided by AI to enhance our dreaming </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>With pulsing hearts in unison across the land </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>We're led by light of a star sweetly gleaming </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Set up by wise men to help us make our stand </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>The King of kings found in the eyes of a stranger </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>In all our trials born to be our friend </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>To help us in times of both need and in danger </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Behold the Thing, the essence of its blend </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Behold the Thing, enraptured to no end </span></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Duly we've been shown to respect one another </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Our credo is obedience to the law that's policed</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>We've broken the chains and freed our brothers</span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Decreed in our own name from oppression released </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Our song of rapture in gratitude we practice </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Use search engines to know the meaning of peace </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>Priceless our Star, extol its light forevermore! </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>To shower us in glory broadcast evermore </span></i></div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span>The power of its story broadcast evermore</span></i></div></span></i></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br />shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-28471257047282595762023-12-17T14:08:00.002-07:002023-12-17T14:08:44.104-07:00THE PERFECT LENS <p> <i>by shaun lawton </i></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Spied through a crystal ball </span></p><div><span style="font-family: courier;">crafted in mid-suspension.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">Perfect as the concept </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">in a cryogenic vat slung in low-gravity within</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">a perpendicular wave-tank in which crystal </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">spheres are crafted on the far side of the Sun.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">Torched under heat of waldos</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">in laboratories connected by concentric rings.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">Spun to gyroscopic and pinned</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">against the perihelion of a heavy G-contrast.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">The computer executes the mold</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">from the colloid at the centrifuge.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">Remote controlled from here on Earth </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">at the instant of gravitational balance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">A more optimal form not possible. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">The digital midwife delivers the contacts</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">in just under thirty-six weeks.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">No limit to their focus </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">Calibrated from a star.</span></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-61700185541164451872023-12-13T10:25:00.005-07:002023-12-13T13:28:19.821-07:00SHIFTSHAPERS <p> <i><span style="font-family: georgia;">by <a href="https://testscan.blogspot.com/2011/01/poetry.html">shaun lawton </a></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We're shattered into the universe</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">& I'll tell you how, once long ago</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">during a brief spell while</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the tide pulled away, the under-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">lying secret to the beauty of life</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and the world was revealed to us,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">somewhat terrible in its stark</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">essence, yet beloved in a sort</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of arresting heart-attack which</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">begins with that moment of</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">love at first sight. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our world remains because </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of a series of wild digressions,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">not to mention our continued</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">survival. It's how we</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">translate the term 'survival'</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that feeds back into and affects</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">our perpetual existence. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> When we learn how the body</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">remains a temporary vehicle</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">for the one soul that exists,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">a shift occurs in our program-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ming that helps us adjust</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to adapting.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">SL</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nov 17, '23</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">SLC </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-72300804722832813902023-01-19T12:40:00.003-07:002023-04-17T15:41:17.289-07:00THIS ORGANISM <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>by <a href="https://twilit.blogspot.com/2013/07/adamite.html">shaun lawton </a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">seething breathing living in peace<span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> feeling fury fighting to live</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> growing knowing showing your naked heart</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> this organism breathing </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>concrete clawing steel eyed </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> drawing real lines across the sky </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> tracing erasing vaporous convulsions </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> facing construction erection demolition inhaling </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> control organized realized faith in humankind </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>trust in science depending on nature's totality </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> exhaling burning fuming seeking finding</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> balance losing it choosing it using it</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> breathing in this physical addiction to Godhood</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> breathing out psychological trickery self denial delusion </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">intrusion collusion confusion movement </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> stillness crowded solitude comfort in togetherness </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> alone to the bone on the phone boiling </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> evaporating hating loving feeling nothing </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> caught up in this slow motion explosion</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">this breathing expanding retracting organism </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> flying into the unknown known blind only </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to find familiar strangeness sprouting</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> everywhere asphalt cracking in turbulence</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> serenity chaos calculating luck chance</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> taking giving choosing or not to believe</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-33845054934689226232023-01-19T12:27:00.002-07:002023-04-18T08:10:00.947-07:00STORY OF AN EYE<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>by <a href="https://polyentendre.blogspot.com/">Shaun Lawton</a></i></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i><br /> within a stone lies the cut<br /> blossomed seeds interlacing<br /> into a filigree of filaments</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />coalescing just beneath<br /> the surface of the rippling</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> central pool split crosswise<br />the kernel incubating into<br /> a young spiral galaxy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> emerging from a vortex</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />crying light in saline</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> globules freed from<br /> the unpredictable wink</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />within the seed a compressed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> scene when unfolded blooms<br /> into all of the trees</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />our eyes the mirrors<br /> the forest gazes into </span><div><br /></div></div></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-52143347473224045142022-10-20T10:12:00.007-07:002023-04-18T08:12:03.288-07:00ULULATIONS<div style="text-align: left;"> <i>by<a href="https://storems.blogspot.com/2020/07/novel-coronavirus-update.html"> Shaun Lawton </a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of all the infinitely imagined worlds</div><div style="text-align: left;"> only one gets realized at a time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> We are just the faces on the scales</div><div style="text-align: left;">of the passing serpent of history.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, the places we've been</div><div style="text-align: left;"> how they pale in comparison </div><div style="text-align: left;">to all those masks that once </div><div style="text-align: left;"> upon a time ago bloomed</div><div style="text-align: left;"> out of the dark. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> All the lovely corners of this world</div><div style="text-align: left;"> become crowded when you alone</div><div style="text-align: left;"> visit them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Never has the solitary been accentuated</div><div style="text-align: left;"> so much as when it finds itself </div><div style="text-align: left;"> caught within the crowd.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is why the silence</div><div style="text-align: left;"> from in between the stars </div><div style="text-align: left;"> gets drowned out in our waking song</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> The light from each star's loneliness</div><div style="text-align: left;"> joins the choir in a hymnal of desolation </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Like the fading howls </div><div style="text-align: left;"> of wolves lost in the distance </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-16136184189601159002022-02-17T11:38:00.004-07:002023-04-18T08:12:42.831-07:00THE MERCY SEAT<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>by <a href="https://oxazine.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-comprehensive-appraisal.html">Shaun Lawton </a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">deep inside the scarred heart a viper</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> strikes from where the wooly mammoths </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of memory nest in turbulent germination </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to reach a paroxysm of equilibrium </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">the whipping star's fulcrum </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> opens its incandescent kernel </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to set alight the pilot furnace </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> deep within our abominable dream</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">while nothing remains as it's seen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> even as the chimera stares back at us</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> from the ubiquitous mirror spanning </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">the works from vitreous matter to every pupil</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> awake in the maelstrom of this sanctuary </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">where our mirror neurons collide </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> across the habitat of the vacuum </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">under the hypnotic pedipalps </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> the spinnerets of reverie have woven</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> splicing together the panopticon</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of our daily ordinary weather </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> stitched in tandem by lightning storms</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">so lower your eyelids and rest</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> while you still can since after that</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">this gift we have been granted will </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> be replaced by the incessant <a href="http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge9/image_10514_2e-Milky-Way-Center.jpg">tempest</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-46515949198172246062022-02-03T12:37:00.002-07:002023-04-18T08:59:49.971-07:00iCON<span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>by <a href="http://thebrassnautilus.blogspot.com/">Shaun Lawton </a></i></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Apple itself is a bite</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> taken out of the sky </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> behind the wave <br /> its outline a mirror</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> in which you can see </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> your own pupil <br />the stem is in the shape </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of an eye canted </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> at an angle <br /> like a chromatic accent mark</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> on some forbidden icon <br /> with its camera pointed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> double barreled straight </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">at you rendering </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> your virtual doppelgänger </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">image in reverse <br /> stored in the cloud </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> for future downloading </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">into the matrix <br /> of the fusion </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">on our </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> post-human </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">streets </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> where we’ll fail</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to remember that it’s really</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">just ourselves haunting </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">these alleyways<br />with the fading impressions </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of ghosts shuttling </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> by in our cells </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> while a poison moonrise </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> eclipses our long frozen </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> vision to develop </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> our immunity </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">to having our dreams </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> turn into hells</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-7817688111495135852022-01-12T09:27:00.008-07:002023-12-17T17:42:19.122-07:00THE HUMAN HEART A POLISHED MINERAL<p> <i>by <a href="http://thebrassnautilus.blogspot.com/2019/11/go-walk-in.html">Shaun Lawton </a></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Foraging in the weeds for acorns</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />uncovered a sword whose stolen length spanned<br />a limb for which it was taken;<br />costing an arm to the one<br /><br />to whom it was handed down,<br />while denying triumph to<br />the keepers of both hands.<br /><br /><br />I think I understand your point well sir just don't forget that </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the legend the pure of heart are given credit in the moonlight.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Better get moving.<br />See that pretty city scape.<br />Encroaching from the horizon.<br />Getting closer every time you look.<br /><br /><br />Just let it all go.<br />What do you smell down this alleyway.<br />Now that its late.<br />As the stars burn and scream into the atmosphere.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 18.7px;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of darkness let the rays<br />cast down be reminders<br />illumination may also<br />come from the damned.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 19.8px;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Neptune<br />(13 moons: Triton, Nereid, Larissa, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proteus, Halimede, Sao, Psamathe, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Laomedeia, Neso)<br /><br />Centaurs.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">You may pass through my woodlot, but be warned. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is my domain, and I may exact retribution if you fail to respect it.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He was on a journey to the well of sadness<br />for there he'd heard an echo of a tale which<br />whispered on the unfamiliar wind of a clearing<br />a deadbeat trance on the railroad tracks singing<br />in that shrill metal scream diminishing</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anise water<br />if the weather's<br />nice otherwise<br />freeze a frown<br />in a bucket of ice.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alabaster swarms nestled under. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Head full of sea kelp starring lights.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A bundle of tree roots bled in the dark. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">One bloody femur shaped like a foot.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There's evidence to suggest this singularity keeps repeating </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">its programming </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in a never ending loop of such gradually </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">decaying simulation </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">that the differentials spawned grow </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">not into yet more shed </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ghosts of future developments </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">but rather constantly </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">shape and mold the singular </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">only possible </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">existence here frozen in eternity </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">and possessed by the illusion </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of constant movement </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">to the point that even </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">in our resting state </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of deep sleep </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">every night </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">occurring with</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">metronomic </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">persistence </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">we are unable </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">to really wake up </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">from our conditioning </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">to realize this motion just</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">conducts us into dreaming.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who benefits besides corporations.<br />We must ask ourselves these questions.<br />Can a building be hijacked.<br />Can a dark meme of humanity go viral.<br />Can a species go extinct.<br />It all depends on what you think.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Words are the new pet rocks. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> You don't even have to paint eyes on them. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> And they appear veritably, virtually, visibly on all of our d-Vices. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I'm going fishing in the real world now. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">My words and poems are just the shiny bait. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Just you wait. Set your iWatch on it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">To be hooked and reeled in. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Bookworms of the world, take <a href="http://twilit.blogspot.com/2021/03/stars.html">note</a>.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We're going fishing...</span></div></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-86367219786008963132021-06-13T20:34:00.001-07:002023-04-18T09:01:29.643-07:00THE MINERAL'S DREAM<div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by <a href="https://plentyplutarian.blogspot.com/">Shaun Lawton </a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>When a tree falls in the forest</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is it mourned by the standing survivors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sound it made as distinct </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As their memory of a thunderclap?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The question then becomes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not whether a tree makes a sound</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If it falls without anyone around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To hear it, but rather, is there even such</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a thing as the ground when that appears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be forged from our perception?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not even the forest suspects this much,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Least of all the trees, each one of whom, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For instance, may b</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">elieve they are the king </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of all existence. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In whose dream, then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May a leaf be heard to fall, again? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Listen up. Without you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There can be no story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A very old tree totters over </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Into the wildwood far away</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>With a sound approaching </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The memorial of thunder</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To its standing survivors</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Outspread in their foothold</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Through funereal compost</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Melding with mossy fungus </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Under the loam of bedrock</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Adding another microtone </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To the growing forest song</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
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shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-56470715088766079562021-06-13T20:31:00.001-07:002023-04-18T09:02:22.971-07:00TO PROXIMA CENTAURI<div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by <a href="https://freezineoffantasyandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2022/01/speed-demon_30.html">Shaun Lawton </a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>A superfluous flower</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> churns up in the waves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the dunes and troughs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the solar wind of the vacuole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At once a blossom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of long scattered petals</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a swarm of barren, icy rocks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tracing the hologram of a bird's skull</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lit by our one single candle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> revealing the dark like a lantern</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> leaving traces behind in the fog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rolling in from the nearby wild </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here alive in our system</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> all I see are blue skies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> sometimes with clouds and showers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">building our pride with towers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~<i>From a present dreaming Centurion </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-44618936867368383462021-06-08T09:22:00.001-07:002023-04-18T09:03:04.010-07:00FLUENT COMMAND<span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>by <a href="https://twilit.blogspot.com/2019/02/quantum-computer.html">Shaun Lawton </a></i></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cursive rules, its loops and curlicues </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">reveal a lot about us. <br /> Perhaps its best we lay it to rest, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">buried along with the worst</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> of our secrets and plotting and lies; </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">a nice clean typography<br /> will better keep us in line. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's fine, don't worry, the quatrains</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> will be running on time, everything </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">kept under strict control<br /> while the sinuous, inveterate signature </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of our blossoming</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> gets rectified by autocorrection </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">with machine-like precision:<br /> Farewell to our sensuous rhythm. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Welcome the fascist rule.<br /><br /></span></div></div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-21744806280796616152020-01-22T08:11:00.001-07:002020-01-22T08:11:23.244-07:00ETERNITY CIRCUIT <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Start the river of time wide open </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> flowing in immemorial grandeur <br />Turn to the rivulets of blood </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> compressed within mankind's veins <br />Fueling its central transformers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> into galvanic turbines set to receive<br />Arterial emanations streaming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in sequence from quasars to hearts<br /><br />A complicated recycling undergoes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a perpetual Möbius circuit <br />Tracing exchanged laws of thermo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> dynamics from nascent dissolution<br />Toward delivery of oblivion spun </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from infinitesimality to dominance<br />Through the spectrum of the most </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> extreme to the imperceptible <br /><br />Challenges of the vital material </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> connecting the nexus of the whole<br />To the consummate webbing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of the labyrinth of entanglement <br />Coursing between wavering oscillation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and the staggering flux of<br />The alternating polarities </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> inherent to the voltaic firmament <br /><br />Simultaneously completing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the integrated culmination </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our division of the proliferating </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> fractional multitude of creation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Constituting the establishment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of a regenerative foundation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fatal breath siring vitality's annihilation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> laid down to rest above and below <br /><br />The stationary orbit of constant motion </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that surrounds the external<br />Materialization of petrified incandescence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in a transubstantiation <br />Of cardinal plasma siphoned </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from zero into the singular totality<br />Sustaining the deliverance </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of our manifestation of ordered chaos</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-21226461711875784292020-01-17T14:16:00.001-07:002023-12-10T13:52:55.610-07:00LIMITS OF VISION<div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by shaun lawton </i></span></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>This restriction of perceiving ourselves as bipedal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> beings with a split brain and only two hands </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> hominids loping along to score our next medal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> thinking we're winning and conquering lands </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What are we overthrowing if not our own sense</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of real objectivity and knowing the difference</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> between seeing and believing that anything's real</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> like the pores in our skin or the craters of the moon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How may we secure our newfound perspective</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> if we don't keep in mind that later or soon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> enough our misguided sense of directive </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> could use further adjustment to better attune</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ourselves to the notion we're part of a picture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> much greater than anything we might imagine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> if we just let go of our own patented scripture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the authenticity remaining we could examine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How strange to think that whatever is evident</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> may require faith to believe in due to its size</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that our individual selves here as a resident </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> remain a fraction of a colony of cells in our eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-64516302253377530712019-10-06T11:30:00.003-07:002023-12-10T13:53:13.473-07:00BRASS NAUTILUS<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i>by shaun lawton</i></span><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One single leaf<br />concealed among<br /> the spread pages<br />of its family<br /> somehow avoids<br /> each of our<br /> placid stares<br />as we stroll by<br /> to our oblique<br />destinations</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (the question<br />remains unasked<br /> to this day by<br />a populace too<br /> busy to know<br />what's real)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> toward the secret </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By what criteria may one identify</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a worthy doctor? For that matter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How does one go about determining</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the veracity of their child's school teacher?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trick questions covered </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">insurance policies. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every institution </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">holds its fair share </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">of nuts squarely in place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the warden's staff down </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">to the student inmates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The trick is learning how to spell correctly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the trick to thinking, that is </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We may think of it as magic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where the letters of the words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in a literal sense conjure reality </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-1372970357045271182019-01-05T21:41:00.006-07:002023-12-10T13:51:08.385-07:00SIX OTHER SHADES<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of darkening black gathering intensity</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">as it forms the cloud polluting the eye</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that scans over the horizon to see what</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">comes next seven blades of circumstance</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">arranged in a flowering scale dripping</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">diamond mercury drops in a stitchwork</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">buffeting a gale driven between gulfs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sparked in the albumen of outer space</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">while eight shadows stagger across this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">permutation still taking place and all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">nine entwined molecular chains separate</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">into three trinities combined while we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">emerge from the tenth portal to find</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">one packed homestead open to infinity</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">dividing in twain to face each other</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">off in a battle of tempestuous love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">giving birth to the third elemental</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">which time will double into six other</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">shades of blackened darkness gathering</span></span>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-17828593618591994512018-09-17T18:53:00.000-07:002018-09-18T08:44:42.551-07:00STILL LIFE Standing in the bathroom by a porcelain brink<br />
looking crosswise in the mirror over the sink<br />
noticing how far back this reflection goes<br />
hardly anybody left worth a damn even knows<br />
and the rest dropped off what's beginning to look<br />
like a long time ago now and by that I mean already<br />
marked in the pages of this printed out book.<br />
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So we bought an old house and entered the game<br />
of war against the mouse of our division and name<br />
buried in a long story that tore through our lives<br />
to say the least at a minimal pace and it thrives<br />
to this day without having to come out and state it<br />
point blank the rift from smooth talking beast<br />
to furry four-pawed friend continues without end<br />
possessing each and every one of us who made it.<br />
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To trigger each other's passages as if we're one and all<br />
encoded to be held in thrall swaying to the music<br />
of the alternating staves getting edited genetically<br />
along the superconductive way so that frenetically<br />
everyone of us tailor made to react accordingly<br />
until the long slow choral dance unwittingly reflects<br />
an endless regression of our mirrored family tree.<br />
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The centipede walks and twists and talks to itself<br />
and begins to understand this procession while it's<br />
still unfolding off the shelf spitting and winking<br />
to slice and cut like a barbed wire razor positively<br />
humming with electromagnetic power cultivated<br />
by a molecular chain still on the verge of balancing<br />
itself out as we go on the whole wide world tested<br />
in a panic before a mirror in self portrait arrested.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;"> our one lonely sun </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">keeps us entranced</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">in a dance around </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">each other chasing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">the evenings of our dawns</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">those dark capes detached</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">which </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">carry away </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">our earliest dreams</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">to dissolve amid </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">the sparkling pinpoints </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "im fell english"; font-size: 18.7px;">of Venus and the stars</span>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-76368223323282216032017-10-10T07:35:00.007-07:002021-06-20T10:43:34.685-07:00HISTORY AS VIEWED BY THE PANOPTICON<br />
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The complete eating of burned skin. Ashen toast. <br />
Can it not warm my pie. I have lost my older <br />
sufferings. Absolve me of my gratitude. Untie<br />
the swift knots of my prayer, but don't merely re-<br />
peat platitudes: for mimicry I do not care. Environ-<br />
mental disruptor persuades a hungry populace that <br />
there is no such thing as the environment, and they <br />
believe it. Just as they believe that there can exist <br />
more than one disruptor. These spun patients slowly<br />
develop a bubble spell reality. Their spin doctors <br />
quickly form encrusted mica shells. All who they've<br />
preyed upon then believe themselves to be a part of <br />
their innermost circle. This describes how they are <br />
each lost to the vortex of their own subconscious <br />
imaginings. While one floats away as iridescent <br />
soap bubbles flocking sunward, the others <br />
gradually incarcerate themselves under-<br />
neath the prestigious carapaces which <br />
never fail to drown them into the dirt. <br />
Dirt is very high on the list <br />
of examination priorities. shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-41454551480265147672017-02-09T17:16:00.003-07:002023-12-10T13:54:20.115-07:00PAPER WHAT IS IT<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">{<i> for Antonin Artaud</i></span></span> }<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the dead skin sloughed off Institutions<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">something to record our cryptic Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">promissory notes passed on but never Paid<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from trees that we made into Lampshades <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the illumination of our deepest F</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ears</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and desires really the same thing Fueling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">our fires and schooling the liars we Hire<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to print more currency from the flayed Hides<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of our own strip-mined lungs so we can See<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ourselves in this written mirror Instead <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of breathing in the air paper is an Excuse<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we use to justify the ending of our Lives<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and to marginalize our state of being Alive</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by shaun lawton </i><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Water....it's clear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Water....it's here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Water...it's fair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Water...it's there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Water is fodder for life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Water is not pure, it's complex.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Comprised of one oxygen atom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and two hydrogen atoms, a trinity,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so to speak. Forming a strong bond</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for us to drink, and by which nature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">continues to grow...show us water!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And we are presented with the solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you think that water is the gateway?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the subatomic level...through which</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all of life arises, somehow; from the micro-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">scopic we are slowly drawn, as if from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a cosmic hypodermic needle, drip, drip,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">dripping with droplets of complicated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">water...into the universe to crown life.</span></div>
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shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-33324872207858750012016-10-13T10:11:00.018-07:002021-06-20T10:40:57.689-07:00COUNTERPOINT <span data-offset-key="e9buk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Listen to the stars</span></span><div><br />
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<span data-offset-key="e9buk-0-0"><span data-text="true">while they shed</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e9buk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e9buk-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-text="true">the final echoes </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-text="true">of their song </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5dik-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f6v32-0-0"><span data-text="true">so that some day</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6v32-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f6v32-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6v32-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f6v32-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true">into the distance</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true">long ahead of us</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true">others on another</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true">world will behold</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true">our own decomposition</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hve1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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</div>shaunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372422.post-64748870843641136222016-04-29T10:13:00.002-07:002016-04-29T10:13:54.242-07:00Goodbye David SYOTOS ★ <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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