Freedom
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Not Near Enough
The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “near/far.” Use “near,” use “far,” use them both if you’d like. In fact, if you start your post with one and end with the other, you get bonus points! Enjoy! Near… 26 DAYS : 09 HOURS : 24 MINUTES : 12 SECONDS Time is such a crazy thing. Let’s take 2020 (and most of 2021 so far). Some…
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In this, so late a season
We welcome fruit from barren womb. / a love beyond all reason.
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Too.
…that soothing balm / For which / All our Sore Souls / Cry.
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Hiding in the Pews
The author is uniquely qualified to bring his story to the table. Not only was he a “pew hider”, he was also a “pulpit hider”, and after a suicide attempt, he became an advocate for those struggling in the pews and a coach for the leaders of those churches who misunderstand, stigmatize, and ultimately bring…
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Some Missing Pieces Aren’t Meant to be Filled. – #SoCS
Here’s the truth: we’re all incomplete puzzles and will likely ALWAYS be incomplete, even if we finally get our shit together with healthy spirituality, quality therapy and/or the right medication. In fact, spirituality, therapy and meds just help us deal with the fact that we have missing pieces and (hopefully) stop us from trying to…
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blackened quiet
knowing the nature of cycles is often all that moves us forward.
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Unexpected Roots
One must learn to bask in Here’s Now Glow / Before sprinting to the Next Brighter There.
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Outside of Form
Sometimes Magic happens…
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I come to warmth from cold which reigned supreme
Now hoarfrost melts to liquid dew agleam
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water withheld
When still waters run deep / The deep can often roil with peril;
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Striving Ends… When?
My challenging is not yet finished. So… When?
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blue skies smiled
When clouds of witnesses surrounded, I used them to cover my flaws.
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Unloading Some Heavy
It’s been a long year. Since coming out in June 2020, things haven’t been all rainbows and sunshine, and before I knew it, I was hiding again. Time to cut that shit out.
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The Waiting
I’ve a video here waiting / To unearth what lies beneath.
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Retreat
I’m going to retreat; It’s the only way forward.
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Afghanistan – August 2021
Dreams Dashedof Desired Destination We’ll now never get There from Here As if there had been a Chanceof anything other thanHerein the first place. Since There can’t get Here Perhaps we could gowith you now to the SomeplaceYou wanted us to Become? Instead, Hopes are crushedin cruel climaxas the blades of a cruelreligiousregime hack at…
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sexualdread
Out there is a world / I can choose to inhabit;
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The Unmatched Song – Sonnet XXXI
I hear the cardinal whistling in my morn / And wonder what he’s thinking as he sings
