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Tag: truth

water withheld

When still waters run deep / The deep can often roil with peril;

conflict, destruction, feelings, harmony, peace, truth

And thus I proceed – Amen.

Even with functioning eyes / Seeing can never be forced.

Justice, morality, perception, reality, relativity, truth

deafening whispers

At first, the whispers are few and quiet.

clarity, secrets, truth, whispers

Postmodern Taboos

Welcome to the future.

absolutes, postmodern, relativity, truth

resolved

no longer a fear-panicked youth

#triolet, authenticity, integrity, lies, masks, resolutions, truth

not dead yet.

Do they ever stop breathing?

lies, symbiosis, truth, zombies

on communication – iv

I get tricked by communication more times than I like to admit.

communication, lies, phishing, social media, SoCS, trick, truth

love and the cosmos

the closer we get to “getting it”, the more there is to “get”.

absolutes, answers, Big Bang, Dark Energy, earth-centric, flat earth, objective, questions, subjective, systems, truth

Sonnet X – night blindness

The thing most true was never true for me / until one day it dawned and ended night.

darkness, falsehood, light, shadow, tripping, truth

truth revisited

being real is hard

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, grace, real, truth

The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI

Then Clarity arrived at once, so Fast
/ Paint with the Rainbow, Life will come at last.

art, authentic, colors, create, gray, paint by numbers, prism, promise, rainbow, spectrum, truth

balance

so I seek the balance point
/ to speak my truth – and listen

#haikai, #tanka, anger, balance, listen, Poetry, Self, speak, truth

emergence

How long can that caterpillar stay in chrysalis before it dies and can never emerge?

authenticity, butterfly, chysalis, coming out, flight, Freedom, Homosexuality, journey, Pride, pupa, pupae, shame, truth, waiting, worry

shine, sun

I need to be where sunlight shines / Its glow transforming – outside, in.

clouds, darkness, lie, light, pure, purifying, shade, shadow, shine, sun, sunlight, sunshine, truth

pushmi-pullyu

turns out we’re all just dumb animals and talking isn’t really that hard.

animals, circus, conversation, doolittle, freak show, listen, pushmi-pullyu, race, racist, talk, truth, two-headed

Super Breath

everyone dreams of being a superhero sometimes

fire, ice, Justice, Poetry, superman, truth, Words, writing
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