humanity – Page 2 – Reaching Joy

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releasing tension can be harder than it looks when you are human March 20, 2016

Words

If you read my words, do not simply hold them in your mouth; taste them, see if they are to your liking, and spill them out into our silly little world. February 20, 2016

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We are all just golden leaves; We are all just fallen petals. thinking back to fall on this post-blizzard day…happy Sunday! xo

To live a life of purpose: it is what I desire at the core to observe, to learn to listen, to love to be around those I love whenever I can there will be names to learn at every turn don’t turn your soul away from the very Being it is– I wish to look at itContinue reading “Purpose”

A Lesson on Father’s Day: Listen and Love

For the first time in what feels like a while, I am taking a break from poetry for this lovely Sunday. I am currently reading an appropriately enlightening book (one that many of you might already know), Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. From what I have taken away fromContinue reading “A Lesson on Father’s Day: Listen and Love”

While Dreaming

At another time, I forgot why I existed, why not crawl down the river, then swim… ….. I gaze out, over a hazy blue horizon and wonder at all, question nothing and realize my purpose is life, itself. …. Man must respect this, shouldn’t they? … For there are many others that share my wish,Continue reading “While Dreaming”

“I” and “Us”

We must put the “simple” back in “society.” ….. It’s a one-ring circus where only “I’s” are the conductors it will never suffice in a world of 7 billion of “us.” …. How did our fathers land us here? … More like, “How do we get ourselves out?” I want to know that if IContinue reading ““I” and “Us””

Listen; Love

I can listen with my skin as well as my ears, see the stars with my pores leaking the magic of, “I wonder how long it will be until humans realize they can fly?” I’ll walk down, too. My mind sighs to the moon wishing that the mess in the chaos wasn’t soContinue reading “Listen; Love”

Aren’t We All

How about spending some time confessing and not professing your beliefs as truths throughout the world, on stage, across your screen and bedroom wall you are building a tower of self loathing under that doubt of yours– of mine when my ear must hear one more thing about religion being tainted and babies being bustedContinue reading “Aren’t We All”

Angel

An angel stood upon a dark cloud and yelled to the nearest ear, “Good God, is it cold up here!” She floated down to meet me instead, opened folding chairs at the county fair and wondered what to do with her hair and the human essence that only we know: how to love, how toContinue reading “Angel”