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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


Short Stories
· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


Articles
· War and Peace

· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


Poetry
· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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The Big What

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

For poets, the "out there" pressures pound us to be and act like someone we're not. Realistically addressing the conundrum is difficult, but perhaps a reminder of Kant's belief in "oughtness" might bring some clarity to our need, and perhaps accepting who we truly are. (Image by pinterest)

Wednesday, June 14, 2017


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The Big What
 
 
What do you do?
 
You who rush to be somewhere
before others jump ahead
waiting to push you back.
 
What might you do?
 
You whose scorecard is without pencil,
whose time clock ticks backward in fear,
who wants that which others want,
which no one can own.

What can you do?

You who claim no real estate of stuff,
even as those who do
would have you removed
as out of vogue.

What ought you do?

Step aside like shadows of what might have been
stretch their phantasm even further
beyond the light source of reality.

What to do?

What to do?

Might the answer be…

Giving permission to the being Within,
obviating the masquerading Illusion Without?




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Reviewed on June 15, 2017
"The look!" So many people covet "the look". It's like a pretty box wrapped up with nothing inside.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on June 14, 2017
Many people only believe in the physical world; therefore it is a problem for them to recognize "the being within". Astutely penned. John


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