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· A NEW RACE OF HuMANS

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Basking in its Own Light...

by Richard Lloyd Cederberg — Read all 280 poems by Richard Lloyd Cederberg

“Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It’s too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician’s craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenched patterns of perceptual, emotional, and cognitive dispositions serve as instruments of deception. A skilled deceiver is an illusionist who knows how to manipulate the normal patterns of what is salient to their audience. He places salient markers — something red, something anomalous, something desirable — in the visual field, to draw attention just where he wants it.” Clancy Martin – ‘The Philosophy of Deception.’

Sunday, March 9, 2025


Poem Artwork
I considered what they’d written,
an assemblage of Empirical observation
with mannerisms (inclusive to each personally)
and the ideologies each had chosen to
fabricate their substance with…
.
A writer’s repetitions,
the fitful philosophies,
and brooding-isms,
carefully sewn
together in
a colorful pastiche
of thoughts and feelings,
.
Letters giving birth to words,
giving breath to a flow of
singular phraseology,
giving page to a
chesty mania,
masquerading as Poetilect,
churning inside another alias….
.
Carefully,
with the
knife and fork
of discernment,
I began to examine the
spiritual and intellectual
content of the work,
the phrases
their intent
the sounds
the imagery
the analogies
and metaphors
the gist and spirit of it….
.
And what I found
concealed [in the words]
was inordinate self-esteem,
a rash of pseudo-rationalism's
splashed with half-truths
and idioms folded
together as a
thaumaturgical stew,
a meal designed not to
strengthen or enlighten,
but to tangle the unguarded
in the controlling manacles of
DECEPTION, basking in its own light…
.
© richard lloyd cederberg
3/2025

1st Timothy 4:1-2.
   A NEW RACE OF HuMANS



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Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on March 26, 2025
I ENJOYED THIS, RICHARD AND THE PHOTO IS ABSOLUTEY... PERFECT! FOR, 'DECEPTION' IS INDEED AN 'ART'...INFLUENCED AND CONTROLLED BY THE ENEMY OF GOD, WHO DIRECTS THE WILLING INSTRUMENT HOW TO PAINT WITH COLORS THAT REFLECTS AND SHINES ON THEMSELVES. GREAT WORK, THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+ INSPIRATIONS.

Reviewed on March 12, 2025
I love the knife and fork digestion here. I feel like anything we listen to gives me indigestion these days!

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 12, 2025
I like the metaphor of using a knife and fork for discernment. Personally, I've seen many people do it while examining their food, but I never have.

It is obvious you have a great grass of literature and the ways that authors write. Your vocabulary is surpassed by none.

Congratulations on your new book.

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on March 10, 2025
Very perceptive and insightful, so salient for our times, especially in the world of politics where vast multitudes are deceived on a daily basis.

Reviewed on March 10, 2025
An intelligent and wise expose of deception, in the life and with the pen. Well written, Richard.


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