A cell divides to make a human
Humans divide to make a war
Divided cells all stick together
What are humans divided for?
Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are.
Frank Ocean
Category: 2022
The Dark Forest – 2nd July 2022
An invasion is coming
Some are set to flee
To claim a heritage
To remain forever free
Who gets on the ship?
Who’ll steer the way?
There’s limited space
For an unlimited stay
A reckless endeavour
Deciding who to save
The smart or the rich
A master or a slave
Inspired by the book of the same name.
18th Oct 2024 – Shared with Word of the Day Challenge – unlimited
The growth of an acute sense of the past and future, gives us a corresponding dim sense of the present.
Alan Watts
Four Days Of Fire – 1st July 2022
OK, let’s stay calm, the doctors will know best
Can you go home and get yourself plenty of rest?
Or perhaps you’d like to stay in a lovely hospital bed
Very cheap with your insurance, that’s what the nurses said
I decided I’d die at home surrounded by my cats
Didn’t die in the end – no thanks to those stupid bats!
We may fancy that there might be a better universe, but we cannot conceive of a better, because our minds are the outcome of things as they are, and all our ideas of value are based upon the lessons we learn in this world.
John Burroughs
In A Waiting Room – 30th June 2022
In a tent, surrounded by nurses
The sick and the fainting
Sweaty palms and sweaty necks
Infected double-masked painting
Every hour numbers multiplying
As the heat keeps turning up
Medicine and food declare the end
Holding onto the winner’s cup
Many people are so worried about looking good that they never do anything great. Many people are so worried about doing something great that they never do anything at all.
Derek Sivers
Camouflage – 29th June 2022
I didn’t see you coming
And I’m not laughing now
An elegant transfer
From there to here somehow
Hiding in the open
Invisible to touch and tongue
You have become a part of me
Buried within my lung
Your camouflage removed
The fight has now started
It’s going until the bitter end
And one of us has departed
2nd Nov 2024 – Shared with Ragtag Daily Prompt – departed
First, we must come to believe that we have the capacity to raise ourselves up. Second, we must develop a solid work ethic to back this up. If we are rigorous and persistent, we will be able to overcome almost any obstacle and elevate our position. People who are lazy and undisciplined are much more prone to feeling envy.
Robert Greene
The Collar – 28th June 2022
An elephant in snow eating a purple tangerine
Wears a collar of bread crusts discarded at dinner
A fairy-eared Asian man describes a perfect shoe
And a simple Simon is applauding this night’s winner
Books, walks, parks, runs, libraries, striking conversations, philosophical discussions, sports, introspection, meditation, sunrise, sunset, rain; people who get excited from these are lucky.
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Little Creations – 27th June 2022
When the rain comes
Little creations invade my home
Blocking up my chimney
And forcing me alone
Forming an army here
And constantly on the attack
Crawling all over me
And turning my tissue black
A guy with two dicks doesn’t need a good memory.
Mila, Love and Rockets, Beto Hernandez
The Decline of Western Civilisation Pt II – 26th June 2022
It’s difficult to care about the west
Always declaring itself as best
Fighting its war against the beast
Maintaining control across the east
Patience one day will gain reward
No longer counting whose goals were scored
A better way will come to be
A time that most of us wish to see
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
from Welcome to Night Vale
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to get some gardening advice for Bruno when he came to visit today.
The Decline of Western Civilisation Pt I – 25th June 2022
America is the land of dreams
Only because everyone is sleeping
Nothing is what it seems
Its children are quietly weeping
Glam, glitz, all those shiny things
Pursuit of happiness year-round
Who knows when the fat lady sings
Or words are whispered profound
Watching an empire in decline
Must be frustrating from within
What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine
Is no longer seen as sin
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
Jane Hirshfield
Language Diabolic – 24th June 2022
Bring it together – the idea and the word
And stand behind the words said and heard
Smash it apart – the words and the real
So that fantasy is all that’s left to feel
20th Mar 2024 – Submitted to RDP Tuesday – Fantasy
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to have a runaround with some of my students yesterday. We were all happy to play.
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