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20 March 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Yesterday is Ashes Gone, passed, spent, historyTo be remembered, celebrated or mourned,recalled, recounted, revisited, revered, reviled,distorted, embellished, demonised & made legend! All of these options are available and, in the reality of life,different people will choose differing paths Yesterday is ashes… Ashes flitter away on the wind with their gossips attached, and once flying, they […]
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15 March 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Sorrow Thoughts drowning in their own tearsFeelings lost in a maelstrom of emptinessYearning for what could have beenGagging on the bile of what is A desire to step back in timeA wish to undo what was doneTo un-say what was saidTo un-dream what was dreamed Sorrow operates in all tensesIf affiliates itself with the verbsIt […]
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9 March 2021 by
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Thoughts My thoughts can travel to the corners of the WorldThey require no Passport or VisaThey require no tickets or bookingsThey require no flight plans to be made My thoughts are the very definition of freedom Yet my thoughts seem constrained by my mind?They are constrained by: ImaginationSelf-EsteemSelf-WorthMy CultureMy FaithMy Lack of FaithMy HomelifeMy DreamsMy […]
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5 March 2021 by
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Exhale A seething torrent of attitude and egoNeatly wrapped in twisted self-affirmationsDelusional blind-spots of care and considerationWreaking their havoc in innocent sentences A dog with a bone, you just can’t let goYour echo rarely one of peaceYour impact never as discreet as you thinkYour true attitude shouts between your words A keen willingness to demean […]
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28 February 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Balance Ups & Downs Ins & Outs Front & Back To & Fro Wax & Wane Ebb & Flow Right & Wrong Good & Bad Light & Dark Peaks & Troughs Here & There On & Off Tomorrow & Yesterday Future & Past Parity Symmetry Equity Harmony Own your choices & your […]
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24 February 2021 by
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Viral Exponential touch through shared spaceUnequivocal in focus and goalsAn audit trail of diminished hosts I am like the wind… You can only see my impact, but never me Immunity an unknown factorCommunity my ideal hunting groundUnity in distancing my nemesisOpportunity is all I need I am the separator of herds I am the perpetual […]
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20 February 2021 by
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Anchored The question is not whether you are anchored… The question is where you are anchored? Are you anchored to a memoryIn the hope that it can be revived? Are you anchored to a possibilityThat requires you to wait in the past? Are you anchored in a yesterdayThat is destined never to be relived? Locate […]
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17 February 2021 by
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CoD Some people flow through life with easeRiding in the slipstream of their forebearsIt is always calm in the eye of the stormNever buffeted by the maelstrom outside their bubble The rest of us must navigate the weather systems of the worldThe hail, monsoons, and tempests that life offers upWe must walk straight into the […]
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14 February 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Manifest Juxtaposition in play alwaysTo manifest Vs it is manifestEasy to confuse through desireLaw of attraction Vs attraction of a law Delusion of self, a road well-travelledLitany of self-lies raining downVisibility impacted by closed eyesOpen hearts creating the unseen sights Waking dreams signpost the way Desire is a strong guideAmbition can be a willful deceiverDetermination […]
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12 February 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Desolate Connections weakenedTethers emancipatedReciprocity GhostedAssociation seeming to fade Alone and loneliness are not the sameSingular and silent may be bedfellowsDoubt can grow in the absence of contactScouting for what seems to have been lost When laid wide open we are unprotectedAny blow taken will hit hardSelf-preservation re-suits the armourThe path back home is taken with […]
