ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
I STARTED WRITING a series of incredibly short pieces based on Jerzy Kosinski’s 1968 novel-of-sorts Steps. My work a step away from the narrative when I read Arthur Rimbaud’s prose-poems.
Since then, I suppose the most obvious influences have been my psychedelic experiences and Tristan Tzara’s mammoth dada masterpiece of 1931, Approximate Man. Not that you’ll see any of the above in any of the below.
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No Sweat
(A poem by Ananda)
I am tired of the excuses.
I am uninspired by the same song.
Seems like everybody wants a quick fix.
Seems like nobody wants to put in the work.
No pain, no sweat.
No gain, no loss.
Seems like everybody wants the promotion
but nobody wants to climb that mountain. [Read more] “no sweat (a poem)”
(A poem by Ananda)
Grow up, Peter Pan!
You can’t stay in Neverland forever.
There will be a day when the dust rubs off;
you’ll hit the ground and look up at the stars;
you’ll sit and wonder, “Where did my life go?”
‘Cause you’re no longer a Lost Boy,
just an old pirate creeper playing little boy games. [Read more] “grow up, peter pan (a poem)”
Entangled in a symphony of brightness
the universe is
the wisdom of the mechanics of miracles
The universe is
eternal stillness = spiritual human observation
The universe is
the unexplainable (who which that) inspires subjective self-knowledge
The universe is
the future: illuminations, descriptions of potentiality
evolution, the ground of immortal actions
existence, the heart of sub-empirical bliss
The invisible regulates karmic external reality
your heart is a modality of boundless photons
and imagination is reborn in unparalleled success
The universe is
the future: knowledge is entangled in a symphony of
brightness (as) the web of life imparts reality
to progressive expansion of positivity
(while) the cosmos differentiates
into an expression of choices
Transcendence arises and subsides in precious silence
(Transcendence
arises and subsides
in precious silence)
Meanwhile
the
universe
is . . . [Read more] “entangled in a symphony of brightness”