God created the world in play
Music
Music.
Poem – Bloodline
Aug 17th
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my genes are the memories
of my many ancestors
asking me to place a spear point
between the eyes of my enemies
be they devils, animals or other men
i am strangely compelled and can cleverly rationalize
my newly remembered plans to harm them
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my paleolithic ancestry asks me
as politely as it can primitively articulate
and explains in clear terms how to weaponize a nearby mop
i recall how in great detail the easiest way to sharpen and crop
the back into an edge ( i throw away the head)
and now to grinding deadly devices from shards of flint
my speartip waits unfashioned in the driveway
..i’m now completely convinced.
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and my limbric brain wont refrain from trying to convince me of
all the pleasures to be gained from dealing out pain.
the vikings in my past have convinced me
that all i need is a battle-axe
for the little tasks
they later add that chain-mail never really went out of fashion.
and that i’m in dire need of bacon and a beer flagon!
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i find that on impulse
i might drop kick a dinosaur
into the path of a meteor
throw rocks at the head of a sabtretooth tiger
i got love for chicxulub
my character amplified a thousand million times
in the cacaphony of my bloodline
and today,
with deadly broom in hand
i will do away with my civility
and in spite of my humanity
i am defined by what i was.
Image Credit: SKI tripper
Poem – New Grounds
Aug 14th
first you start to understand the works of man
the city plans
the geometry and
later you may start to learn
how we overturn new grounds and why buildings burn
and over time you may come to see
patterns in the madness, the harmony
the fractals built upon the black profound
and feel a little sadness
that in understanding
all the wonders have gone away
but i’ll tell you man
you will never understand
why the magic must decay
Image Credit: Subterranean Tourist Board
Article – About the Magnificent Obsession
Jun 19th
Being fixated on a positive outcome has so many advantages.
this fixation on what you do or intend to do makes you skilled at relating your environment to your mission
makes you see opportunities where others wouldn’t
makes you put out a passion which others can feel, and will come to know you by
adds an intangible element of drive to your character
inspires you to do what you do, long after others have gone to bed.
makes you resilient,
immune to the knock-backs that you will encounter
keep you focused on the overall goal, even if where you are does not suggest anything about where you are going
like jet fuel on the embers of a fire…
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be proud of your obsession
If you lack one, cultivate it.
it is simple..
find something you love and do it.
broadly speaking, the loftier the target
the greater the fanaticism required.
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people without passion are dying from it.
Photo credit: Wolfgang Staudt
Article – On Certainty and Arrival
Jun 18th
in life we must advance with certainty
yet be ever questioning
if we are not yet certain
we will still move ahead
and we will still question
but where will we arrive,
if ever we do?
to drift is fine, if willing to accept whatever comes, whatever it is.
