Bludgeon – DP

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I’m going to bludgeon my anxiety,

beat it black and blue.

Bludgeon it until it’s gone

and I can speak to you.

I want to wake up happy,

without those cares about.

Look into the mirror

with a smile and not a pout. 

I want to bludgeon my neurosis,

as this is just a tease.

I have a stupid problem,

that I always want to please.

I want to make the choices,

to do something if I care.

Not because I have to,

I don’t always want to share.

I want to bludgeon self perception,

so it shows me something new.

So I can see a brighter world,

where there’s more for me to do.

I want to feel I’m worthy,

not defined by my mistakes

To perceive myself succeeding,

might be all that it takes.

Response to Daily Prompt – Bludgeon

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November

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November your far too early,

I’m not ready for you to call.

I’ve not sorted out my sweaters yet,

I didn’t need them in the fall.

November your not welcome,

you bring December nearer,

And all the expense of Christmas,

which is always a little dearer.

So November please just go away,

send back your friend October.

I think he’s rather special,

I wish he would stay over.

 

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Another Goodbye 

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Another friend left here today, 

she won’t be coming home.

She’s gone to pastures yonder, 

where the good souls roam.

I didn’t get a chance to say, 

what she meant to me.

It doesn’t really matter now, 

I suppose that she can see.

It’s her daughter that worries me, 

her grief is so brand new.

She’s numb with shock it’s tragic, 

not sure of what to do.

And the grandson who found her, 

tried to keep her alive.

Bless his heart, I mean it, 

oh, how hard he tried.

Then those family arguments, 

that come at times like this.

When people find another place, 

to put the things they miss.

So my friend if you’re watching, 

believe me they’ll be fine.

They are suffering the loss of you, 

they’ll be needing time.

 

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Copycat – DP

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It’s very hard not to be a copycat, with so many thoughts out there in the world can we ever be original.

Do we reach the same conclusions from reaching into our own innate intelligence and finding our own answers.  Perhaps the works of others inspire us and trigger our thinking, perhaps we forget where our answers come from.  I learn on my own, through experience,  but also through meaningful conversation, art and literature.  It wasn’t long ago someone told me something I wrote was similar to the poet and philosopher Rumi, I hadn’t intended it to be but when I thought about it, because he is one of my favourite poets it is quite possible that his words run through my veins.  I’m okay with this as I hadn’t intentionally copied him, what I said was similar.  I’m on a journey of self discovery, so I will be looking to what others before me have said.

As I said in a post earlier today, to create something that comes to us naturally, will be as near to perfect as we can get. The best work comes from the heart, runs onto the paper from your veins.   I do hope that I haven’t got that from somewhere else because I would hate to be a copycat 😉

 

via Daily Prompt: Copycat

I believe…

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I believe in self enquiry, to connect with ourselves on a deeper level, to find peace within ourselves in our most natural state.  I believe in sitting in silence, switching off the outside world, thoughts and ego.

I believe that through our connection within, we can then connect externally to the universe, we are then at one with all of nature, at one with the universe.  I  believe we find this state when we put ourselves aside.

I believe it essential to know ourselves on a far deeper level before we can hope to know and understand another.  We owe it to ourselves to understand ourselves, as to understand ourselves is to understand the human soul, we are really just reflections of each other.

I believe that we are all connected in some way, but cannot recognise this connection until we have really connected with ourselves.  We are at one but also separate depending in which state we are living.

I believe that all possibilities start from within, it is there the fertile seeds are planted that  grow into our external realities.  Believing in ourselves, our capabilities without putting up barriers of self doubt brings those possibilities closer.

I believe that when we connect to the presence within, the presence that is all knowing and non judging we find our true selves.

I believe it is essential to forget that which has been told, that what we have learnt and find our own answers, those that sit well with us and feel right.  

These are my beliefs, I wonder how they sit with yours.

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