Layers of Me
1.
Who am I?
2.
I am different.
3.
I am diverse.
4.
Patterns do not exist.
We are all different—
no two leaves, rocks, or snowflakes are the same.
They drift, as do we all, on the winds of fate,
But fate has many roads.
Which will you take?
5.
I am the waves in the sea,
forever moving,
never silent.
If my voice is quiet,
I am singing inside.
6.
I am the fire contained in a ring.
I can burn brightly,
but I need others to feed me
and allow me to burn
in whichever color I choose.
7.
I am the wind blowing to all places.
I cannot be still,
and I dance with all.
I can be furious, or cold,
or warm and tender.
I can bluster, or caress,
or play with children.
I can soar.
8.
If we are born again, will we be
cursed to repeat our old mistakes or
blessed with a chance to repair out faults?
9.
Music floats on the wind, they say.
I believe it is held aloft by the soul.
Music comes from the heart, they say.
I say it is shared by hands on an instrument
and through the voice of a madman.
For only madmen and poets come back alive.
Both are blessed and cursed,
for neither is taken seriously due to their blessed gifts.
10.
Why won’t all believe?
Why are children exposed to guns
instead of imagination
and a cardboard box?
The imagination is the best thing gifted to humans,
for without it we would be horrid and boring.
As we are becoming.
11.
What is a name?
I am called by many names...
Which one describes me?
or are they all use-names?
What then is my real name?
Will I ever know?
Does anyone know the difference
between a real name
and a use-name anymore?
Perhaps...(internet)
Then again, perhaps not,
for are we not given our name
that we use for identification and legal matters
and does not the real name come from
the heart and the soul?
Then I must search both to see
what I can discover of myself.
12.
Snow in summer.
Green in winter.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Isn’t it wonderful?
Life is contradiction.
I am contradiction.
13.
Acceptance.
A luxury I was denied when I was young.
A luxury I am again often denied.
A luxury I usually give to others,
though to some undeserving of this favor,
as they deny it to others...
Perhaps they will pass the favor on.
14.
Differences are common.
But I am different
and I am uncommon.
One percent of the population.
Not as smart as I should be.
15.
Born in the wrong era, or was I?
I guess here I have it all...
modern life: freedom, music, education
old life: culture, dulcimer, living history
16.
dancing
a graceful activity
good exercise
a great time to flirt
a ritual,
ancient,
life renewal
17.
Faeries...
Real or no?
As long as one person still believes...
Disbelief is too often bred into our children,
the life-givers of the mystics.
18.
Mist.
My favorite weather
It hides all...
Never know what will show up next...anything.
The one true unknown that remains;
anything could be there.
Perhaps the truth is hidden there.
19.
3, 7, 101
special old numbers
Things come in three
7...just a magical number
101...the number of days in bondage
20.
and 5
symbol of all
earth air fire water
and above all spirit
Spirit is needed to balance the rest.
I don’t have my spirit quite in balance.
A project for summer.
21.
"Words, words, words"
So small, and so important.
So few can make or ruin a day.
So few can give courage or can discourage.
Choose which you use carefully.
22.
Dreams.
Can they predict?
Do they tell what you wish for?
Are they nothing but fantasies
of a wandering unrestricted mind?
What do they mean?
What if someday you stop having them?
Who forces their dreams?
Who controls their dreams?
Why?
23.
Emotion comes out of music.
You are what you eat.
Are you what you listen to, then?
The brain absorbs music.
24.
"Brain candy"
Def: a good book read for enjoyment
My addiction.
I need my brain candy or I’ll go insane.
Wait, I’m there already.
25.
Insanity...sanity
Who is to say which is which?
Are we not all a bit of both?
We need one to show we have the other.
We need each to prove we exist,
but do we exist?
Are we all merely a part of someone’s
(or something’s) dream?
I wish they would wake up.
I wish they would dream a better dream.
I hope no one learns to control
this dream we all live in.
26.
Who controls fate?
What determines fate?
All of fate is tangled.
If fate is a road, what would happen
if someone jumped off the edge?
Would they fall or float?
27.
Random Infinity.
The circle of life.
We are all here,
whether here is a dream
or reality
or a skewed fantasy we all share.
If we are careful with what we do to others as well as ourselves,
And teach our children the old ways,
We will come back to correct our mistakes;
We will come back different;
But we will come back.
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