[Heavenly Marketing Department] Ides of March, One Year Before the Christian Era Archangel: You’ve got to change your image. Everyone thinks you’re a mischievous trickster or an angry jealous beast. You’re down 60 points in the polls. Yahweh: Let’s bring in another world empire to oppress the Jews. I’ll step in, save them, and bingo, […]
Author: haphapner
A Prat-fall
The Problem of Consciousness
Everything we perceive is filtered through the grid of our worldview. From the moment our consciousness awakens, our worldview is built, brick-upon-brick through every activity and interaction that we experience. How we receive and manage those experiences is key. Do I take in and reorganize? or Do I take in and reinforce? Am I a […]
Untitled
We approach life in some fearless way. But it’s a lie, we tell ourselves. Our hearts are full of fear, worry. Laying bare our souls, what do we see? A vulnerable child, lost and looking for a parent. # Alone we enter with tears and crying. Alone we leave without a scrap. In between we […]
Subjective
Science cannot define truth. Neither can you; nor does it belong to me. What if we disagree? Can it not remain a mystery? # Morality dwells within. Laws do not mandate; dogma cannot make it. It’s not absolute, Beyond ability to refute. # Life’s enigma – fate and fiat. A destructive, hateful place of absolutes, […]
Why I Write
In The Nuptials, Camus wrote of a consciousness reveling in the world, a body delighting in nature, and the individual’s immersion in sheer physicality. Years before, Whitman wrote of the same sensuality, joy, and awareness of our place in this world. These two giants married literary and philosophical thought like few had. I have no […]
Us
I slept safe last night I ate a meal today My life was not a fight I didn’t need to runaway # The sidewalk became my bed Hunger found me longing Fate shook me in the head Now only on the streets belonging # Fear grips us all in the dark Our abusers at our […]
Why I Write
I write to bring others peacefulness and joy, to stand them on a prairie hillcrest watching wind ripple ripening wheatfields as far as the eye can see, like an ocean, wave after wave of golden grain, its bronzed hues dancing and playing in the sunlight swaying, first this way, then that, without reason other than […]
Camilla, The Warrior
Fierce gentleness swept past me one winter day, Beautiful, true, yet her nobility unfathomed. That goddess brushed past in a warrior way, Her coiffed wildness had quelled many a wasteland. # I pursued her down the path to a clearing Ignoring her bow and quiver, toward her horse, “Would you dine with me?” my voice […]
Justice & Equality
The patriarchy has forced all women To forget their true nature and mother – The Amazons of Diana who is Tiamat! # Shake off your slumber ladies and prepare for battle! # Too much is known of time and space, To leave the patriarchy in place!
Connected
Where is our tether? What binds these avatars to all that is? Rootless, what do we do for this world? What value from our injection here? # Water binds fish to streams & seas. Does the air bind me? Capillaries & chlorophyll tie leaves to trees. Am I connected, am I free? # Avatars be […]