Icarus Enlightenment
critical thinking
has been grounded
put a pin in nuance
your problem solving
is bad air-control
those who inhabit the heights
upon their ancient bone mount
have labelled it hot air
they don't want you buzzing about
maintaining catacombs
among the stratocumulus
is shaky businesses
truth is only whispered
or the castle comes down
look now
you've disturbed
the buttressing masses
"Aye ... I didn't hear you
what did you say."
Hold still ... little Atlas's
keep on guard, a firm grip
or along will come Sisyphus
to Sabine your dusty gems
steal your girl
romance and take her on
a Tibetan mountain trip
pre-approved questions
may be given air
but it's a no fly zone
for posits
that have not been tested
scripted and rehearsed
Nostradamus
has augured
puppet princes
feudal emperors
ambitious lieutenants
would transform
into the butt of folly
in a genuine joust
of wit and words
get buried in muck
from slippage
and gaffe
faux-angels get strings
petty entanglements
inhabit wired elevations
and wooden grins
a transcendence of tricksters
an Icarus enlightenment
stolen honeyed-feathers
sharp deadened plumes
a tintype and face-tune'd
abbreviated spectrum
an opiated, pot of pyrite
and piles of filthy lucre
to dry wind burn tears
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Ode to the Herculean Man
Strength of Intellect
Overwhelming Charm
Invincible Façade
Empathy Empty
Silvered tones flow from a forked tongue
You’d tilt Atlas’ grip to fill you gilded cup
Herculean man
Demigod
I think not
Among us
~in you~
Demons Walk
The universe, material existence, is almost unfathomably immense in comparison to the Earth and any being that inhabits it. Yet some of us are willing to sacrifice, destroy great swathes and our brothers and sisters so they might lay claim to just a little bit more than another with similar aspirations; willing to sacrifice love and kindness to be an emperor of little things.
Yet it is the realm of no-things ... the mind ... that is large enough to contain the universe. One who regularly traverses here in a state of surrender finds a universe ready to serve and heal, to delight and pleasure.
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The Tao is a well
Dwarfed by a raindrop
Deep enough
To fill an endless ocean
She soothes all sharpness
Eases all tightness
Mutes all din
Softens all glare
Forms and dissolves all clay
All flows from her
All flows into her
She is the beginning
She has no end
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Icarus Enlightenment was published today on the HIVE blockchain. Ode to the Herculean Man is published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels and is available in paperback or digital through amazon and your local libraries and bookstores.
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