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Dreaming Plants

Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks like morning glory…

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Space

How a space is organized (or un-organized) matters. Where is your jar of pens? Do you have one? Are they scattered everywhere, or forever going missing? What do you see from where you sit? Is it demoralizing? Is it pleasant? Is it beautiful? As I sit here, there are 8 containers of pens and markers in front of me, 3 of which have 4 subdivisions. [and they are organized, sorted nicely by types]…

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Standing Before the Mirror Unadorned

Inserting the pleasure. Finding no connections between plan & act. Alighting — the pathway of lightning. The lightning alit on the pla[i]n[e]. The lightning dismounted the towering, charging storm-cloud. Rhythm. Stop. Spot. Ought ex em, clap thunder, run, pitty-pat. Answer beside. Sit beside. Answer back the talking drum. Keep clear of the combine. Athwart the balance of the fates – – hanging, a…

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Mantra Against Paranoia & Aimlessness

Stabilize the thoughtsWeigh them for logicalnessWhat are the investments in time, money, people?Filter out the madnessSee to the shining heartRepeat one mantraImagine a futureKnow that it may not be this one you land inDon't get stuck in a myopic, stagnant, ever-presentSet your course day to dayRemain flexible, limberReady for any change of direction Featured image by WordPress’ AI based on text

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my things came

haikujustforyou.com will become live soon. i am tripping a bit right now tho so not today. send puzzles to your loved ones, acquaintences you have an address for, or enemies! shake them up with poetry and imagery! $10 a pop, not $20 the one with the puzzle girl and unreally tiny AI kitten is unmarked so they wont have the slightest idea why they got a postcard except a stamp on the stamp saying…

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To-Do List No. 3

Trust your fellow humans whenever possible.Let you be your true self as far as is safe.Take time for silence get comfortable with it.Take time to walk outdoors with or without music.If you can, try living without a car of your own.Lyfts, buses, feet, bicycles,Greyhounds and rentals for out of town.You may find yourself surprisingly happy.If you want happiness you must remind yourself that you are…

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The Revolt, Ever to Collect Its Due

A poem with a more concrete narrative than most from my book Synaptic Syntactic. Read more from Synaptic Syntactic by checking out the posts tagged Synaptic Syntactic. Buy the whole book in one neat offline package with no clicking around page loads at BookBaby or Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Everand. Synaptic Syntactic may also be available thanks to BookBaby…

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HaikuJustForYou.com

6 of these are getting made into 6×4″ postcards to be used (hopefully, if there are buyers!) for my attempt at turning this postcard thing into a business for haikujustforyou.com. The puzzle girl was made by WordPress’ AI and that card will have no indications of where or who its from so as to mystify the recipient. The other five do say haikujustforyou.com on the back. I should have them in a…

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Dissolved Paranoias

Something has changed I know not whatOne beer no longer triggers Days of drunkennessCertain paranoias Seem to dissolveI am awake and alertLess important to the world's and to the nation's storyHaving more agency in my own storyNew possibilities, new purposes, opening upThe heart ready to be offered And to play without fearing rejectionDon't count chickens before they hatchDon't deceive yourself…

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To-Do List No. 2

Each day cultivate joyCheck the troubles of the day at your doorstep each eveningPause before going throughRemember your purpose & valueThere is no time like the present so start that projectClear away obstructing clutter & messLeave no obstacles unaddressedInvoke Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles if you likeStand up for the defenseless In what ways you canVolunteer with civic organizationsMake new…

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To-Do List No. 1

Each day without fearPut together what joy you canSelf-assemble satisfactionTake chances on embarrassmentBoldly talk to strangersWeave community with kindnessMake mistakes dauntlesslyNever let social fear master youTake not dumb, inappropriate adviceGrow up with dignity & poiseHand out decorated inspirational note cardsFulfill your happiness Featured image sources: Imkara Visual for Unsplash+,…

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Do That Which Springs Immediately to Hand

Each day without fearBring joy into focusAssemble small pieces of progressPersevere brick by small act by optimistic thoughtOpen to the possibility of letting go of wasted money, and effort, and timeLessons learned, no self-reproachDo not worry, instead merely -Do that which springs immediately to hand Featured image / digital collage source material: Photo by Jose Fabula on Unsplash, Photo by…

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Deflating

Sense of self-importanceCollapsing inward todayTogether with excess paranoiaDiminishment of terms to social mediaYet stillA few thingsHave unaccountablyAppeared & disappearedFrom my house Featured image source material: Photo by Jinsoo Choi on Unsplash and an Unsplash+ Contributor

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Threatening Cloudbursts / Don't Let Them Steal Your Joy

Haiku from my postcard art and activism project, ongoing since 12/30/2015 spin cycle machinesdont let them steal joy from youcharms, sparkles, & stars threatening cloudburstsDont let them steal joy from youKindness increments transfer of limitssparkling infinitesimalsfragments of kindness happily dancingnow dont let them steal our joytoday is a new day featured image source material: Thorn…

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5 postcard haiku

Objective hindrance / Clutter blocks your actions hard / Psychologically Pleasure Principle / Ring toss explosives layup / Happy days ahead Every time you choose / Quantum entanglement pops / Energy is real Neither a phantom / Nor a Hallucinatory Djinn / Drug induced {Blank Space} Inflationary / Tranquilizer Episodes / Fill in the blank once Featured image source materials: Photo by Ryan…

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The Turning of Tables

per any pair of countries / switch indicator / like a turning table / "advantage" / "whose move?" / or per any particular border crossing / potentially many applications / but not novel / see, video/game design / /programming / /rule books / rather / than scholarly journals / peer-reviewed theory papers / see the game designs in depth / then write the academic paper, or marketable book / /end…

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conspiritech

i was going to add this to my website but my passwords like my whiskey keeps going missing. i had written down like 6 or 7 definitions for this word in a 2007 notebook but that page became ripped out &disappeared. here are the two i remember something you do both for your own benfit and for all humanity an undefined activist