Synonyms

Peter on October 7th, 2011

guttering, fluttering
on wings of fire
I fly
to love again, aspire

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Peter on September 15th, 2011

We seek a love which will make us whole;
Such a burden we place upon those we love.
So I work to become whole in myself,
Hoping the lightness in my being
Leaves no burden for others to carry.

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Peter on June 30th, 2011

I envelop myself in words
In the dreams and visions they evoke
In the taste of them on my tongue
I tingle as they brush across my lips
Tremble as they form in my chest
A rumble larger than myself
While they wind a path through my mind
Illuminating this sensation, and that emotion
Recording all the world so that no moment must [...]

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Peter on March 14th, 2011

Often, even a prolonged search appears fruitless
But look among the discards
For the unsought fruit
So often sweeter, more fulfilling
Than the one intended.

Seeking is an act of desire,
Discovery, an act of vision.
Disentangled from objectives,
Seeking always bears fruit.

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Peter on March 11th, 2011

No matter the beauty perceived in your appearance,
know that the loveliest aspect of you
is found in your heart,
your spirit.

Some say these beauties cannot be seen,
cannot be photographed or painted,
but you wear this beauty on your physical being
the way a diaphonous veil drapes from a rounded breast,
clings along a [...]

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Peter on March 10th, 2011

If you feel hatred, feel the anger that powers it.
If you feel anger, feel the fear that motivates it.
If you feel fear, feel the pain that underlies it.
If you feel pain, heal the part of you that feels it.

Pain is the crucible in which all suffering is smelted
Extinguish the fires that bring pain to boil
And [...]

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Peter on March 9th, 2011

When I choose to live in my fear, my anger, my hate
I see the world through eyes that fear
I hear the song of anger in every note
I taste hatred as if all sustenance were the bitterest root

In my mind
I place the world of power, control and duplicity
Above the world of beauty, compassion and love
So that [...]

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Peter on February 24th, 2011

It is through our perception of this realm of manifestation
And our will to reason about all we perceive
That we learn to believe in opposites.

Beauty & Ugliness
Love & Hatred
Good & Evil

Only words.
Only names for the unnameable.
The concepts they speak of,
Only manifestations of the eternally real.

By believing these words speak the final truth
We make their manifestations real.

We [...]

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Peter on February 4th, 2011

It has been said:

There’s always a little truth behind every “Just kidding”;
A little knowledge behind every: “I don’t know”;
A little emotion behind every: “I don’t care” and
A little pain behind every “It’s okay.”

This is true. Often, there is rather a lot. But it’s also true that,

There is always a little love in every smile;
A little [...]

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Peter on February 2nd, 2011

We are always changing,
But only to become ourselves.
What we leave behind was not ours.
What we carry forward is,
     if only for the moment.

Sometimes a backward glance clarifies
     what was,
          what remains,
               what will be.

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