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Post by glimmer on Dec 29, 2014 5:49:21 GMT -5
Okay guys, I'll try and say this. There are some who would say let your heart break for enlightenment.
I'd forewarn you to be careful for what you wish for.
My heart started to hurt ... I thought, ah, so you really can feel heartbreak (I had a bad breakup once upon one time). So I read and wrote poetry. And the more my heart hurt, the more I fully threw myself into fully experiencing the feelings generated from the poetry of the likes of Rumi, and especially Rainier Maria Rilke. Anyway, I found myself in the hospital eventually from a full on heart attack, no medical reason. The body can't always cope with everything we give it. Stands to reason .. where did the term 'heartbreak' originate anyway? I still cannot read Rilke's eligies .. if I try, my heart hurts! ('every angel is terror' .. Rilke).
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Post by glimmer on Dec 29, 2014 6:00:26 GMT -5
Musings from my art journal .. I'd say I can't draw ... but anyway, there is some randomness in my sketchpad, and I can't share the pictures but here are some words from it:
written on hill 1 WHAT WORDS CAN WRAP IN THE FOLDS OF OUR GAZING THAT CANNOT WRAP IN THE FOLDS OF OUR
written on hill 2 SKIES ARE CIRCLING UNBOUND WITH ALL AND IT'S CANVAS
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Grim Reaper on the water we safe in houses
(this art piece was about a dream a friend had)
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clouds over the moon stars are out
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petals falling do you understand
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you are part of it all
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Dec 29, 2014 13:36:14 GMT -5
Post by laughter on Dec 29, 2014 13:36:14 GMT -5
Okay guys, I'll try and say this. There are some who would say let your heart break for enlightenment. I'd forewarn you to be careful for what you wish for. My heart started to hurt ... I thought, ah, so you really can feel heartbreak (I had a bad breakup once upon one time). So I read and wrote poetry. And the more my heart hurt, the more I fully threw myself into fully experiencing the feelings generated from the poetry of the likes of Rumi, and especially Rainier Maria Rilke. Anyway, I found myself in the hospital eventually from a full on heart attack, no medical reason. The body can't always cope with everything we give it. Stands to reason .. where did the term 'heartbreak' originate anyway? I still cannot read Rilke's eligies .. if I try, my heart hurts! ('every angel is terror' .. Rilke).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2014 18:47:28 GMT -5
on a roll I can't control the scroll Brake.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2015 0:50:59 GMT -5
Cat brushes her face Through the arm of a human "Truth" Echoes though time.
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Post by charliegee on Jan 3, 2015 4:27:45 GMT -5
a love, briefly
it coulda been something if conditions were right if hearts and minds agreed to go forth blindly
isn't that what we do? in the beginning of a love a relationship ~ we go blind not having any reasons not to
it was brief but it was fun plenty of laughter and pizza god knows you need plenty of both she took my arm in the Harlem rain
and we got lost right there where I knew where we were she is still my friend and I love her dearly
it was a moment in time and a very good one I thank her for it it coulda been something
its probably best that it wasn't don't say you heard that from me
charlie giardino 1/3/15
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Jan 3, 2015 4:29:01 GMT -5
Post by charliegee on Jan 3, 2015 4:29:01 GMT -5
on the wobble been on the wobble lately unsteady on my feet even falling down a couple or three times the first fall was a doozy I crashed into a mirror and was found in a sea of glass that reflected all over my bare ass got away with only a scratch I wet myself and was totally humiliated I've been a very bad boy and if Santa came it'd be with a syringe full of insulin I stumbled and stammered through my days I felt like a hundred year old guy not too old to forgo Christmas goodies and more Christmas goodies I was acting like a healthy 25 year old who wasn't diabetic now that my numbers are better I see the wisdom in taking care of myself so much better to be on the wagon than on the wobble charlie giardino 1/3/14
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Post by laughter on Jan 3, 2015 6:49:47 GMT -5
Ouch and amen!
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Jan 6, 2015 14:50:54 GMT -5
Post by charliegee on Jan 6, 2015 14:50:54 GMT -5
once upon a winter's night once upon a winter's dream it happened on this earth two people met and traded hearts and saw their love give birth
it was such a wonder they walked on wings of light they knew why they existed and wrong was brought to right
they loved and lived together through happiness and strife and soon enough it happened she became his wife
through Christmases and Easters they simply made their way ... children came and love did grow a miracle a day ...
but in every fairytale, it seems ... sorrow follows laughter what happened to the love they shared and happy ever after?
she was taken, he was left so deep in winter weather how would he make it on his own they knew nothing but together
once upon a winter's dream a lover sits alone thinking back on all that was and ponders the unknown
and somewhere in the dark of night a spark is lit and shines gratitude, the final thing to which a broken heart inclines
CG 12/10/11
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Post by glimmer on Jan 23, 2015 2:43:08 GMT -5
into the allness? let go and run with it
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Post by charliegee on Jan 29, 2015 1:03:41 GMT -5
I'll be there
haven't been writing lately just posting older pieces it ain't like I don't get ideas I think plenty and, frankly, too often
so just to stay in some kind of shape the muse nudged me and here I am writing about not writing figuring the old words are as good as new
that the old words are the new words in different order, maybe a different form or not as emotional as a different time or I haven't anything to say
its alright I can wait it out I've done it many times before the tides ebb and flow the night hides the sun
even love has a holiday as smiles wash away in the tears I'll be there like I was here you just wait and see
charlie giardino 1/29/15
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Post by glimmer on Jan 29, 2015 2:06:11 GMT -5
when a blank page arrives at your door write it down
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Post by glimmer on Jan 29, 2015 2:06:31 GMT -5
always another page another moment
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Post by charliegee on Feb 6, 2015 8:02:54 GMT -5
I was speaking to a dear friend via e-mail earlier. The backstory is I was good friends with her man, Dan, before we even met. I had met him on a spiritual forum and we communicated often. He went by the name, Waddical Wabbitt, and if that's not enough of a draw for me I don't know what else could be. He had fourth stage cancer when I met him and we often talked about suffering and death and how it impacted us. He knew that my wife had died from Ovarian Cancer so I brought some validity to the table. I had the nerve to tell him that based on my experience with Maryann that you don't jump too high on the good days nor sink too low on the bad ones. He said that sounded like good advice and he would keep it in mind. The next time we spoke I started bitching about something or other in my life. Without missing a beat, he said that a wise man once told him that you don't jump too high etc etc. Well, it hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks. Its one thing to give advice but quite another to come face to face with your own. Well, time went on and his tumor grew and he eventually died. His girl, Pamela, saw my name on his list of contacts and asked who I was. I explained and we became fast friends. She had read my recent poem, You and Me, and responded. She said that it was good that I still wrote about me and Maryann but I shouldn't take on the guilt that occasionally graces my poems. She told me that things just happened for whatever reason and I shouldn't pin an emotional pricetag on them. Not if I wanted to be free anyway. I thought about it for some time and realized she was right. I would have to embrace all of my past, the good and the bad, to be free of it, to move forward. It doesn't mean I don't own all that has gone before, it means I do and manage to move past it. All in all, love is only love.
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Post by laughter on Feb 6, 2015 10:21:30 GMT -5
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