Reflections of Self (Alien Images)

Discussion in 'Poetry' started by cheshire_butterfly, Apr 14, 2005.

  1. cheshire_butterfly

    cheshire_butterfly Member

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    Wondering while wandering, the unlit streets of my personal being, on an endless evening
    Hidden in the corner, while walking, in single steps
    Could you tell me? Is being one with infinity, the birds and the breeze
    Intended to feel this lonely?
    Quietly in selfish meditation, trying to figure myself out, succeeding slowly
    However painfully, i continue to endure with hopes of discovering the source
    Of my universal isolation
    Observing simpler minds, leading less contemplative lives, and longing......
    A minute, or perhaps a month was spent in suspended meditation, being...
    Watching rising sunsets, frozen instants, clips from a film called life
    Who am i? The riddle within a riddle i feel has atleast passed through the minds of each of us, so uniquely similar
    Feeling smaller than the ant who ruled the world and wore a crown cut out of blotter paper
    Questing for the question, because i know answers are all partial lies
    This opinionated life with the fixed perspectives we have been given, living
    All you know is true, you know nothing, nothing more than i do, nothing
    Each moment the truth renews itself
    As another abstract concept for our collective misinterpretations
    I ponder the fate of this victimized child of a planet, and cry at the splendor of its desecration....finding beauty in our ignorance
    Meandering aimlessly to the edge of a flattened earth, sober and naked
    Drained of preconceptions, hopelessly content
    Stepping fearlessly into the lightless oblivion of selflessness
    Wandering while wondering, if this is this species' or my own story?
    Although i honestly doubt in the end humanity's outcome concerns the cosmos much
    Victim of all circumstances, that come with being mindful , and being human being
    Mammalian, reptilian, alien, robotic or floral
    So full of thoughts, yet all seemingly hollow, only old logs that pass as the river rushes onward
    The flow of time is in such a patient hurry to arrive, somewhere to start again
    Has anyone thought this before? No i am sure noone has
    It is not like we have anything in common, it is not like we are equally human
    Stranded in our egocentricities
    Watch the sunset rise, say hello, and say goodbye, and say tomorrow, everynight
    I will reach my destination.....nowhere, but anywhere away from here
    Nowhere is forever the same, and nowhere is never the same, and here is nowhere, like there
    Could you tell me? Has this loose nonsense ever occured to you?
    While looking through a looking glass in a hallway or in a dream house of mirrors
    The creature looking back appears so unfimiliar, yet looks back, and looks like everybody else
    A shell housing countless intangible ideas, and emotions that everyone feels
    Although we know that nobody could ever relate
    The caterpillar said, drowsily blowing out rings of opiate smoke
    In the form of smoke rings, you are you
    Answering the rhetorical question he was simultaneously asking the dreaming child
    Who are you?
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  2. fulmah

    fulmah Chaser of Muses

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    This feels like an excert of 10 seconds worth of thoughts while tripping! I do think that you could trim down some of your lines a little, and add a couple of stanza breaks to make it a little easier to read, but other than little things like that, good stuff! and the 27 at the end... :)
    my fav. lines!
     
  3. cheshire_butterfly

    cheshire_butterfly Member

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    i have a strange style but thank you for your thoughts
     

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