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three days are way too much with friends, Romans, poets & nondualists

i.


Friends, Romans and Countrymen,
lend me your poor, oops wrong speech(es),
I gave that one a few thousand  incarnations ago
and what good did it do?  So what can
I say now that hasn't already been said,
quite prophetically, analytically, anathematically,
mathematically, calculably,
regrettably and more often than not quite reprehensibly
by some character or another, not necessarily in a
Shakepearean tragidocuneoconmediacommiecommentary
on HBO
or CNN on your subscription cable regularly channeled
channels.

Intention is 9/10's of the law in my book,
and I intend to make a mockery of anything that quacks
like a duck and pretends it's a sheep, baying at the moon.

ii.

It used to take me three days
to resurrect the thought of Anna,
old ways die hard
and I'm not easily lost amoung
calculations and considerations
viral innoculations
and computer programs,
digitally enhanced
or enchanted
genetically disposed and composed
or predisposed
DNA, RNA,
salient mind-bones
brushes with eternity,
more-than-likely
internal combustions
firing synapses
with these unlikely
God-awful sharp edges,
I have called forth like
the hounds of hell
precise and concise
incisions, biting into the all
of all,
I
break the fast
with the wanderlust of Bastet
a dulcet mind
crossing over every duality under
the sun
I
often seep into and blur over
the grey flat land,
clouds of unknowing
pass through me,
moonlight becomes me

Isis resurrected.
Body bliss.




 



— Kailashana, Dec 20, 2009

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Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

You’re too much! I’m

You're too much! I'm sure glad that you found your way to Neopoet. Life hasn't been the same since... ;-) ~Anna p.s. Love sucks cause we're bloodsucking poets... Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
Seren

Seren

16 years 5 months ago

Dearest Mum

You never cease to amaze me and excite me to write you know that ... but tonight I am taking the night off and reading all you guys ... as it should be so it shall be done Edit:-and you my darlin are one fucking awesome poet if I havent said it lately love and hugs Jayne x x
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 5 months ago

my sister has taken to the wings

Oh wow my sister has taken to the wings there to hide and throw out all sorts of jargon, the audience is flabbergasted and moved laughing and crying, I think its the seasoning in her porridge that's sent her bananas flying and those little sips of enchantment in far off places and books with hooks and sharp edges and hedges of dreams with birds nests at the seams she's got fired into screams of excesses and thinks she's a gong for the dinner song and we love her in her fine dresses, her wardrobe is full of them red, yellow, purple black and brown and even saffron ( saffran, arn-sound N.) and we love this lady who dances her words, sometimes absurd but never a nerd we love her so we sing a song now here's to Anna Kailashana the girl with the bow. (In her hair) Dear sister thought I'd let you know! We all love you so. Anna dalla Norvegia Con amore.
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Erudite observation, dear

Erudite observation, dear sister. Like I said, some years ago, I exploded into nothing... when my atoms rearranged themselves into this being called me, well, I returned backasswords. Smile. ~Anna Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Now where have I heard that

Now where have I heard that before, JC? Loving you and y/ours, Mum p.s. Advice for the weary-I'd. The hardest thing we ever do as humans it to bare our souls. Poets do it all the time. If you can't stand what you see, quit looking.
Seren

Seren

16 years 5 months ago

I am not sure where that

I am not sure where that comment come from darlin ... it just come out, probably my youth spent chained to church, bible study and generally getting my head screwed over lmao but now I have my head stuck in Roy's book, I think I I am on my fourth reading ... I cant soak up enough of that book lol Love you Jayne x x
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

“So it shall be written,

"So it shall be written, so it shall be done." One of my penultimate fav sentences. The Pharaoh said that to Moses a few times, their exchanges often influencing my poetry, Jayne. The 40 years wandering in the desert is another symbol I often use. We can't escape our histories, may as well use them towards the best of our poetic efforts, eh? Luv, p.s. I turned Edwin on to Roy's book too. He joined Roy's yahoo group--Open Awareness, where I am seen on occasion. You??? Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
Seren

Seren

16 years 5 months ago

Dear Mum

OK I have not seen the forest for the trees will go and look sounds like something that I would be interested in that BOOK is amazing its a little worn already so I covered it in contact lol ... now I remember where it came from ... I have so many religious quotes in my head and have forgotten over the years where they come from ... I rarely pick up a bible these days ... I know I should but after being hammered with it for yrs, its still there see just needed a prodding lol thanks mum Jayne x x
R

RobertKnott

16 years 5 months ago

My...

what sharp teeth you have. Somehow un-becoming of the wisdom of all those lives lived. One of my favorite poems, in fact the only one I've memorized is Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay". A good simile as a painting is Vincent vanGogh's -Blossomimg Almond Tree- which he gave to his nephew as a gift because he had nothing else and was broke. I would hope, if an incantatation allowed, to be able to know such gold as they as to never have the need to drop the "F" bomb, even though I am driven to it. Peace
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Robert, I apologize for

Robert, I apologize for anything I said that may have offended you; it was not my intention. I googled the poem: Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Beautiful as is the painting: http://www.artsheaven.com/van-gogh-blossoming-almond-tree.html But, tell me where have we had this conversation before? ~A Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 5 months ago

Lover, goddess, sister, mother, maid

(I know that sounds ickily incestuous but you take my metaphorical slant) I find it frustrating commenting on your works, there are very few I don't adore and in adoration I can't give critical feedback, which is my forte. If I don't always speak, know I am always here and listening So mote it be, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Yes. I feel your shamanic

Yes. I feel your shamanic presence, feel your intensity burning holes in the back of my head, sometimes in other places too. Don't you worry, though, I do much better with presence than absence. ~A Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
O

Orphani

16 years 5 months ago

Thats some mental roller

Thats some mental roller coaster dear. Is there an inner explanation for this indulgence.tragidocuneoconmediacommiecommentary. Hashish perhaps? We could all use some no doubt.In a whacked out sort of way while untwisting our brains.Love....o...
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

O, Hi, O…. I don’t do

O, Hi, O.... I don't do hash... but work out the trash... Love 'n Stuff, ~ p.s. You like me, you really really like me.....
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

When you’re naturally high

When you're naturally high (most of the time) one lives on that natural high, doesn't need the other stuff...Really. Though, once in a while, it's nice to *get high* with others. ;-) Love, ~A Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
O

Orphani

16 years 5 months ago

Yes, love is the only true

Yes, love is the only true altered state of mind; bringing us outside of ourselves to share the essence of all beauty.You being a pungent - sweet, and lofty insence that becons.Don't squander your talents by jumping through hoops to amuse. The world is yours, but is a fleeting mist Kaila. Barry....o..
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

The only jumping I do is

The only jumping I do is trying to resolve my personal issues (don't we all?) of finance and mobility. My poetry, however, is (Thank you Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, all the saints, etc.) beyond necessity.. except for it needing/wanting to be written through whatever is left of the sense of me. Seems I am also about to make some sort of change again, the butterfly morphs into what I wonder? Thank you for your concern, Barry. ~Anna Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
O

Orphani

16 years 5 months ago

Perhaps you are correct. My

Perhaps you are correct. My feeling was that her talent was a little squandered in this piece, but perhaps I overstepped the bounds of profitable critisism and good taste. My apologies to all. Barry....o...
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Barry, no apologies are

Barry, no apologies are necessary. Your feelings are your feelings. And you weren't being vicious and you weren't attacking me. But I am indebted to you for your viewpoint & I would like to understand why & how you think *my talent was a little squandered in this piece*. Poetry comes through me, as I have left all most of those things that block/impede the flow some point along the Appian Way, so to speak. I truly believe we are without sin, much less *original sin*, and the church business would be out of business without all the dogma. *Sin* being the thought that we are separate from God and God could kick us out of Paradise for any imagined infraction. Did I touch on any of your points of issue, Barry? ~A
themoonman

themoonman

16 years 5 months ago

Anna...

Well, I enjoyed crossing over every duality under the sun with you... very much so! Richard
O

Orphani

16 years 5 months ago

The issue of squandering is

The issue of squandering is perhaps a harsh one, but it comes from a sese of ideals that I believe we share. A poets responsibility to use their talents tword the highest goal.It was meant to be thought provoking, not derogatory. I love Pablo Neruda in this regard. On the issue of religion and personnal beliefs. I have this to say:Any religion or faith would be out of business without dogma.Many of us hold many varying beliefs, but is is christianity that always gets the negative press.This to me is understandable considering that most people, and religions, don't have a clue what the bible actually says, or means.In the poem "the church basement prose poem" we're asked to take the bloody christ off the cross we don't need his forgivness. Well who's forgiveness should we seek as human beings for the staggering death statistics from starvation, and war alone, that plague humanity? The blood we should be stopping is the blood we ourselves spill in violation of the commandments that state "love your neigbor as yourself.It's not easy from my point of view to contain my composure in the face of what to me are distortions, of my beliefs,but I will answer them in the spirit of neopoet with respect and dignity,in the proper way, and would not be troubling you about it.I would love to meet on a forum of debate on all these issues, as this is not the right venue. Barry...o...
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 5 months ago

Dear Barry, I appreciate a

Dear Barry, I appreciate a chance to talk with you on this. Not here. Not now. Perhaps when I return from my trip, we'll both have gained some additional insights, in as much as we're on the same page on some issues but not on others. I'm not so naive to think we'll resolve this between the two of us--which of course, parallels the world *out there*. Imo, it's worth a try. Be well, have a safe New Year and Merry Christmas. Light & Love, Anna
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RobertKnott

16 years 5 months ago

Hi Anna-

:) i smile. you have not offended me. ! i'm not sure you even could... or even would, if you could. nes pa? i wrote to you as i did, only because i sense anger somewhat. or maybe frustration? and i know the capabilities of your stark beauty; ahhhhhhhhhhh........... but to touch peace, one must also, sometimes sadly, (i wish it weren't so) touch war. often within ourselves. often to others because we must see its' effects. "... and told and rang again until the bell no more did peal, but hung alone in quiet, stilled its' joyous yell- and in the silence... raindrops fell." was how i once tried to explain it. but we stop short and only hurt ourselves. because we know the meaning of Frost's poem. life is fleeting and completely precious. see it so in seed. intriguing. tell me... what gossamer winged thing would a butterfly change into? did i ever tell you the one about how a similar such creature led Eve to Adam and... well, the rest is p.s. "you've started quite a stir with this!" ( a lesser known quote of Gabriel)