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defiant
face to face
the truth
that brings power
to dine
among us
speak wholly
the fruit
of long years
of contemplative life
of learning
to live beyond
the obvious
speak wholly
the smoldering plume
of a mischief
of elders forsaking
harvests of dream
going under
the dew
speak wholly
the silt-quarry
archive of tumult
brave repertoire
of fashion & lute-play
bastion of untame
unprincipled grace
speak wholly
they said
& went silent
before the fires
of trepidation from
too-much too-much
& pillage
we are fruitful
in the absence
of mourning
fruitful in the fullness
of time
whole in expression
& wild
giving sermons
to the decadent
malingerers & saboteurs
giving mind-play
to the reticent
servers & feints
half-saying "fearless"
to chance...
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WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge
Joseph Robertson
Language is that point of contact in the abstract, that plane where the intellectual life within us is enabled to assert itself as part of the overall experience of living. Language is that plane where the individual self is allowed repeated attempts at manifestation. What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...
Not every person is a writer, by trade, nor should they be, but there is something about the act of writing that serves the writing individual as if it were a medicine for selfhood, a healing venture into clean waters. Especially so when its intent is to be expressive of secret regions of the mind or to lay out new experimental vessels for such expression. [Keep reading...]
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