Nov
. . . lost causes! ◠‿◠
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M U S I C A L U D E
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well
you build it up you wreck it
down
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the Great Storm of 1987? Met Office messing with our heads again probably - but just in case my wheelie bins are indoors for tomorrows collection
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lost cause
blasts from the past-
St Jude's storm
define 3
vairagya removes all emotional coordinates to a safe distance
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kids are out extorting
in the darkness and the rain-
flickering faces
M U S I C A L U D E ²
3
oh no,
must be the season
of the witch
out in the desert
there's a soldier lying dead-
vultures
4
in an intelligent universe everything is intelligent (in its own way) - or is everything else thick except us?
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kitten-heeled shoes
just in case-
Halloween
tip 5
flower picking (for example) without good reason is not nice and reveals much about a person . for example - plucking for a quick sniff and then discarding . like stepping on a spider - as if such thoughtless acts were of no consequence .
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floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion-
wet dead leaves
burn·ing
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"Ahimsa is a comprehensive principle. We are helpless mortals caught in the conflagration of himsa. The saying that life lives on life has a deep meaning in it. Man cannot for a moment live without consciously or unconsciously committing outward himsa. The very fact of his living - eating, drinking and moving about - necessarily involves some himsa, destruction of life, be it ever so minute. A votary of ahimsa therefore remains true to his faith if the spring of all his actions is compassion, if he shuns to the best of his ability the destruction of the tiniest creature, tries to save it, and thus incessantly strives to be free from the deadly coil of himsa. He will be constantly growing in self-restraint and compassion, but he can never become entirely free from outward himsa." - Mahatma Gandhi
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dazzled by winter sun
I switch on
wipers
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1. What am I doing, that I shouldn’t be doing?
2. What am I not doing, that I should be doing?
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a coronet of dew
heralds a chilly dawn-
no spider?
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silence achieves much more freedom for the individual than a loose tongue ever accomplishes
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overland to my door,
howling in from the sea
full of leaves!
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yes - doing nothing is usually the best course of action in moist circumstances (but not all) . then its a question of remaining neutral to see (feel) how the dynamic plays out without interference from ones personal agitation (usually transmitted empathetically by antagonists) . this is how to defeat your enemy because it shows your enemy their challenge is meeting a superior force of integrity . in hairy situations this is good to know - but it cannot be faked (of course) .
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on my car
parts of a tree
fall
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For many a clown goes whistling past - John Clare (1793 – 1864)
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next door's cat
blows its own trumpet-
Harvest Moon
10
on a dream quest I was clothed in the skin of a flying fish in a glass bowl full of smoke and vastness without edges and the world was turning before it stopped immediately for a moment and this dream was realer than anything the elements had shown me before falling awake again
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out of the Pleiades
bright sparks fly
and sticks
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the road became empty as we waved goodbye
/
after the bonfire
a scattering of bones-
Mrs Prickles?
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on a dream quest I was clothed in the skin of a flying fish in a glass bowl full of smoke and vastness without edges and the world was turning before it stopped immediately for a moment and this dream was realer than anything the elements had shown me before falling awake again
/
out of the Pleiades
bright sparks fly
and sticks
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junk food industry has poisoned its own customers with trans fats, sodium nitrite, MSG, aspartame, toxic heavy metals, toxic preservative chemicals, artificial food colors and much more
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late autumn—
they looks nice without
makeup
14
folks who get pissed off piss me off
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water under the bridge
racing leaves-
again!
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self-censorship is like autumn trees - shedding their makeup
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in a puddle
a muddle of sunlight-
leafy gumboots
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