The road to a brighter future

The road to a brighter future
26 December 2024
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The Grey reached into our mindscapes
revealing what lay under drapes
a reality one escapes
a minefield of degradation

They would treat us just like cattle
wayward tribe to push and rattle
our daily life turned a battle
to be, not survive, endless chore

Fortitude became my treasure
I gathered with utmost pleasure
more of heart than I could measure
its essence made me more aware

I ventured into dark alleys
brought the people into rallies
watched them go aboard the galleys
there seemed to be no end to it

A journey back into time past
brought me solace I hoped would last
though shadows on my soul it cast
some sensation from it lingered

This was a victory to take
a comfort for our race to make
a way to lift the burning ache
the road to a brighter future


Written in the context of Ronovan writes Ovi poetry challenge using the word “treasure” as inspiration. For the rules and more poems, follow this link https://ronovanwrites.com/2024/12/25/ovi-poetry-challenge-80-treasure-is-your-inspiration/

Reading of the poem:
Dhafer Youssef - Blending Souls & Shades

In upward movement

In upward movement

20 May 2017

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Churn my wheels

Spin through my mindscapes

They translate

Change to come

Rotation a spin of Times

Creating with rhymes

 

Read through me

The books forgotten

Treasure hunt

Ill-gotten

Gold an alchemist’s project

A dream to reject

 

Morph me slow

Pictured yesterday

When we lay

In warm hay

Looking at twin suns that rose

New old to depose

 

Ring in me

Bell of home coming

When we speak

In drumming

Beats of the hearts that will learn

What in soul we yearn

 

Breathe through me

Void of the living

When we gave

Forgiving

The random web of deceit

Our soul free complete

 

Break in me

The downward spiral

When the wake

Feels viral

The morrows lead denouement

In upward movement

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Taro – Alt-J

Matilda – Alt-J

Dissolve Me – Alt-J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mowozlG6Abo

The Cleopatra Tales 1: Divine Union – Hieros Gamos

The Cleopatra Tales 1: Divine Union – Hieros Gamos

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Corpses dance alone

Corpses dance alone

6 January 2017

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Renewed dreams

Complexity seems

Sole measure

Soul treasure

In stretching the circle’s beams

We stitch at the seams

 

Their breath stale

With invented tale

Displeasure

In pleasure

Deciphering head from tail

Diving to inhale

 

The mind own

Synapses to hone

The pressure

In leisure

Moving within flesh to bone

Corpses dance alone

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Seven days of falling -EsbJörn Svensson Trio

From Gagarin’s Point Of View – EsbJörn Svensson Trio

Eighthundred streets by feet – EsbJörn Svensson Trio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oC9czXsk_E

Before it escapes my reach

Before it escapes my reach

7 December 2015

 

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This vanishing world

I want to swallow its fluff

Morrows’ candy threads

 

Let them glue me pink

Upon my eternal blue

Rainbows’ beginnings

 

Deep within my soul

I want to lock its treasures

Relish them in chest

 

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The throbbing stillness

Lies wake in me through Night’s sleep

Breath in me serene

 

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The Sun rises East

Waking new Worlds to the Dawn

That births in Sorrows

 

Farewell to the world

Heaves in my blossoming Heart

As it lulls the Tides

 

I touch it fading

Before it escapes my reach

Into Oblivion

 

 

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Before the Dawn – Evanescence

 

 

 

I thought I should share what sunrise looks like from my balcony so added this as an afterthought. I am yet to take a full video of the time from night to dawn and transform it into a timelapse piece. Meanwhile I hope you like the below:

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Mother’s spirits had risen

Mother’s spirits had risen

28 November 2015

 

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The sun regained cold

Petunias withered up

White and pink faces

Soft pastels played in my Heart

A bridge of purple faded

 

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Citrus evergreen

Haunted by orange speckles

Bore timid blossoms

A shade of penance hung low

Within branches of my thoughts

 

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Hibiscus rose red

Tussled with bougainvillea

Prominent flowers

The crimson in my mind’s shades

Spoke of bleeding memories

 

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Frangipani bloomed

Delicate orange on white

Its scent thief of Hearts

Captured throb within ribcage

Sought bloom’s renewed tenderness

 

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Grass ran through Earth’s brown

Carpet of fresh green kingdoms

Grasshoppers’ domain

Mother’s sprits had risen

Winding through me a new hope

 

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The moon rose silver

Exhaling through jasmine’s breath

Faint springtime’s treasures

Hushed feeling of renewal

Coursed through my Heart lily white

 

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Amethystium – Enchantment

Amethystium..Treasure ( Isabliss )(Stine Mari Langstrand)

Amethystium – Strangely Beautiful

 

 

Closing Heartpath Core

Closing Heartpath Core

23 October 2015

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More than sheer madness

Tattered walls, agony’s thrill

That the ill beguiles

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Rescuing sister

From descending flaming tongues

We then reunite

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Etheric watches

Over your silent crisis

As will still spirit

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Joining path of Heart

Shining like new-born phoenix

She regenerates

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O mortal silence

Lost in lust is the treasure

Of thousand Heartbeats

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We shall walk alone

On knees behind you she sits

Pacing in between

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I wept for you Eye

Withered lids had brought you down

With snakes that low crept

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The walls grow narrow

Closing Heartpath Core

We dance renewed peace

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Warding away fears

Mother watches over all

Keeping watch of Time

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In Time you will come

To the greenest of Meadows

Where we all walk free

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0gDg3M3wm4

Ten was the Number

Ten was the Number

23 October 2015

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You led strong the path

Stark contrasts blinded the eye

That dwelt in the mind

 

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I walked yesterday

Within your footsteps’ clamours

We both lost the way

 

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Recovering sight

I shook the night’s salty waves

And brought you the light

 

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You breathed into me

Heat of a thousand dragons

Forgotten treasure

 

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I frosted your mind

Brought to it a chilling peace

My deadly waters

 

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Tendrils lily white

Reaching out to ink pitch black

Rewrite nuances

 

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Softly exploring

I opened the Heart Channel

Regenerating

 

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Tomorrow’s bud stems

From roots that creep within Earth

Nine reaching for skies

 

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From nine we split Three

As you and I climbed the Tree

Climbing us becomes

 

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Ten was the Number

We had decomposed from nine

As the candles hung

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcF5jC-tL3g

Building a New World

Building a New World

5 October 2015

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This world tires Hearts

Tug o war, Deception’s strings

Every rope now pulled

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Illusion shares blank

Crumbling world of yesteryears

Retinas pulsate

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Cloak of dark seizes

Remnants of beings of Void

That crawled Earth fearful

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The mind between Worlds

While synchronicities play

Gathers ripe thought games

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Walk out of shadows

Run within the wilderness

Golden times have struck

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Come into the Light

See how paper catches Fire

Celebrate the births

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Like fledgling awakes

Fly into tomorrow’s Realm

Flow in beating Heart

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Cast these hands new tools

Glorious is the exchange

A green for brown hands

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Building a New World

Like child when playing with sand

Treasures uncovers

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Fear not new Wonders

Let your Heart be your Temple

When old is unearthed

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Of perhaps and of maybes

Of perhaps and of maybes

2 September 2015

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You didn’t know me

I, gazing back realised

That neither did I

 

The scent of your skin

I did not know it either

Like a raw green fruit

 

Translucent and bare

Ripening under some sun

That rose pitiless

 

Its shadow stretched out

On lands that called to my mind

Loved Tuscanny

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Perhaps life will sway

Buckling under the treasure

Of those lost moments

 

Perhaps life will weigh

From the fruit at its edges

Like a slanting trunk

 

Maybe love will skim

Giving in to the pressure

Of its own torments

 

Maybe love will learn

From its own unkempt pledges

Like a rabid drunk

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Perhaps love’s desert

Where the sands move tireless

Waves on raging sea

 

Perhaps love’s a stream

Renouncing gift of water

Where mirrored light glows

 

Maybe life is firm

Its roots planted in the ground

Like an olive tree

 

Maybe life is gift

Scarcity does not matter

Where abundance grows

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Perhaps just to say

Per actual happenings

That real would spell out

 

Maybes aiming high

Tokens of when I once wished

An unreal clout

 

Banishing the doubt

Perhaps in string of maybes

Occurring, waning

 

A life made of chains

Of perhaps and of maybes

Blurring differing

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Hypothetical

Breathed in hoping may it be

As day’s sun shimmered

 

Perhaps whimsical

What’s left of time’s passing me

Recounts that glimmered

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFJGhQYex-E