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Benjamin White

Not to Style the Bouquets.

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by Benjamin White.

 

There is a Zen moment too often lost
In the exhaust at the end of the day
When the body’s dismay must pay the cost
Of being tossed into the tattered fray
Where the way we treat ourselves is mindless
Without the kindness of being aware
And the nothing-there forms a dark blindness
Left timeless in the deepening despair,
But everywhere – by any other name –
Has the same capacity to flower
In the hour to be free and untamed
So the Self can claim a certain power
To devour the stillness, the calm, the mild
By styling the wild and not the bouquet

Vagabond Awareness.

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by Benjamin White. The emotional imprints Of the past Impact the frequencies Of the soul Tuning in dreams Until previous lives Are reconnected To shared experiences While seeking The familiarity Of spirits Once-and-always touching, Close and joined To the point Of being The same consciousness, Although split By time and space On the parallels Of […]

Saving Daylight.

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by Benjamin White. The Golden Age Is gilded greed, So save your integrity In a shoebox Under your bed Or in your top drawer With your secret hopes, Or buried In te back yard Where you mind And memories Intersect and meet To redirect the heat you feel When you peel the sunshine From the […]

Condemned to Relive.

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by Benjamin White. The nation is built on false narratives Orchestrated by the unquestioned facts Operating on the poor reflections Manipulated by historical Understandings of the benevolence Created by the projected image Hollowing out the scene of honesty Fabricating the nostalgic comfort Of time and place that never existed – Remembered in the longing for […]

Power Gratifies Itself.

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by Benjamin White. It appears History is irrelevant When memory stretches All the way back To a few minutes ago, Forgetting and overlooking The cause and effect Of important events And situations As reactions And responses Operate in a void Where power Gratifies itself

Ocean Diplomacy.

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by Benjamin White. The national news will report On US-China relations And both nations are tainted Painted by politics and policies, But on the high seas Ships sail to places distant, And freedom Is consistent with the waves, The sea gulls, and the hulls Of boats making way, And even when the Coast Guard flag […]