Member Josh
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Josh posted an update 4 weeks ago
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Josh posted an update 4 weeks ago
4 weeks ago (edited)
Free Spirit
I'm a free spirit, so I'm told
born in a body, caged for a living free to get shackled to some body's striving free to fulfill the old body's needs free to react to other bodies' deeds free to embody whatever's within reach free to follow what incarnate idiots preach I'm a free spirit, it's allegedly dharma born as a soul in…
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Josh posted an update 4 weeks ago
Writer’s Shock
His work was discovered after he died
books sold in millions once he was dead and all of the agents who never replied along with the publishers shrugged and said He was only discovered after he died... If only we’d known! the literary world cried He could have been fed, might still be alive big name, great brand,…
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Josh posted an update 4 weeks ago
There Will Be This Day
when one of us wakes up in the morning
and the other is no longer there it may well happen with little warning it'll be a strange day, merely dawning an unsettling future into which we stare when only one of us wakes up that morning will there be ominous clues storming when grief and loneliness hang in the air? it…
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Josh posted an update 4 weeks ago
Lover’s Relief
I am in love with what’s
out of reach the shadow of a cloud the man in the moon my unlived lives the fantasy of peace life passes by like a slippery dream searching for stillness in my heart wondering how to not say what I shouldn’t say too soon shall I stretch my comfort zone or is the zone stretching me? I live a…
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Josh posted an update 4 weeks ago
Addictionship or Loveship
Happy families are all alike
unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way Tolstoy famously claimed and followed up with a novel to proffer his bold scheme the final words on this claim – fact or fiction – are written in the bones of every kin and soul in the blood of their own ménage a truth I can read in my…
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Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
Pilgrim’s Blessing
May your cascade of failures reach the sky
May you ask for grace to eat humble pie May sunshine return after the darkest night And moons lift your moods on a tide of light May the bread you eat fulfill your dreams And wild fires burn away what has never been Let the water of life wash you down and up May well-springs flow… -
Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
A Love Poem
This is a love poem minus the words
it is meant to be read by your heart I trust your answer be true and straight but please don't shatter my hopes as I'm edging to the fringes of comfort heartened by will and stilled by your beauty the compass is turning towards what is true it shivers me down to my bones take or leave whatever… -
Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
The Dream Collector
The dream-collector rode into town
with a faithful old horse and a rickety cart “Any old dreams you no longer want… declutter your lives, it will make a good start” And people came running to give him their dreams dug out from attics from cupboards and boxes “here’s my dear dream…” with tears in their eyes they… -
Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
Lucky to Come Out Alive
all humans have a soul,
I trust, though some souls seem to go missing, somehow some humans are more soulful than others which means that other humans are more soulempty than some recognising a soulful human — or identifying a soulempty one — is straight forward, if you know what to look for the soulful ones are —… -
Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
One Bright Moment
Finally, in a moment of self-forgiveness that's how my heart returned to me the story of 'what happened' disappeared left the present moment bright and free the horizontal line contracted to a point exploded in a flash to vertical plumbed the depths in and out to God making the One connection viable the mortal race of… -
Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
An Old Trick
When after many years of loyal
support and acceptance of her quirks and oddities and foibles jumping through all the hoops responding to every vagary and whim squeezing myself into the straightjacket she'd forged assuming she owned me — like someone might own a dog they’ve trained as a puppy and expect it to remain loyal…
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Josh posted an update 5 weeks ago
A Long Story
It started with a small event
I traced it back around the bend of that knotted thread of feeling exhausted by trauma strain and pain announcing their presence screaming without sound one glance at the unnerving selfie imprinted in my heart and decades later on this day I feel my childhood torn apart the journey to…
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Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
Natural Misfit
I was born the wrong gender
a girl was expected in line with familiar tradition a natural misfit right from the start the groove seemed so logical boys don’t cry, I was trained against my true nature in line with cultural tradition a natural misfit at the first hurdle the track was just typical men rule the roost, so I was…
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Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
Your Children are Always Your Children (part 2)
(continued from part 1) ... your children may turn out not to feel like your children you may not relate to each other as kindred spirits they may not honour you as their elder they may not respect you as a father they may seem more like aliens they may manipulate you they may humiliate you they…
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Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
Your Children are Always Your Children (Part 1)
Your children are not your children
wrote the great Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran and I might agree wholeheartedly had my heart not been broken by fatherhood while thinking of having children you might expect that they will love you as a kindred spirit cherish you as their father honour you as…
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Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
Just Give Me a Minute
I'm living with something that isn't there
a most mysterious nothing a construct of my earthbound mind, unique in the Milky Way although it is neither here nor there nor does it exist at all, it's giving me the hardest time demanding my life and my money it latches onto my mind each day makes my waking hours go…
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Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
When I Die
When I die,
I will be quite happy to leave behind the weight of gravity and I hope to regain the clear blue eyes I had as a child, lost into dullness some- where around the age of seven
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Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
The Sacred Gift of Life
For years and decades as long and far
as my distant memory will stretch I've survived under the thumb of an odd belief ruled by a crooked conviction — felt so true to me at the time — like a holy motto picked from the pockets of the fates a personal mantra played on repeat of a prophecy I was forced to fulfill a… -
Josh posted an update 6 weeks ago
At Risk of Trespass
There are parts of me that remain untrespassed and I wonder whether to invite you there or check them out alone one more time before I dare ask you to accompany me along the ridge path that drops away to both sides a fine view to the left the air clear and bright and to the right the fog of despair which is also part of…
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