Relief is
one of the most powerful
emotions.
Feeling relief
releases floodgates
plus
a stream of positive energy flows
– you are much better
able to be your better self.
Eh?
Category: poetry
ThoughtForToday – 3 November
Ballast is
what’s needed
today
– every day –
except for
the days
you want to list
flounder
capsize
sink.
Any chance you’d prefer an unballasted moment?
A wild risky experience.
Have you 9 lives?
Ballast you.
My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps
(Walt Whitman)
“Rain” – by Lars Blichfeldt
I made the poem ‘Rain’ while I was thinking about some of the darker things in life.
Mental issues and how they can push anybody to the edge and sometimes even over the edge. Something I recognise from my own life.
My childhood was rather rough. Maybe because of that, I did a lot of crime and vandalism.
Luckily for me, I found a secret weapon to stop it before it got out of control. Drugs.. and many of them. I drugged my brain for 15 years trying to ignore my problems and feelings. But the brain does not easily forget. You can postpone and try to hide, but it will make you deal with it… one way or the other.
In my case, it just ‘turned on’ anxiety in my brain, and, if I did any kind of drugs, it would give me a panic attack.
Effective and without mercy.
It started five years ago, and I’m still fighting. No drugs – only words, a shrink and some good friends.
Most people can’t handle what they can’t see. We get 80% of our impressions thru our eyes, so expect a lot of people to avoid and ignore you.
But face it anyway… Fight it anyway. And when you get your first victory, keep that sweet little moment in mind when the next black cloud starts to rain..
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Rain
When black clouds
rained upon me
I used to feel sorry for myself.
I looked at people around me
popping their one man umbrellas
saving themselves.
unable to see
unable to hear
the suddenly invisible wet people.
‘we learn for as long as we live’
Maybe so.
But I still get caught in the rain
I still get cold
Still haven’t learned
how to unfold my umbrella.
But I do not feel sorry for myself
Not anymore.
Bring on the rain
Bring on the cold
I eagerly await.
Await the return of the sun
await for its shield of warm clear light
to spread thru my cold wet body
for the return of my smile
and the end of my sighs.
ThoughtForToday – 2 November
Death is certain
bound to be experienced
uncertain timing.
The best way
to keep death at bay
is to
breathe…
mindful of your breath
as it sings the song of your life.
ThoughtForToday – 1 November
The “scientific method”
sound & strong.
Predict an outcome
experiment
discover
whether that happens.
The “trust method”
predict safety
experiment
experience
whether that happens.
Make your trust method
sound & strong.
Charles Bukowski poem: “Alone with everybody”
Read by Paul O’Mahony
ThoughtForToday – 29 October
Your mental health
is your greatest possession.
By losing your wellbeing,
you learn how fragile it is.
By being a good friend
to someone who’s lost their health,
you appreciate this.
Live this mantra:
“Our health is our wealth”.
QED
(‘The very thing it was required to have shown’)
ThoughtForToday – 27 October
I’m writing a book
the book of my life.
It’s a book which won’t appear in print
nor on the Internet.
Every act I do is a new letter
every move a phrase
every relationship a paragraph
every collaboration a story.
I hope it’ll be a best seller.
Live-streaming Cork Jazz Festival 2015
The annual Jazz Festival in Cork is huge. It’s the biggest festival of the year in Cork. There is huge sponsorship by Guinness (Diageo).
Ireland has many great festivals – but few communicate their goodies well to the wider world outside Ireland via the Internet. [With the possible exception of the Irish Redhead Convention.]
At Cork Guinness Jazz Festival 2015, I set out to see how Periscope & Katch could be used to communicate the quality & excitement of the festival. And also add to the record some of the music events.
https://katch.me/embed/v/486d82a0-3994-3f2d-a3db-b2faab2fc9c0?sync=1
Here’s a Twitter List of Irish Festivals (not complete)
ThoughtForToday – 26 October
Especially
today
be generous to someone
who doesn’t expect it from you
Experiment
see what that feels like.
You’ll never know the full result of your generosity
ThoughtForToday – 24 October
Keep time for the unexpected.
Don’t fill your day with intentions.
Protect time for daydreaming.
You never know who might want to spend time with you.
Welcome
the unexpected.
ThoughtForToday – 23 October
Your presence.
You
are a
presence –
your existence
makes a difference
– you matter
– you influence
– your arrival
– your being
– your departure
– you make ripples
– you make things happen.
Imagine that.
ThoughtForToday – 21 October
It’s great to feel positive.
Energy flowing
spirits high
resolution strong.
It’s inevitable you’ll feel
negative
blocked
contorted
unmotivated.
Be positive about your negativity.
Don’t lock it in.
Express it
ThoughtForToday – 20 October
We Humans are divided
by places
customs
beliefs
weather
languages
standards
heroes
practices
music
dress.
Is there anything all us humans have in common?
How about
kindness?
My old school
My old school
My old classmates
My old playground
My old teachers
My old stomping ground
My old team
My old routine
You served me a dish fit for a Limerick boy, a Jesuit boy, a Roman Catholic boy, a professional boy
– doctor, dentist, auctioneer, lawyer, publican, priest, fishmonger, bookseller, architect, accountant, shopkeeper, teacher, vet, insurance broker,
Nothing on the menu for a father, lover, lorry driver, bricklayer, songwriter, carpenter, gardener, bus conductor, poet, vagrant, commercial traveller
In my day…
ThoughtForToday – 19 October
Boring.
Neither anywhere
nor anyone
is boring.
It is I who make stuff boring.
Boredom does not exist in its own right
– but
(like beauty)
in the eye of the beholder.
Experimenting with Blab
https://blab.im/7cd64f73da2647f88d84279662366593
How to get better at using Blab?
This live streamed conversation with Victoria @VictoriaJamesUK + Ollie @Ollieflj (Oxfordshire UK) + Timm @brandideas (Sydney Australia) + Rich @firemanrich (New York State USA) :
We began relationship building.
We finished up advertising 2 Blabs:
(1) Blab about Kindness on 22 October #GenKind24.
Plus
(2) Blab about poetry on 23 October.
Reflection: We loved Blabbing conversation because it connected us
ThoughtForToday – 17 October
I play.
I am a musical instrument.
Sometimes an orchestra out of key.
A string quartet at odds with itself.
Other times
– a pure violin making sacred notes.
You too make your music.
Play.
Chicago calling
– lines composed as a result of spending a Sunday afternoon in The Green Room, Chicago, in July 2014
Play with your eyes
out of your head
Strum the chords
out of your corners
Crawl all over
his melody
into ecstasy
across the tap tap
slap into the face of her heart.
Glasses pop
into stacks
wicked slick
beats bleat
complete insider
Out to play
The Green Mill pill
ThoughtForToday – 15 October
My way.
By the way
what is my way?
Fingerprints.
Retina.
Unique genetic hand-me-downs.
But
there’s more to me.
My way
– what’s that?
What do you say’s my way?
That belongs to no one else.
From Bath to Cork with baby Grace 