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Questions? TheBlissfulRaven.com- Writing Words of Life
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live" ~Goethe~
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The room was eerily dark when I was awakened suddenly by a distant foreboding sound. As I jolted up, I felt suspended in thought trying to decipher the situation and a possible outcome, one that would not involve something horrible. I watched in animated disbelief as a shadow fell across the threshold of my chamber. I was paralyzed.
My mind began a rapid series of racing thoughts vacillating between fear or flight and complete terror. Desperately trying to assess the situation as rationally as possible, I focused on keeping my hearing acutely tuned to the dissonant sounds. Relatively, I realized that somehow time was gravely important to the immediacy of the situation. What time was it? Quickly, my eyes darted to the dresser, where the digital clock displayed the time, 2:22 a.m. I froze in time. And then the phone rang.
© J Anjoun/03-2017
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Human Debt
We move in stages Up and down A vast linear plane Sometimes up and Sometimes down This always resounds With distrain that is Confiscated by distress The payments have been Too much Levies inundate our lives When we look to coalesce Forms and legal words we play To affect our free positions With carefully stylized phrases Reiterating our conditions To a world of mixed up people In every walk of life None really knowing The depths of human strife Take care to speak in perfect tongue And do not utter any errors Or you will be the victim Of a quiver of poisoned arrows
© J Anjoun 08/2017
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The shadow image above is from:
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Nosferatu (1922) [Silent Movie]
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Image taken by the Author on a South Carolina night
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Leaving Insanity
I owe no time to another man's empire In a world steeped in quagmire Higher than a cathedral spire
Where money has been corrupted Lives completely disrupted And humanity abducted
Held hostage most despicably Deaf to an appeal and plea Absent of carefree
To what end is this game A play for hall of fame Or a much more sinister aim
Deciphering holograms and clones Carefully, not to throw stones Or enter forbidden zones
Is the evil real or just a synthetic Or a covert idea of aesthetic Perhaps ignoble poetic
Everything is against the grain Stealing the human brain Exit stage left, refrain
Acting in love in sync with design Stepping out and becoming blind Leaving the matrix behind
You must go, go quickly now Pow! Wow! Holy cow! Go with an undying penchant To completely disavow
Leave behind the insanity Celebrate with glee
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Shadows Fall
Shadowy silhouettes rise up Moving slowly with the sun On a journey to oblivion Once blackness takes its hold
Secrets held in swirling motion Profoundly absent in deep sleep Seeming bigger than life Under creeping swaths of time
Thoughts ebb in raised processions On gossamer silken strands Melting into painted visions Faint shades of grays and blues
Calm as evening starts to fall Repeating shadows known Quietly playing hushed lullabies In the comfort of solemn nights
Dancing as the movements flicker Enticing and thought provoking Messages from other dimensions Drifting out in slow steady motion
Sleep comes unexpectedly Tumbling into gentle slumber Colors full of rainbow dreams As shadows slip away
© J Anjoun -04/2015
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I remember a day like this long ago Seems like a lifetime or maybe two Where love and sorrow dually flowed And life's journey played right through
Peace is now the perpetual theme As eternity brought the new beginnings From a life interrupted mid stream Mounting final flight on golden wings
For those here and present find In a world of memories stored within Bringing a nostalgic and peace of mind As we remember, what has been
© J Anjoun/02-11-/2017
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LUKEWARM
Belief in evil systems Has molded you in parts Your heart has been bypassed Sending all emotions off the charts
Breathing will not help A mind running on indecision Painfully deliberating as you toggle In the end only causes pain and confusion
Free your mind and all its traps It's the persecution you need to reconcile You should cling one hundred percent To elevate your spirit and change your lifestyle
Please hearken to a higher source If giving means you give your all Luke warm beliefs and balancing acts Are meaningless to a world in a spiraling fall
No need for accolades and recognition Honor always acts in quiet, steady modes Compassion coming from within your soul And will never need the secrecy of codes
Choose with discernment and dispose of All inconsistency and evil you see Believe you can be the good in the world And seal it with truth, honor and love
© J Anjoun 09/2017
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Love and Peace
When I think of all the strife and trouble In a world like pieces in an unfinished puzzle I sadly ask myself "where is the love?" That will help us all break free of The untold wars, hunger and hopelessness We share together as humans in distress
In ideologies spiraling out of control Like particles pulled into a black hole Unable to set our spirits free To love one another and just be
Not knowing what the future brings Rise up and spread your wings Love everyone pour out your hearts This is how we begin, how it starts
Change begins with each of us One act of love and kindness rendered Multiplies as we humbly surrender To another human in deepest splendor
Yesterday is over The future is yet unknown Love everyone as we take our stands So human strife will have a closure And peace will reign across our lands As we reap the love in seeds we've sown
© J Anjoun/12/2014
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"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." ~Plato~
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Raven@theblissfulraven.com
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-All Rights Reserved- 2017
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