Submissions by OyateInyanNajin
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
BUSTED SEAMS (10-15-1989; Del Mar, California)
somewhere between truth
and perceived reality
somewhere between
technology and biology
all of us so long lost at sea
here in this great tempest of imbalances
my mind flew long ago amuck
so tired of struggling
against my true nature s grain
in trying to achieve
any semblance of an even keel
in this mad hatter s culture and society
i don t even know what i think
or feel anymore
ordered systems strangle me
yet diverse freedoms entangle me
all of us so caught up
overwrought
in never ending...
and perceived reality
somewhere between
technology and biology
all of us so long lost at sea
here in this great tempest of imbalances
my mind flew long ago amuck
so tired of struggling
against my true nature s grain
in trying to achieve
any semblance of an even keel
in this mad hatter s culture and society
i don t even know what i think
or feel anymore
ordered systems strangle me
yet diverse freedoms entangle me
all of us so caught up
overwrought
in never ending...
#identity
#SelfReflection
#acceptance
#choices
#SelfWorth
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HAMMOCK STRINGS (4-17-1994; Galveston Island Texas)n a
spring birds sing
wind chimes ring
a sleepy breeze
comes over me
as i cocoon myself away
so effortlessly disconnected
from timeless hours
especially when
i need to most
now peacefully cradled
so weightlessly away
i drift
in all these tranquil
hammock strings
which have recently
become
a sudden
healing necessity
in my life
especially when
i need them most
in which
i sail off
into such gentle
soothing...
wind chimes ring
a sleepy breeze
comes over me
as i cocoon myself away
so effortlessly disconnected
from timeless hours
especially when
i need to most
now peacefully cradled
so weightlessly away
i drift
in all these tranquil
hammock strings
which have recently
become
a sudden
healing necessity
in my life
especially when
i need them most
in which
i sail off
into such gentle
soothing...
#inspirational
#peace
#gratitude
#support
#healing
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BLUE SKIES RESTORE ME ('True Life Bliss') (Galveston Island Texas)
oh ineffable
god
beyond all names
all labels
all words
all form
please hear my
praise filled
joyful
prayer here
oh let me
run wild
in your glory
free
in the power
you hold for me
warm sun on my skin
uplifts me from within
love shines
as your blue skies ...
god
beyond all names
all labels
all words
all form
please hear my
praise filled
joyful
prayer here
oh let me
run wild
in your glory
free
in the power
you hold for me
warm sun on my skin
uplifts me from within
love shines
as your blue skies ...
#happiness
#strength
#inspirational
#gratitude
#emotions
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IMPERVIOUS TO BORDERS (mid 1990's- early 2000's; Galveston Island Texas)
i am a color
moving through borders
though seldom seen
or known
some borders are set
some are unmarked
some borders are free
and then sometimes
at times
but not very often
especially these days
anymore
there are no borders at all
therefore i am a color
free from and impervious to
borders boundaries
and other such word label limits
just as i feel i am
equally free from
and impervious to
the thoughts words
judgments...
moving through borders
though seldom seen
or known
some borders are set
some are unmarked
some borders are free
and then sometimes
at times
but not very often
especially these days
anymore
there are no borders at all
therefore i am a color
free from and impervious to
borders boundaries
and other such word label limits
just as i feel i am
equally free from
and impervious to
the thoughts words
judgments...
#identity
#LifeAsAWriter
#myself
#SelfReflection
#acceptance
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THROUGH TIMES EVAPORATIVE HEALING TOUCH (time, date & place unknown?)
my heart my mind
my eyes
hold tears
they cannot yet release
express nor cry
long trapped beneath
my early childhood s
and adolescent s
now long passed
long lapsed
though somehow
still ongoing
haunted crumbled ruins
entombed in sleep
long buried and hid away
so deeply self compartmentalized
in subconscious paralysis
long frozen from some
long...
my eyes
hold tears
they cannot yet release
express nor cry
long trapped beneath
my early childhood s
and adolescent s
now long passed
long lapsed
though somehow
still ongoing
haunted crumbled ruins
entombed in sleep
long buried and hid away
so deeply self compartmentalized
in subconscious paralysis
long frozen from some
long...
#teens
#childhood
#TimeHeals
#learning
#aging
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LONG NIGHT EMPTY DREAMTIME SONGS (5-28-2001, 4:00am; Galveston Island Texas)
drifting
detached
adrift afloat again
neither awake nor sleeping
waiting through this
long night empty
for deeper restful sleep
to come
yet beyond behind
this late night s buzzing silence
still echoing through my head
some distant siren
faintly stirs
somewhere out there in the darkness
near night s whispering
ghostly brink
deep within beyond
my present hypnogogic state s
stuck in neutral
empty nothing
when suddenly
some remote inner beacon s
pin point spark...
detached
adrift afloat again
neither awake nor sleeping
waiting through this
long night empty
for deeper restful sleep
to come
yet beyond behind
this late night s buzzing silence
still echoing through my head
some distant siren
faintly stirs
somewhere out there in the darkness
near night s whispering
ghostly brink
deep within beyond
my present hypnogogic state s
stuck in neutral
empty nothing
when suddenly
some remote inner beacon s
pin point spark...
#night
#LifeAsAWriter
#insomnia
#WritingPoetry
#SelfReflection
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LOST AT SEA (1983; Laguna Beach, California)
screaming clarity
intrigues my sinewy mind
as air flows in and out of me
feeling how all things bind
this crystalline day around me
explores my living body
so sweetly pore by pore
as the sun s warm golden palm
gently touches and caresses
this sacred vessel
of our wondrous living
conscious mother earth
with it s fiery heart s light
reflective
of my very...
intrigues my sinewy mind
as air flows in and out of me
feeling how all things bind
this crystalline day around me
explores my living body
so sweetly pore by pore
as the sun s warm golden palm
gently touches and caresses
this sacred vessel
of our wondrous living
conscious mother earth
with it s fiery heart s light
reflective
of my very...
#identity
#inspirational
#learning
#SelfReflection
#gratitude
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LONESOME CHICKEN SONG (3-26-1988; Trinidad, Humboldt County, Northern California)
all my friends
be outside
cluckin in the yard
life up north here
in all the wet cold and fog
dense redwood forests
filled with head high ferns
and fallen moss covered logs
really ain t so hard
to live amidst and bear
it just gets kinda lonesome at times
especially after six long
cold months
of livin so isolated
way up north here
all on my own alone
except that is
for all my only other
fine feathered friends up here
i get to visit and see twice a day
who all be outside right...
be outside
cluckin in the yard
life up north here
in all the wet cold and fog
dense redwood forests
filled with head high ferns
and fallen moss covered logs
really ain t so hard
to live amidst and bear
it just gets kinda lonesome at times
especially after six long
cold months
of livin so isolated
way up north here
all on my own alone
except that is
for all my only other
fine feathered friends up here
i get to visit and see twice a day
who all be outside right...
#earth
#forest
#animals
#birds
#nature
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COLD DEAD SHEETS (11-29-1991; Jamaica Beach, Galveston Island, Texas)
no bed of sleep
for me tonight
instead it seems
and looks like
it s gonna be
off to these
cold dead sheets
for me
here tonight
yet again
where i ll only
struggle to
lag off away
so restlessly into
night s sad void s
timeless deep
stillness s
bottomless well
until i ll slowly
sink and fade
intermittently away
though much too briefly
surrendering back
into the relentless
diminishing heat
and prolonged...
for me tonight
instead it seems
and looks like
it s gonna be
off to these
cold dead sheets
for me
here tonight
yet again
where i ll only
struggle to
lag off away
so restlessly into
night s sad void s
timeless deep
stillness s
bottomless well
until i ll slowly
sink and fade
intermittently away
though much too briefly
surrendering back
into the relentless
diminishing heat
and prolonged...
#sadness
#loneliness
#frustration
#disappointment
#emptiness
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HALFWAY THERE (II) (2nd longer revision of original poem; 1-29-1997, East jetty of Flagship Hotel Pier, Galveston, TX)
i took a trolly
down to the beach
at the end of it s line
walked out to
the end of a jetty
looked out over
this vast gulf of mexicos
seemingly endless horizon
and longingly
thought to myself
with a heavy inner sigh
of momentary hopeful relief
from what little s now left of me
here at this point
of my life s present
long challenging
ongoing journey
in all it s worn...
down to the beach
at the end of it s line
walked out to
the end of a jetty
looked out over
this vast gulf of mexicos
seemingly endless horizon
and longingly
thought to myself
with a heavy inner sigh
of momentary hopeful relief
from what little s now left of me
here at this point
of my life s present
long challenging
ongoing journey
in all it s worn...
#anxiety
#depression
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability
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HALF WAY THERE (I)-(original poem's draft) (East Flagship Hotel Pier Jetty, Galveston Island Texas; 1-29-1997)
i took a trolley
down to the beach
walked out to the end of a jetty
gazed out over the seemingly endless
vast wide open gulf s horizon
and thought to myself
halfway there
down to the beach
walked out to the end of a jetty
gazed out over the seemingly endless
vast wide open gulf s horizon
and thought to myself
halfway there
#anxiety
#depression
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability
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SOME WORDS (7-8-2010, Palm Springs, California)
some words dewdrops
some words stone
some words blood
tears sweat
and bone
some words open
some words close
some words moonlight
some words sun
some words drizzle
drought or flood
some words body
some words mind
some words spirit
soul heart or tongue
some words spoken
some words thought ...
some words stone
some words blood
tears sweat
and bone
some words open
some words close
some words moonlight
some words sun
some words drizzle
drought or flood
some words body
some words mind
some words spirit
soul heart or tongue
some words spoken
some words thought ...
#mirror
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
#SelfReflection
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