Submissions by OyateInyanNajin
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
10th Aug 2024 6:11am
10th Aug 2024 6:11am
LOVE IN MY ARMS (III)-(my 3rd revised version)-(1976; Poretto Jetty, Galveston, Texas, struggling with being GAY)
love in my arms
here then gone
comes and goes
like some rare moon tide
sunrise soon brightened
into new day
but it s clearness
only added to my
ever deepening confusions
evening arrived
only a comfortable disguise
down to the beach i walked
as night s darkness
soon fell upon me
out at the end of a jetty
from which i stared up and out
at the seawall s street lights
shining down from high above me here
reflecting mercurially out into night s ...
here then gone
comes and goes
like some rare moon tide
sunrise soon brightened
into new day
but it s clearness
only added to my
ever deepening confusions
evening arrived
only a comfortable disguise
down to the beach i walked
as night s darkness
soon fell upon me
out at the end of a jetty
from which i stared up and out
at the seawall s street lights
shining down from high above me here
reflecting mercurially out into night s ...
#despair
#emotional
#emptiness
#FeelingLost
#suicide
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Aug 2024 2:07am
6th Aug 2024 2:07am
WAITING GAME (6-17-2001; Galveston Island, Texas)
such complexity
stuck in density
we call this world
beneath it s spell
we re only pupae
in these temporal shells
chrysalistic vehicles
of our eternal souls
despite free will
we wait in these cells
until silent metamorphosis occurs
then after one final moment
of suspended brief darkness
along our journey s way
in which complete transformation
of physical being s form
shape shiftingly transpires ...
stuck in density
we call this world
beneath it s spell
we re only pupae
in these temporal shells
chrysalistic vehicles
of our eternal souls
despite free will
we wait in these cells
until silent metamorphosis occurs
then after one final moment
of suspended brief darkness
along our journey s way
in which complete transformation
of physical being s form
shape shiftingly transpires ...
#evolution
#philosophical
#rebirth
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
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SELF POEM
Published
5th Aug 2024 5:13am
5th Aug 2024 5:13am
LOVE IN MY ARMS (II)-(1976, Poretto Jetty, Galveston Island, Texas; on a dark night of struggling with my being Gay.)
love in my arms
here then gone
so rarely comes
but when it does
like some rare moon tide
and seems to be true and real
each new time around
it also seems
to almost always go away
as quickly as it comes
then just a short while later
after waking from my sleep s
already forgotten
meandering dreams
i got up to begin another new day
i wrote down those initial
still lingering thoughts
stil faintly echoing away in my head
which softly arose
as i...
here then gone
so rarely comes
but when it does
like some rare moon tide
and seems to be true and real
each new time around
it also seems
to almost always go away
as quickly as it comes
then just a short while later
after waking from my sleep s
already forgotten
meandering dreams
i got up to begin another new day
i wrote down those initial
still lingering thoughts
stil faintly echoing away in my head
which softly arose
as i...
#confusion
#ForbiddenLove
#LGBT
#loneliness
#shame
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2024 3:12am
2nd Aug 2024 3:12am
BACK INTO BLISS RETURN (II)-(2nd revision) (9-27-2020, 8:15pm; another spontaneous, 420 Spa poem, Palm Springs, Ca.)
blissful blessings
blessed bliss
submerged
soul deep
in all
this
boundless
wonderment
set free again
at blissful last
away from all
false sense
of blissless self
of blissless life
of blisslessness itself
away from all
which blinds
and masks us all
away from that
which much too often
holds us back
from ever truly reaching
our full potential
from ever fulfilling
our truest bliss
within our temporal human lives
illusory mind s egoic dance
here in this wondrous...
blessed bliss
submerged
soul deep
in all
this
boundless
wonderment
set free again
at blissful last
away from all
false sense
of blissless self
of blissless life
of blisslessness itself
away from all
which blinds
and masks us all
away from that
which much too often
holds us back
from ever truly reaching
our full potential
from ever fulfilling
our truest bliss
within our temporal human lives
illusory mind s egoic dance
here in this wondrous...
#apathy
#consumerism
#earth
#humankind
#TruthOfLife
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jul 2024 3:54am
29th Jul 2024 3:54am
BEACHED GRAY WHALE AT DUSK (sometime around 1984-1985; while walking along the beach in Cardiff By the Sea, California)
a great spirit s vessel
lies broken before me here
breached breathless
beached lifeless
still present in form
but whose presence
of spirit and being s life essence
in abscence here now
is completely gone
i can only find and take
some relative comfort and solace
to help alleviate
to help lighten
my heavy grief
by my simultaneously imagining
in this dark weighty moment
it s sweet gentle beautiful soul
perhaps breaching anew
even here now
free...
lies broken before me here
breached breathless
beached lifeless
still present in form
but whose presence
of spirit and being s life essence
in abscence here now
is completely gone
i can only find and take
some relative comfort and solace
to help alleviate
to help lighten
my heavy grief
by my simultaneously imagining
in this dark weighty moment
it s sweet gentle beautiful soul
perhaps breaching anew
even here now
free...
#emotional
#grief
#LifeChangingMoment
#memories
#nature
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SELF POEM
Published
21st Jul 2024 5:25am
21st Jul 2024 5:25am
EXCEPT FOR THIS SONG THE CRICKETS SING (Jamaica Beach beach house, 10-6-1991; 1st poem I wrote after moving back to TX)
well here i am
returned again
back to the state
i was born in
back home
on my very first night
here in my
tiny little
funky studio apartment
directly beneath my brother s
beach house
which will hopefully only be
my temporary
though at this point
even that remains
profoundly uncertain
to either see or say
present new island abode
after moving back here
to the far west end
of historic galveston island
texas
after living the last ten years
of my life
way out in beautiful ...
returned again
back to the state
i was born in
back home
on my very first night
here in my
tiny little
funky studio apartment
directly beneath my brother s
beach house
which will hopefully only be
my temporary
though at this point
even that remains
profoundly uncertain
to either see or say
present new island abode
after moving back here
to the far west end
of historic galveston island
texas
after living the last ten years
of my life
way out in beautiful ...
#death
#disability
#illness
#LifeCycle
#SelfReflection
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Jul 2024 2:50am
21st Jul 2024 2:50am
THE FAST APPROACHING BORDERS OF THIN ICE INSANITIES (5-31-1992; in a Sonora Texas roadside Motel)
my only hope here
presently
is to keep on moving
ever further away
from these fragile
increasingly eroding
threadbare
decaying borders
of such fast approaching
proximal
thin ice insanities
where i have
for so very long now
only been struggling
courageously fighting
in intermittent
recurrent cycles
of both successes
and futility alike
to simply
yet desperately
at times
just survive
and stay alive
more than i have
been able to
more fully live
my life
my one...
presently
is to keep on moving
ever further away
from these fragile
increasingly eroding
threadbare
decaying borders
of such fast approaching
proximal
thin ice insanities
where i have
for so very long now
only been struggling
courageously fighting
in intermittent
recurrent cycles
of both successes
and futility alike
to simply
yet desperately
at times
just survive
and stay alive
more than i have
been able to
more fully live
my life
my one...
#healing
#inspirational
#LifeGoals
#meditation
#PersonalGrowth
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STORY POEM
Published
20th Jun 2024 3:17am
20th Jun 2024 3:17am
MORE HYPNOGOGIC AFTER THOUGHTS (2:00am, 12-10-1993, Galveston Island, Texas)
two a m
and i still can t retreat
from a head full of
restless thoughts
with my restless ears
still passively listening
to the sound of surf s
not too far off
breath like back and forth
in and out rushing
upon this late night gulf s
continuous salty breeze
steadily sweeping over
these dark seedy
nocturnal neighborhood streets
stealthily rivering over
every sleeping household and yard
across...
and i still can t retreat
from a head full of
restless thoughts
with my restless ears
still passively listening
to the sound of surf s
not too far off
breath like back and forth
in and out rushing
upon this late night gulf s
continuous salty breeze
steadily sweeping over
these dark seedy
nocturnal neighborhood streets
stealthily rivering over
every sleeping household and yard
across...
#memories
#myself
#SelfReflection
#StreamOfConsciousness
#WritingPoetry
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SELF POEM
Published
19th Jun 2024 1:13pm
19th Jun 2024 1:13pm
MY FREE LINE'S LIFETIME, PRECARIOUS, HIGH WIRE ACT (somewhere unknown in time; Galveston Island, Texas)
skip fact
let go
set free release
all those old archaic
straight line modes
of more self limited
stream of consciousness thoughts
now long ago let go of
released set free
modes and ways of habitual
straight line thinking
into this much better
more highly evolved mode
of free line thoughts and thinking
so break free of
and out from all
self limiting restrictions
of your mind
let it snake and flow
mindfully thoughtfully
thoughtlessly mindlessly
then either way...
let go
set free release
all those old archaic
straight line modes
of more self limited
stream of consciousness thoughts
now long ago let go of
released set free
modes and ways of habitual
straight line thinking
into this much better
more highly evolved mode
of free line thoughts and thinking
so break free of
and out from all
self limiting restrictions
of your mind
let it snake and flow
mindfully thoughtfully
thoughtlessly mindlessly
then either way...
#LifeAsAWriter
#MyInspiration
#PowerOfWords
#WritersBlock
#WritingPoetry
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SELF POEM
Published
14th Jun 2024 3:27am
14th Jun 2024 3:27am
INSERT, POP-UP, REFLUX - PAUSE (12:30am, 7-3-2010; Palm Springs, California)
each day
i live
i see
i feel
i sense
i know
sometimes even
back and forth
a little more
a little less
through days
through weeks
through months
through years
i wake
to the east
spread roots
to the south
dream
to the west
gain strength
insight
wisdom
and power
from the north
when and with
my feet are in the earth
my head in the clouds
my heart in the sea
and my mind
my spirit
and being
are all filled
with radiant
life giving...
i live
i see
i feel
i sense
i know
sometimes even
back and forth
a little more
a little less
through days
through weeks
through months
through years
i wake
to the east
spread roots
to the south
dream
to the west
gain strength
insight
wisdom
and power
from the north
when and with
my feet are in the earth
my head in the clouds
my heart in the sea
and my mind
my spirit
and being
are all filled
with radiant
life giving...
#Buddhist
#Christian
#Hindu
#spiritual
#Taoism
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jun 2024 1:47am
6th Jun 2024 1:47am
THIS SLEEPING WORLD'S STILL UNAWAKENED SPIRIT GUIDED DANCE (8-10-2010; Palm Springs, California)
gently astir
up from my dreams
i briefly breech the surface veil
upon this calm black sea s
inner screen
of night s sweet silent
ancient lingering spell
adrift in weightless
formless peace
within the zen like
inward sunken
primal stillness
of it s timeless infinite flow
with all thoughts turned off
like sleeping fish
both here but not
still alive yet somewhat presently
only...
up from my dreams
i briefly breech the surface veil
upon this calm black sea s
inner screen
of night s sweet silent
ancient lingering spell
adrift in weightless
formless peace
within the zen like
inward sunken
primal stillness
of it s timeless infinite flow
with all thoughts turned off
like sleeping fish
both here but not
still alive yet somewhat presently
only...
#choices
#humankind
#PersonalGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
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EROTIC POEM
Published
5th Jun 2024 4:56am
5th Jun 2024 4:56am
A SUDDEN, POP-UP, RATHER SILLY, EROTICALLY SUGGESTIVE LITTLE POEM (5-22-2024, Palm Springs, California)
#erotic
#lust
#orgasm
#passion
#sex
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