WOUND

*oh my* ...

Thanks Dev - very much appreciate your add to RL as well

It's truly special when we can find beauty within pain. Great write!

FC
💜

thanks FC and welcome to these pages - there is certainly knowledge

If we care to see, it's at these times we become aware of what I call the Omnipotent...well said whale...

Yes Kate - you have it - when we are vulnerable we are empty enough (less full of ourselves) for there to be space to let something in or to acknowledge that there is something more powerful than ourselves

Our wounds, as our enemies, are are greatest teachers if we are but willing to learn vs. turn away in bitterness.

One of your best, brother.

absolutely my sister and to be wounded and wound in this world is probably inevitable - so we can accept the suffering that results from that pain as the only consequence or we can divine that pain as a path to knowledge

Bravo whale!

A poem about embracing reality in its fullest form

(Never like the idea behind the law of attraction. "Banish all negative emotions" they said. (like the tears you talk about)
"Turn a blind eye to terror and pretend it does not exist" they said (like the terror you talked about)

Loved it. And I suggest every luck person reading this examine the thought repeated and ponder on it.

Food for thought. I was hungry just now. thanks

[Not to interject/hijack Whale's thread but...]

No; that's not the law of attraction. TLA is setting intentions and filling your grid with the contrast of experiences. You cannot know one without the other. There is no ignoring in TLA. There is loving whatever arises and walking through it.

[Back to your regularly scheduled programming]

I stand corrected

Yes Wanderer - we can not ignore what is there for us - but it all passes to nothing so then what is there

The enjoyment/suffering between what is there and nothing is the only rationalé behind the question whale

Unless one opens an ear to those who speak of immortality and other dreamy beyonds...

Really moving ink Whale. Namaste.

Hey DC feel you

While, invariably, it is through the most intense wounding and suffering that Life teaches its most valuable lessons....

However...

It is through (a) shared understanding of this deep pain--whether intentionally inflicted....received....or both--that these lessons are more frequently, and fully realized (and appreciated)...

Mo Chara, your profound ink is of insight ! Thank you--once again--for sharing your wisdom with us!

Sioch`ain leat--always

Yes my dear enchantress you have walked on this ground and it is a hard one to walk alone

thankfully I have DU and U

Mourgana thanks for this - I am in this space completely

Pain make one reevaluate themselves and what's truly important. We've all been there. Much healing to you whale.

thanks Xmar as Mourgana said this is the healing moon

Whale you are such a deep soul.. pain teaches us much.. if we are willing to listen seems you have made peace with yours..

beautiful..

love Brenda

Each time I remind myself that pain may be real but suffering is a choice - each time I remind myself that pain maybe real but it can only exist in body and mind and I am not a body or a mind. But when I accept the pain - I can see how I or what brought me to that suffering and in that there is a learning. So not yet made peace but at a parlay ...
Rather be chilling on a beach tho Brenda

The language in this is so simple and straightforward on the surface, yet you use rhythm and semantics in such a way as to evoke an atmosphere which longer, more complex words and sentences might struggle to. A really neat little poem, cheers. x

Thank you as ever Jack for the Time & consideration in your critique - and the add to your RL - as I've tried to work with more profound concepts I've found that I've had to construct with simpler tools

never the wound, always the healing;
we search & find a good poem,
& sometimes a good woman...

and we pray for both John
Thanks again

Ah, the big fish speaks. Gotta stop saying that out loud. Every time you pop up in my updates I'm like "Big Fish strikes again!"... I digress.

Can't help but wonder about this line: "And wounded I caused And surrender" - I'm wondering whether it would work better to change this to 'surrendered' ? This just seems to work better when I read the poem out loud. The rest of the poem is so fluid, and so on point though, it's a joy to read the rest of it.

The last three stanzas are revelatory. I'd happily have your italic stanza as my epitaph.

Thank you for the read.

hey missy - something thorny in my ego revolts when anyone suggests changes but this one is perfect and the change is made

Thank you for the encouragement.



FS

thank you Floral

You always grab me right back,
no matter how far off I wonder
within my own lands.

Here laid in the trenches of them
as my soul and heart were aroused
with a need to say thank you

for this one my darling whale
..tight hugs



-Howlings

we compass the same geography my dear whelms with our prayers and pauses each passing eve