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lionmonkie.bsky.social
Vermonter, philosopher, poet, artist, homesteader, IT pro, husband & father, exploring creativity, healing & justice. Rewilding the mind, body & soul, one word, one heart, one day at a time.
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An excerpt from one of my favorite poems. From the book 'The Gate of Paradise: Secrets of Andean Shamanism' by Luis Espinoza

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As late model Gen X, I don't have much uplifting advice about everything happening to tell younger generations beyond: seek truth fearlessly, love your friends and family with your whole heart, build up your community, minimize dependency on the government, and know your 90s hip-hop and RATM ❤️🙏🔥

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@alwayscoffee.bsky.social dropping tiny poems out of the sky like there's a celestial event living deep inside 🔥❤️

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The loss of dream Would be the #death of me For what are we If not vision… Intellect and intuition Vessels for experiences Poetries thrown into life To struggle and fight With questions about convention Without dream and conviction Who would I be? What would differentiate You…from me? #vss365

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

It's all good. Everything is fine. W... why... what have you heard? #death #vss365 #poetry #spokenword PS, been trying learn how to better "notate" for spoken performance, if anyone knows anything about that, would love any tips ✌️

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Sometimes the word of the day is a bit too pointed, cutting a little too deep into the culmination that is the trajectory of the present tense #grief #vss365 #poetry

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she’s vintage-souled and speaks in poetry; each glance a stanza each silence a sonnet written in soft sighs and dusty vinyl echoes #poetry #writingcommunity

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The phrase 'The birds are watching more closely now' started ominously bouncing around in my head at the same time that red-tail hawks became an undeniable presence in my life—circling my house, my car, & my head. Apollo watches over my house. #HaikuChallenge (Raptor) #Poetry #Poem #BlueskyPoetry

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'Unpack' I have a kitbag, a worn bugout — a hold-all of thoughts. A thief's haversack, greyed with guilt and kismet, filled with pennies of old thoughts. Sometimes I feel cold as a coin, rigid as a death dream. Reposed in a mortuary drawer. 1/2 #poetry #TashPoetry #mypoem

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This poem sponsored by some tool tweeting "only the weak will fail". Forgive my attempt at performance and musicality, LOL, I woke up with this beat in my head. I'd spend more hours working out flow but these daily prompts make me embrace the joy of organic imperfection and rawness #time #vss365 🔥

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When you really start to think about how much of our wealth and economic growth is tied to the very companies and industries that are attempting to undermine human rights, civil liberties, and the democratic republic.

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If terms/orgs like American Dynamism, Praxis, Prospera, NRx, Dark Enlightenment, Network State, SEZ, a16z, Founders Fund, Pronomos Capital, Minicircle, ShieldAI, BigBearAI, Palantir, Anduril, Exit, Reboot, & e/acc don't mean anything to you, everything might seem like chaos, rather than the plan ✌️

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let us go the #distance between towns within I get lost in the transition between thoughts a moment stretched into a road defined by dashed lines between points of order at dawn we ride the sun's rise but I cannot recall the meaning of what I meant when I said I hope hold on but #vss365 #poetry

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A little something to take the edge off ✌️

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Talking to myself. Talking back to myself. Am I overreacting? Am I underreacting? Am I just acting? Fighting the battle within to find my voice. Tempering the passion within to remain compassionate and kind, above all; is there, really, any other choice? (random image from Getty)

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Watching reps say 'I stand behind Booker, this is what we need!' with no irony, watching Green get censured by his own party, watching white folks say 'don't blame me, I’m one of the good ones!' Projecting; talking to myself, putting myself in my own shoes. #vss365 #bounce #poetry #spokenword 🔥

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We are stardust a truth I seem to only recognize as night falls as my soul desires to reconnect with the rest, the collective yet I feel so vulnerable sharing this so yeah #poetry

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The next step in the #networkstate vision will be to implement special economic zones (SEZ) within the US for Trump-loyalists where tarrifs do not apply, with appropriate stipulations and kickbacks, of course. We live in the meme fever dream of billionaire 8chan incels with crypto wallets. #resist

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