Polyamorous Proclamations, Polytheistic Philosophies and Polychromatic Poems - The inner ramblings of an engineer by training, free lover by choice, activist by chance and champion of humanist principles trying his best to make sense of this crazy world.
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(11) Seafaring a short story by nicholaiv Atop an islet, a jagged tip of a submerged cluster of volcanic profusions thrust from the ocean floor, sits a man. Lines of salt have already begun to form on his dried and bare shoulders, which have darkened and reddened in the beleauguering light of a clear mid-afternoon. He looks onwards where enormous tankards and cargo ships with names of countries are minitiaturized and misted and grayed by distance, and the black unevenness of the horizon signaling land sits tauntingly beyond the still vessels. In adrenaline's calming afterglow, the whip of the waves and the warmth of the sun, which hangs in the sky like an angry eye, and the hallmarks of gray industry and man in the distance, hum with power. This little rock he's currently perched on seems a fated coincidence that saved his life in his 6 hour long international swim; as his strength was failing, it appeared; and for a moment he feels his journey is as monumental as the shifting
How I Got Rid of My Prickly by dwayneyawned These terrible spines of mine, they poke, they prick, they protrude, they get caught up in other people’s face, they get stuck in their carapace. It hurts me when my spines snap and bend, when they get pricklier as I defend and slowly I shed all that I depend on. It hurts my friends as I stab and spew, sit and stew simmering and muttering in my soup of self-righteousness. And then one day I got so tired. I wondered why I was always so wired. I closed my eyes, I calmed my mind I lessened the load I never knew I was bearing. And in my slow-beating heart did I find A prickly something like a needle-like thing Someone else’s spike from their careless fling. Bygone, forgotten, tiny yet wearisome I never realized it made me so fearsome. I never realized a heart irritated made me so agitated. I plucked and pulled and my prickly came out! And all the pricklies on me let out their dying shout. Never again, I swore
We are equal parts creative and equal parts destructive What are the habits and activities, relationships and value we are creating? What are the habits and activities, relationships and value we are destroying? Our light of consciousness can guide our actualisation of self, and only the test of time reveals all. #habits
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