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Category Archives: great
Perched
Do I love you because I am melancholy? Is it simply due to hours expended that I am expectant, waiting, entitled in my way, and you oblivious, or else unwilling— the cliff ahead we face yet you are turned away, … Continue reading
The Stone Within My Self
When I hold you, like a looking glass I bring your ghost to life. I condense your spirit into something tangible; it sparkles in the sun in my eye. When I hold you close I make you real, and take … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Fiction/Creative, great, Snippets
Tagged attention, body, body poems, cash tornado, condensing, empty, focus, hollow, love, meaning, poem, sadness
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Seedlings
How can I look back on you with anything but reverence? How to cast the eye of memory back to any of the times we shared and not be humbled, have my heart melt and the coil within my … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Fiction/Creative, great
Tagged breakup, love, peace, poem, poetry, prose, relationships, seedlings, seeds, time
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The Call to Life, Pt. 2
Trying hard ain’t everything. When it comes to answering life’s call, there’s only one response: I will do it. I will be better, I will try harder. The immediacy of the call warrants this response. There is palpable tension that resides in … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, great, Philosophy, Self-Improvement
Tagged afred molina, burn, call to life, doc ock, Dr. Otto Octavius, drive, jesus, life, motivation, otto octavius, sex, sex drive, spider-man, the call to life, urge, yoke
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Think Pretty Thoughts
I’ve been occupied recently with the question of the soul—is there more to the human being than raw materials? Do we live in a strictly materialist universe? Is there a soul hiding out in your body, or is it just … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, great, Philosophy
Tagged art, eternal, eternity, german, herman hesse, hesse, life, literature, materialist, soul, steppenwolf, thought
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Rain
I love the rain, and I love the cold. I walked home from work late at night last week, after the storm, and I felt at peace. The wind was blowing cold, carrying wet air from the ocean, and the drizzle … Continue reading
Years
I am often afraid that the years will leave me. If I stop pursuing, if I take a break, someone will catch up to me, proving me fraud, and all the capacity that’s come to me over the years will … Continue reading
Skeletons
Sometimes when I get too caught up with the weighty beauty of the physical world, becoming breathless, enamored, enraptured, I envision everyone around me as an animated skeleton. I strip away all their flesh and picture a gangly lattice of … Continue reading
The Sea at Westcliff
Every day during my senior year of college I would walk along Westcliff Drive. The first thing that struck me was the view—there’s about a mile of exposed cliff face overlooking the Boardwalk, the beach, and the bay between the … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Fiction/Creative, great
Tagged cliff, climate, emptiness, life, lighthouse, ocean, santa cruz, santa cruz wharf, substance, water, west, westcliff, whales
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the coziest universe
They make the universe look so comfortable in all the science shows; clouds of dust and gas rumple up like celestial drier sheets while awesome music plays in the background. They present a cosmos that you cannot help but want … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, great, Snippets
Tagged alive, blanket, comfortable, into the wormhole, morgan freeman, universe
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Bits and Pieces
When you first meet someone, it’s only a glance. You fall in love with a sidelong gaze, a vague peripheral impression, fleeting eyes on the bus. Your first idea of someone is a disconnected image which floats around in your … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisition, distance, emotions, existentialism, knowledge, love
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