A selection of my writings, in alphabetical order by title (ignoring "the"):
Ah, When Computers by FrostPuma, literature
Literature
Ah, When Computers
Ah, When Computers
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Ah, when computers fail us, just as when
our own internal nervous systems fail
and leave us locked outside, or trapped within
the suddenly opaque and doorless jail
(so that we turn to tasks, reach for the tools,
and find the lights gone dim, the workbench bare;
or try to grasp our work, and feel, like fools,
no substance, but the bright illusion there);
well, then we know how great the art has been,
that let us think we truly did control
the wilful powers that did our bidding then --
but is such knowledge healthy for the soul?
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Akashic Records
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The Akashic Records Reading Room
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All the Lies
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All of our lives we keep on growing,
while even mountains wear away;
and we all change without our knowing,
and can speak only for today
CHORUS:
I'll tell you all the lies you want me to,
I'll tell you all the truth you'll let me;
I'll keep your love for as long as I can;
I'll stay with you 'til you forget me.
You ask me if I'll always love you,
but I can't answer for tomorrow;
all my collateral is hope,
and dreams are all that I can borrow.
I do not make a promise lightly,
but, though the things I say are true,
in spite of all my good intentions
my heart does what it wants to do.
Ally
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Though you thought I was gone, in the depths of your fears,
you were wrong; though I suffer, I wait;
and patient in exile that's lasted long years,
abandoned, I still cannot hate.
nor have I forgotten, I still taste your tears,
I will answer your call, though it's late.
Out of the cold rain that beats the black mud
on the rotting forest's track,
out of the ancient muck reeking of blood
I come to stand at your back.
Don't turn around at the sound, show no sign of fear;
it is I, your ally, who draws near.
Hunted and hounded from all mortal lands
in the distance and dark I endure;
good and evil are not what my kind unde
ALPHABET, BE CALLED!
Benign celestial, divine,
comprising diverse elements;
descend! Effulgent font,
emerge from glory;
form glyphs haloed,
golden, holy -- images
hidden in jointed,
intricately jumbled knots;
jeweled keys loosing
knowledge locked magically --
lend me now
marvels: numinous occult
names; ominous, perilous,
onomantic powers -- quicken
poetry, quell riddles.
Quietly reveal, small
rosy stone that
speaks the unity
those unknown voices
uttered, verses whose
vitality with xanthous,
wild xenogenesis yearns.
Xerxean your zeal,
your zone a
zenith above bounds;
Alphabet, be called!
Animals, They Say
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Animals, they say, live in eternal now,
and whatever they are doing, they've been doing it forever;
no yesterday and no tomorrow, and nothing is done
with the knowledge that it will not last;
time's shadow does not fall on their eternal noon
or midnight, where in pain they do not wait
for one ending or another, but only endure, lacking
not only time's curse, but it's blessing.
Animals, they say, are hard to lie to;
acting from their hearts, even their stelth is blatant;
like children, they see through you, even if,
to please you, they pretend they do not see;
and all our webs of words are only noises;
our hard-w
Art Should Not Be A Burden by FrostPuma, literature
Literature
Art Should Not Be A Burden
Art should not be a burden
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Art should not be a burden, no -
A joy,
A medicine,
A way to grow,
A way to learn new things, or go
More deeply into one;
Along the winding path you take,
Sincere
And humble,
And each mistake
A lesson; always dreaming and awake,
Always being where you've gone....
Back in the Bardo
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We planned very carefully,
We worked very hard, oh!
Here we are as you can see,
Back in the Bardo.
Back in the Bardo now,
Feeling both renewed and worn,
Where we wind up anyhow,
Waiting here to be reborn.
Did things go the way we planned?
Were we on our guard, oh?
Did we ever understand
Why we're in the bardo?
Back in the Bardo now,
Can we ever cut a deal,
Say goodbye and take our bow,
Get off of this whirling wheel?
What hand beats the hand that grips,
To play the perfect card, oh;
Cash out when we cash in our chips
And beat the bank in Bardo?
Back in the Bardo now,
Taking stock of what was taught.
What doe
Baradu
(a fragment)
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In dark Mordor did Sauron once
a black and monstrous tower devise
on Gorgoroth the haunted plain
that rotted with an unclean stain
under the sunless skys.
So there on hills of smoldering ash
orcs toiled beneath the screaming lash,
and there were turrets builded of black stones
that iron-crowned rose into Mordor-night
and dungeons sunk into Earth's tortured bones
whose topmost levels never knew the light.
But, oh!, that abyss iron-bridged that moated
the Barad-Dur about with emptyness-
a chasm steep, rock-tumbled and soot-coated
where ever and anon the black mists floated
up from the pits flame-f