how we see

June 6

What are you looking at?

What is your focus?

What are your thoughts?

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a decade of days…

2025 is an anthology of thoughts du jour, unsolicited advice, messages of peace, philosophy, poetry, and photographs from the past decade of Mythos & Marginalia. In unchronological order, the years not as important as the dates, each post a reminder (if only to myself) that I do indeed write every damn day.

June 6

how we see

What are you looking at?

What is your focus?

What are your thoughts?

© 2021 j.g. lewis

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June 4

night thoughts. 2:03

Them that shall know are often
the last to notice, and those that
do should be mindful that foresight
is neither as accurate nor as
compelling as what plays out in
real time. Dream as you do at 2:03;
completely and unconsciously.
Let the mind fill with all the grace
and grandeur of an undisciplined
destiny, but know the conscience
of the aftermath knows the
realization of natural reflection
and intention.

© 2018 j.g. lewis

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June 1

not the same

the moon changes
the month changes
the mood changes
the mind changes
nothing ever
stays the same
not rights
not rhythm
not hope
not blame

without changes
there is no change

this moon is change
this month is change
the mood is change
the time is change
everything always
subject to change
the words
the wisdom
the peace
the game

deny culpability
you will never change

© 2018 j.g. lewis

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June 5

what else have we got

We, generally, question ourselves daily, but more specifically, on days like yesterday or the one before, or a few weeks before that. The resounding questions of why, are overwhelming and obvious.
  Sadly, the solution is not.
  It seems so inane to say we have to have greater faith in humankind when the tragedies we see and feel are neither kind nor humane.
  But what else have we got if we don’t have faith?
  It becomes harder and harder to have faith in the self, in the system, in spirituality or religion, but we must.
  Now is the time to be strong; questioning our faith will only make us weaker.

© 2017 j.g. lewis

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June 3

more meaning

Awoken by thoughts
           or a voice shouting on the street below
       or
              nothing

    3 a.m. or later
             window open   comfortably cool

this June rain makes more of an impression
in isolation
                              silence challenges
both history and the future
our daily lives and routines

only a reminder
                  humans need humans

        Craving physical contact
we all need friendship   security
compassion and hope

We need more meaning on
       how we really spend our lives

The indisputable truth:
       All of us have sinned

Now we realize everyone needs
        Community

crisis or chaos
   we are denied

      guilt will find a place to rest

                 how do you sleep at night?

© 2020 j.g. lewis

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May 31

until you suffer

Old soul, that of a poet, voice
drenched in whiskey, melancholy
and grief. A long time to bleed the blues;
they don’t happen by themselves.
You won’t fully understand
until you suffer.

Long shadow of the darkest day
reaches out, a reminder always of
the brother you cannot forget.
Nothing and nobody will let you,
when the band
carries your name.

Decades of harsh addiction, criticism,
celebrity gossip and half-truths. A
survivor. More than a relic, more
than a footnote, not a turning point
but a sign on the
rock and roll highway.

Playing for yesterday, like he
meant it, heritage fills time with
old emotion and the truth. Resolution
comes only when allowed. Tomorrow
is no longer his, but
the voice rings out forever.

©2017 j.g. lewis

R.I.P
Gregg Allman
1947-2017

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