January Oracle (edit)
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I like the newer one more for sure, hope this helps

(01-14-2024, 03:31 AM)TranquillityBase Wrote:  January Oracle

I throw my wheat pennies I don't know anything about the I ching, or wheat pennies, coming at the beginning makes a good setting
calculate my mortal future in broken
or unbroken lines.

I find myself in a ravine.
I must follow it to the end,
like a stream, filling each ragged hole
so I can move on. Filling ragged holes in a ravine or a stream? I don't understand the holes

I have no map
only the I Ching
to withstand the delusions,
the jagged walls of this path. I don't think you NEED to tell us it's the I ching?

Beyond I traverse a meadow
where dragons have fought.
I step over the splashes
of yellow and black blood. Iim  guessing the colors of the dragon's bloods are symbolic

I close the book. I’m  left standing since we know it's the I ching closing the book does have two meanings at least, but feels awkward
on the shore of a lake,
before a mountain’s struggle with heaven,
and the question of the next second. Is 'second' important? 'And my next question' or something




Waiting to See the Specialist

Conversational zen
is what I need to get through
this ravine, enough magic
to follow it to the end
a stream, filling each ragged hole
so I can move on.

I have no map
only the I Ching
to withstand the delusions
the jagged walls of this path.

I throw my wheat pennies
calculate my mortal future in broken
or unbroken lines.

The Ching never fails me 
as I traverse a meadow
where dragons have fought.
I step over the splashes
of yellow and black blood

into a time of waiting
waiting for the approach of an end
and a way forward
past the merciless lights 
of the specialist’s eyes.

Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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Messages In This Thread
January Oracle (edit) - by TranquillityBase - 01-14-2024, 03:31 AM
RE: January Oracle (new title) - by brynmawr1 - 01-25-2024, 06:29 AM
RE: January Oracle (new title) - by CRNDLSM - 01-25-2024, 11:00 AM
RE: January Oracle (new title) - by Knot - 01-26-2024, 03:09 AM
RE: January Oracle (new title) - by brynmawr1 - 01-26-2024, 10:03 AM
RE: January Oracle and Redoubt (edit) - by Knot - 01-27-2024, 03:56 AM
RE: January Oracle and Redoubt (edit) - by Knot - 01-28-2024, 10:19 PM
RE: January Oracle (edit) - by busker - 02-17-2024, 11:22 PM
RE: January Oracle (edit) - by TranquillityBase - 02-18-2024, 04:04 AM
RE: January Oracle (edit) - by rowens - 02-19-2024, 10:59 PM



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