Category Archives: Emotional Intelligence

‘Untitled’ (the frequent offender)

24 Sunday Oct 2021

Posted by in Anxiety, Buddhism, Depression, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Growth, Human, Love, Mental Health, Middle Way, Observations, Pain, Poetry, Recovery, Sex, Spirituality, Uncategorized

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time to turn off all
your lost connections
let loose your hair
you choose selection

fine and dandy when
they’re all lined up
your logic blossom out from
what pleases your mind up

we make our world thru
choice and selection
start balls rolling neglectful intent
chilled to where go our affections

lapsing judgement ripples
thru time and tolerance
years later paying off with thoughts
cringe in regret’s blanket wince

your eyes be damned
as they transmit your wants
while words are worse yet still
skin shivers ripples and flaunts

physicality matters
in this solid manifestation
but intentions become clouds
that gestate expectations

a cross

25 Saturday Sep 2021

Posted by in Compassion, Death, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Grief, Growth, Healthcare, Human, Love, Memorial, Mental Health, Pain, Prayer, Quantum, Spirituality

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and so it’s passed from hand to fist
to rob the thief of ages
removing fear enjoining hands
embracing total strangers

prayer shifts the quantum stage
peace begets a germ of hope
love on loan doth sooth the dread
a part you are, collective soul

some how it’s me
my mother, your friend
passing along as potency forms
connecting the bonds in dew reborn

longing out for people you love
the web of a net, directed at you
all life suffers, the first noble truth
but a cross the valley eternity’s blue

luminescent life love
for longing each other
yet hand to hand this actually
calls down powers from above

a cross a time in altruism
ripples connect when do our eyes
some go forward, some stay put
from corpus christi to telluride

thou art that omnipotence
essence of all concentrate form
unbroken chain of pain and love
the power extends in cruciform

the brotherhood of men

18 Sunday Jul 2021

Posted by in Change, Compassion, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Hate, Human, Love, Mental Health, Observations, Open mind, Poetry, Recovery, Sameness

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brother hating brother
when exposed that they are men
acting with impunity
each is negligent again

lashing out in malice
harsh judgement from above
brother hating brother
like raven birthing dove

it’s not within their veins
that conflict seeds are sown
our simple human frailties are but
scared flowers bearing thorns

brother fighting brother
is an old hat on a child
the key to break the pattern
is with spirits reconciled

Squirrel!

17 Saturday Jul 2021

Posted by in Brain Droppings, Compassion, Dandelion Break, Emotional Intelligence, Environment, Growth, Human, Meditation, Middle Way, Observations, Open mind, Spirituality

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I have been setting up an area in my back yard that is animal friendly. It’s their section. There is a little bird bath and I have been starting to put in plants that will attract and feed them. Unlike half of my neighborhood, I also don’t use pesticides and try to let everything around here live and eat the food they like. The birds and squirrels seem to love it the arrangement. Something is always back there poking around. And I love observing them. Their way.

I also have a dog that is at least part beagle and black lab. And she loves to chase all things critter, period. And admittedly, I sort of enjoy watching her do what makes her happy (this is all helped immensely by the fact that she never catches anything). So as a way to make her backyard pee-trips a little more fun for the both of us, I like to psych her up by repeatedly asking if there are any squirrels outside… Yes, in a taunting voice. Anyway, once she is good and wound up, I open the door to witness a glorious mass scurrying and flying for the next 10 seconds.

Coming face to face with my own duality is harsh, man, I feel like the United States in the Middle East, here.

spectral

13 Sunday Jun 2021

Posted by in Death, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Grief, Human, Love, Memorial, Open mind, Pain, Poetry, Recovery, Spirituality, Uncategorized

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most of those
that listen best
are dead and gone
but in your chest

their wisdom stays
a tone is still clear
as perfect as when
their sound was here

spirit of death
O’ breath on the wind
port of eternal
entwined our sins

remember in love
reminiscing like porn
enlarging that spot
their kernel to form

enslaving our heart
attachment the curse
just for that ear
that once sang immersed

Just For Today

05 Saturday Jun 2021

Posted by in Anxiety, Brain Droppings, Buddhism, Change, Compassion, Depression, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Grief, Growth, Hate, Human, Love, Meditation, Mental Health, Open mind, Pain, Poetry, Prayer, Recovery, Sameness, Spirituality

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slow morning crawl
coffee and stare
far away look
minutes become
breath at a time
metronome sets
to forward go
the way of you
hurt begets pain
pain begets scars
scars become hard
yield not to wrath
a goal for now

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forward of mind

01 Tuesday Jun 2021

Posted by in Change, Compassion, Depression, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Grief, Human, Love, Mental Health, Pain, Poetry, Spirituality

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the inevitable question
is there a pattern or not?
when applied to parts
life develops from I

celestial circle ‘round
field dance in sun
finger-tip touch tops
jettisoning pain

from moments once spent
in blind abandon
nurtures the light
surrounding the spark

keeping it snug
and forward of mind
to never give up
the soul in your eye

settle the body – free the mind

21 Friday May 2021

Posted by in Dandelion Break, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Growth, Healthcare, Love, Meditation, Mental Health, Open mind, Poetry, Sameness

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comfy clothes on chair or floor
cross the legged legs or not
hands cupped in lap palm up
slow breath deep and start

barely opened are the each
thumb tips close
eyes mouth cracked
tongue palette barely touch

acts that removes the you
body stuff deflects inspect
itch twitch scratch and shift
freeing field for open minds

lower case altruism

20 Thursday May 2021

Posted by in Brain Droppings, Change, Compassion, Dandelion Break, Ego, Emotional Intelligence, Healthcare, Love, Mental Health, Open mind, Recovery, Spirituality

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When I got to work this morning I really, really had to pee. While running down the hall with my legs crossed, I saw someone I know who has been recovering from stage 4 cancer. So I waved to him. He waved back.

As I continued to side-shuffle down the hall something occurred to me, and it stopped me dead in my tracks.

This guy had been dying of stage 4 cancer and all he had ever asked of people was to make him laugh. And a few months later, here he was back at work! Something had helped him get back here.

So I turned around, then walked back just so I could call him a derogatory name. He laughed hard, nodded and called me a douchebag. Much better.

As I sped off again toward the big boy potty, I looked back and could see the crinkle in his eyes shining above his mask as he stumped his way down the hall on a cane.

Imagine a world where people are willing to make themselves temporarily uncomfortable solely for benefit of another person’s well being.