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Tag Archives: contemplation
yearning
My heart, fragile as a laser carved eggshell, still beats. Beautiful, i know it is, yet taken for granted and only appreciated when it pounds against my chest or breaks. Why must I live this life I have chosen, indeed … Continue reading
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Tagged children, commentary, contemplation, heart, life, men, poetry, prose, question marks, rivers, space, stars, time, universe, women
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pawns, peasants and slaves
Imagine this: the concept of owning a slave surfaced like a boil on the face of the planet 12,000 years ago. Certainly it was not when bipedal males of the genus Homo habilis were developing stone tools over 2 million … Continue reading
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Tagged acid throwing, amendment, ancestors, bride burning, cheap, collaboration, collateral damage, commentary, conflict minerals, contemplation, corporations, debt, debt bondage, dowry, egalitarian, eve teasing, evolutionary, fear, global, historical, homo habilis, hunter/gatherer, IMF, institutionalized, interdependence, itinerant laborers, Jesus, landowner, legacy, marriage, mates, matriarchy, military campaigns, money, Neolithic, nomadic, offspring, opinion, patriarcy, pawnage, peasants, pimp, poor, power, prostitute, recycle, sex trafficking, slaves, societies, soil, subjugae, survival, taxes, violence, votiing rights, wealth
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One With
Once I have teeter-tottered to my grave on the same wobbly feet that have carried me through life, please don’t memorialize me with fluff, dull as a spoon, useless as a dream never recalled. For that matter don’t slather it … Continue reading
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Almost Green
It is almost green again, the world. Almost new, almost a reflection of something no one has ever seen. I dream a dream that repeats itself, familiar similar faces spaces and streets. To dream other wise would be prophecy, no? … Continue reading
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Tagged anomaly, birth, commentary, contemplation, dream, green, kaleidoscope, new, paradigm, poetry, prophecy, prose, reflection, world
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an Open heart
You don’t know or maybe you do. Maybe you pretend. I can’t. I am the ink on the page you’d already written when you said, “that’s an idea” but didn’t show. Too sensitive, I am. My trusting, yearning heart breaks … Continue reading
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Tagged calculation, commentary, contemplation, embrace, heart, poetry, prose
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I Walk, I Kill
The Earth teems with Life. Sidewalks are the plains and I the tornado. I don’t mean to, I would never intend to but everywhere I place my foot I snuff out something. After the earth worms take their revenge for … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, contemplation, death, dreams, nature, poetry, prose, tornado
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They say Necessity is the Mother of Invention. I say it is absolutely necessary that we pin courage to our sleeves, fill our button holes with rebellion and make bright the question marks in our eyes. © Tina Zabielski 2011-2019
July 25, 2013
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Shiva dances in the palm opposite the hand that holds the anger. I join them, all the other clowns, on our high wire of formidable pain. © Tina Zabielski 2011-2019
roots and chances
who will teach impossibility to the roots of a tree gently lifting the concrete over sweet, sweet time? © Tina Zabielski 2011-2019
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theminstrelscitadel 
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In the glaring light of day we parcel out upon the world our blame and condemnations, our envy and frustrations, our Herculean efforts to be strong. In the deepest shadows of night we offer to God our hopes and fears, … Continue reading →