Poems and prose portions in response to my own prompt — Nothing anyone can do will shorten or extend their own or someone else’s exit date — just the circumstances are the product of the chaos of everyone’s free will — We Are Only As Sick As Our Secrets — a dizain (a dizain is a French form of ten, ten-syllable lines with ABABBCCDCD rhyming structure) Suicide provides no relief at all On ledge imagining end to my pain Pavement streaming toward me will not end fall Just before break solution becomes plain My penance…

Along with my essay on matters of life and death, including suicide, from the perspectives gained on my nearly 10-year-and-counting and never-ending spiritual journey — We Are Only As Sick As Our Secrets Suicide provides no relief at all On ledge imagining end to my pain Pavement streaming toward me will not end fall Just before break solution becomes plain My penance to help others to refrain Thought my loved ones better off without me Truth’s too likely they’ll header into…

A sonnet of both perspectives are true — Love The Beatles with all my heart and soul From Across the Universe we are joined Recognize all our spectrums and no poles Dual and nonduality Selves conjoin Honestly many Buddhists upset me so Soul is but particles they do insist Individuals after death not know Yet Sitara’s and my love do exist…

Congratulations on a good start — I’m so happy new code just rolled out to me and Medium got rid of the obnoxious side bar within stories and now have restored the identity of all highlighters to the right side of the page!!! 17 months ago I published: Dear Medium, Please Stop Breaking What Works Well on the Platform There is much you should fix but meaningful engagement, despite the trolls that you tolerate, is the best aspect and…medium.com

An acrostic and otherwise formless and downloaded poem — Glowing from the void Universal knowledge enlightens Ah if it were only so easy Retreat is not surrender Defeating fear Is victory even if it ends in Annihilation Nous will return All’s well that continues Never ending well or poorly present or future Godhead has no beginning Everlasting eternity simply always Life everlasting So it…

But we are evolutionaries — Question bedevils many, conform not conform Are you asking right question, or fooled by labels Act with authenticity, that’s path of Spirit Die integrity intact, Sacred epitaph Individual Member of society Nonconformists us String unique pearls together Beautiful necklace of life Binary thinking Polarity consciousness Scourge of our species Surf wavelengths between the…

Another poetic attempt at universal epistemology with an acrostic sonnet, how bout them apples of Adam and Eve!!! — Feelings our hearts both transmit and receive English language writers and readers fail Emotions and thoughts our systems deceive Lies of conditioning wish not prevail Inner senses through chakras we should trust Natal faculties atrophy with age Glorious tree of knowledge we should lust Science please release humans from your…

Yes but not until you can discern the difference between feelings (follow) and emotions (process) — I have had this essay percolating and with many stories and comments of others accumulating as open tabs in my browser for over two months. It would probably serve me better to plan with more organization and utilize Medium’s list function but that’s not how this INTP rolls. I had…

Yes, no, maybe — I write to open this Pandora’s box of worms for discussion — Scott Tarlo recently fertilized this seed in my pinball brain when he announced the closure of his great pub, Politically Speaking. Politically Speaking Is Now Inactive The publication will not be publishing new work or accepting new writersmedium.com This publication was not about money. My experience on Medium has never been about the money. …