Monday ~ Moments of Joy
The most wasted of all days is one without joy and laughter.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
be mindful and joyful
Moonlight Cherishes
The moon looks down upon us all with her kindly lovelight
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Artemis, Cerridwen, Diana, Isis, Luna, Seline,
the brightest full moon should be enough
She keeps me safe in her celestial love
soft and white as some heavenly dove
yet unimaginably distant so far above
ordinary man with pain undreamed of
be comforted because you are loved
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the brightest moonrise
Dawn in the Enchanted Land.
The Apache called this the Enchanted Land.
Dawn in New Mexico, the mountains silhouetted against a colouring sky, and this dawn perhaps brings a new hope.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
a dawn for quiet contemplation
Haunted Abandonment
enchanted lust is as a candle under a dark moon
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night soon
hard as stone
dry as a bone
far as the moon
she left me alone
the enchantress crone
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
dangerous women attract me
and yet
I suffer an abnormal fear of abandonment
Scenes on Sunday – California
I’m just a staid English guy being cool in Orange County
Today I am in sunny Orange County, where it’s still a balmy 80 degrees. I like California, it might just be the nicest crazy place I know.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Wednesday I fly out to New Mexico
at least I’ll be staying at a cool hotel
Getting what you want
Life is too short to waste and too long to endure.
Being on vacation gives one time to ponder deep thoughts, and right now I need to focus on the small steps I can take to improve my life. Because, despite what you might think, not everything in my garden is sunshine and flowers. Sometimes the flowers wilt, and often the sky is grey.
I’m pretty certain I know who I truly am and what I want, up to and including defining and fulfilling my life purpose, but how do I make it all happen in ways that are congruent with me and acceptable to the important others in my life?
It would seem to be about courage, having faith in myself, and really taking positive actions – however difficult the warrior’s path may seem that’s the way I need to go. It’s time to get more clarity and investigate the important commitments in this present period in my journey.
I need to stop acting emotionally, because my emotions are seldom under control. Instead I should act intellectually because I have, and can use, all the accumulated information / knowledge to get exactly what I want, need, and desire. That’s not always going to be a comfortable process.
But, you know what? I am much happier, and work better when I am well outside of my comfort zone. For example I should have gone parasailing in Turkey, instead of just taking pictures of it.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I will do this next year
Scenes for Witches ~ Scarlet and Black
Sometimes it seems as though the very Devil is in the sky.
The sun sets red, and blood will be spilled this night.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Be afraid
Be very afraid
Dreams of Inner Peace
Hold infinity in your soul, and eternity in your dreams
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haunting music of the wind, wave counterpointed, kaleidoscope echoed
wildly framed the seascape bowl with solitary figure slowly walking
alone against a world struggling, changing but ever the same
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
men, mankind, tide, and time change
but the sea is the ever the same
Scenes on Sunday ~ Desert Beauty
The desert holds its harsh beauty close in secret silences.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
in the desert there is no sense of scale
this natural rock stack is about sixty-feet tall
and some see strange things in these rocks
Monochrome Monday ~ Utah Couds
Grey skies are just clouds passing overhead.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
It’s a big country
