What's It Like

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Entrance to the Careers Expo for senior students at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne.
The Expo was sponsored by The Age newspaper
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One Single Impression #63 ~ What's It Like
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Being on the edge
That sharp moment between worlds
Today in crisis
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Basic formats of near futures
What's it like to stagger through choices
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Today in limbo
That question between answers
What's it really like
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Sacred Circles

Pic by Linnie Stepping Stone ~ Southern Thailand

Pic by David J. Bookbinder ~ Flower Mandalas

A circle orbits our cosmic space
Weaving a still, sacred cocoon
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The essence of this holy place
Fuses evolving times and landscapes
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Like Spring becomes Spring again
Like a child becomes the joy of wonder
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Like refreshed happiness in a sun shower
Like a reflowering of the whispering soul
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Just a little sand, a lowly twig
And a yearning to circle the stars
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FOOTNOTE: MANDALAS have been used the world over as symbolic representations of the Cosmos as it relates to the Self.The word "mandala" comes from a sanskrit root meaning "enclosing the essence" - and therefore "sacred circle". Indeed mandalas are round in shape and they provide us with a magic circle, a circular and holy ground, a cocoon where we can safely and efficiently perform self-transformation and cosmic fusion.C. G. Jung observed that, towards the end of a successful therapy, mandala-like images would appear in dreams & in artwork as if to express an experience of completion: the patient had become "rounded up", whole and the psyche was unified, balanced. Is it a coincidence if "circle" and "cycle" are close linguistic parents ? Being circles, mandalas are displaying the reoccurring cycles of evolution and they always tend to appear at the end / beginning of a cycle, be it individual or collective. As symbols of the psyche, mandalas continuously speak a language of Self-Centeredness within the personal wheel of life and of Self-Integration within the grand scheme of transpersonal realities.
"The power of the world always work in circles and everything tends to be round"...Starwheels by Aya
Tibetan monks create beautiful sand mandalas and then, part of the celebration, is to erase them when they are complete, so they may be done again. And a simple mandala may be created in the sand with just a twig.
Mandalas are the essence of turning full circle.

Cornucopian Smorgasboard ~ for Sunday Scribblings

Silk roads are desperate scribbles
In vaults of Siberian wastelands
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Lush purple grapes tantalise longings
Reaching for love trapped on a twig
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Exotic rain is the hound of drought
A bounty for deprived senses
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Halloween passions are subway thrills
Locked in the orange of carved smiles
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An apple a day keeps living on
Wormed by the charms of sick Sirens
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The riddles of Sphinxes beguile
A traveller's scrabbling amulet
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A mournful, lonely tolling bell
Recalls the feast of the Last Supper
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In the last hour

If I could stop time

My nemesis would be

In the kitchen

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I carry a secret identity

Plus baggage

Here

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The fortune cookie

Weaves a spell of

Google magic

And gives me a slippery

Second chance

To terminate

That sinking feeling

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Any kitchen

For me

Is like

The inspired town mouse and

The crushed country mouse

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(I am not the inspired one)

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My deepest darkest

Superstitions

Materialise

In any fridge space

In any kitchen ~

My shoes demand

Change

Urgently

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My dream job

My dream journey

Is a chronicle

Of wings

And ocean

Anywhere

But a kitchen

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Destination is always

A secret identity ~

A spicy hero ~

And that is the thrill

Of the dance

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Dear diary

My first act

As queen

Of the world

Would be to grant

An eternity

Of three wishes

Now and then

Laced

With the wicked

Yummy

Passion

Of chocolate

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P.S. The blog Coolayla has a wonderful description of a Pumpkin Festival in Australia that has nothing to do with Halloween. It is celebrated in May each year!

Crystalline Doors ~ for the House in Marrakesh Blog

This post is for The House in Marrakesh Blog

celebrating "DOORS" on Wednesday 12th March 2008. A uniting, creative project for all bloggers!

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Pic from College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NC State University.

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A closed door is a secret face

Keeping worldly fears beyond the hearth

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An open door welcomes Nature

Leaving worldly tears to burn alone

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A door is the Alpha to journeys

Omega to shadows of time

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Here is a list of bloggers participating in this connection. There are so many door pics that are just incredible! Many I couldn't even dream about! Yet they are real!

The top 2 blogs organised the door connection. The remainder are participants in no particular order. Check them out!

http://thehouseinmarrakesh.blogspot.com/
http://frankgardner.blogspot.com/

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http://persistingstars.blogspot.com/
http://snipsandsnailsandpuppydogtails-leslie.blogspot.com/
http://pigtown-design.blogspot.com/

http://karencole.blogspot.com/
http://barriesummy.blogspot.com/
http://espritdart.blogspot.com/
http://www.claudiaschmid.blogspot.com/
http://magicarmchairtraveller.blogspot.com/

http://melialissa.blogspot.com/
http://somepinkflowers.typepad.com/
http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com/
http://merisi.blogspot.com/
http://www.pazsnewyorkminute.com/
http://downunderdale.blogspot.com/
http://www.aestheteslament.blogspot.com/
http://kameraveneblogi.blogspot.com/
http://moroccanmaryam.typepad.com/
http://willowscottage.blogspot.com/
http://mtimagine.com/blog/
http://lealabyrinth.typepad.com/
http://rodrigvitzstyle.typepad.com/
http://neulekirppu.wordpress.com/
http://www.amongsttheoaks.blogspot.com/
http://shalom-to-you.blogspot.com/

http://amberas.blogspot.com/
http://rochambeau.typepad.com/
http://art-words-life.blogspot.com/
http://www.ericorchard.blogspot.com/
http://www.jackriddlesblog.blogspot.com/
http://mercervernon.blogspot.com/
http://faye-christian-phillips.blogspot.com/
http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/
http://skophammers.blogspot.com/
http://terryrafferty.blogspot.com/
http://ramblingsfromanenglishgarden.blogspot.com/
http://artaries.blogspot.com/
http://marysheehanwinn.blogspot.com/