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Land of Plenty by R o c h e l l e L o r e n Orig Publication Nov2014 @elephantjournal http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/11/land-of-plenty-poem/ Big Brother, my Democracy: We the People—a Monstrosity! We share this land, Who you are, so I am; But this Red and Blue dichotomy, It’s a war of ideology. This illusion of divergence: Propaganda for control! Mass Media hails its brimstone, As the sheep discard their soul. Upheaval and unrest Hide political corruption. Ignorance litters the location, And decorates for the destruction. Pride boasts in fire and bursts in air, But always driven with discontent; The contemporary servitude, Enslaved by establishment… Once established by enslavement, Raping amber fields of freedom; Now atop a hill of pavement, Sheltered in our shiny kingdom. Swollen from the gorge, Having stolen from the Native; Dignity we often forge Keeping our conscience captive. Inspire masses with incentive, Feed the ego, starve the spirit. So productive and inventive, [Cha-Ching] Consumerism, can you hear it? Until intent becomes regret And good intentions can repent, Slowly, surely we forget We can’t undo the time we’ve spent! Disbelief, to where it went; Nothing to show but malcontent. And all the many things we buy! All the excess we posses, Smothering the hearts of men, Shriveling the flesh. Filling voids with rooms of shoes, Packing rooms like rats, Home-shopping as a pastime, Hoarding debts, collecting cats! Popping pills for all occasions, Nipping, tucking, better asses. Stacking suburbs like recyclables, Building boxes on greener grasses. Built by the machine; Guilt by association. Cannot keep your hands so clean, When the Machine becomes your nation. The cold hard truth about it is, It’s dark and hot and real! Beneath it is a bleeding earth And above it is iron and steel. Towering high, scraping the sky, Shattering stars and peace of mind, That fall from grace like shards of glass, And truth for few to find. We dress our blues to the nines, Go out, get drunk on straight lament. Lose our rhythm as we bide our time, We can’t remember, but can’t forget: The essence of humanity: Dissipating in its calamity. #thanksgiving #consumerism

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#spacecadet #theforce #solitude #space #starwars #teeshirts #movienight #fbf #spaceyourface

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Rainy night at home. #chess #stress #workweek #thirstythursday #mastador #strategy

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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. (On the manipulation of language for political ends.) We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. #GeorgeOrwell #1984 #moderntimes #war #warcrimes #silence #truth #ignorance #lies #hate #battle #civilwars #flags #fathers #novels #words #orwell #writer #wisdom #wakeup #fiction #reality #media #bigbrother

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Words: The Essential Rumi Art: Nostalgia Field, Zdzislaw Beksinski #neosurrealism #fantasy #fineart #poland #artist #rumi #words #Contemporary #surrealist #Romanticism #fantastic #art #illustration #idealistic #imagery #imaginative #neo #surrealism #art #visionary #Creative #illustration #painting #dream #field #wrong #right #morality #mortality #modern #life

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Never forgetting soul mates who were shipped out to sea, as they lured you onto shore. They were looking for the lighthouse, not knowing where to be. But there you were. Flailing. Singing. Wailing. Swimming with depths, treading the water of time, Ever more. Words: Rochelle Loren Art: Catrin Welz Stein #poem #veteran #sea #mermaid #herosjourney #ocean#depth #synchronicity #words #art

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Do you wanna be the gem or do you wanna wear the necklace? The admired or the admiration, or rather just the wretched reckless? Words: Rochelle Loren Art: Girl Looking in the Mirror, Alfred Stevens, Belgium 1823-1906 #fine #art #neoclassical #oilpainting #words #reflection #self

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Scorpio New Moon aligns and awakens us to the cycle of the great Mysteries. “Scorpio holds the power of the water element with its emotionally penetrating receptivity and capacity for depth and magnetism; it doesn’t get more feminine than this. “The mysteries of birth, death, deep inner transformation, sexuality, and our power held in shadow as yet unconscious to us are all represented by this Scorpionic Moon. The magnificent forms of destruction and creation are Scorpio’s realm…” “The Scorpio luminaries (Sun/Moon) are ruled by the transformative power of Pluto, The King of the Underworld. No wonder the topics are dense with power. “Scorpio rules healing power – where we align with Spirit to transform dis-ease into miraculous health as we rise up out of the ashes and surrender old, stuck energy for the regeneration of health. “We are all self-healing. The intertwining snakes (Scorpio) of the caduceus on a healing staff are the classic archetype for the medical professions. “And the serpent power also represents the power of the kundalini force to heal and invigorate our lives if we provide a sacred container (our bodies, our lives, our dedicated service) where it can manifest. “Chiron, the wise healer/teacher, is trining the New Moon and Mercury bringing forward the wise counsel of wholistic understanding – seeing all the elements that contribute to health or dis-ease – our thoughts, how we nourish ourselves, our habits that express a love (or lack of) towards our bodies, our relationship to Spirit and each other.” -Courtesy Mystic Mamma #mystic #scorpion #1111 #scorpio #sun #moon #newmoon #dark #light #shadow #secret

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G l i n t o f R a i n by R o c h e l l e. L o r e n It's not that I can't love the rain. I'm the first one dancing in it on a summer midnight. But winter winds cast bitter stains that drench a sunny disposition. Like fluorescent light can quench the eyesight, How well it makes an art of asphalt, that dirty windshield glisten, But the piercing of reluctant bones, secludes a heartbeat's grand transition. The discomfort of the dark wet damp Gentle taps of metal grace, inside the space that dares to listen. #rainyday #rva #photo #poem #words #wet #rain #light #dark #night

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Everything is food if you are truly hungry. Everything is poison if you are overfed. Words: Sadhguru Art: Luigi Beschi

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Alan Watts, on belief and tech culture's effect on wisdom, 1958, Mill Valley, California: There is the prevalent belief in the West that intellectual and philosophical pursuits are unessential ornaments of culture, of far less value than active and technological accomplishments. #alanwatts #duality #naturemanandwoman #intellectual #wise #balance

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Bliss is the enchanted oblivion of the force that is always with you. Words: Rochelle Loren Art: dpjoe #muse #fineart #photo #words #bliss #enchantment #surrealist #sea #earth #wind #fire #spirit #soul #mind #body #heart #muse

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Bliss is the enchanted oblivion of the force that is always with you. Words: Rochelle Loren Art: dp joe #bliss #humanity #muse #surrealism #photo #sea #beauty #storm #consciousness #oblivious

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Dreams are the trade winds of the force that is always with you. Words: Rochelle Loren Art: Shelby Robinson

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Déjà vu is the awareness of the force that is always with you. Words: Rochelle Loren Art: Horst Kistner Hahnemühle #dejavu #consciousness #psychology #psychonauticadventures #nostalgia #remembrance #conscious #spiritjunkie #human #evolution #consciousawareness

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