Unharnessed

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Learn to run wild in the freedom of thought

Unharnessed

Shall we confine ourselves to the limitations of quantitative love

Measuring within confines outdatedly constrictive

Meandering in the fenced lines of worn out definitive memories

Shake me to the core towards the unbeaten path

For I will not be a repeat of the past

Tie these hands and tie these feet, gag the wayward speech

Still it would not prevent this soul expansion

From moving beyond congregated obstructions of petrified oughts

Painting pictures filled with shadows gray of many loves before

Leave behind the illusion of control for they exist not in the universal equivalency

Archaic those habits cannot move forward unburdened

For they belong to the past of old relations

Give love room to develop and grow soundly for the hardened cannot seize it

Graceladymn 10/9/09

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icu2 commented on Unharnessed

10-30-2009

Yeah! I agree! This is awesome, girl! Wanting to read more....TEN...and then some!

graceladymn

11/02/2009

Glad you liked it, appreciate your taking time to read and comment.

Memenomac commented on Unharnessed

10-19-2009

Beautifully written, we are the sum of all that has transpired before.

graceladymn

10/19/2009

In part that is so, the other is that we are potential, all that we are becoming. Yet there are those who think they are only what they know and remain in the same patterns again and again seeking relief through outside stimulus, yet our creative power comes from within, from this center we move outward. With memories we store how we perceived things that transpired, not the other realities occuring at the same time. I cherish what came before but cannot live there for to live is growth and movement not stagnation. We are that (all that has transpired) and more. The more is current as in now and the more is future selves yet to fully develop. To be whole we must touch base on all three not getting stuck for long in any. To be stuck in now with no memory would be stupidy (a loss of all prior learning)to be stuck in the past is stifling for we need new expressions of livehood, to be always stuck in the future leaves us useless. Presence must come forth from all three to be cohesive. That is unharnessing.

Heartfelt commented on Unharnessed

10-15-2009

I love your writing. Simple as that. All your writes are simply wonderful.

graceladymn

10/16/2009

Chris, thank you for reading my writings and leaving comments on those that speak to you. Appreciate your time.

dahlusion commented on Unharnessed

10-14-2009

Ah! The beauty of expressing one's freedom and a letting go of the old, cleansing, growing, moving forward — Bravo!!

graceladymn

10/15/2009

Dah, thank you for reading and taking time to comment.

dancinghawk commented on Unharnessed

10-09-2009

yes, another beautiful post ... thx for your beautiful heart and your words of wisdom ... your work reads like a meditation... -dh

graceladymn

10/10/2009

Thank you dh, I am glad it read easily to you. I appreciate your reading and commenting.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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