I am not the problems, this morning,
upon waking up,
that i went to bed with.
This waking is a real awakening,
a true awakening.
It is not an awakening to some second-
hand religion or separative flag
that was shoved down my throat.
It is not an awakening to what others
have said that i was in the past.
It is even beyond what i thought i was
in the past.
It is, very possibly, a true renewal,
a true awakening
beyond the past images and labels
about myself and others.
It is not the old and stale past
getting out of bed; it is
newness, pristine perception,
and whole, healthy action
beyond mere reaction.
It is perception beyond the secondhand images
implanted by a largely immoral society.
We’ll not miss that nightmarish,
assembly-line-brain of conditioning!
The old, jaundiced brain upstairs is dis
app
ear (arh-whoooooo)
ing
“So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can’t plant me in your penthouse
I’m going back to my plow!”
Mushrooms deep in the woods… Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
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It’s like a fairy land.
Yes, RP! Thanks! 🙂
Great words and picture
So very glad you were appreciative of them, Leyla! 🙂
Wow!
Thank you, CC! 🙂
Nope, you are not the same as you were when you went to bed and none of us was. If we are blessed to wake up, to see and embrace this new day, then you/we are awakened indeed! Love the cluster of mushrooms BTW. Simple pleasures, escaping life’s cra-zi-ness! 🙂 Ciao!
🙂 Thank you, Kym but, unfortunately, too many wake up unchanged, stale, and as the same secondhand robots that they were cranked out to be. Look at all the chaos and disorder in this world because of it.
So true Tom. It’s sickening and saddening. 😦
Love your awakening poem. Deep and very cute mushrooms-new growth indeed.
Thank you P&B! Yes, new growth; i wish we all were capable of it! 🙂
;))
Your photographs are beautiful, as always. Thank you for sharing
Thank you much, Carol! 🙂
You are most welcome!
Lovely caps 😎
Thanks, Ana! Yes, and surrounded by poison ivy, my saboteur! 🙂
Ivy, schmivy. You’ll find a way!
🙂
Those mushrooms look VERY awake and vigorous! Splendid photography. Stirring lyrics.
Thanks much, Jazz! (Maybe more awake — and in harmony with things — than a lot of the bipedal creatures out there!)
Very nice words and I like the picture of the mushrooms – all different sizes and shapes and you honed in on this collection perfectly!
Thanks, Linda, regarding the words and the pic! 🙂 For the photo, i had to take multiple photos and then stack them with the computer (to get the depth). Lots of rain now, which i hope doesn’t interfere negatively with the log removal they are doing by the river bridge we live near.
I swear after reading your words, these fungi and such look positively happy — as though they’ve awakened to a new day and are glad for it.
Fungi and trees/plants communicate and share with each other daily… so who knows what they “feel.”