Battle Worn

Anxiety Got Influenced

By Some Kind Of Con-Fluence.

Nerves Tighten Up When The Mind’s Counting Trump.

Thoughts Go Astray When Truth Feels Like Lumps.

Plenty Of Bumps On A Thick-Headed Rump.

Golly Gee! World’s Got A Lot To See

Without The Need For Shaky Knees

And Immigration Peeves. What’s In The Fun —

When Internal Beatings Offer Stadium Seating?

Finicky Bros Got Shaky Paws

With Well-Worn Claws.

The Fear Goes On

When Belief Are Battle Worn.

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Socks Chew Gum

Caught That Smell Like A Ringing Bell.

Smooth Talking Souls Have Lots Of Holes.

Reality Knows Perceptions Wear Royal Clothes.

Pull-On Those Wading Boots

Cause Socks Chew Gum

After A Bottle Of Bullshit Rum.

What’s It Take To Unlock That Pen

Inside That Mental Den?

And Get That Fright―

A Positive Set Of Lights.

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Urban Licks

Music Comes To Pray.

When CMA Fest Lights The Day.

Hall Of Fame Is A Fiery Dame

With Slicked Black Hair And Country Flair.

Boots Kick Ass When The Beer Don’t Last.

Pickers Cook An Earful Meal.

Food Trucks Dish Double Deals.

Feasting Tastes Best

When Barbecue Has Twang

And Voices Speak Slang

Waiting For Some Steam

From A Chef Who Picks

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Immunity Geese

Year After Year, Life Gets Weird.

Politician Plaid— What A Fad.

Red Tie Got Kicked To The Curb— Still Has Nasty Words.

Plucked Like A Bird —Voters Wait A Turn.

Supreme Cream Drags Its Feet

Criminal Minds Start To Shine—

Delays A Win In The Valley Of Sin.

Immunity Geese Always Look

For A New Set Of Tweaks Or,

A Silver Flapping Beak.

Lawyers Dig Fools—

And Love To Wipe Their Stools.

Wake Up And Look

Dishonesty Rocks A Party Brunch.

And Integrity Got

A Below The Belt Upper Cut.

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Endless Choices

Notice how each particle moves.

Notice how everyone just arrived here

From a journey.

Notice how each wants a different food.

Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up,

And how all streams stream toward the ocean.

Look at the chefs preparing special plates

For everyone, according to what they need.

Rumi's words in the book The Essential Rumi by former University of Georgia professor Coleman Barks are a lot. Everyone translates Rumi’s poems in their own way.

Noticing things that are outside of our belief system can be a difficult task. Most humans overlook what happens internally when a new experience changes their objective world. All experiences alter present perceptions. And the choices within those perceptions change our cellular network.

Our choices occur in a private psychic blueprint of consciousness. The blueprint contains particles of consciousness (perceptions and probabilities) that prepare for new experiences. The blueprint is not stationary because these inner perceptions and probabilities fill with endless choices that expand continuously. People choose the perceptions and probabilities they want to experience.

Our cells silently work together to enhance our experiences, so we usually overlook their uniqueness. If the body experiences an injury, the cells begin to heal it. The psychic mechanisms within these blueprints of consciousness meet all challenges.

Our negative and positive thoughts about our biological cellular brotherhood change the healing process. The cells respond to our thoughts by giving each person what they believe they need in a way that goes unnoticed.

We don’t notice the inside chef preparing our experiences, but the cells do. They prepare special plates filled with what we need and focus on during our physical journey.

Delicious Habits

Born Again In A Grassy Pen—

Funny Scene For A Jelly Bean.

How Great The Art—

In A Physical Dream With Moving Parts.

Pull Up The Rug —

Easter Tames Those Pesky Mugs.

Holiday Baskets Filled With Chocolate—

Turn Rabbits Into Delicious Habits.

Bunny’s Cream Has Marshmallow Seams.

Hard Candy Rocks —With The Yellow Flock.

It Gives Teeth A Sugar Shock.

Those Black-Eyed Chicks Do Say—

Give Us A Day In That Colored Hay

Where All Things Right —

Know A Rebirth’s In Sight.

Black Robe Fame

Hateful Parties Forgot Their Ties—

Freedom Starts To Glide.

Courts' Bulging Means Wet Its Seams—

Justices Rule In A Pool Of Stool.

Shady Laws Dig And Burn

Facts From Their Constitutional Urn.

Truth Loses Its Soul —

Lawyers Caught In Money Mold.

Insurrection Got A New Name—

Time To Drain The Black Robe Fame.

Trust Rides A Dead Horse.

Cause Religious Crooks Changed The Book.

Right To Live Is An Inward Trip—

Cells Know When To Come And Go.

Human Life Starts When Consciousness Shows.

Not When Eggs Have An In-Vitro Glow.