Find Your Own Fulfillment

"What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth." 

-Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss

Everyone should remember this and be encouraged to strive for their best self. Everyone should look for fulfillment regardless of what everyone else thinks. Very few people in your life will understand what you need to complete your life and many people feel like if they can't understand it then they can dismiss it and will try and convince you that you should to. They are wrong. Don't ever dismiss your heart and what you need to fill it just because others don't understand.

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day to all the amazing moms out there!

Healing And Butterflies

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” 
-Maya Angelou

These two quotes go together for me. I am desperate to heal from my past but have yet to figure out how to move on. I am certainly not fully living in the present. I think I'm trying to avoid my present because it is not good. I'm not completely stuck because I've slowly been figuring things out and seeing changes in myself but I'm not moving as fast as I would like. I keep hoping that is because this is my cocoon and that I will grow into a butterfly eventually.

Male Feminism

It is so incredibly important that men start standing up and fighting against violence, sexism, and discrimination. Not just for the women and girls that they love, but also for themselves and the boys they love. The culture that we currently live in does so much harm to both men and women but most men don't seem to realize that they have been hurt too. Its about time we all realize that feminist issues are really humanist issues.

Quote: Calvin Coolidge

"Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?"

-Calvin Coolidge

I can think of a few people from my past that would benefit greatly if they took this advice.

Quote: Simone De Beauvoir

Here's hoping!

Infuriated

Indignant over the past
Never being able to move past it
Furious about my treatment
Underminded by those closest
Ravaged by their words and actions
Indignities suffered hurt my soul
Always treated as less than
Told I'm unworthy of respect
Enough is enough
Determined to end this


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Trying Haiku and Senryu

Since I was having problems with my poetry studies, I thought that maybe I was biting off more than I could chew. Maybe I'm too much of a neophyte to be heading down the road to sonnet writing yet. Even though I thought I was starting at the beginning. So, I decided to start working with poetry forms that I understand better and improve my skills with those first. I'm starting with haiku and senryu. Three line poems with set syllables for each line is actually more difficult than it sounds. I think learning haiku and senryu will help me begin to wrap my mind around the idea of poetry forms. I think its a better place to start. Here's my first attempt at a haiku or senryu. I haven't quite figured out the difference yet.

Goosebumps on my arms
His fingers run down my spine
Hot breath on my neck

Ha ha, guess you can tell where my mind is tonight. Anyways, I think this will be more enjoyable and less likely to discourage me.


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Quote: Sigmund Freud

"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair … Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions." 

-Sigmund Freud

I wonder if Freud really said this. I believe that most of what came out of Freud's mouth was total bull. Maybe he did actually say something worthwhile.

I Might Be Poetry Dumb

I've decided that if I want to consider myself a poet I need to be much more knowledgeable about poetry forms. I want to be able to write different kinds of poems instead of just my typical style. I was also kind of hoping that in my studies I would become more familiar with different poets. I am well aware that I need to get myself a book of William Shakespeare's sonnets, but what about other poets and other poetry forms.

However, I can't seem to even grasp the concept of iambic pentameter. It makes some sense when I am reading a poem written in iambic pentameter, I understand the beat. I can't even begin to put it into practice though. I also don't seem to recognize it unless I am told beforehand that the poem is written that way. It seems like one of the most basic poetry concepts and I can't get it. I feel like this doesn't bode well for my poetry career. It's also a problem because I really want to write a sonnet and sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. Many other poetry forms are too.

Of course, its entirely possible that I'm being too hard on myself. In fact its highly likely since I've been doing that a lot lately. I always feel like I started too late and that I'm seriously playing catch up. So, I get really frustrated when I don't measure up to my own standards. I have to keep reminding myself that my standards are based on what I would expect from myself if I had been doing this for my whole life which just isn't the reality.