Dream Recycler

"All spirit gods -- are but one ancient love." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Jigsaw of Eight Thousand Pieces' (Mignon Press, 2020)

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"From chaos... emerges newest possibilities." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'Who saw Beauty cry, and failed to hold her left hand?' (Mignon Press, 2020)

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"Dreams -- open up the sky of consciousness." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Little Tree of Wisdom' (Mignon Press, 2020)

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"Make a solid wish -- and then earn it." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Silent Face of Enlightenment' (Mignon Press, 2021)

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"Loneliness is a state of mind. Aloneness is a state of being." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Garden of Least Flowers' (Mignon Press, 2021)

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"Without uncertainty, there can be no test of faith." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Garden of Least Flowers' (Mignon Press, 2021)

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"One day you will see in retrospect what was meant and what was not." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Poet's Atlas' (Mignon Press, 2021)

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"Thoughts escort the blind; wisdom leads the enlightened heart." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Jigsaw of Eight Thousand Pieces' (Mignon Press, 2020)

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"If your own life agrees with you, no other opinion needs to." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Jigsaw of Eight Thousand Pieces' (Mignon Press, 2020)

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"Goals are in the finishing; Purpose is in the doing." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Poet's Atlas' (Mignon Press, 2021)

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"Flow with the waves of old emotion and the tides of new events, and you will not drown in the ocean of life." - Dianne Cikusa

From 'The Garden of Least Flowers' (Mignon Press, 2021)

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Poem from the book 'The Sea In-Between' (Mignon Press, 2018) by Dianne Cikusa

SABBATICAL QUEEN

Call on Miss Impossibility,

   if your word length be

curtailed,

             or—truncated;   

Impoverished allegiance

put self-Esteem in decline;

disentangled weeds, 

   Sea plants thriving in the

outer reaches of ocean floor  ∬-∬

Pluto takes a hiding—‘cause

that’s just the way

he likes his smacked leather

Whip

those bone-dry mortals

into doggoned obedience

The waterless planet

has nominated moonbeam:

See webpage for genocidal tendencies and persons to bathe away the stellar townscape

Hey, what if I say ‘I do’,

and a terrifying sneeze

ensues?

will they dish out ruby-red

medicine, mercury & silver,

or some anaesthetised hostility?-?-?

Bundle spoon

into the mouth

Take child’s astrological

reading—the

meter of temperament

and respectable compulsion;

replenish the board room

with stockpiles and foodstuff

[ ←↑→↓hyperactive commerce]

 concluding with exam—

in every obsolete Nation

stippled unity

~

💙 Dianne Cikusa © 2018

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