Photo by Ileana Tu
Listening in delight to a blackbird’s deep-in-conversational song perched atop a chimney pot with intermittent long distance replies sung from a neighbouring street at least a block away with whistling warbles and chirpy cheeps, for me the sweetest tweets of my day
My message of Love for Two Thousand and Seventeen / Eighteen / Nineteen and ‘Umpteen’…
Is that humans have to fast-forward and evolve
And really get this ‘Self-Love’ thing moving
In order to save the planet and the future of all man/womankind
As our housekeeping skills are falling way behind
Coz really there is no ‘out there‘, there is only ‘within‘
And this is the real reason
For why there’s actually NO SUCH THING as separation, (it’s an illusion!)
For we are all made from the same stardust, atoms and carbon molecules
And therefore what one does to the planet, one also does unto ones ‘own self’, you fools
For if you spit, piss, pollute, throw rubbish on, destroy, over develop, or exploit the earth and Her animals
One mindlessly spits, pisses, pollutes, throws rubbish on, destroys, exploits ones own self…
Because we are all in this together
As there is nowhere else in outer-space to go
And the same rule applies to other people
With both those whom one does, or doesn’t know
For what one does unto another, (either publicly or secretly)
One does unto ones OWN brother/ sister, father/ mother, son/ daughter, human family
It’s an interpersonal Dharmic, karmic, cosmic symmetry
Therefore Self-Love is absolutely key!
So as not to waste precious time taking things personally
But really focus on getting to grips with and better understand
How the concept of survival and self-love go hand in hand
For without it, there is no sustainable reality, no world peace, no safety, sanctuary, or Homeland
While with every new second, this world’s multi-billion procreative population ever-expands
For without self-love there is only ignorance and immaturity
Fear, deception and insecurity
A cognitive inability to move past competition, greed and jealousy
Which lets face it, is kind of creepy
Plus time is speeding up as the Universe also expands in accordance with Einstein’s theory of relativity
So we have no choice now but to ‘open’
To one’s divine human potential
To love, accept, forgive, live and let live, fully
For we are each of us Angels, with only one wing
And the only way one can learn to fly, or even just get by
Is literally by embracing
Each and every one another as one would like to be embraced oneself
A shared ‘Response Ability’ to awaken
To an awareness of the presence of ‘Love’
For although Love is the opposite of fear
What is ‘all-encompassing’ – can have no opposite!
I shall attempt to make this concept more clear
It’s an immense source of divine unconditional Love as an interconnected composite
For oneself, each other, the disabled, the young, the elderly and the LGBT community
Irrespective of spiritual path, faith, or origin of country
It’s available for both rich and poor, black and brown, yellow, pink and white alike
Whether male or female, child or adult
Including the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms; and the entire natural environment
For all life forms are from the same Source of Divine Love, its just the outer envelope that’s different
And so this amazing, beautiful, miraculous Planet we live upon
Deserves our very best
So let us share now in the natural perfection
And lay ignorance to rest
Lets refocus our attention
By tapping into a divine infinite intelligence
Love and gratitude is the enlightened way
Lets us make a difference, lets start today!
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Read the very first draft here:
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If you like this, you might also like:
Environmental Awareness – https://ipoem.co.uk/1995/06/03/environmental-awareness/
Earth’s Prayer – https://ipoem.co.uk/2015/07/15/earths-prayer/
My feelings are that no matter where one is on the evolutionary spectrum, all beings are manifestations of spirit and therefore have value, and deserve ‘respect’, regardless of whether or not a person has yet to figure out ‘how’ to give it to themselves first.
Ultimately, what we are all here to learn is the concept of ‘Self-Love‘, which essentially is the befriending of oneself through the softening of one’s internal dialogue, turning the ever-present tyrannical ‘inner-critics’, voices of doubt, into inner ‘best friends’, so that the continual running commentary becomes a supportive inner-dialogue that enables one to love others through the simple nurturing of ones own inner-resources, the building of a natural inner-support system that is solid and robust enough to not take anyone, or anything, as personal – in particular to not take other people’s woundedness, brokenness, or pain personally – and instead to have compassion, by rekindling a thread of connection with all beings, all creatures and the natural world.
And also not just loving “the one“, but extending compassion to all, including the ‘unlovable’ for this is real ‘peace on earth’ – for ‘judgment’ is simply the absence of compassion, and ‘cruelty’ is the absence of love, or rather a lack of awareness to the presence of love, for one cannot cast a judgment, or be cruel to another, if one does not already extend these conditions unto one’s own self, for how we treat others is always an extension of how one’s own internal dialogue speaks to oneself; a voice that one has become overly, habitually familiar with and accustomed to, so that it becomes automatic and we are no longer aware of it going on in the background, just like a radio that’s been left on, and we normalise it. Although what it may be saying to us may be anything but normal.
A sense of reconnection and compassionate self-dialogue begins within one’s own cranium in the form of a balanced mind, ie: both left and right hemispheres working together in tandem. Engaging the right hemisphere engages the compassion of the heart to temper the single mindedness of the left-brained ego, and reconnect us with spontaneous humour, innocence, joy, enthusiasm and the natural order of things.
And from one’s capacity to generate self-love comes the ability to manifest the ‘right‘ life-partner. Without self-love one will magnetise other partners who will help us to discern what one doesn’t want, in preparation to identify what one does truly want. But only by being truly authentic without guile, without pre-desired outcomes and by cultivating the qualities within oneself first that one desires to receive from another.
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I place two shiny new conkers in your hands
Commenting on how many leaves are gathering now under the trees, fallen to the ground
We count the grazing geese upon the green, (there’s more than fifty!)
And remark upon a fearless squirrel darting across our path with boundless energy
I let down our ponytails so we can feel the Autumn breeze in our hair
With the sound of the fountain spray upon the lake in the air
We stop to say ‘Hello‘ to a majestic white swan upon the pond who holds its neck so proudly
And over the hump back bridge we say ‘Hi’ to a crow changing branches in a tree
Whose slick black feathers shine iridescently
Then we see two little girls chasing each other around a playground
They laugh and shout: ‘you can’t catch me, you can’t catch me…’
On the way back we wave at our reflections in the window and pause briefly
Before I comb and braid your hair into a plait so very neatly
The rise and rise of the consumer zombie apocalypse
Mindlessly sleepwalking, texting and screen-swiping through the city-streets
From left to right, in dumbed-down, eyes-to-the-ground, automation
A brain-dead-lack of independent thinking
Pre-programmed avoidance conditioning
With an absence of common greetings, such as; ‘Hello’ and ‘Good morning’
A singular, lack of sympathetic, or empathetic acknowledgment of other human beings
Resulting in an epidemic of narcissism, that’s hardwired-in
No choice now but to swallow the smart-sim pill
To give away one’s power and abdicate all free will
To become another blue dot in the GPS matrix
Trapped inside-the-box, with all the other clones and non-descript profile-pics
Caged in a wall-less prison of barcodes, passcodes, and ‘QR Codes’
Caught in the crossfire of the compulsory upgrade download
Every hour, on the hour, half past the hour
Bowing on ones knees to the corporate Mecca
Oh Hail! Oh Hail! Seduced by the god of strategic product placement
And the religion of subliminal advertising
Another cog in the machine of aspirational lifestyle desire and consumerism
Complicit in the capitalist pursuit of en-mass homogenisation
A world-wide osmosis of ‘bland’ and ‘same’
At the expense of environmental annihilation and plundering
Hoodwinked into relinquishing all responsibility
A soulless, loveless, absence of integrity
Towards ecological-sustainability and the community
Pulverised into oblivion
I’m alright Jack! Get your own comfort-zone
And if/when you do, then I’ll be back to undermine and humiliate you
To justify my taking it all away from you
Even if we share the same DNA, or went to the same school, OK
Apparently all’s fair in the world of ones and zero’s
And the nine-to-five, tick-tock, tick-tock!
And the loopholes in the microscopic small print
And the disclaimer in the extremely long T’s & C’s (that no one ever reads)
Just click ‘Agree’, download the App, and ‘BUY NOW!’ Click! Click! Click!
Now! Now! Now! Yesterday! On the double-quick! Quick! Quick!
The sooner we can shaft you with a ‘Continuous Payment Authority’ on the sly
Just fill out the form, tick the check-box and apply
More credit, more loans, more interest-free
More repossessed homes and hi-jacked property
Because you must do what society says in order to be ‘happy’
You must have ‘more’ don’t you know? And you must believe what the newspapers say
In order to be a good citizen
So run along now and be a good little human
And do exactly what the robot says, even if it’s morally and spiritually reprehensible, or even criminal
Be a good little robot and do what the program says
Just like all the other robots out there, who-once-were-good-people
Who forgot what their dreams were in the harsh light of day
Who stopped believing that their dreams might just be possible
And can’t even remember who they once were all those years ago, anyway
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Cat Catalyst © iPoem Ltd 2016
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Commissioned by ‘Beyond The Clones’ for their forthcoming EP
https://www.facebook.com/Beyondtheclones/
‘INNER SUN’
A sunny disposition radiates from deep inside one’s heart
Like a beautiful beaming ball of fire
Whose warmth can melt away a frown with a single smile
Impossible to take anything as personal
When one comes from an elevated position, place of unconditional love
Non-attached acceptance for all
Just like the Sun always shines, way-up high above the clouds
Heart-centered love is the rainbow’s kiss in the sky
That transforms the mundane, the monochrome-grey
Into colours that dance with laughter and joy
For ones inner-core is made from the same stuff as the Sun
We are the ‘Star-Dust Children’
Honnouring our Mother Earth, and Father Sun, daily
Shining in the gratitude of love made visible
For One Sun, One Earth, one perfect solar-system
Not forgetting the gift of life, being alive and human
One’s spiritual sunshine always begins from within
And emanates without, united in selfless compassion
For everything and everyone, as a pure self-reflection
Of One heart, One pulse, One Love, One nation
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‘Inner Sun’ – written by CatCatalyst, recorded and produced by Martyn Ware at Tile Yard Studios with music composed by Gabriel Ware, especially for Charlie Morrow’s Solstice Project 2016 – June 21st
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Cat: Inner-Sun text: https://ipoem.co.uk/2016/04/29/inner-sun/
Audio poems 2007 – 2016: https://soundcloud.com/catcatalyst/sets/audiopoems
Martyn: illustriouscompany.co.uk/distinguishi…/martyn-ware
Charlie‘s Solstice Project: – www.solstice2016.com/
My fears are not that I may cease to be
Rooted, steadfast, embodied in a world of physicality
And without fears too, for the deserted drying
Of heartfelt words, or inspiration
Forever drawn to all my time spent, in dedication
For no greater pleasure do I feel, may’st I apply
Whilst chained, imprisoned, in this dimension
My only freedom, flight of soul, needs must express
Such a deep felt love, for all humanity
A curious quest, I cannot explain
Impression’d on high from an invisible plane
So sublime, that poetic craft
Is not required; for metre, or to rhyme
Unless such craft imply, inject, ripened hearts
With the jewel of ‘inner meaning’
Inner truth infused with love
All pervading and genuine
Connecting precious principals beyond mere words
Which seek to make whole thus human kind
In complete align
So that intelligent insights into our complex universe
May penetrate not only the heart, but also the skin and the mind
Whereupon tinsel-gilded illusions
May fall away into nothingness
Instead replaced by a delicacy and a gentleness
A refinement of the senses
Through an indiscriminate understanding
That the elixir of love
Is wisdom plus integrity
And connects us all
To every single living being, or entity.
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‘Elixir of Love’ appears on page 150 of ‘Love is in the Air Vol 1’ published by Forward Poetry. Available from: forwardpoetry.co.uk
