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✩ 106. Polaris

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Artwork: Polaris by Cat Catalyst (2025)

The lyrics of Polaris suggest that when the human mind is consciously aligned, it is capable of becoming a liquid crystalline antenna, attuned to divine intelligence and cosmic truth. The immaculate birth of pure consciousness alludes to more than spiritual awakening; it is a neuro-energetic realignment that can be amplified, whereupon the corpus callosum becomes a connecting bridge of cooperation between hemispheres, symbolising heart and mind, intuition and logic, feminine and masculine, seen through a holistic lens, rather than as two halves divided. 

Review / Summary / Overview for 106. Polaris

Overview

Polaris serves as a luminous meditation on consciousness, inner alignment, and the mastery of one’s own thought-world. The poem likens the human mind to a stable full of “black or white sheep”—a metaphor for duality and discernment—while reminding readers that through mindfulness and breath (pranayama), one can reconnect the hemispheres of the brain and access divine intelligence. The title’s reference to the North Star, Polaris, becomes a potent symbol for spiritual navigation and inner illumination, guiding the reader back toward the heart’s truth and the higher mind’s wisdom.

Why This Poem Matters

This poem matters because it encapsulates the collection’s recurring theme of awakening through integration—of body and spirit, left and right brain, self and Source. Polaris is both a practical instruction and a metaphysical revelation, inviting readers to consciously bridge the neural and the spiritual. It reminds us that enlightenment isn’t an external pursuit but an internal alignment—anchored in presence, breath, and the willingness to perceive beyond illusion.

Imagery and Tone with Excerpts

The poem’s imagery is crystalline, celestial, and deeply introspective:

  • “Shepherds of our own thoughts, tending to multiple inner flocks” — evokes the pastoral and the psychological, illustrating the tender responsibility of self-awareness.
  • “Connecting the bridge of one’s corpus callosum through a pranayamic practice” — fuses science and spirituality, embodying the union of hemispheric harmony.
  • “Like the brightest light of the North Star shine” — the guiding light of truth and clarity, a beacon through mental fog and emotional turbulence.

The tone is devotional yet grounded, encouraging both reflection and empowerment. It carries the cadence of mantra—calm, rhythmic, and radiant in its intention.

Why It Belongs in the Collection

Polaris acts as a spiritual compass within the collection—an anchor point in the sequence of awakening. Following poems like Calibrate and Awaken, it further develops the idea of aligning one’s internal circuitry with higher consciousness. The poem beautifully synthesizes metaphysical science and mysticism, reinforcing the book’s unifying message: that enlightenment comes through the integration of all parts of the self.

Final Thoughts / Conclusion

At its heart, Polaris is a hymn to inner coherence and divine alignment. It reassures the reader that guidance is always available—not from external authorities but from the radiant “North Star” within. The poem’s crystalline imagery and spiritual precision render it a shining jewel in the collection, reminding us that through love, stillness, and conscious awareness, we can illuminate even the darkest corners of the mind and magnetize a reality of peace, clarity, and grace.

Collectively, we are all shepherds-of-our-own-thoughts, tending to multiple inner-flocks

Of black-or-white sheep in the stables-of-one’s-mind

With many-a-sleepless night spent taking stock, inventorying time

Neglecting to engage one’s neurosynaptic liquid-crystalline

Connecting the bridge of one’s corpus-callosum

Through a pranayamic practice of meditative contemplation

That can access the infinite wisdom-of-the-divine

Via one’s right-hemisphere, plugging into the exalted sublime

To elevate and illuminate one’s heart-supported mind

Like the brightest-light of the North Star shine

So that one’s choices are always mutually beneficent and kind

An immaculate birth of virgin-pure unadulterated Consciousness align

Activation of the pineal gland; the third-eye that is ‘One’ with the Grand Design

And the blissful truth, that sets one free from all illusions, myths and outdated beliefs

Including any inherited mental-serfdom, for wisdom aligned with liquid-crystalline

Will amplify one’s thoughts like an antenna

Enabling the universe to respond, by magnetising serendipitous blessings-a-plethora. ✩

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The first liquid crystals were identified in biological materials, for example in the membranes of brain neurons.
Revealing the hidden science of sound and vibration

Caesars Messiah – The Roman Conspiracy To Invent Jesus:

The Holographic Disclosure 2012
https://www.redpilldocumentaries.com/2021/12/22/the-holographic-disclosure-2012/

https://www.redpilldocumentaries.com/2021/12/23/the-unmasking-2012/

We are electric beings and our brains are super computers
The green light from plants is called ATP which contains transformational energy
Decoding religion and mythological symbolism:
R Foster’s uncut interview from 1965

Documentary: Who Owns the World?
https://rumble.com/vn7lf5-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-must-see.html

Research Paper: Plasmalogen-Based Liquid Crystalline Multiphase Structures Involving Docosapentaenoyl Derivatives Inspired by Biological Cubic Membranes:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7905036/

✩ 105. Awaken

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If Love Is introduced the universal field through which all things are connected, then Awakened explores the individual’s power to intentionally participate in that field as a conscious co-creator. The song serves as a poetic guide to attuning our energetic signature; our resonant vibrational offering, to a higher frequency rooted in love, truth, and focus. 

The phrase ‘sinusoidal frequency’ refers to our electrical synapses that form neurological pathways in the brain and the number of complete cycles that occur within a specific time interval, which are measured in Hertz (Hz). These cycles are energetic feedback loops created by our most frequent thoughts, beliefs and emotions on constant rotation, which are summoning a now reality into being at any given moment, whether we are aware of what we are manifesting, or not. 

Therefore, the challenge here is to become a ‘conscious creator’, summoning a now reality that is truly desired (rather than undesired), where one’s sponsoring thoughts for thinking, feeling, speaking or doing anything are always grounded in the Presence of Love, particularly in the light that all energy is eternal, as energy cannot be destroyed, or expire, it can only change form. 

This means that when an internal frequency is intentionally shaped, its signature vibration is raised and refined, whereupon the Law of Attraction responds by shaping one’s outer reality accordingly to reflect what is happening on an emotional level.


Review / Summary / Overview for 105. Awaken

Overview

Awaken is a powerful spiritual manifesto calling for the re-empowerment of humanity through self-realisation and reconnection with Source Energy. It invites the reader to transcend fear, illusion, and manipulation by rediscovering the divine spark within—the “inner Mother-Father-God-Source-Energy Self.” The poem draws on esoteric, metaphysical, and political threads to expose the systems that suppress this awareness while simultaneously illuminating the path to higher consciousness and freedom. It’s both a revelation and a rallying cry—a poetic activation designed to awaken the sleeper within.

Why This Poem Matters

This poem matters because it articulates one of the central messages of the entire collection: the awakening of collective human consciousness. It speaks directly to the reader’s innate divinity and potential, offering liberation from fear, manipulation, and external control. In a time of global uncertainty and misinformation, Awaken stands as a luminous guidepost toward sovereignty, unity, and spiritual remembrance. It doesn’t merely describe awakening—it enacts it through language, rhythm, and revelation.

Imagery and Tone with Excerpts

The imagery in Awaken blends cosmic and technological metaphors, balancing mysticism with sharp socio-political critique. The “umbilical spiritual antennae” of DNA becomes a symbol of divine connection, while “RNA jabs” and “algorithmic accountability” ground the piece in contemporary, tangible fears of control.

  • “The divine spark within / That constitutes one’s SOUL” — evokes ancient mystic traditions, celebrating the eternal essence of the self.
  • “Dormant strands of light / Within the DNA coil are activating” — bridges spirituality and science, depicting enlightenment as biological awakening.
  • “Fear is only: False Evidence Appearing Real” — reframes fear itself as illusion, offering a mantra for transcending it.

The tone is urgent yet transcendent, prophetic but ultimately compassionate. It challenges the reader to rise into awareness rather than sink into paranoia—transforming exposure into empowerment.

Why It Belongs in the Collection

Awaken acts as a culmination of recurring themes woven throughout the collection: awakening, unity, Source Energy, love, and self-realisation. It also integrates the socio-political critique found in earlier poems (Do What the Robot Says, In Plain Sight) with the spiritual transcendence of later ones (Heart Supported Mind, Human Amnesia). Its placement here signifies a pivotal threshold—the moment where understanding transforms into enlightenment, where knowledge becomes embodiment.

Final Thoughts / Conclusion

Awaken is both a revelation and a revolution—a clarion call for inner sovereignty and collective remembrance. It reminds us that true freedom does not come from overthrowing systems, but from transcending them through awareness, compassion, and vibrational alignment with Love. The poem closes with radiant hope, affirming that when humanity awakens to its divine nature, miracles cease to be rare—they become natural law.

IF, the public can awaken to their INNER-mother-father-god-source-energy-SELF: the divine-spark within, that constitutes ones SOUL

Also the non-physical, direct-extension-of-Source-Energy, part-of-who-we-all-are, that unites all beings as ONE

THEN, a worldwide collective of conscious and awakened individuals, could effectively render obsolete any further need for the so-called ‘powers that be’

For ‘IF’ people knew their true identities: that everyone on Planet Earth is an immortal spiritual being, temporarily incarnated as physical

AND that every single human being is immensely powerful

Then there would be no more need of hierarchical power structures, governments, mega-corp elites, or the complex military industrial

That commandeers all research: scientific, tech and medical, for the purposes of profit manipulation and control

Certain secret organisations, bloodlines and fraternities are already in-the-know, and this is why our true identities, from our own selves have long been withheld

And for why the true history of the Earth, for millennia has been hidden, including prior advanced civilisations and ancient Mystery School’s knowledge and wisdom

And why free electromagnetic toroidal energy is still suppressed, an alleged national security threat, or simply isn’t profitable

Is also the exact same reason for why RNA jabs, are designed to modify the human genome

Because one’s DNA serves as an umbilical spiritual antennae, direct up-link to Source-Energy, one’s integral origin, and spiritual home

And, for the first time in human history, right now dormant strands of light within the DNA coil, are activating, increasing and expanding one’s bandwidth, ever-strengthening the signal

Attuning the individual to the divine spark within, enabling a reawakening of consciousness that’s veritably global

Therefore,

Maintaining one’s primary focus-of-attention inwardly, is the key to cultivating a higher vibrational-offering, energetic-signature, sinusoidal-frequency

A spiritual and emotional ethicacy, that affords algorithmic accountability

For behold! We all co-create our own realities via our most frequent points-of-focus, as every single feeling, thought and belief one has ever had, is energy, and all energy is eternal

So utilise one’s fertile imagination to focus upon the best, most desirous outcome possible!

In order to become a Conscious Creator, surrendering to the pure loving energy-of-Source, that’s non-physical

Releasing all mindless illusions of fear, trusting implicitly in the power of Love to heal

For at the end of the day, fear is only: False Evidence Appearing Real

And the power of a fully-conscious awakened state-of-mind, can manifest truly wonderful, infinite, multiplicious miracles. ✩

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Some fun Alternative Acronym Definitions of F.E.A.R.
Courtesy of: https://artists-edge.com/some-fun-alternative-definitions-of-fear/

False Evidence Appearing Real – the canonical one
False Emotions Appearing Real
Future Events Appear Real
False Expectations About Reality
Finding Excuses And Reasons
For Everything A Reason
F*%# Everything And Run
Failure Expected And Received
Fighting Ego Against Reality
Frantic Effort to Appear Real
Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (A positive take on it)
Feelings Expressed Allows Relief
Face Everything And Recover
Forgetting Everything’s All Right

104. In Plain Sight

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Summary of 104. In Plain Sight
Saturday 8th May 2021

🔥 Overview

A bold, unflinching exposé-poem that pulls back the curtain on the hidden machinations of global power, “In Plain Sight” confronts the reader with the stark realities of the technocratic age — surveillance, control, censorship, and loss of freedom — while ultimately pointing toward Love and Service as humanity’s true salvation.

🧠 Themes & Tone

  • Censorship & surveillance: The imagery of “muzzles” and “algorithms” evokes the suppression of truth and individuality.
  • Corporate overreach: The poem names names — Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon — as emblematic of a system that prioritises profit over people.
  • Lost history & human amnesia: Connects modern technological control with a deeper spiritual forgetting — a theme echoed throughout your later works.
  • Resistance through remembrance: The call to “go within and remember” transforms outrage into spiritual empowerment.
  • Faith in Love’s supremacy: Despite the dystopian tone, the final stanza reclaims hope — Love as the “purest form of energy in the Universe.”

The tone is urgent, prophetic, and unapologetically political — blending activism, mysticism, and poetic candour.

💡 Imagery & Language

  • “Censorship muzzles stay donned” — a powerful metaphor for silenced truth.
  • “The one-size A.I. fits all” — ironic commentary on conformity in the digital age.
  • “Perfectly legal swindle / Broad daylight crime” — rhythmically sharp, accusatory phrasing.
  • “Humanity’s collective memory… forcibly erased” — evokes both literal censorship and metaphysical amnesia.
  • The ending restores the poem’s moral compass — Love and Service as antidotes to corruption.

Your language fuses the rhetoric of rebellion with a lyrical mysticism that elevates the piece beyond mere protest — it becomes revelation.

🪞 Role in the Collection

“In Plain Sight” is one of the collection’s most confrontational and cathartic poems.
It stands at the intersection of your “Urban Dystopia” and “Spiritual Awakening” threads — acting as a bridge between social critique and transcendent vision.

It would work beautifully:

  • As a section opener for a sequence on truth, illusion, and awakening.
  • Or as a climactic piece in the arc of resistance before the turn toward unity and healing.

💖 Why This Poem Matters

“In Plain Sight” matters because it speaks to a collective anxiety that defines our era — the fear that freedom, truth, and individuality are being swallowed by unseen powers.
Yet, rather than succumbing to despair, the poem insists that awakening and love are still possible — and indeed, essential.

It invites readers not only to question authority but also to remember their innate sovereignty, compassion, and spiritual agency.
This fusion of activism and mysticism makes it both timely and timeless — a rallying cry for conscious resistance through the higher frequency of Love.

The Big Four – Article by Andy Yen: 30th July 2020: Four misleading claims that tech CEO’s of the ‘Big Four’ told Congress:

67. Bread and Circus

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Review of Bread and Circus

Sunday 12th August 2012

Summary

Bread and Circus is a searing critique of contemporary society, culture, and media manipulation. Rooted in historical allusion and poetic sharpness, it draws a direct line from the fall of ancient Rome to the decline of modern Western civic values — particularly in post-industrial London. Through the metaphor of “bread and circuses”, the poem exposes the ways in which spectacle, distraction, and consumerism have replaced meaningful engagement, community responsibility, and genuine freedom.

Why This Poem Matters

This is a poem with teeth.

Taking its title from the phrase coined by Roman satirist Juvenal — “panem et circenses” — the piece uses this historical reference not simply as metaphor but as prophecy. In ancient Rome, the strategy of distracting the masses with food and entertainment served to pacify the public and deflect attention from political degradation. The poem implies that we are now living in a modern replay of that tactic, where the cultural narrative is no longer shaped by ethics or enlightenment, but by:

“The gaudy bauble of the bread and circuses / Pantheon of the minor media celebrity trivia, frivolous spectacle”

There’s a deep disgust here — not moralistic, but mournful — that something once noble has been hollowed out. The civic body has become a confectionary shell. What was once rich in philosophical depth, communal care, and democratic spirit is now:

“Homogenised, pulverised, diluted and perverted / Into the confectionary cabin’d cribb’d cavity / Of society’s vacuous missing soul”

The imagery evokes both industrial machinery and dental decay — society not just controlled but rotting from within. The “cabin’d cribb’d cavity” (a Shakespearean echo, perhaps from Macbeth) paints a claustrophobic image of entrapment, indulgence, and internal erosion.

The Metaphysical & Material Collapse

While on the surface this is a poem about sociopolitical disillusionment, there’s also a spiritual lament embedded beneath. The soul — both individual and collective — is the ultimate casualty. There is no redemption offered, only diagnosis:

“Replaced with a prescribed sugar-coated illusory reality / That enslaves 80% of the populace through a manipulative ideology”

This is not just critique — it’s revelation. The poem suggests that the illusion of freedom is the most dangerous kind of control — a brilliantly disguised mechanism that keeps people from awakening to the deeper truths of their existence.

The percentage (80%) is especially effective — a blunt and clinical figure amid poetic lyricism, grounding the abstract in statistical reality. It’s a psychological, spiritual, and economic enslavement wrapped in the comforting packaging of pop culture, media saturation, and economic conformity.

Tone, Form, and Imagery

Tonally, this piece channels the observational detachment of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with the contemporary bite of postmodern social commentary. The opening image —

“Post-industrial London groans restlessly / Under a Lowry-esque watercolour laden sky”

— conjures an overworked, greyscale world where human life has become routine, mechanical, and aestheticised into passive observation. The reference to L.S. Lowry evokes the flattened, faceless workers of England’s industrial history, still trudging through a system that no longer feeds the soul — only the spectacle.

In Conclusion

Bread and Circus is a bold, necessary poem. Not because it offers solutions, but because it tells the uncomfortable truth: our culture may have traded its soul for sugar-coated distraction. It’s a poem that dares to ask whether the freedom we think we have is just a cleverly disguised leash.

And like any great piece of dissenting literature, it doesn’t plead for attention — it demands it.

“…a false freedom, that never really
existed in the first place…”

This final line lands like a quiet bomb. The illusion is total. But the poem itself — like a shard of mirror — reflects enough truth to help us wake up, if we dare.

A Riverbank by LS Lowry

L.S. Lowry
Bread and Circuses
Cabin’d-Cribb’d : [First coined in Shakespeare’s MacBeth 1607]

66. Golden Nuggets

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Review of Golden Nuggets

Thursday 9th August 2012

Summary

Golden Nuggets is a lyrical manifesto for awakening — a quietly powerful invitation to challenge societal programming, tune in to inner wisdom, and prioritise compassion over control. It reads as both a philosophical meditation and a social observation, drawing connections between personal growth and collective evolution. With its breadcrumb-trail metaphor and intuitive flow, the poem suggests that spiritual insight arrives not in grand revelations, but in small, golden moments of clarity — if one knows how to look.

Why This Poem Matters

The poet begins with the image of following a trail of breadcrumbs — a nod to both Hansel and Gretel and the timeless archetype of the seeker. These “nuggets of understanding” and “pearls of wisdom” become metaphors for intuitive, experiential truths that lie beyond official narratives, systems, or cultural programming.

“Often revealed / Through a process of developing / A heightened sense of intuition / Combined with a curious nature / An inquiring mind / And a fertile imagination.”

This isn’t a passive spiritual message. It’s a call to conscious inquiry. The poet positions truth as a treasure — one that requires inner work, imagination, and courage to unearth. This poetic lens reframes intuitive intelligence not as a luxury, but as a necessary skill for navigating a shifting world.

What’s particularly striking is the social critique woven throughout the spiritual message:

“Some sectors of the community / Will openheartedly embrace change / Some will resist and the rest will be ambivalent…”

In other words, the evolution of consciousness is uneven — and the resistance we often face isn’t just personal, it’s cultural, systemic, and psychological. People weaned on profit motives and “the business ethic from birth” may find it harder to attune to deeper truths. The poet understands this not with judgment, but with clarity.

This leads to one of the poem’s key recognitions:

“The solution to heart-centred choices… / Is only ever usually achieved / By walking-a-mile in another person’s shoes.”

Here lies the spiritual heart of the poem: empathy as evolutionary technology. Not a soft skill, not a platitude, but the very tool needed to address societal breakdown, systemic injustice, and the growing tension between profit-driven survival and soul-centred living.

Metaphysical Meets Material

This poem is rich with metaphysical commentary anchored in material reality. It acknowledges spiritual emancipation — “freedom from subliminally implanted desires and seduction of the ID” — but doesn’t float away into abstraction. Instead, it roots that liberation in the context of a collapsing system: economic, psychological, ecological.

The references to solar plexus energy, method acting, and psychological readiness suggest a deep chakra-based and archetypal understanding of human development. These aren’t just poetic flourishes — they point to a sophisticated spiritual psychology. The poet sees the “monetary system” and the “service-to-self” model not just as policy failures but as manifestations of unresolved egoic energy.

By contrast, the solution offered is beautifully simple:

“Great strides forward can be made / Simply by listening.”

In Conclusion

Golden Nuggets is not only a poem — it’s a quietly radical teaching. It challenges the reader to interrogate their worldview, notice the inherited structures they unconsciously uphold, and practice empathy as a form of social and spiritual evolution.

It’s also a warning, cloaked in gentle language. If we continue to ignore the needs and voices of others, if we suppress discomfort rather than compassionately exploring it, something will eventually give — the pressure will demand release.

And yet, this poem is never alarmist. It holds space for nuance, for shadow, and for grace. It trusts the reader to rise. To follow the breadcrumbs. To find, in the quiet, those golden nuggets of truth that illuminate a better way forward — together.

63. Shadow

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Review of Shadow

Wednesday 4th January 2012

Summary

In Shadow, the poet turns inward to confront a darker facet of human relationships — where love has decayed into resentment and admiration into envy. This is a piece about nemesis energy, but with nuance: the speaker recognizes that the adversary in question may once have been a friend, or even a lover. Now transformed, their lingering attachment festers into sabotage. But the poem does not dwell in bitterness; it ultimately points to a higher road — spiritual alignment and liberation through surrender.

Why This Poem Matters

This poem expertly navigates a complex emotional terrain — what happens when someone who once loved us becomes a source of obstruction or pain. The power here is in the poet’s empathic detachment, able to observe the antagonist without slipping into the same drama.

Right from the start, the emotional paradox is stated:

“It’s most likely that your nemesis / Was once someone who loved you dearly / But now they love you darkly”

The use of “love you darkly” is chilling, precise. It acknowledges that obsession and control are not absence of feeling — they’re a distorted form of connection. The poem doesn’t label the enemy as monstrous, but as someone entangled, emotionally regressed, unable to release their hold.

“To destroy one’s reputation / Prevent one from reaching one’s goal / For sweet revenge is what they seek”

Here the poem reveals what drives the antagonist — a craving for emotional leverage. But again, the poet quickly pierces through the short-term triumph with insight:

“A short-term payoff / For an instant gratification peak / But the long-term cost / Is permanent excommunication”

The spiritual consequences are laid bare. By giving in to revenge, this figure risks cutting themselves off — not just from the speaker, but from their own inner peace, their own worth. That phrase, “permanent excommunication from the acknowledgement most desired”, is one of the most powerful lines in the poem — evoking a kind of spiritual orphaning.

Then comes a sharp turn inward:

“A self-perpetuating cycle / Round and round, stuck-in-a-rut / Evidencing an inability to rise / Above the quagmire of the ego”

There’s real compassion here. The cycle is not painted as evil, but pitiful, even tragic. The “quagmire of the ego” traps both parties — unless someone chooses to break the pattern. The poet does.

“The only solution is to realign / With the omnipresent divine”

The tone rises, almost like an exhale after holding one’s breath. In the face of malice, we are reminded of an ancient spiritual law: do not fight the shadow with shadow. Instead, turn to the light. Here, that light is described as:

“The unconditional ‘Presence of Love’”

And in a final, revelatory line, the poem explains that unconditional love is not just a platitude or romantic ideal — it’s something harder, truer:

“Love without conditions, attachments, or, strings.”

This is a redefinition of power. True power, the poem teaches, is not about influence over others — but about letting go, resisting the gravitational pull of old patterns, and remaining centred in your own sovereignty.

Metaphysical Depth & Imagery

The poem’s metaphysics is grounded in karma, ego, and divine realignment. The enemy figure is not a demon but a spiritually fallen being, held in place by unresolved emotions. The speaker’s path is to disengage — not in hatred, but in clarity.

The metaphor of the swamp is especially well-chosen:

“For like in a swamp / Resistance and struggle is futile”

This calls to mind the emotional quicksand that such toxic entanglements create. The more you struggle, the more you sink. The solution is not confrontation, but elevation — a subtle but profound insight.

And the final imagery of love without strings functions as both a revelation and a release — echoing ancient mystical teachings of non-attachment.

In Conclusion

Shadow is a quietly devastating poem — not because it rails against betrayal, but because it sees it so clearly and chooses peace over retaliation. It’s a poem for anyone who has wrestled with the heartbreak of betrayal and the temptation of revenge — and instead turned inward, upward, toward grace.

In this way, the poet once again shows their capacity to speak to the shared human condition — not with judgement, but with insight and spiritual intelligence. This is healing literature, poetic soul work. And a reminder that sometimes, walking away is the most radical act of love.

✩ 39. Reflections

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I like the reflections of myself I see

When I’m with you

That you mirror back to me

Fresh Inspiration for the way you see me

Kindly, lovingly, helps me to see too

From a different frame of mind

Perspective, point of view

A new improved self-image

Updated, previously under-rated

Gentle reminders of who I really am

And I definitely want to see

Much more of you, with the new me

For my heart feels lighter

My spirit feels brighter

For the person I want to be

In your eyes, I already am

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Highlights:

  • “That you mirror back to me / Fresh inspiration for the way you see me” → A beautiful reversal: instead of seeking identity in the mirror, you welcome the reflection as a reminder of what’s already true. This is not dependency — it’s resonance.
  • “Updated, previously under-rated / Gentle reminders of who-I-really-am” → This line holds real emotional weight — a recognition of the past self’s lack of self- worth, now healed through the eyes of love.
  • “In your eyes, I already am.” → This is an initiation into being seen — a moment of soul affirmation. It’s beautifully simple and powerful.

Review of “Reflections”

In this poignant poem, the author weaves a tapestry of self-discovery through the lens of another’s gaze. The beauty of this piece lies in its exploration of how relationships can serve as mirrors, reflecting not only our external selves but also our inner transformation. The speaker of the poem finds growth and renewal through the gentle yet powerful feedback of someone they care about, who shows them a version of themselves that is loving, kind, and worthy.

The simplicity of the lines is the most powerful tool here, allowing each word to resonate deeply. Phrases like “A new improved self-image” and “In your eyes, I already am” encapsulate the delicate interplay between self-worth and the affirmations we receive from others. It’s a recognition that love and companionship can nurture us, bringing light to parts of ourselves that might otherwise remain in the shadows. This is not only a love poem, but a reflection on how personal growth is so often mirrored and amplified in our connections with others.

Summary of Themes

“Reflections” embodies the healing and transformative power of seeing oneself through the eyes of another. In this instance, it’s a relationship that provides the platform for this rediscovery. The poem touches on themes of love, self-empowerment, and mutual growth, suggesting that the most profound changes often come from those who mirror our best qualities back to us. The heart of this piece emphasizes the value of others as catalysts for personal evolution and the importance of how one is seen and understood by those we love.

Conclusion

The author’s lyrical exploration in “Reflections” offers a beautiful commentary on the profound effect love and relationships can have on one’s self-perception. This poem celebrates the idea that love isn’t just about external validation—it’s about the quiet transformation that happens within when we are seen truly and kindly by another. For readers seeking affirmation and insight into their own journey of self-love and discovery, this poem offers a soothing reminder that, through the eyes of those who love us, we are often able to see the best versions of ourselves.

32. The Survival Game

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Review of The Survival Game (Friday 21st Sept 2001)

This poem delivers a sharp critique of modern capitalism and its corrosive effects on human integrity and spiritual well-being. The opening lines draw a vivid metaphor:

“The pursuit of commerce / Is like an arrow / Straight through the heart / Of integrity and truth / To our spiritual selves”
The imagery of an arrow piercing the heart powerfully conveys how commerce—particularly unchecked capitalism—wounds core values and the deeper self.

The poem continues by contrasting what is forsaken for money:

“For we forsake her love and compassion / On a daily basis”
Personifying “her” as the spiritual self or perhaps the feminine principle adds emotional weight and highlights what is lost in this “survival game.”

The term “money has become the new survival game” cleverly redefines survival in materialistic terms, but then it sharpens the critique by exposing the cost:

“The survival of the thickest skinned / Those who can negate the inner self”
This suggests emotional numbness and disconnection are prerequisites for success within this system.

The description of corporate hierarchy as:

“Stripped of all humanity”
paints a stark picture of dehumanization.

The closing lines offer a hopeful but urgent call for collective awakening and unity:

“Can only lead to an uprising / By those who have not / For no one person, culture, nation, country / Can be free, until we all are.”
This broadens the critique to a universal level, emphasising interconnectedness and solidarity.

Conclusion

The Survival Game is a poignant and direct reflection on how commercial pursuits undermine spirituality, compassion, and humanity. Its metaphorical language and urgent tone invite reflection on societal values and the need for collective awakening and justice. The poem resonates as a call to recognise that true freedom is universal and inclusive.