Poetic Letters #006

Poetry, art, music, the meaning of life and much more

This week I’ve reminded myself to keep things simple in my life. Then, I thought about what is the meaning of life, for me, right now.

I might change my mind later.

I hope you can keep things as simple as you want them to be too.

Enjoy the letter.

Love

A

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What you’ll find in this letter

• Photography pick

• Poetry selection

• Music for creative flow

• Spontaneous reflection on life

• [SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY] Personal letter to subscribers (Simplenote?)

• [SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY] Preview of unedited poem

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Photography

September 2021 - Rollei RPX 400 B&W film

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Poetry

Here’s your regular selection of poetry. If you ever want to know more about any poem, let me know, I’d love to find out what you feel!

~ Leashed ~⁠ ⁠

You’re putting your heart on a leash
Questioning whether it’ll ever find peace

You’re trying to achieve
All of your goals
But you’ll realise your dreams
When you let go of control

You’re trying to put
All the pieces together
To get what you want
For ever and ever

And you’re scared of pain
And you protect your soul
But all that remains
Is letting go of control

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~ Answer ~⁠ ⁠

One day you will have to face
The things you already know 
The fact that you still love me
And I pretend I don’t know 
And how I cannot love you
Not in the same way
The answer is already with you
A blink of an eye away  ⁠

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~ Devoured ~⁠ ⁠

Please come back
Come back to yourself 
The one I’ve seen making love
With the universe
When all the stars and galaxies
In your brain
Were sucked into the black hole
Inside your heart
Devouring all that existed
Into infinite space
Creating unity from everything 
Creating infinity from something
Creating life from nothing ⁠

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Song pick

I found Hermanos Gutiérrez only a bit more than a year ago and fell in love immediately. I’ll share more from them for sure, but I’d recommend you go ahead and discover all their music, vibes are 👌 great for creative flow.

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Spontaneous reflection on life

Lately more than usual I found myself contemplating on what is going on in my life and in those of the people around me. Often reminded that seems like nobody really has a clue about what to do.

I’m 100% sure, that as solid as your life might (seems to) be, there is at least one thing you are questioning if it could or should be different. If you don’t, please tell me.

In the end, I believe it all goes down to whatever balance we have between discipline and freedom, control and trust, order and chaos. And individually, it goes down to the type of life you’re happy to, and choose to, live, given that there’s no one single situation where we can have everything, we have to choose.

So one night this week, smiling at the extremely diverse set of experiences I had and am having recently, I started writing this (it can be a bit metaphysical):

The meaning of life is to experience anything we can imagine and to enrich the range of experiences that we can enjoy and from which we can learn. Ultimately is to experience everything that we are and learn everything that we are not. If we believe that we are both unique and everything at the same time, then it means we are the infinite possibilities of existence, as in the same way in which we are just one of the possibilities, we are also all the possibilities together, but we can’t be all the other possibilities because, in fact, there’s no other. That’s the paradox of life.

And then added this on how I feel about poetry

And so the poet is the explorer going through the forests of the most ancient experiences. Feeding his curiosity not only with research and observation, but also with expeditions and camping stations, night fires and starred skies, dark nights and nothingness in sight, the silence of the darkness and the noise of the unknown, a whisper coming from the shades holding the secret of the light in his soul. And as he brings back treasures for everyone to see, some will be inspired to go find more and some will enjoy it passing by, bored or amused, in a museum.

Well I told you was spontaneous!

Take what you want from it 😘

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