Poetry,stories, Halloween spooky poems and stories, spiritual thoughts, funny stuff! 2015-08-01T19:18:01Z User 324 https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v324/ OrgSpace NewsLog (c) Marissa A Spencer

I think I am writing again... maybe.. ?

by Marissa A. Spencer
(c) 8/1/2015

In the quiet moments that blend together each day
If you ignore the clashing, roaring, racket, and clattering whippings of mindlessness
In those few hushed held breaths and profound inhales
My eyes fly up to the sky, not seeing the blueness or the fluffy, puffy, puppy clouds
A word, a vision, is featherly whispered to my mind
A face, a touch; fleeting, deep and warm
Ah, there you are; you smile and wave.
I am startled, delighted, flummoxed.
Take your pick world.
Or there is a hug, a caress, or perhaps a chortling snort
Friend, confidant, lover, or something I cannot define
With or without words, ideas, or magazine predictions
I know you are there though I doubt anyone would believe me
In those that hushed millisecond, nanosecond, or bat of an eye
You become real.
You are reality.
All else is a slide show to divert me;
those obsessively absorbing natterings and patterings that rush
here and there relentlessly, smacking my senses and wringing my
engrossed intellect.
You, once again have brought me to ground or to the sky.
Whatever.
I am now simultaneously a ephemeral rocket zooming through the
universe and a golden fish swimming in the molten pools held
deep within Mother Earth's fiery core.
I am flying, tethered to my soul and all possibilities at once
A blink and the dissonance returns
I smile and tackle those nattered, pattered flim-flam whipping,
snipping, whacking distractions;
Transformed, at least until my opinion of myself gets in the way.
Or you visit me.
Whichever comes first.
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Hi everyone. I have been very remiss in logging on here to chat and read etc. I have been going to jr college to get my prerequisites for the Occupational Therapy Program. I have finally been accepted into the program and start this Spring term. I am both excited and not a little daunted by it...

I have been very remiss in logging on here to chat and read etc. I have been going to jr college to get my prerequisites for the Occupational Therapy Program. I have finally been accepted into the program and start this Spring term. I am both excited and not a little daunted by it all.

I can only hope I have what it takes to succeed and flourish in this new adventure in my life.

Love to you all and lots of hugs.

Skookum]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v324/__show_article/_a000324-000454.htm 2015-01-12T23:21:15Z 2015-01-12T23:21:15Z

This is a "Dream Drawing"

This is a
"Dream Drawing"]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v324/__show_article/_a000324-000453.htm 2014-06-02T05:18:41Z 2014-06-02T05:18:41Z

This was a study of white to black gray scale.

This was a study of white to black gray scale.]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v324/__show_article/_a000324-000452.htm 2014-06-02T05:09:28Z 2014-06-02T05:15:00Z

My first efforts at art in many many years. I will be taking a design class this summer and 3D design in the fall.

My first efforts at art in many many years. I will be taking a design class this summer and 3D design in the fall. ]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v324/__show_article/_a000324-000451.htm 2014-06-02T04:57:11Z 2014-06-02T05:16:22Z

Fearful Geography Though the nobler paths may be fraught with thorny snares I shall not find them to be fearful geography The sharp wisps that lash at me as I pass by shall be as nothing My furrowed brow shall be a token of my own absolution The sunlight sprinkling upon my skin shall warm m...

Though the nobler paths may be fraught with thorny snares
I shall not find them to be fearful geography
The sharp wisps that lash at me as I pass by shall be as nothing
My furrowed brow shall be a token of my own absolution
The sunlight sprinkling upon my skin shall warm me
I shall not be alone; I see others all around me
They do not see me, but I see them
Perhaps if I give a shout they shall look up from their stony paths
I shall wave and smile and perhaps they shall too
We travel together, whether they know it or not

© 2014 Marissa A Spencer
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written for some friends of mine

Crystal tingling, faintly ringing
Somersaulting, swooshing, singing
Lit within a sparkled winking
Alluring, whirring, interlinking

List , whist, whisper hear
Lightning quick by the ear
Gold fiery sparks disappear

Fairies dance fast ascending
Star to star vastly wending
Comet falls in fiery flaring
Glow amid the trees a-glaring

List, whist, whisper hear
Dancing, singing ever near
A highland fete of yesteryear


Standing alone, eyes a-blinking
Forest secrets naught appearing
Only shadows so bestirring
Empty now you are thinking

List, whist, whisper near
Singing in the forest clear
And you deaf because of fear

© 12/19/2012
Marissa Ann Spencer
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School, cooking, shopping, cleaning... and now.. Christmas is coming.. waaaaaaa! I am taking three classes next semester.. Human Development , Anatomy and Physiology// just lecture no lab, and General Psychology... I am crazy aren't I.

I am crazy aren't I.
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Just started.. taking one class.. Medical terminology. I hope to be an Occupational therapy assistant in a few years.

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I was out doing the mommy thing last night. I had taken my daughter to her college class and I had to get some art supplies for the son that is in a local college as well. I had finished my errands and was with no place to go and nothing to do. I didn't want to head back to my home as it was to...

Ah! There is a solution. There is a Starbucks near the college (of course there is). I had been listening for a few weeks on some books on CD. I had borrowed them from the library. I listen to them when I drive, sew. or kitchen work. They are lectures and books by Eckhart Tolle. A very entertaining person to listen to. One does not expect such spiritual food to be delivered by someone to very easy to relate to.
Mr. Tolle talks about how one can be in "presence" anywhere. This encouraged me to try out the idea in a noisy coffee shop. I got my Vanilla Roobios tea and walked over to put sweetener and a little half and half in it. To my immediate right were two lovely young ladies having an energetic conversation. One of them was talking so quickly I was very impressed with the skill required to do that. She was not local I could tell by her generous sprinklings of "like" throughout her conversation. Southern California was my guess as she did admit to having just moved into the area. As we Northern Cali's say "Hella" a lot, I know some areas of Southern Cal does use "Like" a great deal.
I sat down in a corner with command of the room and waited for my tea to cool off. I could see the clock so I was able to know when I needed to go. In addition to the young ladies there was a man around my age looking at a skeletal anatomy book. A returning student was my guess as I had seen him walking from the college a few minutes earlier. To my immediate left was a table of Chinese American students.
I closed my eyes. Etta James' voice drifted softly, almost drowned by the din of the conversations. As I went into presence the words of the conversations stopped making sense and became sounds, rhythms, that were occasionally punctuated by the shout of the barristas for next libation finished.
The two young ladies... one was a high pitched motor and the other a softer and slightly slower one. The table of Chinese Americans would from time to time burst into enthused conversation then become suddenly silent as they texted on their iphones. I was amazed, impressed even. on how a table of 6 plus people could be so silent, heads bowed and totally absorbed.
There were eventually two tables of people talking in what I would consider the usual conversation at a coffee house. Being aware when I closed my eyes was truly enlightening. If ones sees as us all connected then all the 'noise" is superficial. I was not bored at all. Another thing I noticed was how slowly time seemed to move when I kept myself aware. So if you feel rushed and out of time, perhaps going into presence will give you more of it. As Mr. Tolle said in one of his Cd's. I am paraphrasing here. Even if you are rushed, you will get more accomplished if you are aware and truly see what is needed without going through the thinking process.
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