SenseMake Poetry
What problem are we sensing in the world right now? What is the fractal of the collective saying?
I admit, I'm shocked, I wonder why do we even bother to do incremental change like the UN SDGs? It seems like change is not coming here
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Who is coming to save me anyways?
Perplexed, is how I describe the times. People are beginning to unwind in a myriad of ways. Couldn’t we call this moment The Untimes.
What is here at the moment?
Work
Sleep
Working for someone else's dream (thanks capitalism). Just waiting to go back to normal..
Eat
Changing social dynamics that have been dormant for decades/centuries because of raised group awareness...biologically, racially, economically and spiritually.
Work
It feels like the world is burning but only every-time I turn on the TV.
Communication
Travel is, rediscovering my home town or the city I'm in.
Relationships
Time goes on, structured only by humans, maybe this time I do not need to treat it linearly or orderly. Front is back. Up is down. I need settling.
Centeredness
I need places of rest and recovery, not increased efficiency. Did they not prove that 4 day work weeks are better than 5? Isn't there a book about the 4-hour work week? Why must we lie about the virtue of productivity?
Work
My relationship to earning a living is the deepest influence to the daily life I strive to live. Affording myself the luxury of staying in the city. Am I really living?
Sleep
Are we letting the siren's song lull us to sleep? It’s supposed to be a warning not a memory. The pandemic was only the smoke not the fire.
Confusion
Am I awake yet? Yes, but I can’t wake myself. How do we drown out the noise, confusion and misdirection at play in the world right now?
Clarity
To unplug by plugging my ears, a form of clarity appears (https://dontgobacktonormal.uk/).
Sleep
I need a new dream, a new path forward, the next step is always the first step in changing the scene.
Awaken
Change is in the moment, at a depth and unobservable and it is becoming me.
Stillness
What if our approach to these times was reconnecting deeply with ourselves/the inner with our relationships/the outer?
Witness
Without changing anything around me, how can I detach my mind from gripping a version of reality? Attraction/Aversion…let me sit on the riverbanks as things flow down the river.
Gratitude
Appreciating the finer aspects of moments, yields me energy and gives me momentum to move effortlessly.
here
Who is actually moving? I'm just the wind.
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep
- (Rumi)