Warblings

By John Siwicki

Warblings is a collection of poems that were written while riding the train. I used pen and paper to ink thoughts that flowed through my mind.

Our heart is an incarnation of thought which turns into an idea again and again. Volcanos erupt to tell us the world is waking. Clouds float, doors open and close as metal and glass rise to the sky. And with night—the moon and stars appear.

We walk the horizon, holding it in view, reading a letter from someone new. A raindrop of dew rests on a leaf as birds sing in the morning to tell us to live, and enjoy, the frenzy of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SLABYPRESS
• Release date: Nov 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9780977411887

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WARBLINGS

John Siwicki

THAT’S ALIEN TO ME

An expression heard many times.

Usually said about something we personally know absolutely nothing about but could be something that others have experienced over and over because it’s enjoyable, exciting, or habitual. So the expression is used about an action we generally know exists.

There are movements, functions, and mechanisms we realize from an early age, to be true. Our senses, depending how keen can assists us to discover these mechanisms in the world as we know exists. One example is hot verses cold. Most young children learn this through a sense of touch.

Our other senses, taste, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, smell, fresh old, ripe, sight, static, action, surprise, and sound, ringing, silence, flowing, are very powerful and contain links to the past experiences that have exercised our mind. If any sense is hampered the others will become more keen, perhaps open vistas that enable one to function in a world that does not forgive.

Our judgment is related to our senses through these links that are connected to memories or knowledge we accumulate throughout our life’s experiences. Any sense may trigger a mechanism and result in a judgment that we make in a split second or regret which stops one from taking advantage of an opportunity that can completely change one’s existence.

Benefits and disadvantages balance somewhat because of outside influences we agree or disagree to accept at any given moment. There comes a time in one’s life or perhaps over and over when we question a decision or reason for some event that affects our present state.

Some people adhere to destiny or repetition of another. All is open for discussion because this is the function or action, mechanism that allows one to rationalize and see logically.

What has happened to us at the given moment we are at, which stops time and space in one’s mind, although real time continues to flow. This invention of man, degree of measurement, that is mysterious and alien to me.

So around we’ve come. The endless circle, our destiny throws us into, another direction, or we physically decide to remain ourselves in the place, where we are now