Dream Wake Listen See

By John Moulang

Inside the great human-created reality, we are identified mostly by what we do and what we have. As we evolve from hunter-gatherers to agriculturists, then into industrialists now landing in the age of information and technology, we wonder what follows.

With the primary questions of engagement progressing through "what do yo

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Moulang
• Release date: Dec 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9780648829638

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Author: John Moulang

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Dedication

this collection is dedicated to all those who I hurt, disappointed, betrayed, disrespected, insulted, analysed, judged, invalidated, frustrated, shamed, belittled, abandoned, and resisted…

and to those, the same, who I have sat with in loving attentive presence, inspired, encouraged, funded, held, shared, danced, explored, toasted, protected, provided for, employed, taught, healed and touched…

and to those, the same, who helped me over a long period of time to transcend the common life script to explore the actor, cease the act, discard the script and live real life as a real person –

many ‘things’ have happened to me and I have happened to many ‘things’ – forces that move, bounce, fall, roll, trap, release, recycle, break, repair, fade, surge, give, take, nurture, deplete, leave and return, all have meaning and value in the great scheme of things –

I give honour and gratitude to all people and experiences that offered the distinction between being and doing –

every page of this book is headed by a word ending in ‘ing’ with the poem limited to the number of lines on a single page…

you can decide which ‘ing’ poems are ‘doing’ and which are ‘being’ for me or you…

ultimately,this book is dedicated to all who read it and even those who don’t ~

Foreword

I sat in school and what did I learn?

Focus, discipline and teamwork.

Learned the message of do behave –

Who to follow and what to fight,

When to stand up and when to surrender.

The hypnosis begins even before birth.

This is my spirit, my mind and my body

While all around the messages scream of who I am.

What to learn and how to earn

Suggestion, persuasion, order and pleading

Cutting me open then stopping the bleeding?

Moulding and shaping me to be a success.

To be happy, loved and lovable – important –

Protecting and caring for me, even lying for me.

The better it be, the harder to see

This robot – trying to break free.

I honour those who bashed me about,

Lifted me up and threw me out.

They shaped an escape route, I eventually found

And now I am out here safe and sound

Until the next one comes around.

In the reflection of the tranquil pool

I see a man wanting to leave much more than he takes –

How he does anything is how he does everything

And then paradox receives much from mistakes. ~

Contents

Dedication

Foreword

CHAPTER 1

accepting

activating

answering

appreciating

asking

arguing

avoiding

believing

building

burning

celebrating

chasing

choosing

comforting

competing

composing

connecting

consulting

contemplating

controlling

conversing

craving

creating

dancing

depending

detaching

designing

destroying

disconnecting

dividing

CHAPTER 2

diving

donating

drawing

dreaming

drinking

driving

drumming

eating

elevating

engaging

escaping

examining

feeling

fighting

fingerpicking

finishing

fishing

flexing

flying

forgetting

forgiving

fulfilling

gardening

gathering

gazing

generalising

generating

giving

greeting

grieving

CHAPTER 3

healing

hearing

hiding

holding

hurting

hurrying

informing

inspiring

integrating

isolating

judging

jumping

kicking

knocking

landing

laughing

learning

listening

living

loving

meeting

meditating

mourning

moving

needing

noting

numbing

obliging

observing

obsessing

CHAPTER 4

operating

partying

playing

posting

praying

preparing

pretending

procrastinating

projecting

protesting

provoking

pursuing

quantifying

queuing

questioning

reflecting

remembering

receiving

removing

running

sailing

seeing

shopping

shouting

singing

sitting

skiing

sleeping

smelling

soothing

CHAPTER 5

sneaking

speaking

stopping

supporting

surrendering

swimming

talking

teaching

telling

thinking

travelling

trembling

turning

voting

waiting

waking

walking

wanting

weeping

wishing

whispering

working

writing

yearning

yielding

zigzagging

About The Author

chapter 1

one is small and yet so big

Ever since I was a child numbers have colours and feelings, temperatures and so on, but if I presented with any one of those, the others would come along. This made reading quite a challenge – especially something exciting. It was like a disco in my head with dancers stomping and pirouetting in my heart.

Number one, to me, is red and a loud major C. Blues music loves seventh chords because they are sad sounding while Delta Blues seems to favour the last closing chord as a major. I often wonder why.

accepting

I accept

that life is not as it should be

it is as it is – and that’s how it should be

I accept

that I shall probably never know

if I decided to come or was sent

to live this life with responsibility

for everything I do have and be

control over cause and effect – perhaps

I accept

the miracle that I have not yet died

with all my dangerous recklessness

and taste for deep adventure

taken to the heaven’s door

and reminded to awake

from sunlight sleeping and walking

to design a life – not earn a living

transcend the taking and switch to the giving

while enjoying a sensual human experience

I accept

the loving friendship and companionship

struggling for identity intimacy and integrity

in time to deliver a legacy of hope ~

activating

I activate

the process of my life

to engage with the freedom and the bliss

through the challenge of the mandelbrot mystery

and fibonacci’s everywhere numbers

walking light footsteps I make a path

like the notes of a five-line highway

I sing the tune of evolving melody

I activate

all those

who dance to my tune

adding harmony to build up my song

thinking dancing singing waking

the joy that it brings

when the chorus it sings

entrainment of mind and of heart

I activate

the inner