Poetry from 2018/2019
All poems copyright Charleen Johnston
As the GildedCage is unveiled step by step
The factions perfect their roles
Withdraw your projections and heal the Infection
And reMember the Embers of your true souls
We ride the carousel and hide the fairytale
Beneath layers of Maze
We know how this ends but we do it again
Our Spirits confined in the Daze
There are no bars there are No chains
There are no restraints we haven't agreed
There is a Way out of the Play
When you tenderly plant your SelfAsASeed
2-1-18
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Sometimes
the force and magnitude
of what I desire
to Create
and bring to Life
breaks through my vessel
and throws me
into not only laughter
and giddiness at the raw
power
but also terror
at the possibility
of being unable to give
the breath of life
to all the dreaming selves
slumbering
between my seams
Such
is the dual nature
of the pain
and beauty
of Expression
3-12-2018
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The deep recesses and Dark descent
Have extended their invitation
A dance with my demons
In the womb of my dreaming
Awaits my sovereign initiation
When all is turned inward
I sever the tendrils
In order that I might see
The depth and the breadth of the
Tears I have wept
As a billion other versions of me.
11-12-18
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Life is Magic
when you become
the code writer
of your own script...
Nature
is the language of
Play
still untouched beneath
the Empire Overlay.
8-16-2018
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Sunlit words on tongues of gold
Music making worlds unfold
Inside the ether dream we weave
Laughter slipping thru the sieve
Every breath a moment to Be....
12-9-2018
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A little flip book of pattern play....
Hidden agendas and timelines of pain
The Master Orchestrator always remains
The being that's seeing thru the eyes in our brain
Majestic mazes of manipulated minds
Creating a Space that challenges Time
Eating images and projecting reality
Holographic breeding of dystopian fallacy
minds under siege as fearful hearts close
The challenge to balance the whys and woes
The fingers point outward in terrified blame
Initiating the lock on the grid of the game
The architect cleverly hidden inside
The engineers blueprints of cold dead light
The synthetic overlay ushered thru stages
As the prophets, poets, saints and sages
Paint the picture with poignant passion
Proclaim the Game as their Saving Mission
Whichever Timeline in the fractal you choose
There is no Final Boss Stronger than You
You will decide in each belief that you Eat
How the story goes whether loss or defeat
And when the Jesters Chessboard is cleared
We'll Play again with Tears and Years
To ReMember ones Power in the face of Pain
Is to Step into the Joy of Process again
To joyfully inhabit ones body and Place
To face The tangled web of Destinys Grace
Is Simply to reMember you Rolled the Dice
In the First Place
1-5-2019
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Eyes to see?
So much going on behind the curtain
Behind the scenes of this tangled dream
some timelines are being rewritten
While the masses rise with confusion in their
minds they fail to see the transcription
Something shocking this way comes
can they handle what the curtain hides?
The Joker is wild
and the Game takes a twist
One layer deeper for the sleepers in the Myst.
1-18-2019
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You want p o e t r y? I'll give you p o e t r y....
I'll twist the words up into shadows
and drag them thru the Dawn
I'll taunt the world in all it's madness
and dare it to carry on
1-20-19
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Inside the dance
Inside my body
Inside my dance inside the stories
Hours of electromagnetic intensity
Spiraling out in galaxies
Of narratives of Selves I've lived
And dance within
Flames flickering from the fire
The crowds surround
The sound pounds
The rhythm has found me Here
FleshField Fabulously clear
When the Blood streams Near
As the ancestral heartbeats
Undulate my tears
And the breath of Life
Severs my tethers
And frees my fears.
Fractally infinite, the body
Holds it all
Every self in every cell
Every silence in every song
The voices of the past
Mingle with the yet to be
All inside of me
Now
Is all there ever Is
But only the Dancer
And the Dreamer
KNow This.
2-8-19
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There are treasures in the traumas
and we know where they are
But we must find the courage
to climb inside the scars
2-22-19
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I will not jump on any bandwagon,
I will watch the masses fight for their seat,
I will not join any crowd,
I will walk in the other direction,
I will not be swayed by programmed emotional manipulations,
I will calmly observe,
I will not participate in the distorted ritual
of the modern 'mating game',
I will create create create from the sanctity
of my sovereign Space,
I will not groom a socially appropriate false-persona,
I will crawl thru the humus of my Self
and keep The scars of initiation visible,
I will not polarize into This nor That
no matter how much the architects of control
try to force feed me,
I will lucidly reflect,
I will not deny the heaviness and trauma
of the ancestral memories Within my matrix,
I will dance with them til they are Free,
I will not be contained,
I will not be restrained,
I will not be tamed,
I will not be shamed,
I will burn in the flames of my own alchemical
vessel and burn away the dross,
Only the pure can love , only the pure can Know
8-4-19
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Sun shines bright in ether twists
Morning masks dramatic shifts
Internal codes awakened within
Laughter beckons as the journey begins
Elemental eloquence as fire explodes
Jest is best on the Golden Road
Initiating flame while feelings thaw
Mission of masters receiving the call
Matter and space in dance with Time
Awaiting the serpent that climbs the spine
youth and age are naught but a Seam
Existence within a spectrum of dream
Soul sparks flickering within the Dance
The spin of the vortex in just one glance
History repeats in winding curves
In fantastic symphonies of Nows and nerves
SunDaddy sings in caverns of heart
Destroying fear as amnesia departs
Awakening wonder as life blooms wide
Yearning for release of inner tides
In fractals of flowering bliss and joy
Sweet sunshine rewinds the heart of the boy
Awaiting the rupture of deep held knowing
Living and giving and rapture bestowing
Intense exchange of cellular awe
Visions inspiring the renewal of raw
Energetic appreciation of following the Call.
11-8-19
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I don't want to liberate you from your angst,
I want to introduce you to your angst.
When I see the catabolic breakdown of the Lie
I smile inside.
There is no healing without reMembering.
I hope the terrifying forces banging at the door get in.
Your whole life is an Escape from the Real.
The sorcery is to keep you in the cage
while offering the illusion of false freedom.
The Shadows aren't killing you,
you are killing yourself out of fear of the Shadows.
Stop running away from pain, and darkness.
That's how the trauma grows.
Introduce yourself to the face
on the other side of the mirror.
You might find it looks a lot like you.
11-19-19
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My oh my what a strange crazy Ride
Dearest divinity, twisting turning Tides
Shiva the beloved, seeking souls Bride
I am Shakti the fiery chaos of creation Inside
Am I afraid of Dancing in the Flame?
Mysteriously moving thru layers of Game?
Entangled in current that I can't Tame?
In Truth there is Trust and absence of Shame
Your Silence is Void, my Song is Time
Eyes aligned, Hearts wide, spirits Shine.
They feel the heat from primordial Rhyme
Swallow the Sword of Sacred Mind.
Me and the Maze, the Heart is the Key
And the script was written by you and me
I have traveled for Aeons so I may See
Drown my doubts and Simply Be
Willingly honoring the freedom of We.
12-16-2019
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What quivering breath from Divinitys' sigh
Has released the storm from deep inside
Shiva and his heart as wide as the earth
Delivered my soul in ecstatic rebirth
To crave the touch of a souls devotion
Me and my ache lost in the ocean
That rises to swallow everything near
I grasp for a tether but he is not here
Could this passion for his tender red kiss
Be anything less than a promise of bliss?
Left shuddering in waves of cellular desire
Craving my beloved in the heat of the fire
His powerful Soma has left me sinking
Embrace me in beauty, my golden King.
Has my iron shield of protection shattered?
The Warrioress' oath in bloody tatters
Power of passionate awakening grace
Of moments of magic in sacred space...
Devotion to the earthly kingdom we share
Now Is the burden more than I can bare?
Left with nothing but purity of intent
Me and my beloved in delicate descent
Naked and shivering in arms made of stars
And wandering forever to find where we are
Exposed in our innocence, so near yet so far.
12-19-2019
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I want to tell you to smile and let go
Feel our heat and savor the show
Joy is a thing that has no destination
Just breathing as one is the purest intention
To embrace in desire is innocence
Have no regret in this sacred dance
Shared space with you is all my heart needs
Hugs and hearts that blissfully bleed
And speak rhythms thru Aeons of play
Heartbeats and hands carved from clay
With this gentle sweet kiss my dear
You anoint my heart with joyful tears
My beloved, my king, my precious divine
Shiva of Silence, dancing in Time
12-21-2019
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Arise with me
Our Eyes will Be
A Rising See
Our I's between
Waves of Dream
Beckoning
New Ways to Free
The Web of Seams
That Play the We
InFinite Streams
That Bleed
12-26-2019
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My heart is so full of gratitude and Joy
For this sacred Play I call my Life
The Journey that sprays sunsRays over my face
in this compressed vehicle of creative bliss....
This bodily form... The Cellves Within Me
oscillate in such prayer and Thanks,
to behold the Beauty of Nature that surrounds me,
the generosity and support of the Hearts
that Ground me
in the HereNow of Utter Wow.....
Today I am bursting
with the powerful spirit of the Smile,
dripping in golden streams from my humbled brow....
What sanctified Grace Embraces Me
....Thank You.....
For the opportunity to share Space in this Playground …
12-26-19
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