tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74928281384022053162023-11-16T03:09:24.440-08:00SerpentsRising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.comBlogger342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-73947809818125318412014-03-20T12:48:00.000-07:002014-08-08T08:30:47.351-07:00We are tourists in each other's lives.We are tourists in each other's lives. Passing through on the way to some other place. Some weekend visits, some holidays, and some long-term, round-the-world trips, but always passing on, continuing on our own paths, going back home to the self.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-41039270015257534662014-03-19T06:01:00.000-07:002014-03-19T06:01:06.269-07:00shameblank.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-30281643453925042512014-03-19T06:00:00.001-07:002014-03-19T06:00:13.715-07:00RebirthAnd the moon dances.<br />
The casting off begins.<br />
These wounds alchemise, now they are just butterfly wings dancing off me.<br />
The free bird suffers in the rule-bound world.<br />
But then, there's always his time, always his time.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-70559111840630636252013-12-04T02:49:00.002-08:002013-12-04T02:49:52.229-08:00There's death in here. The eyes fall heavy and the earth stops spinning.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-57575525492473812972013-12-04T02:48:00.001-08:002014-03-19T06:00:48.600-07:00Belly of Flowers. Belly of starsYou're not the one. You cannot see my belly of flowers, my belly of stars...Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-8735817062036713712013-11-12T06:01:00.000-08:002013-11-12T06:01:08.498-08:00We lean on others, the great illusion. For while we lean, we are always alone. As much as that goes against my desire to believe union saves us from this loneliness. What is truth? the desire to escape loneliness one's life by creating a leaning, a union, or is it on ones death-bed when one realises he is just a spot in the infinite, and has life been nothing but a way to distract oneself from the infinite nothingness, the infinte aloneness?Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-65138104345664196392013-11-08T14:00:00.001-08:002013-11-08T14:00:22.675-08:00I used to be a siren but now I am a ghost.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-7460330498418006742013-11-07T16:23:00.000-08:002013-11-07T16:23:44.202-08:00"Why are you lonely? A handsome man like you should be filling up your bed with a beautiful woman."<br />
Did I say that?Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-2172732598274803002013-10-30T02:41:00.002-07:002013-10-30T02:41:16.320-07:00the art of breaking apartYou broke me. I broke myself.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-48683609622271329432013-10-23T06:00:00.001-07:002013-10-23T06:00:49.907-07:00Pain is resistance/pain is assistance.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-15782599326315476102013-10-16T14:39:00.001-07:002013-10-16T14:39:32.611-07:00MasochI can tell you would be a punitive lover. You're the masochist in me.Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-41240266108247832512013-08-30T00:24:00.003-07:002013-08-30T00:25:38.009-07:00The man of my dreams-pt. 2The universe sends me mirages but I rejoice in them since they are messages sent from beyond. I dance, my life a festival. I accept all frailties that appear on the path, amongst the burgeoning of blossom, amongst the song of birds ready to take flight, amoungst the corporeal purgatories. I give birth to my stars out of the chaos within the infinite ever-expanding, self-generating stream of life energy. For these persons are sent as guides. For the moment, for the time. You delude yourself if you think you can grasp onto and mould the infinity. Dance,a s if no-one is watching. He's another step along the road.<br />
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<br />Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-45487896067233048522013-08-24T15:10:00.000-07:002013-08-30T00:14:22.175-07:00Is love for a woman a madness? a death?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: center;">"The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth." ------Georges Bataille</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."- carl jung</span>Rising Maiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043157195917849902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7492828138402205316.post-35700421022976439842013-07-16T02:06:00.002-07:002013-07-16T02:06:32.125-07:00Abandoned Manner- Decay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postmodern_Condition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Postmodern Condition">The Postmodern Condition</a>: A Report on Knowledge</i> (1979), Lyotard highlights the increasing skepticism of the <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_condition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postmodern condition">postmodern condition</a></i> toward the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universality_(philosophy)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Universality (philosophy)">totalizing nature</a> of metanarratives and their reliance on some form of "transcendent and universal truth":<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></div>
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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance#Argument_from_incredulity.2FLack_of_imagination" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Argument from ignorance">incredulity</a> toward metanarratives[. ..] The narrative function is losing its functors, its great hero, its great dangers, its great voyages, its great goal. It is being dispersed in clouds of narrative language[...] Where, after the metanarratives, can legitimacy reside?</div>
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—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jean-François Lyotard">Jean-François Lyotard</a></div>
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Lyotard and other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Post-structuralism">poststructuralist</a> thinkers (like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Michel Foucault">Foucault</a>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative#cite_note-6" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> view this as a broadly positive development for a number of reasons. First, attempts to construct grand theories tend to unduly dismiss the naturally existing chaos and disorder of the universe, the power of the individual event.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative#cite_note-7" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup> Second, as well as ignoring the heterogeneity or variety of human existence, metanarratives are created and reinforced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_structure" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Power structure">power structures</a> and are therefore untrustworthy.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></div>
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