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Can Books Save the Earth?: A digital anthology of green literature

DSL, The Gateway, and All

DSL
Schizophrenia
Life's a journey not destination
Energy is unlimited
Unlimited possibilites different paths all colliding to different conclusions. 
Realms
Ascension
The Secrets of the universe
Life is a game of distraction
Layers of consionis
The simpleton, The awoken, Nirvana
God damn, holy fucking shit
Transformed
Into infant now
Who am I
Love, Empathy, Rebecca
Don't you see
Unity
Crisp Wind in the face
Snow light as sun
Whispering trees, blowing leaves
Don't you see
Walk on the full moon
The wave
Weather on a december day
Now it's night
Right now
Reality is only as real as you make it
We live, we die, we live again
But is all just a dream
As sweet as nature's kiss
On a sunny summer day
Where were you to share it with me
Now I'm left alone lonely as the day
What am i to do all alone
Crazy as a hurricane
Was I a god
Or was I just dead
Nature's womb
What a healing love
I'm reborn and awoken
To a new day 

The Gateway
What is perfection
Nature is perfection
What is nature
Nature is the energy force that animates all
Nature is everything
Everything is nature
Once upon a time
There was a boy
He knew the true nature of reality
He was all
Everything was part of him
There was no duality
There was only one
Adam was god
Adam only knew one thing
The eternity of here and now
We are all Adam
Adam is all of us
Adam can be found at the gate deep inside every one
I arose looking at my watch
8:30 is that all
What had just happened
Was it all just a dream
Only to the fool not the awoken one
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana
Come back

All
Short The wave Nature is the energy as Life's a journey be in these cruel world Nature is everything Realms Reality is only as real as you make it What am i to do all alone  womb Returned to love to unity Nature is perfection Big, small fucking shit sun North , south All, one a Don't you see To become my true nature Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana Unlimited possibilites There was a boy Adam who is all of us death Only to the fool not the awoken one What had just happened Or am i so much more Adam can be found at the gate deep inside every one Moon, Oh ego why must you weigh me down Let me end this We live, we die, we live again Come back right As sweet as nature's kiss The Here, there Then I was a  Transformed tree flowing in the breeze Until i healed then again i sprout a new For am i just a boy eternity of here and now Nature's Snow light as sun Sloth because I am Lazy I'm What is Once  was an Indian Oh ego i just want to see nature's secrets because the true nature of reality  energy  force that animates all Adam only knew one thing Now how am I to end duality unlocking Secrets of the universe I arose looking at my watch Like a lead weight, trying to drown me from truth Life is a Ego break the chains that hold me back I'm The Gateway He knew the Weather on a december day alone Pride because I am special suffering that is life 8:30 is that all Rare, simpleton, The awoken, Nirvana Was it all just a dream The Once the ego is killed then the true nature is revealed was only one Crisp Wind in the face On a sunny summer day Gluttony Into game of distraction Where lonely But is all just a dream Once upon a time Don't you see I a god Why me We are different paths all colliding to different conclusions. Who am I reborn and awoken Once again I am returned to the earth Unity Everything is nature perfection.

Artist's Statement

My series of poems shows both the human flaw of forgetting how to be and a representation of both the connectedness and randomness of nature. What I mean by this is fundamentally that human being are both an animal and a part of nature. However we have forgotten that this is leading us to cause vast destruction to our natural habitat. One of the many ways humans do this is threw the ego which allows humans to think of themselves as separate instead of part of a whole. This leads to things like greed, slave labor, and the need to feel unique, remembered like time actually matters. When in fact the only thing that matters is the here and now with the harmony of nature. Without everything else humans would have never existed without water humans cannot survive for more than a week. However many humans forget this thinking they are special and invisible. Failing to see the interconnected of nature and how everything relies on something else to keep the chain of life moving in the infant circle that is time. That is the number one reason for the ecological disasters humans face today and in the near future. It is humans lost of duality allowing them to think they are not the same as nature but in fact separate that has lead to this planet's rabid abuse. That is why all my poems may seem random or confusing but they are meant to make the reader question who they really are and where they really came from. My poems give a sense of randomness a sense of perplexing depth just like what nature seems to inhibit. Just like the poem titled all it is a random mash up of all the other poems I wrote representing nature's vastness, complexity, and randomness. However upon further inspection it's realized that all my poems make up the one individual poem meaning even though it seems random you can actually synthesize everything else from it you see the interconnectedness scrambled and hiding in the randomness. As we begin to examine who we truly are as humans.

My poem called Ego is also a reflection of humans going back to their true nature. This is a poem about trying to find bliss and finding it in nature and by being in nature's rhythm. Instead almost all people get stuck up in making up an existence of stress and suffering instead of enjoying as an animal in nature's rhythm where there is no time only now. The gateway is all about looking into the heart and realizing the love of nature and existence. With an open heart is the only way humanity will be able to save this planet called earth from destruction. To realize the eternity of love and existence. How easy it is to forget who you really are is symbolized at the end. Loaded die is about seeing the unity in opposites and the unity in nature.

DSL represents a lot of personal experiences with nature that often lead to many questions about the natural world around me. This has lead me to have a deep respect for the earth. You may be asking yourself how is this green art it just sounds like a bunch of mindless babble green art is about loving the earth and discovering how to coexist that's exactly what these poems try to bring out.    

Media: Same Tree Different Seasons. Digital image. Pintrest. Web. 17 Apr. 2016.

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