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Celeste Lost Dream Self Immersion

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Our deepest mistakes Ourselves that slipped away The us we don't understand That part that is irretrievable This part that no longer responds Self-loss cannibalizing self-present Seemingly at loss in how to ever re-emerge

Celeste Dream into the Reflective Water

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No one finds it easy In silence In drowning In loneliness This is where I am found With my deepest want With my deepest need With my deepest question As always my celebratory stars die As leaders come and disappear As communities reshape In dark and gloom I want to dive in

Simulated Beautiful

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Beautiful requires you to ponder Beautiful is controversial Beautiful as described for you Your understanding of beautiful Not as you necessarily know it But how you are trained by others A collective synthesis Connected by awe and entertainment Rooted firmly into rigid definitions and mathematical law Stamped by credible institutions And it comes to this Artist acting as error-inducing and error-correcting agents Investigating the interest in ourselves Investigating the recording mechanism Then the re-run of practice until what was unknown is acceptable

Celeste Volcano, Wolf, Moon & City

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The timing is now Despite all of the logistical and rational deductions And all key pointers indicate a self-inflicted loss The symbolic conditions are now in your favor The optimum want has arrived So lock down and focus on your target's collective mind Step one patriot: Engage your synthetic substitute Step two family: Drive past the initial horrors through sense and memories of belonging Step three self: look after yourself, self as the primeval one -  do whatever it takes Inflict psychological defeat Enforce morale collapse Make it look like there is no sensible alternative Make sure you look smart, alert and resourceful It is not your role to speak the truth Your role is to evoke controversy Ply until your enemy becomes feeble-minded Corrupt the traditional platform Until there is no idea Until the best is last Until what is now seen is lost Until all is enlightenment is a conspiracy Make achievement less than credible The future is quartered by di

Head on

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Head on Locked into a decollation of vision Somewhere between dystopia and utopia Of daunting scale and empowered ownership For the futures of all inhabitants Especially for those who are unable to prophetize Through compassion and in hatred, paths are layed Through rhetoric and within reality gaps, plans are devised Crossroads are manufactured to include outputs of macabre scenarios And these vivid horrors repetitively weave throughout our histories Nothingness as sacred, nothingness as incidental Our fabricated artilleries are lavished with discord Of senseless killing and normalized clarification These roadkills are cleansed though legitimate action And our carnage is visualised through predictable datasets Grieve is pushed aside Knowing that the odds against are in favour Contained within the numbers That is digestible To those in pain, those who ignore and those who can exploit

Darwin Harbour Night

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The grind whispers to me You are strong and of mind The time you have is now Step outside and see https://goo.gl/maps/VMuWs9zBuQ72

Portrait of John Bennett in Myanmar

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Portrait of John Bennett in Myanmar Created by JJFBbennett Digital Photo - GIMP and Inkscape The true value of this portrait is my intent to capture identity in a transient sense. The truth of being in place and time,  meaning, and understanding. Standing in the hot sun of Mandalay with my black hat on Dressed in my safe tourist attire  A visitor of respect  Not of threat nor of contempt Far away from the colonial lies written by Kipling This is how I stood 66th St, Mandalay, Myanmar Where centuries of knowledge had passed by Where centuries of knowledge will pass by Where in this time I was humbled by an opportunity to stand still and be silent. My short admiration seeing and being in Mandalay 

Celeste Sees All Dreams Prelude 1 cover

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Cover for my ebook of poems (soon to be published Kindle) To see All her dreams Her darkened dreams Her emergence from darkness In darkness alone and awake Once we were gods Reflecting in the mirrors of imaginary time A warrior woman to protect us Of angelic intent Knowing of past tears and flame A woman of the cross Grieving in choice and loss Her persona Her persona observed By three faces Whom who sees all ocean waves One-off sponsorship You Tube

Celeste All Dreams Prelude 2 video

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As the story was told I am not to blame for the character you saw of me Different meanings are cherry picked There are freedoms under fear's command Making profit through taunt Knowing that what was safe was a threat Which you allowed yourself to receive Now strike with unreserved violence A sickness is mutating and fastly evolving The terror within was determined to happen Knowing and watching and doing nothing about it You must make yourself seem dangerous The real cost is your victory Onward one step at a time And while a massacre of ghosts gather Take the opportunity to overdose, on power and challenge

Indonesia Coral Volcano Wall

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Bali Coral Java Volcano King's bloodlines Histories that cannot be separated Refuge for nobles, priests, and intellectuals Ancestral cults, animism and magical beliefs  Tourism  Taking photos and posing without them Never to experience the misfortunes of others Domesticated hybridity Boganus Australii  21st century and the rise of noxious pests with money

Napkin Art Water

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When the discoverers claimed territory And the writers described their pain The nightmare that was and to the future that is now All we ever needed was water Then came the gods, the luxury and politics A homely house and a meaningful job Dependent on access to clean drinking water Our security is in water Our physical our economics and want of means Water as propellant From one to another Our future chain is in water

Celeste Suffocating Dog

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And then when you turn towards me My inner light started to burn into hate As I fled backwards Trying to distance further away from your inquisition Getting by and trying to acquire enlightenment Failing to decide Cowering Cringing hand in hand with the holy ghost How did my memories mutate? The ones that are no longer vivid A complete loss of singular intent All reconstituted into a collected consciousness In complete loss of what was done Confused within swarms of failure Within this collection of innate action Powerful feelings that are too chaotic to describe Now reconfigured as a residue of magnificence That you cannot see Or understand Or remember I just wanted to be better than you

Napkinart Mall Leap of Faith

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Don't pretend that you don't know When you are everything When you cannot stop As beautiful as you may be Hiding in your room In fear of your salvation Knowing that any fall could do it Who will you replace? Where are they hiding? In this sacred grotto Waiting to be found But too shy to let it be known And so I leap In my ownness In readiness of assault And waiting for the fall to end

Celeste Judge and the Hunt

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A self-inflicted godly mission With the promise of finding understanding Within a darkened chamber where loss can be finally discovered And stories that are broken by secrecy The stories are hidden through good intentions So this is it Self-judgment Negative self-talk A stagnant situation Overwhelmed Prevented from accessing power Callous or courageous Bold or weak Ascended consciousness Too weak to reprogram To rewrite time and time again To gain realization of unconditional self-acceptance Making decisions for chaos Be as an innovative free thinker Accept and lead this challenge No plan will survive your encounter There will be no time to consult Enact both right and wrong decision for each scenario Be calm, trust, know the data and have faith

Celeste All Dreams Prelude 2

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In one breath Dysfunction and the third point Exempt and in glorious splendor As our brave new world presents itself There is an opportunity Forgetting what has been At the very point, you became a participant When you stroke them down with unreserved violence Then observing the crime but taking no action This terror within was determined to happen So why did I want to watch I stood straight and strong Enter paranoia and loss of identity Onward one step at a time And whilst the massacre of ghosts continue to gather I have seen myself within those that I killed

Napkin Art - Zombie Pebbles

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Never mind my bad breath Welcome to my house This place where I never did feel at home I'm rotted by the bad news stuff My assumptions are forever waiting  Never did I gain the skills to control this space It was not like this when I was young Once I wanted to depart and escape It looked so much fun to jump right in But it now seems a lost cause I'm medicated from day to night  Walking from pillar to post I'm rotted and want to be alone I'm buried under a ton of grief Hating for what I have become Never did I care  Never was I interested Never was I present  My story of loss This life of fear and apprehension

Celeste Luminous Transcendence

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Overwhelm our logic From personalized layers of interpretation Feared, worshiped, and misunderstood From folklore to fairy-tales my story circles Threatening, protecting and wilding This uncivilized self This authentic nature This warning This I don't know My predatory nature  My sweat sweat talk Something is not quite right I am the death of me Challenge me to confront Better ruined than dead In this dream of crazy sounds I fiercely seek shelter from ill wind from shackles from shame Distant callings Come back into the light from devastation to heartbreak

Napkin Art Table 33

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Restoration of the ideal The Liberatores Why, this is violence? Et tu, Brute? We are once again free

Celeste Full Moon

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Focus and concentrate and you will miss You will be stymied by your knowing The answer is in your chaotic mind In the wonder In the divergent In your unconstrained creative cognition To survive you need greater conceptual expansion To extend traditional conceptual boundaries To break free as needed To invent the appropriate To manifest your original being Your beliefs are so exciting Hold onto them despite the evidence Reach for the moon and think outside of the box

Napkinart Day of Titles

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The more rational The morally better To be both  Pleasing and analytical Disturbance Revolt The struggle for liberty The Church and the Aristocracy Seize the cathedral's bells and push open the city gates

Caricature ScoMo Wonky

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ScoMo "it's all a bit wonky" Chin up he said, it’s all a bit wonky, sure, but we’ll smash those Labor bastards The Guardian 20/10/18

Celeste Judgement Flower of Prey

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Like tears in the rain Knowing all at once This is not what we wanted Trapped in this territory That is deliberately scented to mask the  stench of our failure So much bloodletting Even to get even this far Dancing repetitively across countless seasons Hiding within one deception before attempting another In praise of what is willed to become I don't own my future Plain and  unadorned and stumbling across timespans On the surface Everything recorded for keeping purposes But acting as tokens that represent so much more To the effect that What is hidden is made to appear even more appealing Hidden as a threat Hidden for ownership In secrecy The promise that those who lie will lead themselves to death Accepting that the more powerful gain invasive power Through deceiving the meek And this populous is frozen It sits on own hands In recognition and in horror of those that implement outrageous cunning

Celeste All Dreams Prelude 1 Video

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To see All her dreams Her darkened dreams Her emergence from darkness In darkness alone and awake Once we were gods Reflecting in the mirrors of imaginary time A warrior woman to protect us Of angelic intent Knowing of past tears and flame A woman of the cross Grieving in choice and loss Her persona Her persona observed By three faces Whom who sees all ocean waves One-off sponsorship You Tube