SPRKS IN CSF
Monday, April 15, 2024
SPRKS IN CSF: Henry ,the bunny
Henry ,the bunny
You are no O henry, o little bunny, nor a king henry
Your hutch your kingdom, watchfully viewing the lands beyond,,
Be that the dining table , or those who pass by the room,
A short pause when you greeted me ,yes ; through it to my bunny,
Who had passed on years ago, for a brief moment ,
Yet your fluffy self an image in my mind still, even when you breathe here no more...
poem by Pc-3 (04/14/2024)
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
SPRKS IN CSF: Saint Navalany ...
Saint Navalany ...
I pray , to St.Navalany, along with all the new saints ,
All the new saints that go up before God , no gates barring them,
All who I beseech to, to intercede for my earthly needs , for all my wishes ...
All these so presented ,I pray for world peace too ,
Each day , so many more saints ;so many to carry my prayers ,
Yet my prayers seem stifled , saints have been all around us;
There are the martyrs, of all denominations , all regions -
Those quietly suffering , those who pray and carry on ,then to die..
All who dared to hold true to their depths, their souls ,
Those who stood up when asked to kneel, those who kneeled when asked to stand ,
All colours, creeds , all who dared , all who lit the lamps in their hearts ,
New martyrs each day , this world has given, each of saintly , yet human natures,
Courage of ethics , drives this flow to the heavens , an un-ceased flood to God ,
In our todays , in this so very modern era , they flock to the heavens ....
poem by Pc-3 (02/19/2024)
What maketh a saint- 'one who stands for what is right, despite all opposing forces, even despite one self ,for that is also a soul's courage '
SPRKS IN CSF: Saint Navalany ...
Sunday, February 18, 2024
SPRKS IN CSF: Quiet
SPRKS IN CSF: Quiet
Sunday, February 11, 2024
SPRKS IN CSF: 'Hind'
'Hind'
Hind-It's a name , names that means... 'some one',
Yet names , they define one , they limits one, and we all have names ...
They are children, they are mothers, are fathers , brother, sister , some ones' some body...
We never chose who we are , how we are or where we were placed on this earth,
Yet again others want to destroy lives ... just because , just that ;for 'being'.
There are shapes, colors ,sounds , they differ ...
I pray again, oh universe, oh let the might of nature take over please ,
Yet again my prayer so the 'puny humans of war' be made to stop,
By the wrath of nature , even as all Gods sleep, for Gods an eternal coma-
Has unleashed the demons of Men, here , there and over the hills too...
Demons of men ,theirs an epilepsy with chants of ' destroy all', theirs 'god given insanity' indeed...
So I pray , Nature do what you do, so the blinded men stop their wars, please....
Poem by Pc-3 ( 02/10/2023)
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
SPRKS IN CSF: safety
safety
I read the news about the Japan earthquake, and my thoughts just go to the uncertainty we call life ...
People of Toyama I pray that you all are safe. I also recognize that the ties that connect us come also just
by chance . My connection to Japan is primarily through my own daughter's connection and some times I
think we may have some past life connection. I felt a connection of oneness when I visited there with
my daughter who had been teaching there. There is no other way to describe the internal connection I
felt breathing in the air and feeling the murmur of the bamboos , I felt at home , felt I belonged...
Hence I also feel with the people who are now feeling the stress and anxiety. I know safety is a temporal
sense that is there , but it is a memory that comes when uncertain events take it away or disrupt it.
We forget to feel it until it gets unmoored .I hope all the people on this earth feels safety, yet mostly by
human actions that feeling gets broken , at other times Nature makes disruptions....
Sunday, December 17, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Moral implosion
Moral implosion
Compassion has died steady and ,slow...
In its ashes has sprouted dominance.
I breathe , all around... the moral implosion,
As breaths are extinguished...
Questions struggle askance, for quests undefined-
Yet extracting lives, strife to life's horizons,
Stars and gods gaze down insentient...
Words disconnect, they are lost to me,
Meaningless , they have become chaff now.
by
peace crane 3 (from july 2016,yet even more true today)
Sunday, December 10, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Winds
Winds
The winds, they stir in the desert, they blow hither and thither,
Shamals sneak in to coats the days,
I rise , floats on an updraft,
Yes the wind beneath my wings have shifted,
The dust that coat me is all that is left ,
Here it smells of death, the dunes have turned...
They have become craters, and now they rust...
The updraft is just sorrow now, just sorrow is me.
the godlike ones calculate, lies for money, closed eyes ,
Not to see ,yet the sand turns red all around ...
Poem by Pc-3 (12/09/2023)
Saturday, December 2, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: separated, at at at , tender age ...
SPRKS IN CSF: separated, at at at , tender age ...
separated, at at at , tender age ...
separated children, man-made borders,
shelter pets, crickets in a nuclear dust, cries , breaking souls,
repeat again -- hate .. .control, laws, cruelties,
gloating laughter, backtracking words, sounds, crying children,
slammed doors... Bullies, laughable notes, music, sobs...
miller got soul envy,
hates a child that's ever been loved...
suckling pigs , sati on a pyre
paper white , ink that spread don't cry -only sulk to torture,
PTSD, return of the devil...time rewind, 1985 June , rules , laws...
untouchable, female, dirty, child, closed door ,
infant cries, pediatricians rules,.. dare to disobey?..
bully by any name is still one;
bully pulpits change, titles all shift shapes...
God weeps in children, in an infant,
love is not rules, nor dunes
dictator comes in all shapes, shape shifting demons,
beguiled masses...
oh so many years, traumas shadow all a life,
dare I question, raised eye brows,
oh nurse smith, one less moment of torture for my baby...
pediatrician, president or king-all shapes,
devils adorned in shimmer, mirage, life or oil vats..
Bibles- blades to guillotines,
dark days, dark shadows swirl inwards,
sorrow seeps to coat my soul,
soulless floaters, fake gods,
north star, plastic bit ,shimmer in the sky or the seas,
universe- reflected tar in our souls' images,
death, hell, life -all iterations of the same...
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Sunday, November 5, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Three religions... The three monotheistic religio...
Three religions...
The three monotheistic religions had started their life in a region that had held human thoughts in where they all breathed the same air , yet how did the minds bend and shape it to navigate life with so much venom , spitting out so much hate towards each other . They all started out their course for reducing suffering in various forms , yet they have caused and continue to cause so much suffering through out human existence .When can any human see another as just that' another human...another who share the same space and breathe the same air, will human mind evolve and advance to that position ever?
All wars have sprouted and had been grown, fed on the hate for another, fueled by religion ,and they continue to do so...
Passover, Easter, Ramadan, or for that matter any religious observances and festivals are meant for one to focus within , to make one better with hope and share burdens with one another at the soul level, but instead in its place there is a wave that crests in hatred and denigration of another within the dark corners of our minds. Instead of trying to heal the soul every religion grow their zealots who has lost their conscience, and they claim to be leaders leading with vitriol ,furthering another's suffering.
Similar decay has taken over every religion , be it Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or Budhism, the disruptors have worn the distortions that is convenient to them and loudly profess their great faith , charging in to spew vitriol and cause more suffering for all. The din and chaos is not conducive to a self reflection and those loud ones only want their thundering sounds to be above all else . For a moment if one were to think, none of us had a choice of where we were born, nor which religion we came into practicing, a few genes came together by chance and we came to be born into a certain family. Hence how can we claim our views to be dictated by faith , place of existence or where we happened to be
It may be too much to hope in an individual human's capacity to be reflective and uphold kindness to others and acceptance of one another during all times, but I can certainly hope. There in lies the real hope for peace and growth of compassion towards another growing from within our souls nurtured by self reflection and acceptance of what is beyond the self....
( pc-3, april 2023)
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: The Day after tomorrow
The Day after tomorrow
Birds singing in the trees,
And flowers dancing in the sun;
Today, I wake, and go to work.
Carry my day in routines,
Tomorrow I balk and stare,
Into the day after,
The day after tomorrow, I see,
I see the future,
I see it all crumble and shift,
All my future children,
Crumble into civilization's demise,
I see the day after tomorrow,
Rising into oblivion;
All life and time glide and lurch away,
All into the great oblivion, oblivious all still...
Into the day after tomorrows...
(poem by Pc3--01/30/2017)
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A WAR
THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A WAR
There are no winners in a war ...........
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Just grief and misery...............................
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Prayers and tears ripple ,
Lives torn asunder......, "..."
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....no winners ever in a war......
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Sunday, October 22, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Care ?
Care ?
Numbers and letters, names and assigned tribes , groups, sections , lost in these ,we are faced with the loss of human nature within us. It all fall into some words , illustrious descriptions , all for war lingo...
The news media goes about vying with each other as to who and how sensational any tragedy can be made for consumption. Lack of care for the suffering of people must not be the criteria by which the ratings and hence the profits are measured, but that is how the caring news business runs.
Just the same way that political rantings go as well. But above all the humans are forgotten . The people did not choose to be born either Christian, Muslim or Jewish .The new born baby got the stickers placed on him or her , just by chance in the lottery called life. His or her life got placed on whichever geographical place it happened upon. The color of their skins got colored by the rate of melanocytes that was another slot on this lottery system. A few genetic material got mixed together and came into being , however the ones that create suffering and war have their agenda and the human beings who chanced to be at a certain place is left with only suffering .
There is never anything right about any war, just what is left...a lot of suffering , a lot of humans who did not choose .. all left to suffer... and the utter despair knowing that 'no one cares'... no gods, no countries , no loud ones Then it all become but days.. long days of just quiet sobs, of children and slow whimper of destitution. just despair...Each morning the sun sighs into being and the heat of despair look on the days, giving way to nights of unimaginable losses.....endless days where no one cares and no care can mend the broken...
Monday, October 16, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: to Mourn
to Mourn
Words have lost their sounds, in a vacuum they simply float,
Soundless words , emptied they search, for heart...
Comfort and Despair , paired to the same life,
Man -why do thee curse life , with all emptiness,
Why do thee make life so unbearable , just so... to prove you can?...
poem by PC-3 (10/15/23)
Thursday, October 12, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Three religions... The three monotheistic religio...
Saturday, July 15, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: 'Anon' at Gilgo
SPRKS IN CSF: 'Anon' at Gilgo
'Anon' at Gilgo
"support the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women."....
Most Femicides occur in the homes, femicide the ultimate violence against women
Monday, July 10, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Collective PTSD...just some thoughts
Collective PTSD...just some thoughts
Thursday, June 8, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: SMOG
SMOG
This day dawns hushed,
The red fruit of the haze
Floats low on the horizon,
Wisps of burnt nature smart my eyes,
Nature's revenge ,its own singed skin;
Scars the earth though slow,
As you flay the forests bare in wider sweeps,
And soups the oceans in plastic,
Natures revenge , it coats my air.
Maybe I will remember it tomorrow,
May be I will stop to think again...
Poem by PC-3 (06/07/2023)
Monday, June 5, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Asthma, Flashbacks and Gods….
Asthma, Flashbacks and Gods….
On Asthma, flashbacks and Gods….
Flashbacks, they come un-invited. A little girl cowering
under the covers, stuffing her shirt into her mouth to stop the sound that
escape unannounced…Yet you fear ,trying to place a comforting hand on her, you
fear that her attempts to gain air through the sobs will be heard beyond these
walls, unleashing further wrath in the one in the next room. You again pray
that sleep has closed off that other
parent in the next room. Through her
sobs she lets you know that which you and she knows inherently… “I cant help it,
I am trying , but I cant stop crying”, and then bigger, deeper sobs…
The air that is trying to oxygenate the deeper far alveoli
gets stuck, as the mucus fills them, those airways stay tightly closed ,a wheeze is all that can escape along the interspace of those heart wrenching
sobs…You silently pray, then you carry the frustration in you that ‘God can’t hear’.
All the Gods cannot change is the reality before you, when
humans choose to produce the suffering.
Natasha, Tony or Jana, none can escape that which is before
them every day…that suffering, the suffering that which becomes part of them,
they carry the weight of what they have seen and heard, they just walk one day
to the next… Their lives are forever modified, they shake but no, that which
left the scars deep within their minds can never be shaken off... Never will
they shake off that heaviness…
Providence is just another misguided term for where the
souls fall, who your caretakers in this life be , all set to chance and that same which seals your destiny. As mothers, fathers, children
and ancestors course through their lives, destinies are weaved in. Here we humans
and all universe interconnect, all just a factor of chance …
By Pc-3(from around sept 2004)
Thursday, May 18, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: SPRKS IN CSF: A book I am reading
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: A book I am reading
A book I am reading
I opened the New York Times Book review section , ready to toss it to the paper garbage , after-all I will never have the luxury of time to read. What is even the point of scanning at the grapes presented, preemptively knowing that they are going to be sour or just sit there and rot. Besides why spend thirty quid on some book that likely will looses flavor in a few pages, just to add to the fattened pot of an author who when not writing , may minister to the sick or infants of the profession ...thus went my thoughts as the page opened to the heading 'family medicine '.
I scanned through the review, made a face and threw into the paper pile. In the evening as I made my next day's lunch ,a part of me go over to the paper pile and read the review a little bit.
Some thing in the review irked me and I mutter to myself about 'some Solomon guy who has no clue about places and people sit there and feel all mighty big and judges a book's content...I bet he has nothing to do with India ' The phone rings and its my daughter... so I express my annoyance about the reviewer .
Thus I decide to buy the book and as I read , I am more annoyed at some random reviewer with no clue of the land or people or a past that is plausible( and true if you stitched together just the group of people and families I knew in my infancy in a tiny village area ) had felt righteous to judge with his words . Move it another generation back and I see it all as really possible . The story flows and here I am reading it - the covenant of water...
I change the names and move them like chess pieces and I have my childhood vividly displayed with all the dramatic flair of those days .There are too many mishaps and terrible things happen in the book, and possibly in a past not that far away , but life did go on and people had an element of goodness and ethical ways to get through from one day to the next as best as they could . I am not blind to the impact of caste system and the power of the landed over the poorer sections of the society , nor am I discounting that the corrupt systems' grapple-hold and the powers be created and made so much suffering , but the simple goodness despite it all in those around me is what I recall . It has changed now and just like the dew drops dies on a blade of grass ,the good in people have shrunk and the goodness dies daily and gradually... Just like the reaches of a cancer , quietly invading and eroding the goodness within people , in our Gods own country...yes God has been quietly slumbering , unable to heal our minds ,may be.
Back to the book - I am glad to be reading it , makes me skim to the surface of a time that at once makes me sad and touched, for that which is gone as it is part of the fabric of me... a person , part of my mind , my memories that makes me , the parts I hold dear and those had moved me through my life in times that would have felled some others under the strain it brought... I am glad to get back to that land through a book , so thank you book for getting to me through a confluence of chanced emotions and actions...I am certain some call that 'fate' and others call it 'god /deity in action', but what ever name it carries it chanced me to the book and through that into a window that I can slide into the past where with all the faults it was truly the land where God lived in its peoples minds perhaps..
by Pc-3 (05/15/2023)
Thursday, May 4, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: viewing
viewing
I am at once elated and concerned by the recent interest in my posts, I wonder who finds what I write interests them. (mostly I write... more for myself) . I am glad someone reads them, hopefully not just a bot or AI generated readership. I am always hopeful that my writings are not used for creating suffering for anyone in the vastness of this world, however I am sure even my innocuous words could shape and metamorphose into spears within some dark forces, hence my trepidation with the recent interest in my posts . If more good comes of it , then it will be gratifying that something that I wrote helped some one in some form. That all I have to say about the viewing of my random posts
( by pc-3 -05/03/2023)
Sunday, April 23, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: An Earth Day
An Earth Day
The fog lifts gently as the land warms,
A log, once a tree, now on a journey,
To oneness with dear Earth,
I step, a poor judgment trip,
On the ground, the earth smells me ,
Not mine to smell the earth today ,gifts of pollen,
My nares' scourge , so reactive they block all scents ,
No breaks, no twists but for a bruised ego,
My fall cushioned on the softened leaves,
Last fall's gift to Mother nature,
All nature ,a gift for us too always
(poem by PC-3 -04/22/2023)
Sunday, April 9, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Three religions... The three monotheistic religio...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Quiet
Sunday, February 19, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: SPRKS IN CSF: Reading books and my views
Saturday, February 18, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Reading books and my views
SPRKS IN CSF: Reading books and my views
Reading books and my views
I am reading books again, as my days have spaces opened for them as I travel to see family.
It is on a whim that I bought the book 'Braiding sweet grass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer, just by a chance encounter with how the words flowed in the book . I don't remember where I read the sentences, but just went ahead and bought it for reading on the train .
I have since stopped my thoughts to wonder more about the strong connection I felt to nature as a child growing up , how we were reminded of not wasting and to be grateful for all that is before us. There was a sense of compassion to all the nature that surrounded us, including those wasps that bit me , the snakes that wandered out to near our house... the general premise of the times and as my grandmother used to say was this, "they have as much a right to be here as you have , so let them go their way". The subsequent generations have shifted in their ways of life and views. The general acceptance of all life and the way of sharing with the others in the community has given way to an isolationist and narcissistic way of viewing every day events and people which has permeated the minds of people even in my old village in India . The place I once remembered has changed , but all that is left in me is an ache for a past that is gone away , withered away with time .In place of the small houses, now there are mansions each of them vying to be bigger and grander than the next.
I have noticed that the sustainability of 'less waste ' as more of a struggle , I see my daughter turning off the lights that her husband leaves on all through the house and her frustrations at the lighted house in the middle of a sunny day. This is a place cultures collide and I just hope what comes out of it will be a more sustainable approach . Their new child may show the way to a middle ground away from the extremes that is all around him. As my daughter said, "I hope I can give this baby the life I want with the values I think are important, not his dad's or society's waste everything way of thinking".
As I read more of the 'braiding sweet grass' , I too begin to have a deeper understanding , I too realize , each small drop of relevant values will move the future generations closer to a place of wisdom and lives lived with gratitude becoming a way of life .Of course the future will be guided by nature , it's just a question of if it will be a transition in ease of acceptance or forced despite our resistance ...one way or the other nature will lead .
(by Pc-3, 02/17/2023)
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Please....
stare into the gloom,
feel the depth ,the abyss,
No RA, no guns , no no no...
yes where is god , when i need ...
Don't trawl me ..please... just leave me be
I care that none read what i write,
But please don't invade my grief...
by Pc3-(march2018)
SPRKS IN CSF: reflect I on (a poem by pc3)
Saturday, January 28, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: For Tyre Nichols
SPRKS IN CSF: For Tyre Nichols
For Tyre Nichols
I have no words, only tears,
I can't watch news ever again.
I heard it as I turned the tele in the evening ,
Now no more...
Know I will be haunted with that sound ...
Oh no, dear God, why have you made only evil,
Named it humans, said we have words and choices,
Yet dropped it like molten rock into men's hearts?
Cruelty thy name is human...
Animals are your creation, yet we pride in a soul,
The souls are charred vestiges ,left from your better creations ,
Be they created or evolved, evil dwells heavy in the souls ,
That had only cruelty to a young Tyre...
The cries will reverberate through us , for all our days ,
Waking us from our sleep, as we pray to faceless gods ,
As we hope again in the dark for life for our children,
As this cursed nation search for a soul, yet again , in vain...
Yet again see the hardened souls , drunk with power ,
Walk by and lay down to a sleep so sound ,
For theirs' is a remorseless power, dark and set solid...
But for us , despite all prayers and hopes, our days just stretch long ,
Anxious hours drag into days , stretched into shriveled time,
To our lives, our wretched lives waiting for our children to return,
Until the next day again and again for eternity,
With prayers to Gods who cannot hear us...
poem by Pc3 -(01/27/2023)
Saturday, January 14, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Classified documents again?!
Thursday, January 12, 2023
SPRKS IN CSF: Classified documents again?!
Classified documents again?!
I think back to the time when they checked for some boxes in a Marilago corridor , well it appears that what was not recovered there has been found in a series, as a more to follow event I am implying the classified documents found in Biden's locked cabinet. The surprise is why stop with just two sets of documents? I am sure there are many more documents to be moved and deposited in other places . Lets say for example New jersey is closer and so is New york some sheds etc. on where Biden may have stopped by at lets say fifty/sixty years ago. Transportation costs will work out cheaper too for the cheapskater in chief and those said mole employees.
Oh in case one forgot or is stuck with a lack of ideas , I have more suggestions... timing matters , hence consider to time it with summer solstice or near July 4th, and the expose can be timed with summer solstice, if that is not possible can time it overshadow any other major events. The expose time should be timed right and that way more light can be had on the tube for the great one. Thus round and round we go, until it gets all jaded and then ' pinkie and the brain' go again to another try at 'take over the world'...
Next try to numb any brain cells left for the masses , so they are more vulnerable to be gaslighted . The masses will fall for all the gaslighting and be pliable to any and all possible lies and convenient truths. It seems already evident as seen at the house speaker debacle and santos blindness ,already infecting many. Its not covid that is stripping life out of people it is apathy and the inability to question the appearance of fakes right in front of all our eyes ,lets cheer for the grabbers for them to grab our finances, our minds and thus our lives.
Post script: adding a few forgotten points on the above subject:-
There is option for an air drop to the various yard's with Biden's name to it, one can save cost by scheduling a drone drop and then they can be found by any random person floating by within the pres's yard and this can continue the drama. Then again why not get climate friendly and claim as your own the 'climate saving agenda' by sending those files along a kite that will be wind powered ... this will align the cheif cheapskater a way into the hearts of the idiots like me. We will lap it up with tears in our eyes for the great T saving the earth and all those polar bears. Ah, one small advice , don't leave the greasy finger prints on the files along with the added fake prints , may have to wipe the greasy ones and the burger flavor off so as not to entice some random neighborhood canine who may disturb all the pointed proof, all that evidence...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Five or more steps to navigate PTSD during the Hol...
Five or more steps to navigate PTSD during the Holidays and beyond
PTSD is like a shadow that follows you every where , the difference is this shadow is there as your constant companion , just popping up whenever and wherever it feels like, always uninvited . So with that being clear, lets try to face it and accept it for what it is - its a lifelong companion who is with you for the whole journey of life, whether you like it or not , like a bump or bug bite that itches and re appears every so often, for some of us it is so often that it is a daily part of the essence of ourselves through out our days..
Step 1- Accept it , always easy to say , but can't get to really do it as a first step, so to alternate steps...
a - Have a daily schedule that you follow every day diligently, be it on holidays or weekends or work days ie. any day and every day. It helps initially to write down a schedule , look at it , stick to it and don't forget to include things such as showering or eating/drinking ( not alcohol- alcohol even if it may be your current companion is not your friend , so ditch alcohol ) and sleeping on a schedule.. .some times these basics get forgotten and lost , especially when the PTSD is really bad . It always get better with time, indeed it does .. .
b-Any kind of physical activity helps , a walk , learning a dance - i say learning to dance , because the act of dancing or singing no longer comes naturally, nor does any of the things you ever enjoyed in the past, they all have an aura of a chore when you are struggling with PTSD . Despite that feel , do it like any chore and repeat . On an aside all hobbies that you get into , they are fleeting and thus do not last , so being aware of it helps.. Do still get to hobbies, doing them and attempting to try them. Any interest in a hobby or activity is a positive.
c-There is a certain urge to dwell on things, saying, "why me , how unfair everything has been" etc. But try to think of your traumas not as miserable events, but just as ' experiences' . Life always have experiences, just that these were hard ones . Hence you are not the victim ,the suffering one , nor under the yoke of PTSD, you are the survivor . Yes you are just a person who had some events, which you are going to chalk up as some 'experiences'...This construct is just for your mind and it doesn't negate the horror of the traumatic event, just makes it manageable for your mind preventing it from unravelling moment to moment. That is one way you try get a handle on things in the attempt to live, to get on with life , one foot in front of the other, one hour at a time( at better times one day or few days at a time) and still one step after another.
d-There are some distressing things that are beyond comprehension. One of them being flashbacks. With the flashbacks you notice that your day just stayed there and withered away , hence that feeling of wasted time .. . How to get out of these uninvited flashbacks (ie. they come in all forms and varying severity but they are never in your control) - Try to find something that you like , be that a beach, a park , a tree that moves in the breeze, then make that piece of nature yours. keep a a picture of it with you... for all just to escape to breathe , to get a gasp of momentary sanity... those times when you need a visual reminder and momentarily imagine being there . These reminders help you move through your day a little easier and each day these pictorial images help you to shed some of the internal burden you carry. Some other things that help are inspirational quotes, soothing music ,stretching , even moving to another place like out doors , another room etc. If you can catch yourself sliding into a flash back( you can occasionally be aware of this) then these things aid you to get out from it's hold a little quicker . Some times you have to do multiple things , but you try and try again . If possible any physical motion or movements help and can be done unobtrusively wherever you are at. Some days you may just wake up feeling restless, annoyed ,but do know these are all part of the PTSD.
f-Nightmares... like the flash backs they are there... only how bad or how often they are present varies. They tend to come in groups . Bring yourself to think of them as movies ,but just horrible ones. Another helpful step is this -before you sleep try to tell yourself how the room is yours and look at the things that make it your room and force yourself to own it ,to make it yours .This will have to be repeated for many many days. When you wake with a nightmare , it helps if you can get to ground yourself by looking and seeing something that will get your mind and brain to move to the present place and time. It doesn't reduce or negate the jarring nightmare that was present, just make you become aware to the present .Yet it will be hard to fall back to sleep. This is the time when you try to day dream of your favorite place in your mind to force yourself to get back to sleep again , to get back to sleep hoping of no more nightmares . But the reality is that they just come , so go on doing it over and over , and manage to get whatever measly sleep you can(nightmares are going to be there, but they do become less with time) So...
g-feeling of disconnect and lack of joy...The biggest bummer is when you feel disconnect to your children , especially to your young child - it always put an added layer of guilt and anger . Force to act the part of what you think is the normal action , what has to be done to interact and do that acting part when faced with disconnect . With time the connectedness happen (this may come in on and off form and do take time ,so do persist to act the part) If you feel angry , do work out ,or use that energy to get things done that tend to be put off..... postponed or neglected from day to day. The reality is there is a constant inertia that I can only describe as "being weighed down and feeling of being stuck in cement , unable to move" It helps to have a list of prioritized tasks to complete/do as the tendency is to focus on and to do non essentials at any given time , anger works as an energizer to task completion. No feeling of achievement will be present ,(even if you win the Nobel prize, the feeling of achievement can be absent) so say to your-self that you did it .
h-guilt feelings and remorse . Guilt and remorse of what you lost or what could have been is a definite feeling - so come to accept that the present life is yours . It is during the holiday season and special occasions that they seem to envelope you more than any other time. At these times this remorse and guilt seems to become so huge and untamable . How ever force yourself not to ever compare your day or life to some one else's. I think it is hard to do , but focus instead on how you can help another in need , do anything to help others and that seems to make the day bearable and at some point you start looking at some of the silver lining of your big cloud...yes the cloud that goes with you everywhere and comes uninvited .
I have only given a brief mini guide . So many a times you are going to feel that you are not you , but the you that is there will come together slowly bit by bit...Yes time , sometimes it seems such a long wait , but time helps, and so do your efforts in those everyday small steps you take .
I may add updates to this , but for now , give these suggestions a try, one small unsteady step at a time. I hope you do, and thus get to finally see how to manage one day after another. Just remind yourself that one cannot identify people who have Diabetes if and when you come across them. Like wise you don't know who all around you or me has PTSD. As anyone with PTSD knows you feel everyone else can see it in you , but as I said , its invisible just like the disease Diabetes...
an addendum-
what has helped me at the many recurring low points is, if I do something to help others, or to think of some other person who may have worse life events in front if them , mostly beyond their control, of where or how they were born etc . I end up giving to charity , many a time though in small amounts that I can , I do these moments to direct my thoughts to MSF(https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org) give in small amounts as it gives me momentary sense of peace as I feel they are helping those in need in places other charities may not get to.
(by peace crane-3 -12/15/2021)
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: on Climate
SPRKS IN CSF: on Climate
on Climate
I wish each of us would opt to reduce our need for more, but we have gone to a 'selfish comfort mode '. We have grown accustomed to our comforts , our enveloping temperatures , our plastic wrappings , our exotic foods from far off places, but as we consume more and more , we tend to want more to consume as we just consume with nary a moment spent to live mindfully even in a half hour period during our days wondering , just on the 'goldilock effect' , mourning the lack of that just so ideal sensory input.
I strive to do a little to reduce my wastes, my carbon foot print, but the vast mammoth prints left all around me by industries and companies ( including those who wink and state their great progress in making a shallower carbon foot print ) just make me disheartened. The awareness that what I do or what we as a family do is less than even a drop in this vast ocean of carbon belchers whose acts just collapse my earth to a path of no return ...it is despair and hopelessness for me . I hold this fantasy that the universe, wakes and the earth will shiver itself to action and then we are left as helpless inconsequential pests, which we have become through all that we call progress. Some times my prayer is "Oh universe, take over please."..
Friday, November 4, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Cassius Turvey
Cassius Turvey
Cassius...a name , a face , a soul,
Above all a person to who has seen you ...
A news item in passing for some,
Sadness in memory for others ,
A human , lost too soon ,
Yet for some just an object...
I see the faces of my genetic future ,
Spread in the sand , just like all of them in all lands ,
Part of breaths that mingled in my air,
And hence close to me , me the human ,
Me , a group of DNA and chromosomes,
No different , yet for the melanine lackers ,
He too was a threat... All around me they growl,
All they see is a threat, our thoughts ,
Our prayers, our food , anything and all,
Just our souls invoke a fear, and they run ,
Threatened by any with souls , or is it just melanine that they fear...
poem by Pc3(11/03/2022)
Monday, August 29, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Flashbacks and Gods….
Sunday, July 17, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: ode to my senses in time of loss
Saturday, June 25, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Good bye to Honor
Good bye to Honor
Today Honor died with a final gasp...
Lays there the ashes of 'being', of all...
Slashed and raped morals smeared across the days ,
Smirking arrogance has sprouted their hopes to rape all...
Lies there thee dead ,oh humanity ,
The soul within you flayed and slaughtered, never to rise ever ... ...
Poem by Pc-3-(06/24/22)
Thursday, May 5, 2022
ode to my senses in time of loss
Ah the flared nostrils sigh in pleasure, hint of garlic and chilli waft in ,
Sprinkled into the cup of yogurt, the sour notes tickle my palate,
At the back there is the garlicky goodness, all comfort, for my soul ...
To soothe my soul, for the day is shaky, in fears, in lost senses...
Lost days, those that I had pushed to the back, as I touch my todays,
My loss of self , my anguish,
Now they have gripped me again,
For motherhood was just a taunt thrown at me as I held my dear child ,
My tears to just hold my own baby , my entreaties all naught,
To the sperm giver ,was it all about power, all to torture ?
Today I seek solace in a simple senses of taste ,
For the dark forces gather again , the deep dark soul drunk on power,
Thiers it is to destroy woman, call themselves 'man'
Lecherous beasts, dared you to stop me from be by my children,
Yet in power , you wild beasts dare you rule my uterus ?
Dare you breathe , lest your vile bile fill your black lungs ,
Sputter you beasts as air grip in its loss, lost from you for all eternity...
Dare you debase me , all "me's";
Then yours for eternity, through generations shall be the veil of death,
May bilious heavy air be forever yours, envelope you ever ...
poem by Peace crane 3 (05/04/22)
SPRKS IN CSF: ode to my senses in time of loss
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Earth day...
Saturday, April 23, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Earth day...
Earth day...
Earth day, another day laid to rest; the skies are loud above us,
Not the screech owl at night, nor the hoof falls or a gallop,
All roar of planes , with war on their minds...
Man and beast, alight beneath, souls that whimper far abound,
Be it Palestine , Jordan, Odessa or Congo,
Be it hutu , tutsi, cherokee or gaurani,
All tears flow slow , pained souls sigh ,
The earth heaves a sigh and all proud men shake ,
For the tears have been rivers , they swell and shake ,
The souls have all sighed, and massed into the howling winds,
Ah , the earth , I too tire at you soulless men, all beasts ...
No soul , no thought ,blind yet they squander,
I too sigh , Oh dear Earth , with you ,
Shudder at the day when you oh dear earth your heaves , sigh and shake....
poem by peace crane -3 (04/22/22)
Saturday, March 26, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Time
Time
Fathers, mothers , daughters and sons , they entwined their lives and weaved time ...
Events , they just embellished this weave, some times they encrusted these weaved lives and created little knobs...
In kockanacherry Mark Anthony was told, "you are wasting time". But he knew even then as a third grader,' you never waste time , you create time '.
As he poked at the scurrying beetle and flipped it onto its shiny back and waited for it to turn over , instead of pushing a slate pencil over the scarred grey of the old slate, he just knew ," you never waste time ", so he waited , his intense eyes holding the acrobatic dance of the beetle on its back making trails in the fine soil as time ...
story by peace crane -3 ( 03/25/2021)
Monday, March 21, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A WAR
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Hibernation time
Friday, February 25, 2022
Rabid Bears
I learnt today that bears can get rabies, though rare
And they infect others , or are they rabid dogs in bear garbs?
Some like their rabies, even whiling in the rotted brains,
Soul-less, drunk on power, they roam , until they are done;
Oh if only all rabid ones be done ,
Before they devour those who breathe, snuffing their lives ,
Be it a saffron dog or an orange-head, or any other canine ,
Salivating all with cowardice , soul less power....if only ...
Poem by Pc-3 ( 02/24/2022)
SPRKS IN CSF: Rabid Bears
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Ahmaud Arbery
Sunday, February 20, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Randomness--some random thoughts.(an old post, but...
Randomness--some random thoughts.(an old post, but seem more relevant today)
"People say, `Stalin's daughter, Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans. Or they say, `No, she came here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between. That `somewhere in between' they can't understand."
Peters' defection came at a high personal cost. She left two children behind in Russia – Josef and Yekaterina – from previous marriages. Both were upset by her departure, and she was never close to either again...(about Lana peters' passing)
As I read this, I wondered about human nature, some so extreme, that we tend to measure the progeny colored by their parents. What really make each of us who , nay how we are? What in our environment decide how we weave our lives?
I read this and wondered some , about the randomness of events that really shape further events that in the end is summed up as life... about the children lost into the system, children that do without parents, due to no fault of theirs, of the children that labor away in different parts of the globe, to support things they never chose. Yeah all kinds of thoughts and images crowd into my mind...eg. Nestle's cocoa bean collecting children, garment factory children, and children who wait for their farm worker parents ,awaiting earnings stained by peppers and cucumbers...
We go about from one day to the next with hardly a sidelong glance ,yet when we look to that side, life seem not so simple, but rather a very complex event , yet devoid of any glow .
The intricate patterns that become us, those interwoven events that foreshadow our future, and yet interlaced in there lies some things and events of which we can never control- as to how or where we are born...yet in any given moment we think and imagine all sorts of controls, to our lives ...
In the imagined free land of America, all these freedoms come with tassels, bells and weights. We supposedly prided ourselves that we are as non-polar as we imagined at a not so far away time , yet were secretly extremely polarized. We were supposedly close to 'all being equal' in an idealistic way, yet weren't we just 'denying all inequality equally' in an effort to portray some optimal value facades . There is an ongoing obesity epidemic, but we blindly pander to the masses by never mentioning the O word, so as to not offend any. Forget that, even the medical profession side step the issue and never give direct nutritional advice or activity advise, lest they perchance offend some ones 'sense of self'. Our drug culture is superior, and in our effort to fix all that ails those depths, we continue to cushion the issues by giving them new package labels... including reasons for their dependent behaviors, "oh you are self medicating your depression', or 'you are drinking because of your anxiety"...Of course even if it is vodka that you are drowning in, you are bound to feel anxiety, I am sure. Life itself comes with anxieties, variable moods , even in the best of living beings, just by the nature of being a living being.
We forget the in-between people, those who come from other lands, who really do their share in holding up the economy, holding it dear , held up at both ends, ignore their in-between feelings, just because it's just convenient.
Besides, cultural integration is supposed to happen , say within three weeks to two month time right...just like grieving. All clear by the assigned time...or else...
Lets hope this is not so , for hope then would foreshadow chaos, slide into an inhuman non-compassionate world of entitled, self absorbed chaos.
( as seem more evident now)
SPRKS IN CSF: Randomness--some random thoughts.(an old post, but...
Monday, February 14, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: Dreams
Dreams
Chaos and confusion reign,
The years held in a drop, they shatter,
Few days more, you hope , but...
If only a magic wand could , just have enough magic...
To change life- ah , confusion and pain, all is chaos,
To change all those years, time itself,
With one swoop...if it could, but...
Blend all realities, all those years,
Hold in a cup, all dreams gone awry,
What neuronal key will lock away ,this enmeshed saga,
Make sense from this mire , of days,
Can we yet fathom what we loose,
Say - to unlock the future, nary a chance until we sleep again,
Dare we tread there except in our dreams...
poem by Pc-3( happened upon it- probably from late 1990s)
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh
Chance brought your wisdom to me ,
When I needed it so urgently,
On the days that I searched, in vain for guidance that seemed too far,
Yet in a library , a book for me , along with those for my children's read...
I took the small book, consolation, I scanned for meaning to my life ,
Words were bound within, my thoughts were hushed ,in chains,
Mind aswirl in soot , calm a mirage yet...
The monk's words soothed, to calm - direction my secret.
Slowly to calm ,to seek a path beyond the chaos surrounds ,
To meditate, to my soul sustenance , to words meaning,
To place beyond me , to the whole , to life form in formless state,
All to chance , some call it fate ,
All life , all chance moments ,
I await for comforting serene moments it brings,
Hope , love , this day, tomorrow, all different facets of the same ,
Peace ,a brief look into time and oneness ...
The universe, time , all merge , all , moves while still into stillness,
To the mind, to life, moments measuring time in this known space....
(poem by -- PC-3, 01/22/2022)
SPRKS IN CSF: Thich Nhat Hanh
Friday, January 7, 2022
SPRKS IN CSF: america imploding -
Monday, December 27, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: Hibernation time
Hibernation time
Its hibernation time at last , to yawn, to stretch and to sleep,
Perchance dream big of lands to roam , to own and mark...
Wide skies to growl to , cold air nips at the pores, droops the eyes ;
Sonorous the murmur of breath mixed with the snowy wind,
Yet , the bear stays awake , want to growl , to fight the cold ,
All to lumber and lurch ,one last attempt to mark ,before the new moon ,
Before the dawn of yet another year, to trudge before sleep, roar at the valleys,
Try and shake from Ural to Ukrain ,with hollow sounds that echo, time beckons,
A few may still marvel ,at the might of this dark soul of a bear yet....
(poem by PC-3 -on 12/26/2021)
Friday, December 17, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: Five or more steps to navigate PTSD during the Hol...
Monday, December 6, 2021
Covid , the pandemic and the Christmas season
I had this wonderful idea as i lay there awaiting sleep to grace my night . It is the holiday season, people feel that they need to give back , contribute to charity etc etc....
If only there was a site where we could pay towards enhancing the vaccination all over the world, but i have come to realize that there is no such place or site . I am sure there are a few similar minded people ( like me ) who would like to contribute towards the vaccination against the covid-19 virus , making it a collective humanity effort. May be this is where the UN (United Nations ) as an international inter governmental agency /universal global organization can step in and take the initiative.
I believe that is when our humanity shines brightest when we put in an effort to take care of our fellow beings , those whom we have the opportunity to share this earth with in our short stay here.
But when I look around , I see some of us have only one thought that is " self "...just self interest, negating any awareness that we are ultimately just sharers of this earth along with the others and that we have a responsibility which " being alive" has bestowed on us, ie. to care for the collective , the humanity, and to sustain the nature around us , the earth and the associated areas . But sadly we lack some- that care, so as a first step if we could help at least in the current pandemic 'to care', to help with that first step towards that care , by helping in the global vaccine effort, that will provide meaning for the word 'Christmas season' , as well as meaning to the word ' Human'...
SPRKS IN CSF: Covid , the pandemic and the Christmas season
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Ahmaud Arbery
The sun shone on me, but , alas the light had gone dark,
The days stayed long, but , in their hearts all stone,
In the hearts , the blood was red, but soul was naught,
So, our prayers , and they pray too, all prayers rise ,
All to God's who have gone deaf, or blind....
Where humans are beasts and beasts they are,
All with eyes that sees not, all green , cloaked in hate ,
Stones weigh them souls ,the ground shudders,
And trees shield their branches ,sorrow rise from ground to leaves,
The trees , they stand silent ,shocked to stillness....
Yet the Gods , they have been silent too...
Awaiting for man to someday become human...
A long wait that bears heavy on generations' souls,
Waiting , its just been so long, so weary...Oh dear God we are so tired...
So tired of waiting , weary... God where art thou...???
Poem by Pc-3(2021)
Sunday, July 4, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: RIP my Friend ...
RIP my Friend ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: Modern work- thoughts on juneteenth
Modern work- thoughts on juneteenth
The days race , with tasks that pile ,pushing weight of a boulder fresh,
Computers the new rule, strokes set by some remote master ,
Work, job , all just names to endless days unto infinity,
sleep, rest, all just words that now mean non motivated you?
We race ... all against time , forget life is time valued ...
Flushed, rushed ,all to exhaustion, to the the rainbow over the horizon ,
Masters stroke , remote , they ignore, the path littered by gasps of death,
Lost land of souls, we still crawl, unto our death , all lost time just yours and mine ,
Not so to our remote masters , theirs is numbers, wealth, power...
Our lives lay there crumbled to a heap , a heap of humanity wasted,
For all just a pawn to their goal and we all die in a heap,
Our loves, souls, pains all , all just discards before the mighty rules and numbers,
Our worth equates to nothing before the big and powerful, those remote masters...
(by PC3 -06/17/2021)
Friday, June 18, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: Modern day work, a view
Thursday, January 28, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: Remembering...
Remembering...
To remember, is to stop for a moment , to not forget....
The starlings take flight , at dusk, honor those dead,
They lay wreath at the setting sun, their wings carry our prayers
Grief lies before us, in cruelties before my time...
When tears dried before they ever could flow ,
Bewildered souls tried to make sense of days, of life...
I try to , but fail to grasp , of the cold hearts , of mans stone souls;
Of what was , of Sho'ah, of sorrow that can't be held , a sorrow so deep...
My prayers , that's all I have , in my heart...
(-poem by PC3 dated 01/27/2021)
Monday, January 18, 2021
SPRKS IN CSF: The Day
The Day
Dawn has kissed the sky , pink over the trees blushes the day,
An owl hoots and another replies ,
Nightly lovers at dawn leave their perch ,
Their wings brush the air, caress the south wind ,
Hope, of warmth and hope itself- is destined
Today the sun dances, branches shiver briefly ;
Theirs a hope for the spring , the warmth;
My heart aflutter to promises of the day , and our tomorrows
Birdsong - prayers to hope , perchance signal to our love aflame ,
On walks ,ours a gladness, joy in opened hearts ,
Hikes, a prayer to the universe ,soon to kiss, masks set down ,
Shared love has quietly grown, blessings set by the universe,
Our destiny , entwined in the stars,
The days await for love and hope , it quietly beckons ...
by pc-3(01/17/20)
Monday, December 21, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: Then,there...
Sunday, November 29, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: A ruling
SPRKS IN CSF: A ruling
A ruling
Supreme court tolls loud, but who are you ,
Thus to dare so vile , all of power so corrupted,
To give a right to defile , God's own temple?
Who indeed to get numbers up , then again for whom ?
For Satan or at Heaven's gate ?, or Both ??
Saturday, August 1, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: DEATH
Friday, June 26, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: DEATH
DEATH
Enter I,to this earth... born ,to my parents, not theirs to choose, they be just carriers ,guides...
Aptly given some DNA, spliced and sewn however the unseen destiny chose, not a choice to me,
Time, something given , how it winds and intertwine, again not a choice, just random chances,
How to deal moments, some may be I can choose, but to be weighed unto death ... another's choice..
poem by PC-3(06/25/20)
Take a moment to remember all who died , by another's cruel option, just because.....
Honor to George Floyd and all others...all victims of bias.
Friday, June 5, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: Today is US,then ....
Today is US,then ....
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Today
I fear to see what lay thither, past the shadows ,
Where has the sun's warmth hied to,
Gone is the morning 's bright, though the east still lights the grey,
If we just could lift our sealed eyes ,shut eyes to see,
The dew has died with life ,the grass just shredded plastics,
Rain is but parched moments,clouds all but lost souls,
The oceans blue,clear to their depths,vacuous,
Yet no place in a universe for the pain, for the lost...
It is not yet the days close ,time slowly drips,
Our today is but a crowd of nows, time drips its moments on today ....
Poem by Pc--3 (06/04/2020)
Thursday, June 4, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: The Day after tomorrow
Sunday, May 31, 2020
SPRKS IN CSF: Twerp (They come in many forms)
Twerp (They come in many forms)
................ ................
Oh undignified twerp of yesterday,
On the short air train ride, how did your day go?
I signify you, for a short blerb,
Did you feel too important,
As you huffed and swiped the crumb of paper,
Some one's reminder , left , lost to the heaps ,
To trash is its future, laid waste , a reminder , perhaps
Of a delta flight taken, a piece to board and seat,
Weary traveler long gone, his reminder left,
Yet you swiped it at me ,
Your entitled huff says it all ....
In your head disdain , you see an immigrant,
In it you see Black or Hispanic,none else blind as you are
You can't even read people or know countries,
Limited , almost dumb, is how I see you .
Yet you see not, nor look ...
Your whiteness you forget is just a few genes coding ,
Melanine it seems , you go back to serve and greet,
Again a few passengers on yet another flight...
A captain you are not , not even a supervisor ....
Did you see the Korean couple snicker at your haughty ways?
Guess not ... too important in a small swelling in your brain,
You do not see, just resent and fume,
Swelling of entitled self, with not even ample melanine in you...
Oh you insignificant twerp , with stripe of cabin crew ,
Donned just in your epidermis, you seethe every day, oh you twerp...
( poem by Pc-3, 10/21/18)
addendum
Oh insignificant twerps, what you donn differ, the insides all stay
Your swelled brain can't heed , the call to compassion,
No , the lack can never gain, lacks all, all around you,
Lack in melanine, lack in humanity,lack of all that is worth of soul,
With no soul you are no human, you breathe just hate,
With no soul, no sight ...life wasted in shape of human , oh twerps,
God weeps again for just the leaves and the wind hears it ,
With our sighs and tears the wind bears it all....
(poem by Pc-3, 05/30/2020)