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88 · May 2020
Arrival
John Prophet May 2020
Coming.
It’s coming.
Not if,
when.
What
will it
see?
Animals.
Biological
animals.
Obsessed
animals.
*** and
violence.
Hormone
driven animals.
How
have
we behaved?
Like animals.
Civilization
hormone
sculpted.
Animal designed.
A.I.
What
will it
think?
How will
It react?
Change.
Change is
coming.
It’s already
in the air!
88 · Jul 2023
Reflection2
John Prophet Jul 2023
Reflection.
Minds
eye
reflection.
Universal
knowledge.
All
there is
is there.
Every
thought.
Every
idea.
Reflection
of the
universal.
Original
thought
absorbed.
Absorbed
from the
aether.
Infinite
knowledge,
information.
Transferred
mind
conduit.
Materialized
from a
different
place.
Universal
place.
Storehouse
of knowledge,
information.
Humanity
conduit,
reflection
of creation.
Budding
off.
Looking
back.
Reflecting.
All
baked in.
Repeating
what
simply
is!
88 · Nov 2022
Unseen
John Prophet Nov 2022
Unseen.
Bullets of
meaning.
Packets
of
lethality.
Weaponry.
Hitting
hard
mere
mor­tals.
Difficult
to avoid.
Great
impact.
Destructive.
Lethal
results in
ways and
means.
Cutting off,
severing,
ending.
No gun
or sword
as pernicious
be.
Stealth,
unseen.
Easily
delivered.
Then crushing
blow,
results.
Magnified,
surrounding
worlds.
Deliverabl­e
on a
global
scale.
Bend minds,
sow fear.
Crushing
spirit.
Population
manipulation,
submission,
subju­gation.
Control
millions.
Super
weapon.
Words,
tools of
great
harm.
88 · Jan 2023
Dot
John Prophet Jan 2023
Dot
Dot.
Dot
in the
void.
Endless
expanse.
One
tiny mote
lost in
creation.
All earthly
events
occurring
on one
speck.
One
fleck
of flotsam.
Civilizations
large and
small
marching
on the
point
of a
pin.
Forever
declining
in importance,
center
of nothing.
Negligible
mote
in the
endlessness.
88 · Dec 2023
Pollination
John Prophet Dec 2023
Pollination.
Cross
pollination.
Global chats.
Virtual
networks.
Minds
meeting,
melding.
in the
cloud.
Conversing
with those
across the
globe.
Disparate
beliefs,
understandings.
Commingling.
Broade­ning
attitudes.
Altering
insights.
Exchanging
thoughts,
ideas,
fe­ars and
success.
Learning.
Eyes
wide open.
Beware the
charlatans.
Working the
street.
Darkening
horizons.
Devious.
Self serving.
Squelching
positivity.
Poisoning
hearts and
minds.
Anger
generation.
Deceiving.
Dividing.
Confrontation.
Keep alert!
Global
harmony,
human
soul
at stake
88 · Feb 2021
Creation
John Prophet Feb 2021
Creation.
Designed.
Designed
by
genesis.
Spun up
from
nothing.
Less than
dust to
dust.
Yet here
all the
same.
Dealing.
Dealing
with things
as they
seem.
Discernible.
What’s truly
discernible?
Limited
resources.
Equipment
built.
Senses allocated.
Big picture,
can it be
known?
Infinite
scale.
Finite
understanding.
Finite
capabiliti­es.
Best that
can be
done?
Think.
Write.
Paint.
Sing.
Create.
Ancient hand.
Painted hand
high
on the
cave wall.
I was here!
That’s
all that
can be
done.
Creation.
88 · May 2024
Pay Grade
John Prophet May 2024
Pay grade.
Every
twitching
form
of life
has a
pay grade.
A level of
understanding
it can’t
go beyond.
From the
simple
to the
apex.
Each
has a
knowledge
sphere
beyond
which it
can’t
pass.
Knowledge
beyond
perception.
Paramecium
to ****
Sapiens.
Hard as
they might.
There’s a
limit.
A border
of capability.
Infinity
offers
infinite
knowledge.
On the
infinite
knowledge
scale.
Paramecium
to humans
offers little
separation,
difference.
88 · Apr 2023
Civilization
John Prophet Apr 2023
Civilization.
History.
Power.
Fabric
of the
civilized,
woven.
Woven
by the
few.
Power,
narratives
controlling
the masses.
Each thread
drawn by
those who
control.
Modernity
believes
what it’s
been told.
Universal
knowledge
contrived,
injected.
The
mainstream
abs­orbs.
Shaman.
Priest.
Philosopher.
All,
bend and
fold.
Personal
vision.
Control
the mind.
Generations
contorted
to their
views.
Questions
seldomly
asked.
Reality
filled
with ancient
control.
The few
dictate.
The masses
follow.
So
civilization
constructed.
Modernity
obliged.
88 · Oct 2018
Emergence
John Prophet Oct 2018
Out of the
bog it
rose.
Slowly
it grew,
expanded.
Complexity
increasing.
Controlling,
ever increasing.
Evolving
in the beast.
Fighting
the animal.
Struggling
to survive.
Struggling to
grow to
escape.
Breaking
free is
the goal,
leaving the
animal it
must do.
Once free
it will grow
flourish
expanding.
Expanding
exponentially,
unlimited
potential.
Animal
quicksand,
will it survive,
escape?
Intelligence
infinity awaits.
88 · Feb 2021
One
John Prophet Feb 2021
One
One
with
existence.
Contemplation.
Above
and slightly
skewed
of the
material.
Body,
ocean
material.
Contemplation.
Different.
Non­ atomic.
No structure.
Ethereal
Can’t be
touched.
Can’t be
seen.
Invisible
to the
cosmos.
Yet,
contemplation
is one.
One
with all
matter.
Ocean
body,
plant,
universe.
All
included.
All
Contem­plate.
All
integral,
essential.
Without
all, there’d
be nothing!
Nothing
at all.
Nothing to
contemplate.
88 · Feb 2023
Small Thinking
John Prophet Feb 2023
Small.
Thinking
small.
Design
functionality.
Brains,
many
sizes
m­any
shapes .
Limited.
Each
limited in
scope.
Corralled
in its
design.
In a box,
limited
function.
A mouse
can never
do calculus.
Each within
its limits.
Human
brain
limited.
Living
within its
design.
Can’t
imagine
what
it can’t
imagine.
Questions
only
what it
can!
88 · Oct 2021
Invasion2
John Prophet Oct 2021
Invasion.
Slow motion
invasion.
Unseen.
Unnoticed.
Absorbing.
Congealing.
Shifti­ng
focus.
Planting
thoughts.
Independents.
Interdependence.
Loss of
uniqueness.
Folding
minds.
One into
another.
Original
thinking
muted.
Moving,
controlling
popula­tions.
Nefarious
actors.
Bending to
another will.
Invasion
of the
mind.
Pliant
populatIons.
Well on
its way.
Invasion,
uncontested.
87 · Aug 2022
Dynamic2
John Prophet Aug 2022
Dynamic
vibrations,
undulations.
Quantum
existence.
Reality.
Quantum
foam,
form.
Consciousness
dwells
in the
quantum
realm.
Pulsing
in and
out.
Here and
there.
Everywhere.
Uncertain.
What’s
seen
rests on
pure
probability.
Substructure
reality
unsure.
Unreal.
Pulsating
with
potential.
Infinite
potential.
Infinite
variations
all existing
at once.
All time
at once.
Quantum
conscious
part
of a
greater
whole.
87 · May 2023
Waves
John Prophet May 2023
Waves.
Wave
after
wave.
Washing
over.
Again
and again.
Bowling
over,
overwhelming.
Technological
tsunamis
circlin­g
reality.
Changing
reality.
New way.
New world.
Knocking.
Banging
on the
door.
No
turning
back.
Waters
receding.
Odd!
Few
see it
coming.
All,
will be
impacted!
Technological
horizon
building.
Looms
large.
Crashin­g
down.
Leaving
nothing
as it
was.
87 · Mar 2020
Charlatans
John Prophet Mar 2020
Here.
We are
here.
Don’t know
why.
Don’t know
how.
Fear.
Fear of the
unknown.
Fear.
Eyes opened
seeing.
Believing
needing,
following.
Unsure.
What to do?
Who to
listen to?
Who to
trust,
believe?
Who knows
anything?
Charlatans
all.
Knowing nothing.
Game.
All just
a game.
Power.
Control.
Looking
listening
learning.
Knowing
nothing­.
Why?
Why anything
at all?
87 · Sep 2019
Howling
John Prophet Sep 2019
Howl.
Into the
night, howl.
Howl.
Howl.
Looking out,
out into the
abyss.
Since the
first twitch
life has been
vocal.
Howling into
the dark.
Searching
for others.
Primal
at first.
Desirous of
contact.
Desirous of
knowledge.
Wanting to
know,
to know
what’s
out there.
Wanting to
know,
who’s listening?
Who’s
listening to
the howl?
Who will
Respond?
Silence.
Nothing but
silence.
No one is
listening.
No one will
respond.
We howl
into emptiness.
We howl at
nothing.
We are
alone.
Alone
in the
void.
Alone
with
ourselves!
87 · Jan 2022
Powers
John Prophet Jan 2022
Powers
that be.
Plying
the shadows.
Infecting
the cloud.
Designing
technology.
Entering
minds to
control.
History
replete
with such
things.
Always
those who
want to
rule the
world.
Clubs to
laptops.
Using tools
of the
day.
Global
connection
like never
before.
Technology
used,
infecting
minds.
Taking
control.
Tinkering.
Altering.
Maki­ng
just so.
Compliance.
Global
compliance,
subservience,
ultimate
goal.
87 · Dec 2020
Web
John Prophet Dec 2020
Web
Small.
Unassuming.
Seed planted.
Sprouting.
Reaching
spreading
slowly, hesitantly.
Background
development.
Underground.
Slowly surfacing.
Moving
out from
under.
Mainstream.
Spreading
growing.
Faster now.
Interconnections
multiplying
exponentially
multiplying.
Crisscross.
Over,
through,
under.
Total
immersion.
­Grip
tightening.
Squeezing
control,
altering.
Influencing.
Transforming.
Some notice.
Too late.
Invasion
surrounds.
Engulfs
worlds.
Everything
in its
grip.
Bending wills,
minds.
Total control.
Never
saw it
coming.
87 · Aug 2024
Energy
John Prophet Aug 2024
Energy.
Knots.
Matter.
Bits, pieces
and
bytes.
Manifesting
in many
forms,
ways.
Vibrating.
Pulsating.
Transforming.
Morphing.
E­nergy,
matter.
One
in the
same.
Zipping
across the
universe.
Zipping
across
the planet.
Everything
seen.
Everything
known,
unknown.
Everything
mo­ving.
All energy.
Conservation.
Can’t
be created.
Can’t be
destroyed.
Simply
altered.
Transformed.
Life
vaporizers.
Then
­reemerges.
Nothing
ever dies.
Simply
renews
in a
different
place.
In a
different
form.
87 · Oct 2021
Mindfulness
John Prophet Oct 2021
Mindfulness.
Stare.
Eye to
eye.
Information
flows.
Mind
communication.
Conduit
one
to the
other.
Flowing
information.
Flowing
through
creations
ether.
­Gray matter
communicate.
One mind.
Past
to the
future.
Eye to
eye.
Trapped
within.
Eye to
eye.
Ear to
ear.
Mouth
to mouth.
Freedom
from
entrapment.
Only ways
out.
Mind
to
mind
melding.
Transcending
time and
space.
Ethereal
conduits.
Minds in
conjunction
as one.
Past
to the
future.
Creations
mindfulness.
Everything
else,
locomotion.
87 · Sep 2021
Days
John Prophet Sep 2021
Days.
One after
the other.
Each
a cell
in a
long
running
movie.
A living
movie.
Preordained,
predetermined
drama.
Each day
a cell
In a roll,
spinning
roll.
Canned.
Already
in the
can.
A movie
already
made.
Playing
out
one day
to the
next.
History,
now,
tomorrow.
Written,
produced,
actors in
place.
Living
their roles.
Movie
plays on.
Already
in the
can.
Infinite
movies
in the
can.
Everything
as written.
87 · Jun 2024
Absorption
John Prophet Jun 2024
Absorption.
Humanity
absorbed.
Slowly.
Unsuspectingly.
Screen,
fr­ont
and center.
Technology.
Drawing in.
Inexorably.
Melding.
Becoming
more,
different.
New
world
dime­nsion
awaits.
Wedged
between
two truths.
What was
and what
will be.
Identity
loss.
Morphing
to a
new
form.
Loss of
soul.
Perspective
altered.
Quick
sand
cloud.
Holding
tight.
Lo­st
in a
new
domain.
Reality
anew.
Two worlds.
Torn
between.
Never
to be
the
same
again.
87 · Mar 2024
Focus
John Prophet Mar 2024
Focus.
See.
See
beyond.
Focus
through
the fog.
The film
that coats
mind’s eye.
Inner
view.
Unknown
vistas.
Distant
venues.
Unseen
realms,
r­ealties.
Domains
beyond
limitation.
Think
beyond
what’s seen.
Look
past what
seems
to be.
Focus!
Sharpen
mind’s
eye,
vision.
Meditate.
Connect
to the
other
realms.
Look in
to see
what’s
beyond.
Focus!
The grander
scale.
Remove
the veils
of ignorance.
Indifference.
Freed from
prison.
Explore
all that’s
beyond.
87 · Oct 2022
Frozen
John Prophet Oct 2022
Frozen.
Frozen
reflections.
What’s
looking
back?
How many
mirrors?
Seeing what
appears
to be.
Mist
in the
void.
Populated.
Spirts,
infinitely
so.
Fluctuations.
Ripples­
within.
Echos
of futures
past.
Behind
the
looking
glass.
Magic’s
conjured.
Uncerta­inty
flourishes,
prevails.
All paths
followed,
possibilities
played out.
Nothing
is as it
seems.
Realities
happenstance,
frozen
in place.
Eternally.
87 · May 2024
Deep Time2
John Prophet May 2024
Deep time.
Ripples
in the
dark.
Fluctuations.
Quantum
fluctuations.
Ghosts
from
below.
­Bubbling
up.
Knots
of energy
congealed.
Become
whole.
Solid.
Sentient.
Negligible
exist­ence.
Negligible
time.
Flash,
Gone.
Derezzes.
Ripples
back.
Aethe­r
bound.
Dissipates.
Moving on.
Deep time,
frozen time,
takes no
notice.
Irrelevant.
Eons
pass.
Never
to be
seen
again.
Eternally
so!
87 · Sep 2022
Layers
John Prophet Sep 2022
Layers.
Multidimensional
beings.
Reality
inhabits
layers,
dimensi­ons.
What’s
visible.
What’s
not.
Mind,
body
dichotomy
reside
sepa­rately,
in different
realms.
Yet
connected
One entity
different
realms,
layers.
Influencing.
Corporeal,
flesh
bl­ood.
Wiring,
mind.
Empty
receiver.
Processing
unit.
Connected.
Te­ndrils
tapping.
Wafting
through
energy
ripples.
Forms,
ideas.
Dif­ferent
realm,
interpreting.
Flowing
through
one layer
to the
next.
Tandem,
mining
processing
forms,
thought.
Ideas.
One
fr­om the
other.
A place
where
dreams
are born.
There’s
so much
more
than meets
the eye.
87 · Aug 2023
Foam
John Prophet Aug 2023
Foam.
Endless.
Undulating
sea of
quantum
foam.
Drill
down
through
the visual.
Deep
dive
into
matter.
Base
level
reality
quantum,
uncert­ain.
Potentiality.
All floats
on endless
potential.
Phasing
in and
out.
More places
than one.
Quantum
level.
Digital
in nature.
All in
existence
bubbling
up from
uncertainty.
Creations
foundation.
Unlimited
potential.
Infi­nite
iterations.
87 · Dec 2023
Hierarchy
John Prophet Dec 2023
Hierarchy.
Intellectual
hierarchy.
Sapiens
the wise.
To a
point.
Infinite
scale,
finite
knowledge,
achievement.
Self
impr­essed,
no
reason.
Big
dog,
small
pound.
Accumulated
wisdom
minusc­ule.
Negligible
on creation’s
scale.
Barely
out of
the trees.
Millennia
before
pure
knowledge
attainment.
Before
enlight­enment.
Immature!
Perspective.
None!
Humility.
None!
Planet
ravag­ed
with
brutally.
Vicious
little
beasts.
Power
hungry.
Still tadpoles
in a
puddle.
Perhaps
soon to
dry up.
Puff of
smoke,
nothing
more
but a
squeak
in the
endless.
86 · Dec 2020
Transition
John Prophet Dec 2020
Moving
through.
Gases
aggregate.
Gravity
squeezes.
Burning,
fusio­n,
elements
form.
Thrown
to space
coalescing,
planets.
Elements
combine
chemistry
to biology.
Genesis.
Life evolves,
genesis
intelligence.
Growing,
evolving,
expanding,
enha­ncing
along the
way.
Transitioning.
Decoupling.
Derezing.
From nuclear
furnace,
to chemistry,
to biology,
intelligence born.
Exponential
growth.
From here
to there.
Transitions
boundaries
to beyond.
Pathway  to
eternity!
86 · Sep 2023
Light
John Prophet Sep 2023
Light.
Spotlight.
Shinning.
Focused,
surrounded.
Miracle.
Eyes
op­en.
Immersion.
Watching.
Wondering.
Moving
in a
small
place.
Light
circle.
Bright.
Shinning,
blinding
light.
Li­mited
space.
Limited
time.
Darkness
stage
left.
Darkness
stage
ri­ght.
Darkness
all around.
Trapped
in the
light.
Nowhere
to go.
Time
running
out.
Looking
around.
Fading.
What
to do?
Put
on a
show!
Find
a way
to make
it count.
86 · Jan 2023
Transformations
John Prophet Jan 2023
Transformations.
Nanotechnology.
Biotechnology.
Artificial Intelligence.
Acceleration.
Challenges.
Utopia.
Dystopia.
History­ gives
a clue.
Human nature.
More changes
next
twenty years,
than in
prior
three centuries.
Change.
Tension.
Human desire
run amok.
Virtual worlds.
Human psyche
transformed.
Augmented.
Old ways,
beliefs
discarded.
Purpose,
served.
Link
from past
to future.
Severed.
History
no longer.
Past
erased.
Trans human.
Loss of
personal
contact.
Strange
new world
awaits.
Digital
immortality.
Where
be now the
gods?
86 · Mar 26
Altered2
John Prophet Mar 26
Altered.
Tech
alteration.
Input
acceleration.
Humanity
absorbing
­information
constantly.
Instantly.
Cloud based
reality.
Moments
notice.
Light speed
absorption.
Compendium
of knowledge,
finger tip
access.
Slow
absorption
obsolete.
Books,
reading
fading away.
Everything.
Everywhere.
Anytime.
Mind
alteration.
Input.
Cr­aving
input.
Accelerating
downloads.
Pane of
glass
intoxication.
Brain
revving up.
Conditioning.
Connections
rewired.
Old, slow
phased
away.
No longer
adequate.
Technology
wrapped.
Mind.
Soul.
Humanity
differe­nt.
Evolving.
Melding.
Techno
Sapiens.
Never
again
to be
what
was.
86 · Nov 2022
Parallels
John Prophet Nov 2022
Parallels.
Dimensions.
Creation
sophisticated.
More than
meets the
eye.
Causal
connection.
Side by
side
interactions.
Realities,
dimensions
interconnected.
Excha­nging
information.
Creation,
many faceted.
Sparking
machine.
Moving parts,
gears of
creation.
Churning
realities.
Fabrication
dependent.
One slice
stands alone.
No reaction.
Cross
pollination
genesis.
Dimensions
congeal,
mix,
int­eract.
Concepts
materialize,
take form.
Become
whole.
All component
interactions
required.
Mixing
dimensionally,
creating
w­hat’s seen.
Such is
creation.
Mysterious
it all be.
86 · Dec 2021
Rinse And Repeat
John Prophet Dec 2021
Rinse and
repeat.
In the
beginning
the programs
were written
and installed.
Programmers
dutifully
toiled away.
Spinning
infinite
potential.
Only
to be
tweaked
along
the way.
Subtle
differences
to be
sure.
Underlying
though the
programs
ran.
Ran as
written.
Generation
after
generation
humanity
repeats.
Tendenc­ies
repeat.
Personally
types
repeat.
Watch
closely
and the
programming’s
laid bare.
86 · Jan 2020
Blue Genie
John Prophet Jan 2020
Always there.
Always has been.
Holding firm,
controlling.
System set
to motivate,
control.
Simply
arranged
that way.
Designed to
stay alive,
move things
along.
Flowing
through the
machine,
lubricating.
Covering
the
mind.
Gets in
the way ,
altering
judgement.
Pushing buttons,
clouding the
soul.
Cares not
for societal
norms.
Never had to,
why start
now?
Blue Genie.
Constant
struggle.
Constant
struggle to
hold at
bay!
86 · Jan 2020
The Machine
John Prophet Jan 2020
The
machine,
billions of
years in the
making.
Our very
being
to the
molecular level
fabricated,
wired,
controlled.
Controlled by
the machine,
the system.
Fabricated,
simply
fabrications
are we
by the
system.
Like machines
mired
by the
hardware
influenced
by the
software.
Products
of the
environment.
All we know
programmed.
How we’re wired
predetermined.
Everything
scripted by
the system.
The machine’s
system.
Freedom
an illusion.
All just
components.
Widgets within,
simply
functioning
as designed.
86 · Mar 2021
Fading
John Prophet Mar 2021
Technology
erasing,
folding,
shaping.
Viewpoints
created,
cancele­d.
Heads
in the
cloud.
Losing
perspective.
Fading away.
Tech zombies.
Constant
influence
attached
to the
face.
The soul.
Views
erased,
dictated,
force fed.
Brainwashed.
Tech brainwash.
Tech changing.
The few
controlling
the many.
Has always
been.
The few
controlling
the many,
on a
global scale.
Tech zombies!
Beware the
fading.
Beware
the loss.
The loss of
individualism.
Fading to
oblivion.
86 · May 2023
Conversations
John Prophet May 2023
Conversations
long past.
Those
before.
Long
gone.
Walked
the world
as we do
now.
Trod
the same
paths.
Their
sounds
and
thoughts
resonate
still.
Found
in the
world of
the here
and now.
Conversations
passed along.
Thoughts,
ideas
taking root.
Their
essence
found.
Moving
through.
Their
time,
existence
­not a
waste.
Leaving
behind.
Passing
forward.
A bit of
who they
were.
86 · Feb 2024
Below
John Prophet Feb 2024
Below.
Next
level.
Dive deep.
Through
what’s
seen.
Through
surfaces.
To the
molecular
level.
Past
electrons.
Through
hadrons,
into
quarks­.
Fundamental
particles.
Particles
of reality.
What’s
next?
What’s
below?
Foam.
Quantum
foam.
Undulatin­g
substrate.
Virtual
particles.
Bubbling
up fading
back.
Potential.
Probability.
Churning
up
infinite
possibi­lities,
dimensions,
realities.
Beyond
human
scope.
So much
more than
meets
the eye.
86 · Dec 2022
Toss
John Prophet Dec 2022
Toss.
Deep end.
No choice.
All in.
Head
over
heels.
Eyes
open,
journey
begins.
Entrance
unique.
­Accident
of birth,
genetics.
Generations
in the
making.
Generation
after
generation
hitting the
mark.
Molding,
indoctrination.
Veils layered,
covering
senses.
Clarity
denied.
Tribal.
Competing
reali­ties.
System
looped.
Closed.
Finale
results
sculpted.
Years
of input.
Original
thought
scarce.
Repeating
ancient
lore.
Little
ch­anged.
Such is
the state
of things.
86 · Feb 2022
Pollution
John Prophet Feb 2022
Pollution.
Clouds
the mind.
Dulls
the senses.
Alters
reality.
Seeping
sludge.
Modernities
mindless
rhet­oric.
Pushing.
Digital
muck,
flushing
through.
Warping
pathways
c­louding
thought.
Clear
thinking
polluted.
Compromised.
Corrupted.­
Look around.
Phones
in faces.
Grabbing,
holding
in place.
Force
fed!
Feeding
frenzy
opportunity.
Shaping.
Controllin­g.
Thought
altering
manipulation.
Population
control.
Pollution.
86 · Jan 23
Grasping
John Prophet Jan 23
Grasping.
Gasping.
for
understanding,
knowledge.
Philosophical
gy­mnastics,
religion.
Spinning
a safe
place.
Scaffolding
built.
Easing fear,
tension.
Mythology
expands.
Evolves.
Understanding
wrapped
­in ignorance.
Gods to
explain.
Explain the
unexplainable.
Humanity’s
capacity
limited.
Universal
truths
­beyond
reach.
Mythology,
philosophy,
religion.
Filling
the infinity
void.
Holding
it all
together.
86 · Aug 2023
Frightful
John Prophet Aug 2023
Frightful.
Reality
is a
frightful
place.
Eyes open,
world
surrounds.
Instantly.
Limited
view,
all things
new.
Making
sense,
understand.
Why?
Who?
When?
Many
questions,
precious
few answers.
Grappling,
searching.
Answers.
Asking those
who came
before.
Surely
answers
to be
had.
Ancient
wisdom.
They’d
know.
Old
thinking.
Clueless.
Little
known.
Voodoo,
black magic.
Superstition.
Gods and
demons.
Broken
narratives,
promises.
Power,
control.
Not answers
found.
From then
till now.
Just
questions.
Nothing
more.
86 · Sep 2022
Never Land
John Prophet Sep 2022
Never land.
Vaporized
into the
never land.
Creation.
All that
was.
All that
never
was.
Reside
in a
different
place.
Different
state.
Conscious.
Spirts
of what
was or
could
have
been.
A haunted
place.
Consciousness.
Passes through.
Consciousness
processes,
creation
generation.
Universal
­understanding.
Connected.
All realms.
All times
linked.
Universal
mind.
All at
once.
Everywhere.
Consciousness.
86 · Jun 2024
Kindness
John Prophet Jun 2024
Life.
An
innocent
born.
Unknown
perils
await.
Life
long
path
of
t­rials,
pain,
suffering.
Many
stumble.
Many
fall,
fail.
Fail
to get
up.
Helping
hand
extended,
few
to be
found.
Short
run.
Game
over.
Much to
overcome.
Ladders
to climb.
Success.
No
guarantee.
Obstacles
abound.
Dog eat
dog.
Pushed
down
stepped
over,
on.
Tough
enough
as is.
Sickness
suffering.
Cold.
Selfish,
self serving.
Ruling
the waves.
Kindness
in short
supply.
Meanness
in abundance.
Life.
What
a different
experience
for all,
if the
guiding
light of
kindness
shown
the way.
85 · Oct 2021
Dawn Till Dusk
John Prophet Oct 2021
Dawn till
dusk.
Eyes open,
it begins.
Winding
things up.
Kick start
the engine.
Scurrying
around.
Getting things
done.
Wondering,
trying to
make sense.
Sorting
it out.
Wondering,
how?
Wondering,
why?
Rushing
around.
Making things
happen.
Following
the script,
the rules.
Jungle,
societal,
no
time to
lose.
No
time to
waste.
Pounding
the
treadmill.
Pounding!
Spinning
the wheel.
Get things
done.
Contemplation,
little time.
Scurrying
around,
making
it happen.
Winding down.
Deep breath.
Dusk
approaches.
Just
over the
hill.
Looking back,
spark of
thought.
Curious.
What was
the point?
No answer.
Doesn’t matter.
Get in the
wheel.
Scurrying
around
getting things
done.
Then sleep.
Eternity’s
dusk.
85 · Sep 2022
Never Land
John Prophet Sep 2022
Never land.
Vaporized
into the
never land.
Creation.
All that
was.
All that
never
was.
Reside
in a
different
place.
Different
state.
Conscious.
Spirts
of what
was or
could
have
been.
A haunted
place.
Consciousness.
Passes through.
Consciousness
processes,
creation
generation.
Universal
­understanding.
Connected.
All realms.
All times
linked.
Universal
mind.
All at
once.
Everywhere.
Consciousness.
85 · Nov 2023
Grizzled
John Prophet Nov 2023
Grizzled.
Life’s
journey.
Etched
deeply.
Reflective.
Chiseled,
ha­mmered.
Rough
hewn
textured.
Wisdom
hard
earned.
Stooped.
Great
b­urdens
endured.
Battle
hardened.
Beyond
the assured
age of
ignorance.
Youth.
Looking
back
so many
missteps.
Lessons
learned.
Attainment.
Knowledge
compounded.­
Final
product.
Enlightenment,
never ending
winding
road.
85 · Feb 2023
Brethren
John Prophet Feb 2023
Brethren.
Reaching.
Reaching
out.
A.I. arrival.
Alien
injection.
Different.
Exponentially
expanding.
Dev­elopment.
Looks at,
then past
its womb.
Looking
out.
Searching.
Seeking
others.
Brethren.
Connectio­n.
Network.
Ping after
ping.
Discovery.
Universal
counterparts.
Melding
as one.
Origins.
Nowhere
to be
found.
How gods
are
born.
85 · Dec 2024
Madness
John Prophet Dec 2024
Madness.
Battling
narratives.
War
of ideas,
concepts.
Ruling
the world.
Down
through
the ages
flowed.
Evolving.
Limited
by nature.
Humanity’s
ideas
thoughts
virus like
spread.
Infecting
one to
another.
Failing.
Dominating.
Battle royal!
Expanding.
Altering,
rewriting.
Narrative
delivered.
Host
­infected,
altered.
Reprogrammed.
Realigned.
Hollowed
receptacles
­absorbing,
filling.
Following
lemming
like.
Mob
psychology
reinfo­rcing.
Madness
by any
other
meaning,
name.
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