Free for an Unlimited Time
By Scott Vanya
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There is something inside me which predates me.
There is something outside me which will end after I do.
Yet Here, in the Middle, the Eternal Inside You and the Eternal Inside I can meet
hold hands and rejoice in that.
Peace and Love Outlasting.
Glad we are in this time and space together.
Scott Vanya
I've been writing for a very long time, what seems like my whole life, taking it seriously from the time I was about 11. Now, at 46, I think I may be starting to get the hang of it: Say what you feel, as passionately as you can, but always with an ear turned to those who are listening.Most of my more serious work is done at live performances, which i do totally extemporaneously, channeling the mood of the room as my fingers play on the guitar. You can see some of that if you go to "my" website. (Open Mics Austin is a platform I created to showcase the Spoken Word scene here in Austin, TX. Only a small role in which i play.)As far as I can tell what makes good writing is LOVE. Love ,plainly simply, and with no strings attached.I put these words/books before you, not so much because I want something back from it, because I think and feel like I feel my bones and my soul, if you were to see the world, experience it like it do, for even a brief moment, you would walk away from that happier, more alive, compassionate and in tune with all those around you.Peace, good will, and harmony. Let those be your guiding light.Agape forever,Scott VanyaPublication Credits:Stepping Stones Magazine, The Main Street Rag, www.carcinogenicpoetry.com, Texas Art Initiative, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Walt’s Corner, Manna, Perigee, Chicago Literary Review, Mobius, Cosmic Trend, Pitchfork, Romantics Quarterly, Artisan, Pegasus, The Neovictorian, Red Owl, The Story Teller, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Atlantic Pacific Press
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Free for an Unlimited Time - Scott Vanya
You came from where, now?
Do you mean the sea,
of womb and heart
and blood?
Or is it the current of air,
trees, and shrub
you are responding to?
Me?
Oh, no clue.
Figure the car brought me
or the desire to share
love, affection,
tenderness and the things
I care about
with others.
And The Great Tree?
Did it spring up
inside of
you?
Blossoming flowers on everything
and out of
every part of you?
Or The Great Stream
of Time
pulling dirt
away from
the roots
and the ground
where you stand?
Came?
From?
Mood?
Run?
Running?
Away from the "Sum
of All Things"
or
Two others
or even four
or five
or six
of them.
Destination?
Perhaps
we should speak
on that.
Home?
Grave?
Sunrise/set or
Moon the same.
And when it
is all said and done
or if we are
lucky
before
even
then:
The Journey
The Reality/Important One/
(You know the one I mean)
Is not one of
running
to nor fore
But in front.
(Tho simple it may seem
in this half-light)
Of sitting.
Sitting.
Just sitting.
Sharing
(or better said)
Dreaming
With Friends and Loved Ones.
---
-Peace, try that instead.
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Kicking my addiction to flagellation cold turkey
Don't think anything has been harder than this:
Kicking my addiction to flagellation cold turkey.
Have beaten myself up
about so many things for so long.
Perhaps, you show similar symptoms:
Feeling really badly
when
there is really
no reason to;
Getting down in a funk,
when everyone around
has nothing
but praise for you;
Knowing full well,
the mug/cup/glass
really is overflowing,
though on your lips
it feels like you are
sucking in
the last few drops.
Wanna pull my hair out,
wanna run and holler,
wanna find an end
that means more than
than just bothering
to do something else.
Kicking my addiction to flagellation cold turkey!
Kicked smoking once,
chewing on beef-jerky until
my gums bled.
Similar circumstances perhaps,
this,
teething on the poem
or butt of a smoke.
Yet, I know, for I have kicked other things:
football,
drinking,
drugs.
And the light,
you know the one I mean,
the pure and wholesome one,
that