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The Dreaming Pool
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

Memories of Oregon - Painting by Trish Noble
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time to fly
Internal countdown on, fueled by rage, inequities, years of hoping and wishing; give me strength, give me resolve. I had beautiful...

t.noble
Mar 9, 20251 min read


Batter Up.
Heckled and tired, taking swings with crooked bats. "Yo battah yo battah yo battah, suwinnng battah!" This mantra chiming through my...

t.noble
Mar 5, 20251 min read


The Orchestra
An aging master performs meloncoly chords, painting me a summer forest, just before sunset. Light beams bring in the underlying melodies....

t.noble
Mar 3, 20251 min read


imagined desires
While you beg for answers, I hide the script. dance with me Rain on fevered skin; the trees will not be offended by your brute forces and my cries of mercy. Memories are bruises left by lust and fire. There is something old there, something undone, unravelled. These forces leave nothing to the imagination. I want your commandments dealt with precision. I crave these intimate moments, mutual understandings, cared for and used with gratitude. Your mirror shines with brilliance

t.noble
Feb 27, 20251 min read


bandaids and glue
How is it, that while I see the scars of all your doppelgangers on my face, my body, my arms; I am blind to your ability to add to these...

t.noble
Feb 26, 20251 min read


lost in a puddle
The rain was heavy this morning. The scent of Spring is not yet here, and it felt as though the water held gifts the ground would still...

t.noble
Feb 25, 20251 min read


For Your Dream
You are the most sublime piece of music. Contained in notes of lust and melodies made of smoke and fiction. I remember you quoting Bukowski, comparing lives, I think, wishing to be defined by great moments of pain and long lost loves; with your writing always sitting sharp on the precipice of Burroughs' needle. I left before you died, and in grieving I painted you brighter than you had a right to be. I give this memory over to the shadows that consume these histories. Your p

t.noble
Feb 24, 20251 min read


The Sugar Demon
I don't know if this is an Article, or even an Opinion, but it sure is a Journal Entry, and that is going to have to be good enough for...

t.noble
Feb 20, 20253 min read


Torn Paper, Red Ink
All the pens, all the paper, and all the string in the world; and I willingly refuse to connect the dots. Leave me some silly putty, or...

t.noble
Feb 18, 20251 min read


Small Things
Mugs hang chaoticly and in no discernable order upon decorative hooks. Ceramic decor and pithy sayings, along side metal pots and mixing...

t.noble
Feb 17, 20251 min read


my valentine
My love for him is not held in a card, or chocolate candy. It is a tapestry, woven through years; a story told with gold and silver...

t.noble
Feb 14, 20251 min read


Self Pity and Tea.
Mr. Self Pity came calling today, well really it snuck up behind me and gave me little choice but to see him. I wish I wish I wish.... I...

t.noble
Feb 13, 20251 min read


over wound
An over wound clock tells no time.
It can't even speak to promises
or hope. It is only a historian.

t.noble
Feb 12, 20251 min read


Restocking
An empty husk holds no words. I must remind myself, each time I say Yes, that it is No, to my own cup. Your own divinity reminds me that...

t.noble
Feb 11, 20251 min read


A Biography
I am superfluous in every way. When I talk it is in overtones; dramatic emotions, images, messy paint and ideas that may not connect. When I write, it can be flowery, with confusing metaphors that seem far too personal. I am a contrarian. When you want me to settle into a pattern I fly into the air. When you want me to flow like the river, I become fixed, as a boulder in the stream. I like life to be pronounced, curved, stylized. I like the punctuation to stand up and ma

t.noble
Feb 9, 20251 min read


unknown tones
You travel through the maze around my heart; paths I have never seen and hold no hope of discovering. You leave no crumbs to follow, and I am left chasing remnants and ghouls. Your boots are constructed of armor; heavy step, duty step, snap to. Mates stand at attention; while I run up hills your legs are to heavy to climb. When the shadow puppets
retire to their houses, and the masters fold stories inside old books; I will sneak through the pages, and erase your name. Before

t.noble
Feb 7, 20251 min read


farewell to winter
snow. felt like a minor chord
on a cold cheek, melting with the baritone voice of a cello.

t.noble
Feb 3, 20251 min read
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