Poetry: Scott Thomas Outlar (Author of the Month)

Scott Thomas Outlar

Three Wishes

I want to reach the state

where angels dance across my neurons

from tiptoe-crossed ethereal realms

while humming my spirit in the direction

of higher consciousness

with spells that guide me close enough

to smell the throne of God

I want to close my eyes

and instantaneously shift perception

to the precision point of total awareness

where what once was believed to be normal reality

begins to seem as if it was just a childlike illusion

as the true data pulses and throbs

in colors, shapes, signs, and visions

from dimensions that cannot be counted on fingers

I want to expand the inward horizon

with lucid dreams of precognition

that foretell what is still set to manifest

through glimpses that melt away my conditioning

and open the doorways to enlightenment

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The Strands That Tie Together

Ancestral DNA

and genetic coding

expresses itself 

in mysterious ways

such as

finding my Dad’s papers

from when he was a teenager

and observing how the doodles 

of stars and shapes

he placed in the margins

were the same types of designs

I would draw on loose leaf pages

while in school

A bridge spanning back

between our minds

and the way patterns

manifest down the line

seems marvelous to me

in this moment of remembrance

***

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Setu, August 2021