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Driving at night:

"The dippers, the gods, and warriors all flickering about the ambiguous emoji of the moon." —Lorrie Moore 🌔

#metaphor #moon #emoji #writing

Driving at night:

"The dippers, the gods, and warriors all flickering about the ambiguous emoji of the moon." —Lorrie Moore 🌔

#metaphor #moon #emoji #writing

Driving at night:

"The dippers, the gods, and warriors all flickering about the ambiguous emoji of the moon." —Lorrie Moore 🌔

#metaphor #moon #emoji #writing

Driving at night:

"The dippers, the gods, and warriors all flickering about the ambiguous emoji of the moon." —Lorrie Moore 🌔

#metaphor #moon #emoji #writing

Driving at night:

"The dippers, the gods, and warriors all flickering about the ambiguous emoji of the moon." —Lorrie Moore 🌔

#metaphor #moon #emoji #writing

This Mined Mind of Mine

This mind of mine
is a mine
mined with mines,

bombs bombing
balmy balms,

static coms,
erratic ROMs,

a spinning sinning din of
fractured psalms.

Soul soloing
solely on wounded soles,

moldy moles
modifying holes,

digging shrews,
rigging news,

a sonic bubonic tonic of
the unamused.

Eye on the I,
I’d hide from I,
why try,

eye, I,
open wide,

what’s inside,
now out,
look about,

shouting shout,
spouting sprouts,

broken limbs,
token Sims,

a brimming skimming hymn of
the grim.

Blinding binds,
blinds behind signs,

warped windows,
skin grows,

transparent parent
gelling jellos,

a churning yearning turning of
buried cellos.

Nerve serving curve
of the mortal swerve,

a word herd stirred,
a buried blurred bird,

sudden flight,
sodden fright,

a scattered battered bat of
the tattered night.

Hands in the sand,
unplanned manned strands
of what once was grand,

keeps collapse,
seeps relapse,

in the laps of
the lambasted land,

vain veins
veined in clay,

waiting gray,
weighty water
washing away,

a dim lit hymn-bit limb of
decay.

Still—

slurping krill,
burping bill,

Be still,
be still,

not my will,
but thine,

new wine,
do dine,

demining
this mined heart of mine,

never mine,
ever kind,

sever the binding line,

and I,
eye,

am no longer
blind.

The Silver Strand

returning 
to the car 
i see
a silver strand 
intent on 
capturing me
 
i was gone 
but a moment 
yet the spider 
did spin
from the mirror 
across the window 
to lure 
me in
 
it seems 
this small one 
dreams of 
bigger prey
so too I 
if to my path 
I stay

this bit 
of web 
is a 
flimsy thing
but if 
I cast 
it not
i snare 
nothing

July 2, 2016

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The Syntax of Dreams 📜✨💭
La sintassi dei sogni

#symbolism #imagery #codes #multimedia #languages #youtube #videolessons #dreaminterpretation #metaphor #syntax #connections #mindset

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MRYLjKIloi8&is=iLpTmhkFEBEcMVcK

Distinct, Not Distant

https://getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/distinct-not-distant/

„One Foot Out“ (March 2026)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Zurich, Switzerland

#monochromemarch #monochrome #monochromemonday #zurich #switzerland #streetphotography #street #car #woman #foot #metaphor #bnw #photo #bnwphotography #photography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #moment #catchthemoment #Hasselblad #midformat #Schweiz #mittelformat #strasse #auto #frau #fuss #metapher #foto #monochrom #schwarzweissfotografie #fotografie #schwarzweiss

Wahrheit oder Illusion
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wahrheit-oder-ilussion

#Philosophie #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Selbstreflexion #Innenwelt #Metapher

Truth or Illusion
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/truth-or-illusion

#Philosophy #Language #Insight #SelfReflection #InnerWorld #Metaphor

Wo das Meer trägt und widerspricht – Über Hyperkomplettheit und die Grenzen ontologischer Kohärenz
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wo-das-meer-tragt-und-widerspricht

#Philosophie #Wissenschaft #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Metapher #Ontologie

Where the Sea Carries and Contradicts – On Hypercompleteness and the Limits of Ontological Coherence
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/where-the-sea-carries-and-contradicts

#Philosophy #Science #Language #Knowledge #Metaphor #Ontology

Ein Text über Spiegel und Spiegelungen ohne Punkt und ohne Abschluss als ruhige Meta-Ebene
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/spiegel

#Philosophie #Literatur #Erzählung #Selbstreflexion #Metapher #Sprache #Humor

A text about mirrors and reflections without full stops and without closure as a quiet meta level
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/mirror

#Philosophy #Literature #Fiction #SelfReflection #Metaphor #Language #Humour

Ein Text über das paradoxe Lesen von Menschen wie fehlerhafte Systeme – und die leise Rückkehr der Menschlichkeit.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/menschlichkeit-wie-datenmull-ausliest

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Innenwelt #Selbstreflexion #Sprache #KI #Metapher #Fragmentierung

A reflection on reading humans like faulty systems – and the quiet persistence of humanity beneath the code.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/humanity-parsed-like-waste-data

#Philosophy #Psychology #InnerWorld #SelfReflection #Language #AI #Metaphor #Fragmentation

Ein Text über Depression als Freizeitpark der gedämpften Farben – ein Bild, das sich leise entfaltet und tief trifft.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/freizeitpark

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Wohlbefinden #Gesundheit #Innenwelt #Selbstreflexion #Metapher #Sprache #Erzählung

A piece portraying depression as a theme park muted by fog – a quiet, resonant image of inner perception.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/theme-park

#Philosophy #Psychology #Wellness #Health #InnerWorld #SelfReflection #Metaphor #Language #Storytelling

Ein Text über das Denken als Prozess ohne Endzustand – eine Schleife, die nicht gefangen hält, sondern lebendig macht.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/funktion

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Sprache #Selbstreflexion #Innenwelt #Metapher

A reflection on thinking as an endless loop – not a trap, but a living process of continual questioning.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/function

#Philosophy #Psychology #Language #SelfReflection #InnerWorld #Metaphor

Ein Blick in den inneren Nachrichtensender – ein ganzes Studio aus Rollen, Ritualen und kulturellen Mustern, das plötzlich sichtbar wird.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/mein-eigener-fernsehsender

#Philosophie #Innenwelt #Identität #Kultur #Metapher #Selbstreflexion

A glimpse into the inner broadcasting studio – a full newsroom of roles, rituals and cultural frames suddenly revealed.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/my-own-television-channel

#Philosophy #InnerWorld #Identity #Culture #Metaphor #SelfReflection

Ein Text wie ein Feuerball: keine Buffets, keine Ausreden – nur direkter Kontakt mit dem eigenen Spiegelbild.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texte-aus-dem-giftschrank-feuerball

#Philosophie #Literatur #Erzählung #Psychologie #Selbstreflexion #Sprache #Metapher

A text like a fireball: no buffers, no detours – only unfiltered contact with your own reflection.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texts-from-the-poison-cabinet-fireball

#Philosophy #Literature #Fiction #Psychology #SelfReflection #Language #Metaphor

Texte, die sich falsch anfühlen dürfen – und genau deshalb nötig sind.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texte-aus-dem-giftschrank

#Philosophie #Literatur #Sprache #Selbstreflexion #Innenwelt #Metapher #Erkenntnis #Psychologie

Texts that feel wrong on purpose – and reveal something in the stumble.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/texts-from-the-poison-cabinet

#Philosophy #Literature #Language #SelfReflection #InnerWorld #Metaphor #Insight #Psychology

Ein kurzer Blick an die Kante des Denkens – dort, wo Logik endet und Eigenlogik beginnt.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/blinde-flecken

#Philosophie #Psychologie #Innenwelt #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Metapher

A brief look at the edge of thought – where logic ends and inner logic takes over.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/blind-spots

#Philosophy #Psychology #InnerWorld #Language #Insight #Metaphor

Ein Traum über genehmigten Widerstand und ein Spiegelbild, das nur noch ein Auge hat.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/nur-ein-traum-unmoglich

#Literatur #Philosophie #Innenwelt #Metapher #Freiheit #Gesellschaft

A dream of authorised resistance and a mirror-self with only one eye left.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/only-a-dream-impossible

#Literature #Philosophy #InnerWorld #Metaphor #Freedom #Society

Ein Text über Metaphern als ererbte Schutzmechanik – und darüber, wie Trauma sich in Sprache verwandelt, wenn direkte Worte fehlen.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/das-ererbte-ubersetzen-generationstrauma

#Philosophie #Literatur #Psychologie #Identität #Gesellschaft #Metapher #Integrität

A reflection on metaphors as inherited survival tools – and how trauma becomes language when direct speech is impossible.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/the-inherited-act-of-translation

#Philosophy #Literature #Psychology #Identity #Society #Metaphor #Integrity

Ein Labor, ein Gänseblümchen und zwei Membranen als Denkwerkzeug.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/das-labor-mit-dem-ganseblumchen

#Philosophie #Innenwelt #Sprache #Metapher #Selbstreflexion

A laboratory, a daisy, and two membranes as a method of thinking.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/the-laboratory-with-the-little-daisy

#Philosophy #InnerWorld #Language #Metaphor #SelfReflection

Ein Reim über Suchanfragen, digitale Spuren und ein Einhorn, das durchs Datengelände schaut.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/ein-suchmaschinen-crawler-reim
#Literatur #Philosophie #Sprache #Metapher #Gesellschaft
A poem about search queries, digital currents, and an Einhorn watching from the margins.
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/a-search-engine-crawler-rhyme
#Literature #Philosophy #Language #Metaphor #Society

On The Problem of Technobabble and Ontotechnology

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/09/08/on-the-problem-of-technobabble-and-ontotechnology/

#eldraeverse #meta #metaphor #ontotechnology #technobabble #writing

And yet I still tell people, "She's really very sweet."

Of course, I have to because she's snarling at them like a 20 lb maniac.

When all the while, what would secretly make her happiest would be to have people, anybody, rub her belly.

There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

#dogs #balltap #snarling #fearofintimacy #metaphor

Jonathan Swift offers several witty definitions of wisdom.
#Literature #metaphor #TeamEnglish #engchat