https://hokusgrey.com/2019/12/21/4263/ This is a piece about war. How war is always with us. Violence is a close kin to us. Every one of us seeths with it, just under the skin, but afraid to let it out. Warriors are those who learn how and when to apply violence. War is their tattoo, their identity, … Continue reading ReBlog Wednesday – 11.16.22
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This is the home of Hokus Grey - Living Poetry, the window into my thoughts, my heart and my soul. This blog is a vehicle for sharing the world, as experienced through the filter of my life, my love, my experiences.
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Mental Health Monday – 11.14.22
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Purpose. What can it do for us? Indulge me in a little thought experiment. Think back to the time you remember feeling the most excited you have ever been in your entire life. Being a kid on Christmas Eve. The night before your wedding. Anticipating the birth of a child. The night before starting … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 11.14.22
Warning to a Wildman
Get out of here. You, a wild thing, not bred for the civil lands. Callous in pleasant company. You seek the wind for your sole guidance. Decrying the wisdom of men, ridiculing their refinements, and eschewing their institutions. You, of muddy birth and sundry education, but eyes that gleam like ice, or fire, depending … Continue reading Warning to a Wildman
Absinthe Dark
Figure in the absinthe dark. Green light exuding form some unknown source. You, in your underwear, hair tied back, skin shining with sweat. A quick glace over your shoulder, as you step into the bathroom. I realize that I am still dreaming. Or am I? I feel like I am in my own skin. … Continue reading Absinthe Dark
Ego for an Avatar
Past aside. Vernal procession still a horizon away. Mouth full of questions where used to be curses like shattered glass. Polarity opposing. Pupils dilated to let in this black and purple sky. Firmament covered in bruises, inflicting the desire to trade an ego for an avatar. Hands reach up to feel facial features worn … Continue reading Ego for an Avatar
High Wire
High wire. Up above the heads of circus-kind. Acrobats and flying trapeze, life on the line. The feeling of falling is replaced by the thrill of flight. Up on the high wire, one line left of life. Posture straight and eyes ahead. All eyes on life and death. Balance wavers as the mind wanders. … Continue reading High Wire
Pinned Down
There are no old times only a slow ride down to the end of the road. Way past my home time I’m getting told I’m too young in mind and my body’s too old. They say “Stop dreaming” like I haven’t been hearing those words in my ears my whole life. All that I’m … Continue reading Pinned Down
These Hands
Words are only words. I need to reach out with my hands and tell you, show you what I mean. After all, aren’t we engaged in more than just communication? Building reality occasionally means you must pick up a hammer and nails. The pen can write a song, can inspire the heart of nations, … Continue reading These Hands
Wild
This place is not real, but what it does to us leaves marks, and scars, and changes us in ways we cannot see. A lion in captivity is not a lion, at least not like any lion on the African plain. We’ve become surrogate. No longer true to whom, or what we are. But … Continue reading Wild
Straight Flush
Tune out. Placing myself somewhere else. I cannot dwell here, in Hell, Dear. Playing the hand I was dealt. Waited a long time for this world to show its cards. Made a few bad plays. It didn’t have to be this hard. Now, I am stepping out on the game. Take the pot and … Continue reading Straight Flush
Remembrance Day – 2022
Remember them.Their service and their sacrifice. Not heroes of myth, but brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. Fathers, grandfathers, and stretching back across the aeons of time - protectors. Remember them.Let us not seek the pleasure of wanton peace without knowing it is upon their lives we tread. Remember that tomorrow is not assured and that … Continue reading Remembrance Day – 2022
Living Poetry – Reading “Children of The New Unknown”
I have decided to make a few videos with readings from my new collection, "Children of The New Unknown". Made sense to start with the title piece. Come see. https://youtu.be/4bSjqvf40c8
ReBlog Wednesday – “Uranium”
We change. What we were is subsumed by our present being and the thing we are is not the thing we will become. We are transitory creatures, evolving, dying, and being born again, day after day throughout our lives. We can grow to become strong and benevolent, or we can wither and writhe under the … Continue reading ReBlog Wednesday – “Uranium”
Mental Health Monday – 11.07.22
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness The Quick Fix We all want it. That magic elixir that will undo the years of trauma, abuse, and neglect. The Happy Pill. The Miracle Weight Loss Drug. The Cure For Everything. Hair Club For Men. Some things we can fix, and some things we just have to deal with. The fact is, we … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 11.07.22
Interference World
It becomes hard to hear yourself above the constant hum. Brain wavelengths, static of a distant drum beathing an infectious tune into the spaces where we used to commune with the natural. An interference world becomes a barrier to our calling. Just video of trees, muted to ignore the falling. Step onto the ground … Continue reading Interference World
Inextricable You
Inextricable you, me, and everything. Not much separation even now. How hard is it going to be when it’s time to part? Or will we slide out easily? So homogenous, that when someone disappears another takes their place and we don’t even notice. Just another one of us, faceless and indistinguishable. Cursed in the … Continue reading Inextricable You
The Neighbors
The walls are wearing thin. I can hear the neighbors. Listen to them talk, and fight, and fuck. Every word. Verbatim. Used to be so quiet here. No one around except us and our dreams and petty problems. Seems like the world showed up and moved in next door. I’d call the landlord and … Continue reading The Neighbors
This War
Both sides in this war have angels. Both sides in this war have kings. Both sides in this war have heroes. Both sides will say anything. To break their foe and watch them suffer. Victory at any cost. No thought to what happens after, or how many lives are lost. Both sides in … Continue reading This War
One More Day
Give every word, not holding back one little thing. Give every breath, not seeking to conserve. Spend every effort, not even looking for a pause. Just want to make this dream come true. They gave us sawdust and called it “Wood.” They gave us stardust and called it “God.” They gave us ashes and … Continue reading One More Day
Bound in Binary
“Would you change for me?” “No.” “Would you change for you?” “No.” Have I really changed for you in any way that I didn’t want to? I don’t understand you. I don’t understand us. I don’t even understand myself, but I’ll be sure to ascribe some higher moral motivation to my rationale and my … Continue reading Bound in Binary