Category Archives: Cognition

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Your brain as a receiver could dispensewith several filters, now you’re fully grown.Perhaps the interventions make you tense,and though noetics aren’t nearly known,a subtle alteration makes some sense –a renovation deep within the bonemay modify your pathways and give pauseto … Continue reading

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Separations

Are we at heart our personalities?Do feelings need from me? Synapses reel…Considering dementia’s mysteries,I wonder what remains when neurons sealthe memory, or how some therapiessequester our emotions and appealto us to give them what we think they ask.Can I, bifurcated, … Continue reading

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Shortfalls

Attentive as I aim the camera lens,I cannot capture vision perfectly.And though I stretch for fitting words with pensor keys, I lack the broad capacityto cast in ink perceived realityas it deserves. And when I inward turnand plumb for careful … Continue reading

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Finishing Work

Accustomed to a long-term discipline,achieving what was chosen as a goal,is yes, success, and certainly a win,but leaves me feeling like it punched a holein me, that now requires self-controlto thrive without, without discarding yield.I want to keep the treasure … Continue reading

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Who’s Judging Me?

Who’s judging me? I never overhearanalysis with which I might agreeor argue, though I’ve many voices near.Who’s judging me? I’m hardly inconspicuous or wee,and modulation’s seldom in my sphere.Abhorring murk I trumpet honesty too often and too loud, I’ve come … Continue reading

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I cannot act unless I’m playing me,but I’ve a friend whose ego is so fair,she always tries to understand what weor you are likely to be feeling. Thereis yet a third who forms our company,but doesn’t give emotion any air.We … Continue reading

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Outstanding

“Another parking ticket?” (her dismayhalf-joking as she spotted 2 stores backthe Pay Station ignored when on her wayto lunch). She had collected quite a stackbut paid them all, I thought, before her datewith DMV (last week, at 10 past 2).“I’ll … Continue reading

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Temporary Immunity

Some friends complain of brain fog now and then.I must admit I don’t know what they mean.My only reference to that state was whenI long ago gave up the nicotine(the feeling: dull but brief and in between –a hard-to-focus view … Continue reading

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Emerging Plan

It isn’t that I’m foggy when I rise,but something shifts as I get vertical.In 40 minutes I will organizeintention; then small aims exert their pull.From out of lax I start to realizea walk to lunch will suit me to the … Continue reading

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Who, Me?

Three people whom I love but criticize,have lately seemed improved. I’ve been impressedwith elder patience, peerage in my eyesless testy, and the younger one unstressedby daily perturbation. Is it true?Have three of three self-modified somehow?Or is this a mirage in … Continue reading

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