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Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

–Joe Ancis



Turbulence 1

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,

By reiteration chiefly.

–Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Natural 2

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

–Lillian Hellman



Natural

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

I am not eccentric.  It’s just that I am more alive than most people.  I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

–Dame Edith Sitwell



Sculpting

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

A “normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee.  You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.” 

–Alan Sherman



Jewel in a Basket

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. 

–Rita Mae Brown



Propulsion

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. 

–Doug Floyd



Beams of Light

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading.  Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.  Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.  It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. 

–Christopher Morley



In Flight

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Muse in the Morning

Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.

–Alfred de Musset



Barrista

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An Opened Mind XXXVIII

If you want to look like the people next door, you’re probably smothering yourself and your dreams.

–Clive Barker


Film at 11

Froth

Deep down below

past even the words

are ideas and concepts

normally unthought

except by the weird

unkempt minds

of those who dare

to be different

Whipped creaminess

of dangerous notions,

syllables expressed

too rarely

and more seldom heard,

whizzes by faster

than can normally

be sensed

Grabbing on

to a possibility

I was taken downward

further than

imagination

could conceive

There is truth here

There is more

wherever I look

And who wanted

to be normal

anyway

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–December 28, 2007

Muse in the Morning

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An Opened Mind XXXVII

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. 

–Robert Ingersoll


Doorway

Mort

At some instant

one day

the words will cease to flow

their creator (or vessel)

having passed through

the Door

between herenow

and therethen

The words left behind

the ideas they expressed

the actions they instigated

will be all

that remains

to weigh the meaning

of this particular existence

Regret is extinguished

if the words

have expressed

peacefulness

concern and care

and a life lived well

–Robyn Serven

–September 21, 2007

Muse in the Morning

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An Opened Mind XXXIV

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. 

–Mark Twain


Butterfly

Just Wondering

Just because

I’m gendered differently

than other people,

why must I

surrender my feelings,

check my sensitivity

at the door

like an oversized overcoat,

just so a few

can repeat their

unfunny jokes

and pokes

at people like me,

because after all

there is nothing

funnier in their minds

than someone like me?

Not a real woman…

Not a real man…

What does that

even mean?

And why does

it even matter?

And why do people

just stand around

and silently

watch it happen?

Are they chuckling

to themselves

because they agree?

I wonder.

Beyond toleration

and acceptance

lie support

and defense.

Which will die first,

bigotry

or me?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–November 29, 2005

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