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Poetry by Sean O'Connor

By: Sean O'Connor
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  • From Sean O'Connor's poetry collection: *Contemplations, Visualizations, and Affirmations*
    Copyright Sean O'Connor
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  • THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL LOVE- A love poem for myself...and for Teal Swan

    THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL LOVE- A love poem for myself...and for Teal Swan
    Apr 13 2022
    Thursday, March 17th- Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL LOVE— A poem for myself and for Teal Swan Note: All I have to say about my dedicating this poem to myself is that it is best explained within the poem itself. As for why I dedicate it to Teal Swan, this, I feel, deserves a more prosaic explanation since I want to express with a bit more elaborateness and fullness (as opposed to the more mystical nature of poetry); i.e., I believe embedding a piece of prose into a poem, especially as an introductory/headnote, or endnotes, et cetera, necessarily adds an extra dimension and thus fuller sense of meaning and meaningfulness. I won’t however call this an all out prosimetrum (only a prosimetric poem) because the prose exists for the purpose of the poem. It’s not a consciously and intentionally symbiotic relationship, so to speak. My models for this particular prosimetric style/device are Percy Shelley, Alexander Pope, and Daniel Dafoe, who wrote significantly meaningful notes to their poems. There’s also a touch of influence from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote epigraphs to many of his essays in verse poetry. This poem is for Teal Swan because she’s its most profound and direct source of inspiration. In 2015, Teal Swan published a book titled Shadows Before Dawn . The book explores both her personal story from self-hatred to self-love (as the context of her struggle is rather complex and includes saving herself from nearly 15 years of exceptionally cruel sexual abuse and in the even more complex context of being an exceptionally sensitive human, on my part, this is a rather overly abstract over-simplification and understatement…) and a set of techniques she suggests that may help one initiate or improve one’s self love. Had her book lacked a connection between the law of attraction and self love, I may not have read it, or not so closely as to end up writing a poem directly inspired by it. But I’ve been studying and researching the relationship between that which exists within consciousness and that which we can perceive since I was 21, when I first realized there is a sense, even if only illusory (though still necessary), of free will, and began exploring the relationship between what I wrote from consciousness and imagination and what I experienced more perceptively in life.
 Like many people in or around 2006, when The Secret was published as a book, and produced as a movie, some interdisciplinary academic theories regarding the so called “law of attraction” played an influential role in exploring what the sense of free will within our minds might possibly achieve in our lives. Now, some 15 years later, having explored all the various perspectives on the law of attraction, from the religious (a la the implications of the Christian notion of prayer, for example; another example of a somewhat religious thinker is the very yogic Sadhguru, though, he certainly pays his respects to science) to the scientific (see Dr. Joe Dispenza, who it would seem, is among the top leaders in empirical research on the relationship between consciousness and perception, and the role thoughts and feelings play; see also Dr. Tara Swart, whose work also explores the rote science of the law of attraction; finally, I would also suggest googling the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Gateway Document” which attempted to explore the relationship between quantum physics and consciousness and how consciousness could be both altered, leave the body and travel to different dimensions of the universe, and even redesign aspects of physical reality) to the more speculative. The speculative attempts to grasp new insights re: the law of attraction are the hardest to contemplate for me since they’re not based on peer-reviewed academic studies on, say, the pineal gland, like Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work, and thus, you are taking someone’s “word for it” in terms of what they believe they can...
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    37 mins
  • Hawaii

    Hawaii
    Apr 6 2022
    1 Hawaii Its sunny Starry Cosmically shining Light wave vibes Divinely Guiding me From out of The quantum field To reveal The keys To my poetry’s Rise From Obscurity And a slow Low tide Just waiting and waiting to change To high Yes these vibes Always Surprising me Like those nights when Aphrodite And I Made believe We could see The archipelago All the way from Malibu Beach That we could see The Islands Beautifully And meditatively Sun bathing And smiling Upon the horizon 2 Optimistic And “happy-go-lucky” Much more often than not With little to no Anxiety Most Of the time Training Our minds To focus mostly On desire vision goals (As much as possible) And affirmations And the facts That are necessary to know In order to change the facts “I always feel it’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to break them,” as T.S. Eliot said in an interview* Preserving, adding to, sharing, and contemplating Great mind maps of wisdom “Making our dreams come true” Dreams based on Pursuits of love and happiness Led us to Financial independence We finally did it! And now We’re philanthropists Angel Investors Thanks to you My most special and gracious Angel investor And so, Our new home Here in Hawaii This house With our closest, most intimate of polyamorous lovers and friends Experts in compersion On the top of this mountain Views of the profound Pacific ocean below Just as we discussed My gift To you Expressing My immense gratitude This “sweet Deja Vu” In the words of Robin Gibb* 3 Bliss French kisses Chills Of pleasure Together Fulfilling Countless Wishes Tropical Palm tree Wind Friendships Music Jewelry New Age Cool Enlightenments Excitement Serenity Tranquility Le bonheur de vivre by Henri Matisse “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo by Mark Knopfler Awesome stars Celebrating The night Feeling, over all, Ethically/ Morally Right Amazing Conversations Making love Rainbows Healthy emotions Openness Personal growth Sailing on our yacht Concocting “mystical experiences” (As Joe Dispenza might call them) Under Waterfalls Video blogging About the philosophy And art Of this avant garde “life style” Of ours Notes *T S Eliot quote from the article “T.S. Eliot, The Art of Poetry №1,” interviewed by Donald Hall in issue 21, Spring-Summer 1959; https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4738/the-art-of-poetry-no-1-t-s-eliot * “Embrace,” written and performed by Robin Gibb from the Bee Gees album This is Where I Came In”; released on April 24th, 2001 Released by Universal Music
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    6 mins
  • Sex Adorning Our Mental Bandwidths

    Sex Adorning Our Mental Bandwidths
    Apr 6 2022
    The eloquent Erotic Explicitness Of Sharing Intimacy Expressions The contents The polyamorous Context The horizons Depths Beauty Of the lingering mysteries And thus No matter how explicit, vivid, Thorough, elaborate, et cetera, Its mystical nature/essence Is invincible and thus Infinite Eternal Within imagination As depicted So eloquently In Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” So deep, intense And heavily contemplated Desires — Part tantric, Part bursts — Synchronizing Manifestations And openness Committing Time Consideration Compassion Careful handling “Caution: Contents Hot” High wattage Sailing upon and with soothing confidence Courtesy of ever-improving Strengthening Intentions Attracting Relaxing Loving Optimism Exoticism Sobriety Priorities Together Pleasuring Intellectually Sensuality Sexuality Spirituality A little sentimentality Happily Doing one of Joe Dispenza’s guided meditations Appreciating Stimulating Seductiveness Constructiveness Harmonizing And rhyming Feelings Flying Taking our precious time Healthy in lust and love Touching Cocks and cunts Performing stunts Treasure hunts Beach front mountain summit Romantic fucking Cumming Your Wonderful Tongue My love Conducting Trust And my tongue Strumming Sucking on each other’s toes and fingers Some whipped cream is a little fun Heavy breathing humming moaning screams Reenacting our sexiest, dirtiest dreams Some sadomasochism for a little bit of pleasurable hurt Taking turns in blindfolds and handcuffs We’re becoming one with the universe Celebrating Exhilarating Inspiration Beautiful sunrises and sunsets Sunny bright blue sky days and star studded nights If/When storms pass by we keep each other safe We make each other’s hearts race Throughout the day Morning noon night Horny in-tune exciting delights Peace Easing Emotional sensitivities Trading soliloquies Watching studying making porn Massages we’re each other’s playthings adorning Our mental bandwidths Consciences Inspiring Waves of spiritual uprisings Redefining justice And applying new principles The democratization Of access To safe neighborhoods High wages Incredible healthcare (physical and mental private and public keeping both sectors’ standards subjected to challenges and questions) The democratization of access to Education (and let me say it again: private and public keeping both sectors’ standards subjected to challenges and questions) The democratization Of access to Time for vacations and staycations Adorning Our mental bandwidths Consciences Inspiring Waves of spiritual uprisings Imagination Philanthropy Sanity Cosmopolitan culture Polyamory instead of adultery Some sentimentality Manifests and heightens transcendentality Individuality/personality Universality Evolution Et cetera And In general A good life A virtuous life A happy life A swaggy life A long life For all living things No never Utopia But ever closer This Is The sacredness Of spiritual Erotic Sex At its best Checking in with and blessing Our souls
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    7 mins
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