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WordPress PlanetA Protective Instinct–I always wanted to be protected
In my previous post, On Becoming a Liberal, I wrote about the idea of a “bleeding heart liberal.” I ended by saying that I am and was motivated by a passionate desire t protect and to be protected. I can remember this desire developing in childhood. I was very shy throughout child-hood, and into early adulthood. I was very small always and as a younger child, that really brought out that sense of vulnerability and fear of being hurt. It wasn’t just that, though… There were numerous areas of my life where I felt the desire to be protected. My maternal grandparents were very protective and strangely enough, I often found myself embarrassed by that. Not always, though, did I feel embarrassed. Sometimes having them speak up for me was such a wonderful feeling. It made me feel loved and valuable, worthy of protection.
As time went on, over the years, I became increasingly sensitive to the needs of others and their vulnerability to harm, or other forms of vulnerability. Especially, later in life, when I wasn’t the one who was vulnerable any longer, I acted at times, as I would want someone to act on my behalf, or as I would have wanted someone to act if they thought I was being hurt. The idea of one person intimidating another person was not something I could stand or accept. I had to act. I would start confronting a parent for striking, or spanking, their much more vulnerable child. It was what I truly desired that someone would have done for me. Isn’t that how we are supposed to act? Do onto others as you’d have them do onto you. And the corollary to that for me was do for others what you would have wanted someone to do for me, if I was in that situation.
The desire for power was never something I had ever wanted. I never felt the desire to have power over another person (other than in a very rare instance where a person means to harm me, which can be avoided by avoiding bad parts of town late at night).
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Wilmington Poetry Reading: Featuring Ana Ribeiro, followed by Bruce Whealton
This is exciting news. Well, part of this announcement isn’t so exciting – the fact that this is a farewell performance by Ana. Port City Poet (Wilmington, NC) Ana Ribeiro is doing her farewell performance at the Bottega in Wilmington, NC. Ana has been running the Port City Poet’s Blog for some time now, and she is leaving for a scholarship, overseas. You can read more about this event on Ana’s blog here: http://poets.blogs.starnewsonline.com/11634/my-farewell-performances-this-week/… It’s always exciting to witness a good poet sharing her original poetry. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to make it with various possible job conflicts but as it turned out, I am able to come. So, Ana, being the nice person that she is, suggested that I read with her that night, as co-featured poet, as it were. So, indeed that is the plan. Ana will read from 9:05-9:25pm, with a short break and then I, Bruce Whealton, will read from 9:35 – 9:55pm. It’s always exciting for me to get down there and be part of the poetry scene. It is where I started as a poet and nurtured my poetry, or nurtured my inner poet, as it were (I think I’ve used that phrase, as it were, to many times in one paragraph 
).
The above event is a feature of Jean Jones Presents, an offering on the second Thursday of each month. There will be a poetry workshop as well. Further details are at the link above.
Ana will host another poetry reading at the Brown Coat in Wilmington as well.
Maybe some of my readers are in the Wilmington, NC area… if not, I’ll have to share videos when they become available online.
Should be fun!
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New poem by Bruce Whealton
I’m not sure about the title for this one. I was reading this book called “TranceFormations” about the Hypnotic Patterning of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, produced by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, modeled after the skilled Milton Erickson – father of modern clinical hypnosis. They spoke of hypnotic patterning. This is about love and connection, also. Maybe the title should be “Hypnotic Realities,” instead.
Captivated
You are the river
that flows through me
like relaxation…
the place I go
for comfort…
the dream that inspires me
and reminds me
of those things I had forgotten
and everything
I see
hear
and feel
is some part
of you.
To be in your presence
is to be
in trance.
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Watching You – poem by Bruce Whealton
Watching you…
I look at you
and record image
after image
etched in my memory -
hundreds of stop-action
still-frame images -
so many aspects
of you…
so many expressions…
So much of me
bears your name
and image -
looking at me
is to see
what you do to me.
If you could look
into my mind
you’d find yourself
reflected.
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Four of my poems now in "The Horror Zine" online
I just discovered that four of my poems are in “The Horror Zine,” and which can be read at this link here. The poems are “Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent,” “Becoming,” “Shelter,” and “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.” You can find the poems “Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent,” “Becoming,” and “Shelter,” also here in the collection, “Puncture Wounds” – a collection of poems about vampires and vampirism, by myself, Bruce Whealton and Scott Urban – available here. Some of these poems also appear in “Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine: Volume 2″ as well as “And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine,” both available on amazon.com starting here.
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My poem "An Infinite Beach" appears in Wild Goose Poetry Review
My poem “An Infinite Beach” appears in the zine, Wild Goose Poetry Review, the spring 2010 issue, which is here: http://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/an-infinite-beach/
At the request of the editor, Scott Owens, I submitted a commentary. I think that is a unique idea to publish author commentaries with the poems, and a unique request – I mean I don’t usually get asked for a commentary when I am published.
I included this commentary on the poem: “I wrote this poem thinking about the things that really matter and that endure. A sense of the infinite, or of joy and love is sometimes noticed in certain moments that stand out in your mind… those moments when you stop, forget about everything else and realize that this, right now, is all that matters, all that will endure. Often we get so distracted and driven by various impulses. So, I thought of a time when that was different for me. I wrote about love. The beach is also very inspirational for me, when I want to write.”
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Synchronicity – Poem by Bruce Whealton
Synchronicity
Like magic
a virtual world
of our creation
comes into being,
shared,
experienced
as only two like us
could imagine,
privately.
Your eyes
looking into mine…
you smile
and instantly
I feel it.
When we touch
we will enter into
touch completely…
I’ll come to you
shaking
craving the intoxication
of your lips
and then
calmed by the
synchronicity
of our naked touch
and of movement.
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Another poem of mine was in "The Houston Literary Review."
I am happy to add one more credit to my publication history. The Houston Literary Review, published my poem, “I Wrote a Love Poem, Once,” in their April 2010 issue. The April edition of The Houston Literary Review is here: http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/Documents/april_2010_content.htm or the direct link to the poetry section is here: http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/Documents/april_2010_poetry.pdf
I appreciate the recognition.
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Wild Goose Poetry Review just published a poem of mine
I am pleased to share the news that Wild Goose Poetry Review just published my poem entitled “An Infinite Beach” in their May/Spring edition here. Scott Owens is the publisher of this online zine. We have published Scott on Word Salad Poetry Magazine. The poem appears on the site here: http://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/an-infinite-beach/
Thanks,
Scott
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