Distractions from Source

What I really appreciate about your work is that you give an explanation at the end. I'm someone who's very fond of poetry that I can understand thoroughly--even better if it makes me feel something--and for you to help me, a reader and therapist, know that this is about depression, helps me feel the impact that much more when I re-read it. And as a therapist; I still do trust in a Universe--because keeping an eye out and making clear to the Universe what we want, peels our eyes open for paths that eventually lead to it.

This piece was the perfect balance of grounded and expansive. Nice work!

This was very well written, and I enjoyed it immensely! I suspect it's not that the mind attracts or repels, but rather that it arranges what we perceive to suit our inner emotional state unless we gradually force it, through effort of will, to perceive what is really there, and deal with it in right relation to ourselves. The spiritual layman might best understand this by reference to the line from the Rolling Stones song: you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Again, well-wrought!

Passionately introspective and yet inspiring. Beautifully done!!!

This was really awesome to read. Definitely relate! Good job!

Gorgeous work! It just flows! And I don't know how I've not been subscribed to you - I read your work all the time! But I am now. 😊

I loved this…. a wonderfully descriptive call to for intention, and how the mind can be so easily swayed by its ‘monkey’ nature. It’s rare I read something metaphysical here-I’m glad I found you. I find these themes crop up in my writing a lot, and always enjoy finding other perspectives, too.

I'm a huge fan of manifesting what I want. I do believe the universe wants to give us what we want! Great poem!

Brilliant! The universe definitely does respond to what we ask… which is a hard pill to swallow for anyone born from severe trauma… but somehow, someway, if we keep reaching for love and for better, we can escape ✨

Thank you for sharing this. I think it's less that the universe responds to wants (rather than "don't want") and more that your focus shapes your reality 😁

Amazing, Grz! Don’t know how I missed this one! Such a powerful piece and totally loved this perspective!!! Beautifully executed! 💫💞

What a unique perspective for the Distractions challenge! This is the only one I saw that addresses the power of the mind over matter. Nicely done. 👏🏼

This poem is really great. Just had to read it again. It may seem down, but it actually lifts the spirit in its own weird way. Forward into the fray we go.

My insights are still glitching but I would have checked every one. In reading (now 3 times read and one read aloud to a fried) - this I how feel. ‘Welcome to my mind!’ What an extraordinary talent you have, as demonstrated by this entry into the Dancing with Distraction Challenge. The best entry I have read so far. You deserve a win. Thank you for writing. Pauline 🌸

This is one you can find so many meanings in. Very well done

Oof this one has all the feels. You’ve got such talent!

Great entry. Very well done.

Great Job On This Entry Piece ❤️📝😉🎯❗❗

Profound truth Grz! You touch on the heart of all distraction. Excellent poem 🥰

Excellent work 👏👏👏👏

This is fantastic, Grz! This one packs a real gut punch of emotion! So very well done, my friend!

Oh there was so much to unpack in this one...I loved the afterword you included. Still thinking about this a day after I read it. Wonderful work and of course your use of 'innards' is top notch (haha).

Raw, honest, and powerful. This resonated with me so much. Well done, Grz 🙂

Very profound and raw. Nicely done💙Anneliese

I felt so many emotions while reading this. Wonderfully written.