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Respect Is Not A Commandment!

Submitted by Kailashana2 on Wed, 2011-07-13 12:36

THOUGHT: How do you command the respect of others? You don't. Can one engage in self-respect? What does that look like, what does that feel like? Can we ever know that which does not change with experiences?

Yes.

Love transcends all things, all people, all circumstances and all experiences. Love includes and transcends all gods and devils of our own choosing or our making. Love is reborn in and as every moment that is life. There is nothing else, not really.

When did you think otherwise? Who are you to think otherwise?

Anna Ruiz/Kailashana

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magics02

Wed, 2011-07-13 15:13

Respect may not be one of the commandments but it is sure could be so nice when people treat each other with it. You have to give it to receive it also in some folks, not always in all folks.

Bow Bella
Mona

Love transcends all things, all people, all circumstances and all experiences

INDEED TRUE

Kailashana2

Wed, 2011-07-13 16:59

It's too late for Kal now, as he's forever banned....however, if anyone exemplifies respect, it's you Mona...you who have seen fit to cut through all your burdens.... all these evidences of *disrespect* from me, Kal, Weirdelf, Jonathan.....By this you have shown utter respect for yourself and the others mentioned.

Respect in an on-line poetry workshop, after all, is very very easy to give and to have. All one has to do is not be disrespectful....it is a two-way street. Why would anyone intentionally hurt you? No one would. And that's the lesson many of us have learned, and many haven't. Especially those of us who are filled with complaints and seek to banish another for *seeming* disrespect.

What if Kal were here only to show us who the weakest link is? And if I may offer a clue: it never was Kal, no matter who thinks otherwise.

~Anna

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magics02

Wed, 2011-07-13 22:10

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE FOR KAL.. sorry I was shouting that:) Kal will go on and write and write and nothing will stop him...che bella

loved

Wed, 2011-07-13 21:08

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magics02

Fri, 2011-07-15 01:53

I hear you Anna. Had I known I would ever feel this way about it all, I would not of learned a damn thing. I am over it myself as I have always tried to( fit in the crowd) as they say, but spirits told me no I shall walk alone as we all come into this world as one and go out as one.

And yes:

I was angry
I was hurt
I was hell bent out of shape

Why and what the hell was I bent out of shape from?
A keyboard and a screen?
Was I bent out for my own insecurities at the time? What the hell was I bent out about?
See I have already dismissed it in my thoughts..fading..away..

After much soul searching within me I came out of it all. Thank goodness for the release is like no other, better than any coffee or bottle of beer.

Forgiveness is like gold. Better than that, for me.

I cared no more of the sleuth and the stress. I probably contributed alot of it my own self at times, as I finally came to realize a lot more about me. I was harming my muse for a long while.

I confronted my accuser and we dealt with it, just like two grown humans should be able to. But no, someone always has to raise the highest hand and shout I won, I won, and I won!!

No one wins.
Here or anywhere.

I did go to my porch. I cried afterwards for what Theo and I had to say to each other was of a kindred spirit, not of an evil spirit. And then there was forgiveness and there was understanding of another human being. I cried.

There was a lesson in this site in what Theo taught me.

He will always be my Rex Mundo. What he implanted in me was like that of a brother and what a brother would do for his sister.

Now that I knew why he did what he did, I understood him totally. I thanked him for it immensely. As I sit here and type this my heart actually hurts and I wish I could reach out to him and tell him Theo my brother, I will always be here for you. I can not express these feelings inside as I write this, but they are there as they were a couple of months ago. I felt this man's soul in my heart and it was and still is strong. Someone made a comment to me that I had found my soul mate in him. Yes you were right not the soul mate as in a lover but in a friend and one I felt trustworthy and of closeness.

This is deep and I know alot of you will not understand it but it is of my truth and my heart.

He will always be my soul friend indeed.

I want to end this write now.

Have we blocked a voice
silenced a poet
for whatever reason or reasons
we shall never be silenced
for we are all writers of the soul
and of the mind.
none the less
none the more

What did he do in here that no one else ever did? No one should be banned from any site unless they are threatening to kill someone and only then if it is taken so seriously the law gets involved. Not the owners of the site, not the AEC, but the LAW.

Plain and simple. Have we taken someone's comment or critique and blown it out of proportion in here? Have we made a mountain over a small ant pile?

If you want to bring on a lawsuit against a poet for their words then go for it. This site is a bit overstressed with the mundane of personality indifferences. I am not saying that to be disrespectful or cruel. It is just how I feel and I have thought. When I started putting away that personality difference is when I became one with a poet.

(Anna here is a good title for you One As A Poet:) I like that and I would like to see you do a script on that one.

If I could get up a petition to have Theo reinstated here I would. You know why I would?

For he is a writer.
For he is a poet.
For he is a teacher.
For he is a man with a kindred spirit

Whether anyone wants to agree with me or believe me is not my intent here at all.

For Theo is a Man with a great heart and soul.

Are any of of us any different than He?

No we are not.

We say shit, we get mad, we fuss and carry on, but the real thing is we are real people living in a real world, living in our own skin and not in others. Why must we always judge others? Why must we always throw stones when we are carrying our own?

Whatever he did, I am not privy to it and do not want to know of it, for it will not change my way. A lot of you are probably saying what the hell got into Magics? Well here I will answer that for you and him

Theo Kali is not deserving of a departure of his words, his poems and his pen and mind.

Theo if your out there, look up to the galaxy and I will be sending you a kiss and a hug from my porch.

Anna I do not know of the tears that are falling now as I have written this. For I do know this I shall go to my porch, look to the sky and the stars and pray for my friend on the other side of the world that he is safe, he is loved and he is comforted at this time. I send this wish to him on a breathe this still and muggy nite in Florida.

I will not apologize this time for being so long for I needed to say this and I needed Theo to know that I care about him.

Love to you and Barry Anna
xoxoxo

out to porch

mms 7.13.11
edited for errors

not done yet
7.14.11

scribbler

Thu, 2011-07-14 17:22

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Respect can only be given in hope that it is returned................stan

magics02

Thu, 2011-07-14 20:52

Should always be a given, regardless if you get it in return. We should not judge others regardless.

It works both ways Stan.

Kailashana2

Thu, 2011-07-14 17:48

Hope. There's that word again...as long as there's hope..... and when someone is banished from your kingdom, my lord, where is the hope? Not even for a Prodigal son or daughter's return, but then I'm not religious at all. I don't believe in Gods and Devils and Heavens and Hell except what we co-create within this Garden of Eden that is still *here*, except that we're banishing ourselves and one another. A slight variation on that theme.

And our love of oil is killing one another, the atmosphere, the rivers, lakes and oceans, the flora and fauna are vanishing 200 species daily. Now that's something we should all be concerned about.

My mom used to say where there's life there's hope.

~A

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scribbler

Thu, 2011-07-14 22:06

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It is Not my kingdom and the only person banned from it did so himself. I agree that we need to wean ourselves from oil, but that will take some time. And mankind is not responsible for all extinctions you know. Case in point :California condor. As near as can be determined the slow decline in their numbers is result of disappearance of ice age mega fauna more than anything else. I fear there may come the day when the wild places will exist in memory only, but I do what little I can to preserve such places when I can.................stan

magics02

Fri, 2011-07-15 01:35

Last night or should I say early in the wee hours of morning I looked up to the moon and noticed how dirty it was, the craters are getting darker and darker on it. Through the trees its' shine beckoned down on me like a mirror and there was that one bright star I could see as I followed the white trail of clouds slowly drifted across it.

Here is where my soul met the spirit once again in my solitude I whispered a name.

Ciao bella
Mona
xox

Geremia

Fri, 2011-07-15 00:37

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Respect is a societal covenant born from the necessity to stop us from beating the living shit out of one another.
Not to be disrespectful, we need to let sleeping dogs who bite lie their own shit,

Love as always to you, my Anna,

Joe

"Non amo te, Sabidi, necque quare tibi dicere possum. Non amo te." [I don't like you,, Sabidius, nor can I say why. I just don't like you: eprigram from the Roman poet Catullus]

magics02

Fri, 2011-07-15 10:02

To that Ian.

Mona

Kailashana2

Fri, 2011-07-15 06:53

We all have a kingdom that is called *Self*.... we make our own rules and sometimes they are exactly the same as others, and sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they're in between.

And for God's sake, for once in our lives, let us please get out of our own mindset and see something from another viewpoint: IT'S NOT ABOUT THEO, IT'S ABOUT WHO WE THINK WE ARE, OUR PRECIOUS SENSITIVITIES AND OUR OWN * DO NOT CROSS THIS LINE*.....

_________________________________________________________________________

Neopoet is a writer's group, a POETRY group, but CENSORSHIP? No matter how we try to pretend it isn't... WE HAVE CENSORED THEO. For this we should be ashamed, not proud that we have *SAVED* ourselves from further indignities.... Again what has been done in the name of NEOPOET as a group is far worse than anything Theo has done individually.

Someday we just might see that.

~A
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magics02

Fri, 2011-07-15 10:02

To that Anna

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