by Bela Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | family, nature, poetry, self awareness, Uncategorized
The past cannot be changed and so be it. Memories are tricky, colored through the lens of a woman decades removed from the frightened confused child that once inhabited her flesh. Reflection proves hindrance to repeating history indelibly seared into grooves of a...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 18, 2014 | musings, personal, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
Can only be discovered in stillness. Stopping all motion to bathe in silence, I discover no words, save those emanating from my own unique perspective. I am but a constellation of experience as seen through the kaleidoscope of the mind, which I subsequently and...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 11, 2014 | compassion, inspiration, personal, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
The spiritual center of the universe abides within me, first person witness to miracles amidst the mundane. Whose legs better equipped to walk the talk synaptically steered from head to lips? Only I possess power to halt trains of thought before, derailed, they...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 22, 2014 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, poetry
The flock descends, the tides draw out; and day is done. Streaks of salmon and lavender skitter across indigo skies, as the moon waxes bright and full. This is how we are drawn from sleep, believing bodies need relieving, When instead it’s our spirits crying out for...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 21, 2014 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, poetry, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Suddenly vibrancy flashes a face, ducking low and into a forest of ferns so high they dwarf humans. Anciently inspiring ecosystem grants us life through our very pores and we don’t even know it; do not think in terms of consequences as men on machines clear to...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 7, 2014 | lifestyle, nature, peace, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
There is quiet in the spaces between a living world formulated in fractals, lurking narrowly beyond human perception on the fringes of the monkey mind. Society screams for attention, babies howl fitfully while words swirl around in grownup heads without prejudice;...