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This is a transcript of the the podcast post of the same name. You can listen to the post (and others) on your preferred podcast platform (hopefully). You can find a complete list on my Link Tree:
Good evening. I'm Lune and I like to tell stories.
If this is your first taste, welcome! Despite this being my last post, I named it carefully. This story is not meant to be linear, though I do explain the source of this project in Chapter One. Regardless, you're welcome to choose your own adventure. If you've been on this journey the whole way, thank you. I only hope you felt something.
Book One ends with ten chapters. I'd hoped to drop Chapter Eleven in this group. I was waiting on an OK from someone else before proceeding. Alas, I didn't hear back in time. Hopefully, in the future.
Book Two is slated for early 2026. I'm targeting late January, early February. I have a short story planned. We'll see what the holidays have in store for us all.
Book Three is… a possibility. I'm currently using a free SoundCloud account, which has a two hour max upload limit. I initially thought Book One would take up more time. It's possible I'll have a few minutes left over at the end of Book Two. If that's the case, I'll fill the remaining space with Book Three.
I've got a few more tales to tell before I go. These are a collection of haiku.
Laughter has been the
Only remedy through the
Pandemic darkness
An offer of help
If not truly helpful, then
It may be a harm
Malingering thoughts
That ripple through my mind's eye
Distort the image
Curiosity
Saved my imagination
Yet I lost my soul
Thousands of pixels
Fighting for our attention
Dull concentration
Embrace paradox
Contradiction is a path
To discovery
Impermanence is
The universal order
Embrace letting go
Spiderweb tendrils
Bind us together as one
Interconnected
When the mind steadies
Fear subsides into white noise
Clarity awaits / awakes
Sympathy to feel
Empathy to understand
Compassion to change
When we think we know
We stop searching for the truth
Even if we don't
Growth is sought within
Grey areas where hues shift
Perspectives can change
Peace found in stillness
Is embattled in motion
Find peace in motion
Life's rituals form
Deep grooves in the soul as guide
To lead us when lost
When seeking respite
A few breaths go a long way
To soothe life's chaos
Ask not what you see
Reframe to ask what you seek
And what this changes
What I did not fix
By screaming remains un-fixed
By weeping… and yet
When society
Confuses violence and love
Empathy erodes
-OR-
When society
Confuses violence and love
Our children suffer
Meandering needs
Are only as useless as
What we make of them
Myths are mysteries
We don't want real answers for
So we make shit up
Anarchy is not
A love of chaos it is
Acceptance of it
Numbers do not lie
People twist numbers with words
To lie to people
Equilibrium
Is hard to spell and even
Harder to achieve
One final haiku
To commemorate this time
Of new clarity
This collection comes from a full-life reset I went through from March to June of 2022. Like most of the world, I spent a big chunk of 2021 stressing and spinning my wheels. A couple of the poems in this collection reflect these experiences. In early 2022 was pulling myself out of bad place. I needed to put creativity (which I was also struggling with) on the back burner without reprimanding myself for not working on the ALL THE THINGS I have on my creative to-do list.
Conversely, creativity is a deeply cathartic and affirming process. Poetry, especially so. Not knowing how long this process would take, I gave myself the simple task of writing one haiku a day. Some days, I didn't write any. Most days, I wrote more than one. These were my favorites.
Before I go, my first (slash) last spot of housekeeping:
As of the end of Book One you can find this podcast on all of the following platforms: Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Castbox, Deezer, Listen Notes, iHeart Radio, Pandora, Pocket Cast, SoundCloud, Spotify, and TuneIn.
For text transcripts, you can visit my mailing list site, hosted by BeeHiiv. The transcripts are all free to view. You can also sign up for my mailing list to find out when Book Two comes out. Links in the outro.
Those are all the tales I have to tell today.
I still don't have any socials, but if or when I do they'll be on: linktree (dot) com (slash) thoseindarkness. All one word. There you can find: my email address, both mailing list and text transcripts on BeeHiiv, as well as (hopefully) your preferred podcast platforms.
Thank you for listening. I hope you felt something.
I'm Lune and I wish you CHAOS!