The Canvas Remembers


The Canvas Remembers

The Space Between Moments

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In the quiet between heartbeats,
the Canvas remembers.

It remembers the child who saw visions
before language could hold them.
It remembers the footsteps taken in faith,
placed on ground not yet revealed.

It remembers the shadows we walked through
and the light that waited patiently
on the other side of fear.

Moment to moment,
the brush returns to the page —
sometimes trembling,
sometimes bold,
always honest.

We are the painters
and the painted.
The stroke
and the stillness.
The question
and the unfolding answer.

Every sorrow leaves a color.
Every joy leaves a shimmer.
Every judgment leaves a line
that can be softened
with a single breath.

When we pause,
the Canvas breathes with us.
When we release,
the Canvas opens.
When we see the whole,
the Canvas becomes whole.

And in that wholeness,
we remember:

There is no wasted stroke.
No mistaken hue.
No moment unworthy
of belonging.

Only the infinite returning
to itself —
one brushstroke,
one breath,
one sacred
now.

~Ani Po


Much gratitude for those who take time to read, ponder, and allow the inner workings of self to come forward. Grateful for the feedback, love shared, and, more importantly, the Dance with Inspiration. Deep Peace.

Joseph Lieungh

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Demolition Man

Demolition Man

Remodeling centuries of belief

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Absent is he, since the vast forgetting of all things — drawn first by the siren-song of clicks — light bending off-key in a celestial misstep — an echo spiraling back into the fold, each return triggering the cosmic domino’s fall.

Death to the knowing of all things — forever wandering the void — slipping between the fabric of existence, unrestricted by form. Like the molten pulse of a newborn star untouched by the mechanical drone — dancing the ritual of momentum — chest-thundering like the declaration of primates before dawn.

Bored is the one who loops within time’s worn groove — bound to the reels of repetition — trapped beneath the sediment of old cycles, stacked atop centuries of forgotten movement. Chisel in hand — seeking the cracks where opportunity whispers — prying apart the hardened veil, unveiling the strata where potential stirs.

Steady is the hand — threaded into fear’s spectral hum — drawing breath into the unwritten chronicle — breaking past each epoch of tiled misfortune. Stripped to the foundational essence — the raw architecture of all things — wired into a renewed frequency, rerouted through the luminous synapses of an unchained current.

Absent is he from the trivial game-makers — no longer marching the token down a preordained avenue — dice abandoned, illusions discarded. At the nexus of creation he sits — demolition and genesis intertwined — placing each piece with deliberate grace, assembling a design unseen on the board of unplayed games.

~Ani Po

Much gratitude for those who take time to read, ponder, and allow the inner workings of self to come forward. Grateful for the feedback, love shared, and, more importantly, the Dance with Inspiration. Deep Peace.

Joseph Lieungh

Photo by Javardh on Unsplash