The Ancient Hippie

One senior's travels on the knowledge path to Moksha, using poetry, essays, and stories as a means of transportation.

Saturday, 17 May 2025

Dust

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Childhood dust has gone with only the echo and vague memory of the warm smell and summer sparkle of roadside ditches. The is no dust today ....

Hiatus

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 Hiatus Evolution tsunami crashing through every age. Unfathomable speed broken  by cosmic ripples. A vast endless symphony of joy,  disaste...
Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Dust Motes

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Each alone, needs only to be heard, and not to listen. Each is central to the small, and insignificant, orbit it describes. United is a stat...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

Bubbles

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It doesn’t really matter that we think first of ourselves, and not of others. It doesn’t really change things that life is egocentric, and w...
Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Ethereal Reflections

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Morning mist travelling, tenuously, up the valleys of home. Full moon on the bay, illuminating the Mackerel Islands with silver. Happy beagl...
Sunday, 20 September 2020

Stationary Journeys

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Not necessary, those foreign climes of which we often dream. Not workable our vain imagining of whom we’d like to be. Not logical to say wha...
Monday, 14 September 2020

Fragments from a Fading Dream

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Wispy, and tantalizing glimpses of peace, with an embraced commonality: sharing. Floating, almost unseen, at the edge of reality, a fading s...
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Thursday, 27 August 2020

The Fluttering of Other

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The fluttering of different times whispers softly in my ear, and speaks of ancient sagas in places far and near. The muttering of ancient cr...
Sunday, 23 August 2020

Fragmentation

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        Clouds, soft and fecund, punctuate a sky relentless in the pink promise of evening.         Humidity hangs like a shroud,           ...
Saturday, 22 August 2020

Skirting The Void

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(umm) (umm) Heaviness assails senses. Thought becomes static. Alternatives do not exist. Hiatus becomes eternal. (umm) Gravity envelopes. Se...
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The Ancient Hippie
Retired from 10 years in the Canadian Navy, and 28 years in the Canadian Diplomatic Service, with postings in Beijing, Mexico City, Sri Lanka, Romania, Abu Dhabi, Guyana, Ireland, Trinidad, and, last but not least, India.
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