The Dance of Life and Living

Nude Art - Female Torso Reimagined
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

The fates grant you music from which you choose the dance that will be your life. The music is not our choice - the dance is. You can dance the dances already made and be rewarded for your imitation or you can honour the dances of the past by mixing some of those steps with your own chereography. In this we have a choice.

The Peaceful Wisdom of Nature

Pluck your wisdom and sacred moments from the universal shores of divine blessing.

Judge not the shape of your experience by its pain but instead by its quality and ability to move you and reveal you.

A Prayer for Mankind

And our spirit will arise and fly to the height of the soul,

all within the mind and the consciousness unknown.

Great, wise and bold spirits your lives are now our inspiration.

In silent prayers of meditation and action we acknowledge and celebrate you.

Om...

Angel of Fire and Desire

Art & Photography - Angel of Fire
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

One person's angel is another person's demon. Fire can destroy equally as it creates. It is all that you make it. The spirits are all that we make them out to be.

Be powerful in your conviction.
Be bold in your desire.
Be spectacular in your presence.
Be loving in your choices.
Be simple in your joys.

Brothers in Arms - He Ain't Heavy...

Brothers in Arms - He Ain't Heavy...
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

In destiny's hands their potential is boundless, their hope limitless, their beauty manifest and their fear non-existant.

They are a gift that will ignite and inspire our hopes, expectations, fears and joys.

Such is the destined journey of boys to men.

Men of Might - Father & Son

Men of Might - Father & Son
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

Men of might.
Men with such brilliance, men with such light.
Father and son.
Tree and fruit.
Role and model.
Boy to man.
Hope to dream.

Just As I Am...All By Myself

All that we experience must be filtered through the 'solitary' self.
In this way, self-care takes its authentic place as part of the daily ritual of awakening the self.
The path of our destiny is the path of our soul expressed through daily thought and action.
Resist not the heart.

Om...

Sexy Abstract Yoga Nude
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

The heart and spirit reaches out through the body to the divine in prayer, meditation and worship. Om.....

Before I am, I was.
Before I know, I knew.
Before me, there was I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_(John_Coltrane_album)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieifnB3c2zU

The Tools of Our Labour and Life - "Reading of Creativity"

The Tools of Our Labour and Life - "Reading of Creativity"
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

The possibility and potentiality of all things are, in part, manifest in the actions of the hand. What begins in the spirit and finds its way to the mind, inevitably is given life through the hands.

Originality

"What already was does not need to be again.
It should be remembered as inspiration, motivation and celebration, but never duplicated.


Be genuine, you are already and original".

~ Friday, August 7, 2009 10:41 pm

Mystic(al) Tribal Spirit

Mystic(al) Tribal - Nude Art
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

From the great mystic grew wisdom and sage words of advice:

"move your own energy"
"by any means necessary, be moved"
"i am an accumulation of authentic things"
"I master me with each passing moment and experience"
"dance! dance! dance!"

Lovers In A Dangerous Time...

What I want to know is...

Can you tell me you love me, not with words but with care?

Can you tell me you love me with a spirit divine and rare?

Can you tell me of your joys?
Can you tell me of your pains?
Can you tell me of your longings?
Can you tell me of your strains?

If any of this you cannot say
Lay your head upon my shoulder and tell me in your own way...
Tell me about your love, that of a royal kind
Tell me about our love, with your body, spirit and mind.

This is for the love of you.

Prayer For My Angels...

© Pollard

Angels are not perfect, they are loving.

They work hard for our dreams, our fears and our humanity.

They take the shape of our most brilliant intentions and our most brutal failures.

Angels hold no vision of their own.

They accumulate and disperse the light of our hope and aspirations.

Angels have walked everywhere we have and cannot go where we have not, whether in our minds, bodies or souls.

My angels I honour your caring hands, your silent patience, your invisible worship, your whispered encouragement and your eternal commitment of serve and non-judgment.
You make my light worth living.

If Today Was Your Last Day...Apologies

This being my last day I just wanted to say...I love you in the following way:

I am sorry I could not be everything you wanted
I am sorry I could not be everything you needed
I am sorry I could not give you everything you wanted
I am sorry I could not give you everything you needed

I am sorry for not always listening to you
I am sorry for not always hearing you
I am sorry I did not always give you my best
I am sorry I did not always try my best for you

I am sorry I took you for granted
I am sorry that I was not enough

I am sorry that I hurt you
I am sorry for ever wanting to hurt you
I am sorry that I caused you pain

I am sorry that I loved another
I am sorry that I sought another

I am sorry that I could not help you achieve your dream

I am sorry for my silence when you needed sound
I am sorry for my fears when you needed courage
I am sorry for being a boy when you needed a man
I am sorry for the many times I've said "No", when I knew you needed a "Yes"

I am sorry for not doing all the things I said I would
I am sorry for not always doing the things that I knew I could do

I am sorry I lied
I am sorry I made you cry
I am sorry I disappointed you
I am sorry I embarrassed you
I am sorry I ever judged you
I am sorry that I kept many of my secrets from you
I am sorry that I was not all that I promised I would be
I am sorry that I did not "let you in"

I am sorry I did not hug you more
I am sorry I did not love you more
I am sorry I did not say all of this to you before
Thank you for sharing in my life.

I love you.

Law of Attraction & Radiance...

"Energy Portrait"
© Lloyd Pollard
8"x10" colour photograph

First published in FLICKr.
Not previously exhibited.

The universal energy of all things move through and around all of us.
It does so with no intention or purpose, until such is granted by our conscious and unconscious thoughts and actions.

Be aware of what you are creating, attracting, keeping and radiating via the energies of thoughts and actions.

The use of the energies to consciously and unconsciously design your life is a great gift and a great responsibility.

It is the gift of creation, healing, destruction, joy or whatever our need of the moment is.

Don't just 'be' but 'be' with awareness.

10 Quotes That Have Influenced Me, Lately...

"Those who fit in now won't stand out later."
(From "The Big Moo" (Book on business theory/motivation))
[Be authentic and celebrate that you are not like everything else or everyone else]

"Living is hard and birthing is mean, so get yourself a little loving in between."
(Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Poet)
[Stay with it, keep breathing and enjoy what brings you joy without judgment.]

"...all the gods, all the heavens, all the hells are within you."
(Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth)
[I am a part of all things and all things are a part of me, consciously or unconsciously.]

"You've had the power all along, you just had to learn how to use it."
(Heroes, TV Series)
[What you be is what you will see.]

"...man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried."
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden)
[We have yet to scratch the surface of our ability to be original.]

"...everyone has the capacity for grandeur."
(Carlos Santana, Musician)
[Greatness is within our every pore, breath and dared dream]

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream..."
(The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho)
[We are so powerful that not even the universe can deny you your heart's desire.]

"If you don't hear you'll feel."
("Cysley". My Mom)
[One way or another you will get the message that the universe is sending you. You have no choice.]

"No bird soars too high, if it soars with its own wings."
(William Blake)
[Your capacity for greatness is limited only by the desires of your heart and imagination.]

"...you cannot alter your fate, but you can rise to meet it, if you choose..." (Princess Monoke, Classic Anime Film)
[Courage, more courage for everyone please.]

Abstract Portrait - "Fearless Shaman"

Abstract Portrait - "Shaman as Fear"
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

There is nothing to fear but our unmeasurable capacity and limitless power to express, create, destroy and heal the self.

I am more than can ever be seen, felt or experienced. I am a sum of all things past and present and yet to be; this is the secret of the gods.

Tattoo Girl [A Portrait of Life]

Tattoo Girl (Painted Portrait)
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

The essence of our beauty is within the story and poetry written upon our faces.

Every experience adorns us with its intricate hope, pain and meaning.

Are we not beautiful with life?

Zap - "My Book of Inspiration"

Zap - "My Book of Inspiration"
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

"Painting/Drawing/Photography/Writing" is a skill. Art is what you do with it. (reinterpretation of an anonymous quote")

The art of creative sight is born from the gifts of perspective(s) and awareness.

The use of imagination, expression and perception are the gifts that define extraordinary, memorable and creative lives. These are our fingerprints that will never be duplicated.

Artists are not just creators of objects, they are creators of their life. Their art is the manifestation of this life.

Expression is the greatest gift you have to influence the world and to let it know that you exist. If not creative, at least be 'expressive'. Live.

Prayer @ the Waters Edge...

Prayer @ the Waters Edge...
Originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard

There is only one place you can truly grow from and that is from within.

When I embrace myself, I embrace the world.

The universe does not love me or hate me, it embraces me as I am. Can you do the same?

God is in the details and he cares not to be seen.

Divine are the moments when I become aware that the universe worships me in return.

As I am I have never not been.

amen.