Thursday, August 30, 2018

When I am in London and I see an unauthorized use of my image. #lawsuit #bornwithit #photooftheday #photo_lab_appInstagram


Thursday, August 23, 2018

We are writers, artists, creators of universes trying to describe emotions in words, pictures or tunes. We are the red-headed step-child sleeping late always giving in at night to the seductiveness of sleep and dreams. Trying to succeed in a world where you are confined, forced to conform and to blend into the background is like trying to fit an elephant into a mole’s burrow. After a while we begin to implode; first comes the sadness, then the restlessness, the loneliness, the anxiety of wanting to run while chained to a fence. As we try to adapt to the burrows in which we live – like the scarecrow in an abandoned farm – we slowly succumb to the bites, the sun and the rain. We wither away eventually becoming one with the wind and scattered across the fields. We were created for something more and the fact that at 50 you find yourself lost, at a loss and losing – can be a debilitating feeling. You have the girl of your dreams and your children by your side – but you want to have so that you can give. The burrow has no hidden treasure, no answers in the sky beyond the rainbow or below it. The pain of betrayal will never fully disappear, but it’s the pain of being mislabeled that hurts the most. Doubting yourself in the middle of the night, “Am I who they think I am or am I who I have always envisioned myself to be?” In the clarity of the morning light you know exactly who you are and you smile for even doubting yourself. @photo_lab_app #photo_lab_app #weknowwhoweare #artists #tbt #poet #writer #FreddyInstagram


Somewhere People are Smiling

If life wasn't so difficult there would be no poetry or art of any kind. Just as if life was not so rhythmic it would be dark and terrifying. Freddy Zalta 8/22/2018

Somewhere in time there is the sound of laughter and the infinite glow of people smiling. Somewhere in time there are children playing, laughing and singing. Somewhere in time there is no sickness, no problems other than a scab on your knee or a rainy day. Somewhere in time there is laughter, dancing, jumping, running and blushing. Somewhere in time there is nothing but time and all its wide open possibilities. Beauty has been stolen, lives have been cheated and time seems to be running out all around us. Somewhere - there are people smiling and the disappeared have come home again, in youth again...where no clocks exist and there are no endings only everlasting life. FZ #enough #live #laugh #dance #smileInstagram


Friday, August 10, 2018

I cant write. I sit by my laptop at night or early in the morning and I draw a blank.  I think about people I have seen on the trains, the streets or in cafes. I think about the customers I have met, family members and friends. Their faces and demeanor scream stories but my brain wont speak to my fingers. So I sit here and my brain wanders off to unpaid bills, upcoming repairs and any hope of saving a nickel or dime simply fades away. Prospects slip from my view and the self-esteem I once held in such high esteem has fallen away and is nowhere to be seen. Clouds are simply clouds and stars are simply balls of very hot gas. Her eyes are eyes, her neck is simply a neck. The sun setting on the horizon is simply the earth spinning away from the sun. Words are lost to simplicity and my fingers constantly punch the wrong keys. My mind is afloat, caffeine is impotent and voices are screeches of finger nails across a blackboard. Songs are off tune and lyrics have no meaning; food is tastless as is the water I drink. Wine has lost its color, vodka was always clear and the tequila is sitting up in the shelf somewhere and I am too lazy to stretch. Work is impossible - mountains simply patches of rocks and dirt piled up high. Rainbows have no meaning and the moon has turned aside to avoid any eye contact. I am listless, lonely, frustrated, hungry for love, lusting for love, in search of success and finding an empty cup of coffee in place of the treasure I had been promised. So as I sit here depressed in solitude - although I sit among friends - I wonder if the sun will ever again bring warmth and rhymes to the stories in my mind. Will her eyes ever shine with the love inside of her warming me, inspiring me to keep on walking on and on? Will music ever set me to dance, sing or to have my heart pump a little quicker? Will words ever come back to me with stories of strangers created in my image? Will success every truly come calling or will I continue to waste away on line at this barren supermarket from hell? #writercommunity #writersblock #tgif #? #emptycupofcoffee #instagramwritersInstagram


Riding the Writer’s Block Train

I sit by my laptop at night or early in the morning and I draw a blank.  I think about people I have seen on the trains, the streets or in cafes. I think about the customers I have met, family members and friends. Their faces and demeanor scream stories but my brain wont speak to my fingers.