Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Life is photographed, painted and chronicled through rose colored glasses... Would you advertise bad times, moods or missed opportunities? Don't obsess over fear of missing out, FOMO, enjoy your time and your life without any comparisons. You have more than billions of people, think about it, it's true. #qratitude #motivation #excellence #selfhelp #womenshealth #writersofinstagram #womensupportingwomen #youcandoit #selfworth #transformation #beyourself #entrepreneur #bekind #sisterhood #selfesteemInstagram


Sunday, June 23, 2019

Tough as nails, soft to the touch. Love of traditions in his soul, No deviation on his watch. Strength in his heart, love in his eyes. Expressing himself truly, never a thought of a lie, standing tall and looking life in the eyes, never altering his course. Life is filled with questions and God provides the answers, can anyone understand it more than you? There is more to this world, death is not the end, I hope you are laughing and learning with your loved ones again. Where the ravages of sickness and time have turned to youth and health, where pain is no longer alive, true peace and happiness is considered wealth. You made such an impression, you created so many worlds, with your love by your side, your flags forever unfurled. I know you are walking where paradise was born and history is alive. Where the answers are so simple to the questions once so complex… We'll meet again someday and it will all make sense. #life #worldtocome #love #paradise #happiness #answers #questions #traditionsInstagram


Advice from my high school English teacher, Susan Ackerman Newborn. Read a little, sing a lot and don't break too many girls hearts. I've listened and mostly did what you have advised. #highschool #classof1984 #sephardichighschool #teachersthatmakeadifference #gratitudeInstagram


Friday, June 07, 2019

Got to be Me

I must have died a thousand times in my life, suppressing that spark in my soul that lit up my worlds.

"It's not hopeless, it's been done before. Drink your juice kid, do what needs to be done. Stop thinking you are meant for something more, something miraculous that can change the world. Sit at your desk and pay attention. Stop calling out, stop being the clown and for God sakes stop daydreaming." I must have died a thousand times in my life, suppressing that spark in my soul that lit up my worlds. We give up so much of our true self because we need to follow other people's ideas of how we should act, dress and feel. It's like I'm in a straight jacket, rag around my mouth and blindfolded. Needing to run and sing, yet forced to sit quietly my emotions nearly tucked in. I think that's why I have failed… But I can't do it anymore, can't turn into the walking dead who walk alongside me. I can't keep in step, I just don't have that rhythm. "It's not hopeless, it's been done before. But I won't drink that juice and I'll remember that I am someone special who can do the miraculous. I am meant for more…" That is why I shake, I am suppressing so many emotions and physical motions I need to express. Of course it's natural to need to break out, I need to break out. Nothing I've been doing, is doing anyone any good. I cannot be great trying to be someone I truly do not want to be. That anxiety is my true self wanting to break free… It has to start with me. Set me free, it starts with me, set me free, let me be… Free. #anxiety #suppression #freedom #emotionalhonesty #selfworth #love #poetry #poems #poem #poetsofinstagram #poetofinstagram #prosebyme #mypoem #freddyzalta #writing #writingcommunity  #igwriters #igwriter #original #originalpoem #originalprose #poetsociety #writersofinstagram #writer #author #adviceInstagram


Thursday, June 06, 2019

Wednesday, June 05, 2019

We worry about the future and that future never comes. Time rushes on and the future we constantly invent for ourselves never ever turns out exactly how we planned it. So relax and focus on the now while doing some preparing for that future that will come when you least expect it. Like, now. Stop trying to catch up to the future, it will always out race you, learn from but don't hang on to the past, it's going already. #present #selfempowerment #love #tomorrowisnow #yesterdayispast #obvious but not so easily understood l.Instagram


A Shadow of two people dancing as a crooner sings a song professing his love for his lady. They are slow dancing on a roof somewhere and the shadow is being cast by a full moon over New York City. The crooner is coming out of a small radio and the couple are each from France. They had arrived in New York ten years earlier, separately, with different spouses, to escape the Germans who were now marching through Paris, but who back then, were just knocking on the doors of France - all set to break them down if not opened. They were both non observant Jews. They had worked together in a university in Paris and were lovers in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine. Their respective spouses had returned to France, unafraid since they were non-observant and did not consider themselves Jewish. Unfortunately the Germans didn't make the distinction between practicing Judaism and being born a Jew - they had each been sent to different camps and had not been heard of since. Fifty some years later on - four children, eighteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; Beatrice had been told that the cancer that had taken away her hair and any strength she still had away, was back. This time the Doctors were not giving her more than six months. Victor had sat down with her and told her, "Just as in Paris we knew it was our time to leave, so here in New York City, we must accept it is our time to leave, once again." With that he bought a bottle of wine, a tape recorder with a recording of their favorite songs. They went up to the roof and then as they had back in the forties - left their home for the promise of a better life. #poetry #poems #poem #poetsofinstagram #poetofinstagram #prosebyme #mypoem #freddyzalta #writing #writingcommunity  #igwriters #igwriter #originalpoem #originalprose #poetsociety #writersofinstagram #writer #author #advice #edithpiaf #LouisarmstrongInstagram


Pink and Other shades of Love

A Shadow of two people dancing as a crooner sings a song professing his love for his lady. They are slow dancing on a roof somewhere and the shadow is being cast by a full moon over New York City. The crooner is coming out of a small radio and the couple are each from France. They had arrived in New York ten years earlier, separately, with different spouses, to escape the Germans who were now marching through Paris, but who back then, were just knocking on the doors of France  - all set to break them down if not opened.

Monday, June 03, 2019

From "Life of Salesman Owned no more" buy it! The breaking point "All of us, ladies and gentlemen are slaves to the government, slaves to our bosses and slaves to our basic human needs. We are owned! We are owned by the simple fact that we want to have a better life! A better life! So, you get to work before nine so the boss doesn't throw it in your face that you come in late. You work until after six so the boss doesn't say, 'you have banker’s hours?' You eat by your desk because you have to follow the lemmings who do the same, the other slaves in the cubicle prison. We are recorded, followed, monitored and critiqued. We are docked, fired, suspended without pay and treated as inferior if we don't blow the bosses in the fishbowl for all to see. We are ostracized, immobilized and dehumanized because we use the bathroom too many times or walk to get a cup of coffee and stop to say a few words to a co-worker or co-inhabitant of the insane asylum we knowingly attend and dedicate our time to." I could see smartphones videoing me and I realized that this might cause a problem. "Well, I don't know about you all - but I am sick and tired of being owned." I sat in my car and heard the strangest sound. A chant had begun, "You don't own me," over and over again. As I closed the door to my car someone came to my window. "What's your name?" "My name? Howard Beale." I said with a smile. By the time I got home my daughter came over to me crying. "I was worried for you, are you ok?" "Why were you worried for me?" "It's all over the internet Daddy." "What is?" Read more! #keepwriting #writingpoetry #writinggoals #writingabook #writingcommunityofinstagram #writingskills #writingworkshop #ownednomore #lifeofasalesman #FreddyzaltaInstagram


It's magic, it's an illusion, it's a trick of the eye. It's a sleight of hand, a false pose, a flick of the wrist or a diversion tactic. So many distractions, in real time or in perfect clarity replay. The universe in your hand, anything you want, need or are required to eat, feel or wear. To recite, to review, to make love to, to unite or to spread hatred and divisiveness. It's all there for you in 3d, high quality video and surround sound audio. Life can be simple one moment and totally lost in a maze blindfolded the next. Don't lose sight of what is truly important, it's simple. Love. #poetry #poems #poem #poetsofinstagram #poetofinstagram #prosebyme #mypoem #freddyzalta #writing #writingcommunity  #igwriters #igwriter #original #originalpoem #originalprose #poetsociety #writersofinstagram #writer #author #adviceInstagram


Saw a floating vision through my dashboard window as I waited for the train to arrive. A singing bird in a closed cage, enslaved, for how long? For what sin? The chain around it's left leg, keeps him down despite any chance of an open door. Thunder baby and lightening giants, hand in hand. Tonight is the night, the morning is not so far off. Goodnight. #poetry #poems #poem #poetsofinstagram #poetofinstagram #prosebyme #mypoem #freddyzalta #writing #writingcommunity  #igwriters #igwriter #original #originalpoem #originalprose #poetsociety #writersofinstagram #writer #author #adviceInstagram