http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/soulless/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/soulless/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=292 A life lived on the bleeding edge Fragmented phantasms of failed attempts At breaking out At playing the escape artist]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/soulless/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:38:22 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/ The fact of the matter is, we’re all lying to ourselves. We want to believe it’s possible to be holy. To feel divine. We sacrifice ourselves, put ourselves on the line, with the naïve notion it pleases some disembodied voice in the sky. We look to socially agreed upon models of exemplary “spiritual” human beings and attempt to replicate ad nauseam. Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/feed/ 3 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/home_sweet_home/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/home_sweet_home/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:27:24 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/07/04/home_sweet_home/ Taking a swig of rum, Don revels in technological triumph. He calls it the Eagle’s Nest. Outfitted with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, from this central location he’s able to monitor every nook and cranny of his coveted 10,000 square feet and surrounding 200 acres. He had dropped a cool $500,000 on a high-end Knight Security system – complete with biometric checkpoints (iris, voice, thumbprint scanning), pressure mats, driveway and seismic sensors, wireless night-vision cameras, window screens that scream when cut, and a dozen[…] ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/home_sweet_home/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/feeding-the-demon/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/feeding-the-demon/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 07:35:30 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/05/03/feeding-the-demon/ An unrelenting self-projected psychosis Filling up inner-cavities with shadow A darkness An unforgiving introspective tirade The bandages are breaking apart Applied haphazardly No sense of permanence ever intended Doled out with a daily routine of decadence]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/feeding-the-demon/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/controlled-descent/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/controlled-descent/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:25:07 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2006/03/03/controlled-descent/ The last thing he remembers before boarding is her struggled cry. Forced. Propelled on a viscous sheen of illustrious longing, headed straight for his heart strings. "Enosh, please," her saline-polished eyes full of tears, she pleads, "don't go." [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/controlled-descent/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/hostile-takeover/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/hostile-takeover/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:23:07 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/hostile-takeover/ From her vantage point, she can see a timeless world unfolding its secrets. Endless hues of color wrestle for attention as she gazes over the terrain spreading out from the mountain spire. Her perch in this panoply of life. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/hostile-takeover/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/a-mutual-understanding/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/a-mutual-understanding/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:22:18 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2005/11/03/a-mutual-understanding/ Life trickles away, I watch it escape, like a last gasp, in the cold, frost on the air, blanking out the blanket of prospective poppies, clutching at my lungs, you can see it. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/a-mutual-understanding/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/the-caretakers/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/the-caretakers/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:19:42 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2005/09/03/the-caretakers/ Aunty always told him never to leave home. She warned him that no good would come of it. He knew that outside was off limits to little boys, but his curiosity was insatiable. He should have listened, because now he's lost. He's scared, and alone. More important, he's probably going to die. [...] ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/the-caretakers/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/the-reality-manifesto/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/the-reality-manifesto/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:16:06 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2005/01/03/the-reality-manifesto/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/the-reality-manifesto/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/astral_projection/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/astral_projection/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:29:53 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2004/10/05/astral_projection/ An experiment in stream of consciousness writing by Ramla Alethea. An excerpt of a larger work. The character journeys to the Lowerworld, encounters various entities and experiences astral travel. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/fiction/astral_projection/feed/ 0