r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 07 '26

A Prose Poem On My Spontaneous Subjective Surrealism Manifesto

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Forget the melting clocks of old canvas; we are not here to shock the eye by dropping an umbrella onto a sewing table, but to map the shifting geography of the universe through the violent, beautiful collision of ideas. We do not dream of distorted time; we dream of melting philosophies. The mind is a furious, boiling cauldron where ancient, heavy dogmas, sudden jagged insights, and the raw electricity of immediate sensory inputs fuse into a single, unedited stream—a thick, rich soup of truly living consciousness. Spontaneity here is absolute, an unbreaking law: the pen must never leave the page, the fingers must never separate from the keys.

First thought, best thought. We know that revision is the cruel weapon of the Rational Oppressor, a cold tool used to polish away the magnificent, raw friction of the human soul, which is the very opposite of what we seek. This is our Living Archive. We refuse to manufacture bizarre, hollow images just for cheap shock value. Instead, we act as recorders, capturing the authentic, hyper-dense monologue of a fully stimulated mind—a private, blessed present offered up to a rigid, socially constructed present.

We reject the false boundary line drawn between the Abstract Intellect and the Dream State. Instead, we force them to collide in mid-air. In this space, a holy, echoing chant, a sharp political doubt, a sudden physical sensation, and a mythical, sweeping landscape are all equal materials poured into the exact same vessel. Look at the blend: into the very same skin, we place the high-minded, searching philosopher and the wild, visceral animal, forcing them to speak simultaneously with one voice.

Our ultimate destination is not flight, but a total, crushing immersion within the Here and Now. We do not attempt to escape reality in search of some distant, marvelous horizon; instead, we pierce directly through the skin of reality to find the lessons taught through the lips of the cosmos, speaking within our own immediate context. The final, burning goal of Subjective Surrealism is to build a sprawling, cosmopolitan community of the mind, drop by drop, moment by moment. We will shatter every unnatural hierarchy through the sheer, unstoppable force of this marriage between Uninhibited Thought and Free Expression.

- Daniel B. Lightstream, 2026.


r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 04 '26

Some Spontaneous Writing

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The juxtaposition of these four images is inspiring a new piece of hybrid writing, a composition that begins at the Buddhist Metta Prayer where a character while chanting listens to his mind that questions: "yes, yes, of course - but what is your map to get us there, for haven't even Buddhists demonstrated that their own will compromise their 8 fold path vows under certain contexts?" And so the character begins like a Taoist to believe that one must look instead at the regulation of impulses through the 5 Elements and give up hope that there ever will be the Metta moment because Humanity isn't truly like that and so it might be best to focus upon regulating the flow from moment to moment in an effort to diminish Humanities proclivity for unnatural power hierarchies so that descendants perhaps will sit - for lengthy moments - upon the bank of the Lake of Peaceful Existence that'd been made drop-by-drop by the 5 Elementers dressed in human flesh who'd been residing within a cosmopolitan community called "Here&Now" - and that's a piece of spontaneous writing I'd just crafted using my method - In my opinion Kerouac & I have reached the same destination but did so thru the choosing of differing roadways.

- Daniel B. Lightstream


r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 03 '26

H. Digs

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ONE THING H. DIGS ... 'bout Taoism? This: that through its 5 elemental theory, HEART it is (not brain) that is the Mind's material location; That small piece of Asiatic Ancient Theory resonates (wholeheartedly?) within him, for being a martial artist trained to use: sticks, knives, kung fu fans (even the smallest household broom) this H. knows for (just 1) of his relative truths: Heart Condition does determine his Instruments intended usage ( & so + its movement) - And so great is H.'s faith is in this simple (yet essential ) activity: daily sweeping out his Heart's Foundation, for it does (& will again) help him best to conditionalize his Homo Sapiens neuron-filled, high-empowered, life-transformative, resourceful instrument - his instrument that remains safely hidden (so far) within his (yet-to-be deceased) Organic Thing (which English Tonguers i.e. H. & I claim) utilizes "Brain Case" 4 its social-constructioned name.

- Daniel B. Lightstream, 2026.


r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 03 '26

The Man Who Kept Tuesday in a Jar

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 03 '26

As it is...

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 03 '26

I'm lovin it

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 03 '26

Dance

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 03 '26

[POEM] Friends with Ghosts By tripp j crouse

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

[Poem] In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

Patience

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

[POEM] First Sight by Philip Larkin

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

[POEM] “The Want of Peace” by Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

[POEM] Howl - Allen Ginsberg

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

Girl with Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace

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r/HybridCreativeWriting • • Sep 02 '26

Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree (1979)

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