Monthly Archives: October 2012

In the Knowing

“Infinite possibility is good, not bad.”–James Gleick, The Information What do you know? What do you want to know or need to know in a given moment or situation? ‘The Information’. You could be an executor dealing with a parent’s … Continue reading

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Poetry in an Unpoetic Age

We live in an age of image-laden screens and customized e-media, an age in which information, e-connectedness, and money rule all. Whatever remnants of poetry, as it used to be studied in schools and universities, has morphed into the blase song lyrics of the … Continue reading

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Of Imagination and Creativity

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”–Joseph Joubert, The Science of Mind Imagination is a mental faculty which creates images and possibilities of things we think of and suppose. Typically, when we imagine, we behold things that we would like … Continue reading

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The Best Freedoms?

Freedom is universally acknowledged to be a good, desirable thing. There are the large en masse freedoms for the many, such as the end of a war or a dictatorship. As seen on tv news, people are usually quite happy … Continue reading

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Open-Heartedness and Intimacy

Open-heartedness and intimacy are two related states between any two connecting or connected people. To be open-hearted is to be honest, to share, and to hold nothing back. It is the other end of a continuum whose opposites are withholding, … Continue reading

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Reckoning

it is an honest wind that blows the grass across these tombs the sun at noon knows not leaf nor lie geese above V their way across a sky and tell of time for stars and time for hope there … Continue reading

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Only

Only on the dark wet streets of night can i ever hope to find your face again only with the sun on april morning snow can i tell you how i love you still ……………………… After whatever strong or important … Continue reading

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Desertification

Far be it from me to presume we could ever withstand an encroaching Sahara. Our green oasis glimpsed smally against sand like your body with mine. Our fertile zone plucked from the jaws of relentless sun and wind. Somehow we … Continue reading

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On Being Open to Love

Much there is that makes us distrustful of others in our daily experiences. Too often we find too few to trust or believe in the honesty of. Openness is a key state to receiving whatever benefits of love and affection. … Continue reading

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Notes from the Garden

The poet is in the garden He has come to hear your confession to grant you absolute pardons He speaks to you in earth-tones many sounding strange to your ears A bird sings of the evergreen Here there is time … Continue reading

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