another summer looms
and again I wonder if this will be the last one of all
for me
but that's just nostalgia for the person I'd been
for far too long
I laugh at that fool more and more
who would alternate between deep esoteric reading
and fapping until he levitated
now I see the hot young girls in their shorts and tight tanktops
and take the energy home to my lady
(who still has a body like a guitar
driving me as crazy as she did
when we both were younger and hungrier)
and even as this old lion ambles toward his winter
he's finding the coming autumn sweeter than summer ever was
and if this were the last one of all this earthly sojourn
what would it matter?
yet another summer
reminds me of all summers
that ever were or will be...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
more people have you pegged more than you imagine
and even if they'll never know
your inner processes
or the real reasons why you do what you do
(even if they're so real even you don't really know
what they are or why)
more people will pin you to their idea of you
because it's so much easier than to look into themselves
and see the same motivations at work
so they can confirm all the tyrannies of purity
with which we shield ourselves from some uncomfortable truth
of our unbreakable Oneness
more people than not will go the easy way and find it harder
than if they unpinned themselves and went the rockier way
to arrive where they'd go stronger and kinder than if they used
a reflection of their bitterness as a mirror
in which they could see you as you go
and find they go too...
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and even if they'll never know
your inner processes
or the real reasons why you do what you do
(even if they're so real even you don't really know
what they are or why)
more people will pin you to their idea of you
because it's so much easier than to look into themselves
and see the same motivations at work
so they can confirm all the tyrannies of purity
with which we shield ourselves from some uncomfortable truth
of our unbreakable Oneness
more people than not will go the easy way and find it harder
than if they unpinned themselves and went the rockier way
to arrive where they'd go stronger and kinder than if they used
a reflection of their bitterness as a mirror
in which they could see you as you go
and find they go too...
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no one is a stranger to another
there are just those whose paths
have yet to cross
and those we've known are discerned
beneath their current disguises
but one way or another
we've seen the best and worst in each other before
we are others and nothing stranger than that...
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there are just those whose paths
have yet to cross
and those we've known are discerned
beneath their current disguises
but one way or another
we've seen the best and worst in each other before
we are others and nothing stranger than that...
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
I broke my own spell
a dark twilight in some dream
was all I could remember
when I woke up
to the bright warm morning
what else was I to do
but lie vacant in my own bed
and feel strangely at peace?
the years revolved invisibly
in the air of the room
and all was "what was that?" and "couldn't care less"
at the same time...
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who will the vultures of the New Age be
picking at the carcass of the past
and at the rotting systems and the ones who ran them
and thought nothing of their evil?
who will the vultures of the New Age be?
maybe you maybe me
we are not superior to our enemies
the unenlightened who wreck at a touch at fineness
who will the vultures of the New Age be?
all the remnant remaining on the earth
as they carrion like fools
and with a corny sense of humor like that to excuse
who the vultures of the New Age will be
themselves themselves losing the trace of those who survived...
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Friday, May 18, 2012
after days of celestial fisticuffs
all is peaceful calm and still
and that makes me nervous as hell
not knowing when some other shoe will drop
the world evolves toward a sacred standing
and we'll all do our best one way or another
to prevent that fulfillment
how much longer before the race is called
none can know
but I sleep with my shoes on
ready to go...
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all is peaceful calm and still
and that makes me nervous as hell
not knowing when some other shoe will drop
the world evolves toward a sacred standing
and we'll all do our best one way or another
to prevent that fulfillment
how much longer before the race is called
none can know
but I sleep with my shoes on
ready to go...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
you should be grateful to be ignored
you should celebrate your invisibility
you should really appreciate
the joys of obscurity
because God knows (and does nothing to help you)
once you are picked up
on someone's radar you'll never know
peace and quiet ever again
but if that's what you want
know that not even a deal with the devil
will save you from the treachery
the utter mendacity of your fellow beings
you should pray to have no face
mon semblable mon frere...
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you should celebrate your invisibility
you should really appreciate
the joys of obscurity
because God knows (and does nothing to help you)
once you are picked up
on someone's radar you'll never know
peace and quiet ever again
but if that's what you want
know that not even a deal with the devil
will save you from the treachery
the utter mendacity of your fellow beings
you should pray to have no face
mon semblable mon frere...
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I can handle being mistreated by the arrogant young—
They’re weak and aren’t aware of what they’re doing—
When the weak wield power they become tyrants
And all the more vicious for their weakness
While the strong stay their hand in wisdom
And strike only if they need to do so—
I’ve grown old enough to tolerate the young and foolish
But I won’t renounce my wisdom should they continue their disrespect
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I wait on the turning of the future
like a condemned man
waiting on his date with the electric chair
but our world was not meant to be forever
and other worlds we may inherit
lie in a misty futility of dream
for my part I'll cursed my killers to hell
as they throw the lethal switch...
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like a condemned man
waiting on his date with the electric chair
but our world was not meant to be forever
and other worlds we may inherit
lie in a misty futility of dream
for my part I'll cursed my killers to hell
as they throw the lethal switch...
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don't say you weren't warned
your silos with rot
and your fields will burn
and there'll be no consolation
and you'll shiver through a man-made winter
of fallen folly and proven grief
you're all laws unto yourselves
and by your own hands you will die
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your silos with rot
and your fields will burn
and there'll be no consolation
and you'll shiver through a man-made winter
of fallen folly and proven grief
you're all laws unto yourselves
and by your own hands you will die
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economies all over the world
are collapsing
and Amerika stands on the brink
of voting back in
all the bastards who started
this lethal domino fall
the old powers seek to resist
our common evolution
all the utopian dreams
are now iron-clad means to survival
but the rich (like the poor) will always be with us
and to cling to their crazed power-madness
they'll drag the whole world
into hell with them
go ahead and bray your worthless opinion
go ahead and take your stand on ever-shifting sand
opposites reflect each other
and none of them are wise enough to know
they will all perish together
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are collapsing
and Amerika stands on the brink
of voting back in
all the bastards who started
this lethal domino fall
the old powers seek to resist
our common evolution
all the utopian dreams
are now iron-clad means to survival
but the rich (like the poor) will always be with us
and to cling to their crazed power-madness
they'll drag the whole world
into hell with them
go ahead and bray your worthless opinion
go ahead and take your stand on ever-shifting sand
opposites reflect each other
and none of them are wise enough to know
they will all perish together
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Monday, May 14, 2012
nothing to say
nothing to teach
nothing new to learn
unless where I'm heading
has such a surprise
for my tired old mind
that even my own imagination
is drained dry
as I become one with my vision
and I am finally truly
one with my goal
of transcendence
so much so that even the idea
of transcendence is transcended...
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nothing to teach
nothing new to learn
unless where I'm heading
has such a surprise
for my tired old mind
that even my own imagination
is drained dry
as I become one with my vision
and I am finally truly
one with my goal
of transcendence
so much so that even the idea
of transcendence is transcended...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
NOTHING IS FORGIVEN BUT ALL CAN BE REDEEMED
two feet in my mouth
trying to encourage
someone I didn't know
to be strong
then I consulted an oracle
whose advice included
"pain is strong but love is painful
but to be sad is to be weak"
talk about your own advice
coming back to bite you in the ass
and all of this a rebuke to my sadness
and wrong-headed projection
fishing around for
what wasn't mine to have
*
how do my proceed?
why even ask this oracle?
the answers I got were no comfort
and told me nothing I didn't already know
except for how to sustain myself
when nothing in the universe
would budge for me
*
my vocation became clear
once again
this writing these overheated
philosophical ruminations
were what I do in the world
they serve anyone but me
but I guess that's the idea
*
we all want the short answer
the quick way out
but there isn't one
you get where you're going
slugging through the shit
and out of that
comes your destination into sight
scrape your shoes
you tread on sacred matter after all
*
the one I tried to advise
came back to confront
an explanation cleared the air
but still a bit of resentment flicked
despite the peace-making
no easy atonements
no "kiss to make it better"
but just the lessons
of caution and respect
nothing is forgiven
but all can be redeemed
scrape your shoes...
***
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trying to encourage
someone I didn't know
to be strong
then I consulted an oracle
whose advice included
"pain is strong but love is painful
but to be sad is to be weak"
talk about your own advice
coming back to bite you in the ass
and all of this a rebuke to my sadness
and wrong-headed projection
fishing around for
what wasn't mine to have
*
how do my proceed?
why even ask this oracle?
the answers I got were no comfort
and told me nothing I didn't already know
except for how to sustain myself
when nothing in the universe
would budge for me
*
my vocation became clear
once again
this writing these overheated
philosophical ruminations
were what I do in the world
they serve anyone but me
but I guess that's the idea
*
we all want the short answer
the quick way out
but there isn't one
you get where you're going
slugging through the shit
and out of that
comes your destination into sight
scrape your shoes
you tread on sacred matter after all
*
the one I tried to advise
came back to confront
an explanation cleared the air
but still a bit of resentment flicked
despite the peace-making
no easy atonements
no "kiss to make it better"
but just the lessons
of caution and respect
nothing is forgiven
but all can be redeemed
scrape your shoes...
***
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trying to reason with God
is like trying to reach any tyrant or terrorist
but then this God
whatever His absolute intractability
is the only One that counts
so it be I did my best
and if that wasn't good enough
well too bad
I will be wherever I'm welcome
and I hope those I love
will be there too....
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is like trying to reach any tyrant or terrorist
but then this God
whatever His absolute intractability
is the only One that counts
so it be I did my best
and if that wasn't good enough
well too bad
I will be wherever I'm welcome
and I hope those I love
will be there too....
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naked as glass
I stand
no excuses
no explanations
before the eyes of all
just the weight of judgment
and all I've ever done
crushing me down
the Vengeance of the One fulfilled
despite any attempts at repentance
and atonement
and sympathy from those who've
endured this karmic horror and lived
and mockery from those
who haven't yet tasted
the toxins of their smug righteousness...
the Will of the One may be terrible
and no amends good enough
the crazed imperatives of Perfection
but for all the blame being on us
this face does remain
let this cup pass from me
not by my will
but Thine...
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I stand
no excuses
no explanations
before the eyes of all
just the weight of judgment
and all I've ever done
crushing me down
the Vengeance of the One fulfilled
despite any attempts at repentance
and atonement
and sympathy from those who've
endured this karmic horror and lived
and mockery from those
who haven't yet tasted
the toxins of their smug righteousness...
the Will of the One may be terrible
and no amends good enough
the crazed imperatives of Perfection
but for all the blame being on us
this face does remain
let this cup pass from me
not by my will
but Thine...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
let the Universe yawn like the maw of Moloch
as another poet once called it
such heightened anguish
such soul-destroying dread
of One who's supposed to be
Light and Love
if the Eternal Light shines within
the pitch black void of Nothingness
well...let it...the sun is out and bright
after dreary weeks of clammy mist
and not enough rain to bust a drought
...yes I say let it...I'm pleased enough to
rest a moment in my daily toil and stare
at the glow of sunlight on the late spring leaves...
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as another poet once called it
such heightened anguish
such soul-destroying dread
of One who's supposed to be
Light and Love
if the Eternal Light shines within
the pitch black void of Nothingness
well...let it...the sun is out and bright
after dreary weeks of clammy mist
and not enough rain to bust a drought
...yes I say let it...I'm pleased enough to
rest a moment in my daily toil and stare
at the glow of sunlight on the late spring leaves...
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I am a thing among many things
a part of a conditioned creation
and we all sing like the morning stars
imagining what kind of foundation
we all are slaves who would be kings
though our pitiful egos deny it
and our songs reach through these earthly bars
of our prisons with wish to defy it
in the dying notes of our song
we learn to give up repentance
we endure the verdict and free ourselves
by serving out our sentence
one among many and many each one
and a Void to subsume us when we are done...
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a part of a conditioned creation
and we all sing like the morning stars
imagining what kind of foundation
we all are slaves who would be kings
though our pitiful egos deny it
and our songs reach through these earthly bars
of our prisons with wish to defy it
in the dying notes of our song
we learn to give up repentance
we endure the verdict and free ourselves
by serving out our sentence
one among many and many each one
and a Void to subsume us when we are done...
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I radiate under the stars
up into the night sky
where I am yet another twinkling point
on a black infinite bed
like a jewel on a crushed velvet plush
in a box
a ring for the Queen of Heaven
to wear on her right hand
adjusting her crown in a mirrored abyss
I among the many
and the many all of us...
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up into the night sky
where I am yet another twinkling point
on a black infinite bed
like a jewel on a crushed velvet plush
in a box
a ring for the Queen of Heaven
to wear on her right hand
adjusting her crown in a mirrored abyss
I among the many
and the many all of us...
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I saw them come
I watched them go
they weren't happy until they destroyed
everything in the name
of the alleged God of Love
they'll never stop coming
they'll never admit a wrong
they rule safe in their ignorance
or their psychosis at worst
and we who want peace and concord
what vanity are we guilty of?
we're all entangled in the Snares of Perfection
and the cold disinterested love of the One
ensures we're all orphans of heaven...
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I watched them go
they weren't happy until they destroyed
everything in the name
of the alleged God of Love
they'll never stop coming
they'll never admit a wrong
they rule safe in their ignorance
or their psychosis at worst
and we who want peace and concord
what vanity are we guilty of?
we're all entangled in the Snares of Perfection
and the cold disinterested love of the One
ensures we're all orphans of heaven...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
THE NEW IN WHAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN
life continues its notorious way
of not cooperating with our best intentions
yet we are required to persevere
to ourselves continue to attempt to realize
what has changed again and again
only to become itself
to seek out the new
in what has always been
*
oh make no mistake
what will be already is
as the decayed tree delivers
its last seeds to the wind
so in those seeds stirs
new increments of being
a common enough observation for sure
but we ever need to be reminded...
*
so an old man's second childhood
for him it's going out
the way he came in
but in him stirs fresh blood reaching toward the stars
even as his body rots away around him
claimed by the earth as his soul is claimed by the heavens
*
his vision blurs into a vista of infinite proportion
he sees the things of creation 10 million miles off
and will streak toward them in an instant
he will be nowhere and everywhere at once
and to him it will be only one profound 'place'
(for lack of any word that could express the inexpressible)
and he will be there
and he will be welcome
*
long earthly lifetimes of heartbreak and disappointment
will resolve into a single perpetual experience
and in the letting go that is resolution
is the way forward
thus the Buddha proclaimed "strive without ceasing"
there is no ceasing until there is rest
and there is no rest
until there is wonder...
* * *
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of not cooperating with our best intentions
yet we are required to persevere
to ourselves continue to attempt to realize
what has changed again and again
only to become itself
to seek out the new
in what has always been
*
oh make no mistake
what will be already is
as the decayed tree delivers
its last seeds to the wind
so in those seeds stirs
new increments of being
a common enough observation for sure
but we ever need to be reminded...
*
so an old man's second childhood
for him it's going out
the way he came in
but in him stirs fresh blood reaching toward the stars
even as his body rots away around him
claimed by the earth as his soul is claimed by the heavens
*
his vision blurs into a vista of infinite proportion
he sees the things of creation 10 million miles off
and will streak toward them in an instant
he will be nowhere and everywhere at once
and to him it will be only one profound 'place'
(for lack of any word that could express the inexpressible)
and he will be there
and he will be welcome
*
long earthly lifetimes of heartbreak and disappointment
will resolve into a single perpetual experience
and in the letting go that is resolution
is the way forward
thus the Buddha proclaimed "strive without ceasing"
there is no ceasing until there is rest
and there is no rest
until there is wonder...
* * *
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
we must do what we must do
but we cannot guarantee the outcome
we endure our reckoning
rise or fall on our own acts
and for better or worse we must see it through
and leave the tally to the unforgiving One
dark or light our final beckoning
and these brothers and sisters are the irrefutable facts...
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but we cannot guarantee the outcome
we endure our reckoning
rise or fall on our own acts
and for better or worse we must see it through
and leave the tally to the unforgiving One
dark or light our final beckoning
and these brothers and sisters are the irrefutable facts...
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who am I now?
who was I ever?
I've released a past
that's inescapable
for what it has made me now
we carry our scars from life to life
each life a life sentence
that no amount of 'can-do' positive thinking
will efface
stop listening to these frauds these assholes
who are as much a part of our earthly problems
as the incorrigibly corrupt who oppose
all thought but their own hungers
their own ignorance their own mendacity
drawing all of us back into darkness
due to our Oneness
oh what in the name of all that's allegedly holy
is Grace to do when Grace Itself is too weak
to pierce the darkness?
oh hell is on earth and with the One's Vengeance
paramount to the love and mercy and forgiveness
that the One is supposed to be about
nothing we do will ease the suffering or show us the Light
all lives on earth are life sentences
and our only out is to sustain and be destroyed
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who was I ever?
I've released a past
that's inescapable
for what it has made me now
we carry our scars from life to life
each life a life sentence
that no amount of 'can-do' positive thinking
will efface
stop listening to these frauds these assholes
who are as much a part of our earthly problems
as the incorrigibly corrupt who oppose
all thought but their own hungers
their own ignorance their own mendacity
drawing all of us back into darkness
due to our Oneness
oh what in the name of all that's allegedly holy
is Grace to do when Grace Itself is too weak
to pierce the darkness?
oh hell is on earth and with the One's Vengeance
paramount to the love and mercy and forgiveness
that the One is supposed to be about
nothing we do will ease the suffering or show us the Light
all lives on earth are life sentences
and our only out is to sustain and be destroyed
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
everything's new but nothing has changed
all has changed but nothing is new
I never knew what I did until it was done
and going ahead I still don't know what next to do
but at least I'm used to this stumbling by now
at least that if nothing more or else
and while all has changed but nothing is new
everything's new but nothing has changed...
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all has changed but nothing is new
I never knew what I did until it was done
and going ahead I still don't know what next to do
but at least I'm used to this stumbling by now
at least that if nothing more or else
and while all has changed but nothing is new
everything's new but nothing has changed...
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preacher man preacher man
get off your pulpit and lend us a hand
if God helps those who help themselves
think how godly if you did it first
for us it's the help we needed to do for ourselves
and for you the examination of conscience
whether you did good for others (and we certainly did benefit)
or only for yourself (to no great advantage to you after all)
think on it long and hard then
put it in a sermon to say so in response we can call
welcome to the world
preacher man preacher man
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get off your pulpit and lend us a hand
if God helps those who help themselves
think how godly if you did it first
for us it's the help we needed to do for ourselves
and for you the examination of conscience
whether you did good for others (and we certainly did benefit)
or only for yourself (to no great advantage to you after all)
think on it long and hard then
put it in a sermon to say so in response we can call
welcome to the world
preacher man preacher man
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friends of mine get disturbed sometimes
about posts like the one just previous to this one and others
where I explore all the violent contrasts
of a single intention and all the repercussions
but I assure them there's no 'blasphemy' in it
it's just the way the damn thing's built
hasn't it been said that "God's Will is our woe?"
and so it is and Creator alone knows why
this terrible way is the way it had to be...
according to some esotericists we live in this conditioned
reality (and especially in this particular world) under the beams of
Ray 4--Harmony Through Conflict
where all these strains of agony we endure encourage growth
and spur a new synthesis for good...
so as the One says "I AM THAT I AM"
thus THINGS ARE AS THEY ARE
and there's no use complaining
but rather than long for death to escape
from these horrible earthly sojourns and these worn bodies
and all these unrelenting processes
it might be better to see these deaths as release of the soul
to continue its ongoing journey
and even higher dimensions have their conditions where
Harmony will be the result of a Conflict's resolution
oh my friends no story ever ends except in the One
we can only imagine as the Void...
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about posts like the one just previous to this one and others
where I explore all the violent contrasts
of a single intention and all the repercussions
but I assure them there's no 'blasphemy' in it
it's just the way the damn thing's built
hasn't it been said that "God's Will is our woe?"
and so it is and Creator alone knows why
this terrible way is the way it had to be...
according to some esotericists we live in this conditioned
reality (and especially in this particular world) under the beams of
Ray 4--Harmony Through Conflict
where all these strains of agony we endure encourage growth
and spur a new synthesis for good...
so as the One says "I AM THAT I AM"
thus THINGS ARE AS THEY ARE
and there's no use complaining
but rather than long for death to escape
from these horrible earthly sojourns and these worn bodies
and all these unrelenting processes
it might be better to see these deaths as release of the soul
to continue its ongoing journey
and even higher dimensions have their conditions where
Harmony will be the result of a Conflict's resolution
oh my friends no story ever ends except in the One
we can only imagine as the Void...
Content (c) 2008-2012 Philip Milito. All rights reserved.
I released a personae yesterday
the character who told all I had to say
he was Wraecca he was the Entity
he was the Ghost and more you see
now those artistic constructions have passed
enduring as long as such things will last
and what fresh things I'm given to say
I'll discover day by day
I may repeat myself and worse
but I'll proceed even onto dying of thirst
in this desert of hell we call the World
where all our blooms lay dried and curled
and the 'god of Vengeance' who won't be mocked
will kill us with some gross joke of 'love' and be shocked
to learn that we will continue to do the right thing
whatever the punishment of the vanity of this king
you're screwed no matter what you do
so do what's right and see it through
and if the Universe punishes you for taking it at its 'loving' word
at least you can say "Not my will but Thine" and be heard
good-bye old artifice and hello to all the others
I've released my old personae and become yet another...
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the character who told all I had to say
he was Wraecca he was the Entity
he was the Ghost and more you see
now those artistic constructions have passed
enduring as long as such things will last
and what fresh things I'm given to say
I'll discover day by day
I may repeat myself and worse
but I'll proceed even onto dying of thirst
in this desert of hell we call the World
where all our blooms lay dried and curled
and the 'god of Vengeance' who won't be mocked
will kill us with some gross joke of 'love' and be shocked
to learn that we will continue to do the right thing
whatever the punishment of the vanity of this king
you're screwed no matter what you do
so do what's right and see it through
and if the Universe punishes you for taking it at its 'loving' word
at least you can say "Not my will but Thine" and be heard
good-bye old artifice and hello to all the others
I've released my old personae and become yet another...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
the skin I've worn
is battered and torn
the full weight of reckoning has fallen
I endured my curse
and did my worse
now my soul (forgive the easy rhyme) is all in
I have no idea whether
any good I've managed in this life
will serve others or me
all that well
but it feels much better
to lay down and embrace peace like a wife
and whether I finally find grace for all creation's lunacy
who but the One can tell?
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is battered and torn
the full weight of reckoning has fallen
I endured my curse
and did my worse
now my soul (forgive the easy rhyme) is all in
I have no idea whether
any good I've managed in this life
will serve others or me
all that well
but it feels much better
to lay down and embrace peace like a wife
and whether I finally find grace for all creation's lunacy
who but the One can tell?
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
it takes much fortitude to await your death
powerful mental focus
that could be squandered on the false
hopes of living here
I have much fortitude
so much so that my turds
will be chiseled into little statues
of poets and saints and other madmen...
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powerful mental focus
that could be squandered on the false
hopes of living here
I have much fortitude
so much so that my turds
will be chiseled into little statues
of poets and saints and other madmen...
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...a worker in words
searching for words
to convey the meanings
that are loss in the words
and where the ears
to hear those words
and take their meaning
despite what the ears think
they understand
and the babble of exegesis
to above the roar of palaver
only to add to the roar
thus if if the odds are against it
oh workers in words be precise as you can be...
someone somewhere sometime will get it...
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searching for words
to convey the meanings
that are loss in the words
and where the ears
to hear those words
and take their meaning
despite what the ears think
they understand
and the babble of exegesis
to above the roar of palaver
only to add to the roar
thus if if the odds are against it
oh workers in words be precise as you can be...
someone somewhere sometime will get it...
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Friday, May 4, 2012
I know I'm not long for this way of life
haunted by memory
the content of my existence
and where I end up
is all one to me
I'm determined to change phase graciously
and joyfully
God may not forgive
but I don't care anymore
let me be hammered to the bitter end
it's enough to know
I made my amends
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haunted by memory
the content of my existence
and where I end up
is all one to me
I'm determined to change phase graciously
and joyfully
God may not forgive
but I don't care anymore
let me be hammered to the bitter end
it's enough to know
I made my amends
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beware those with easy advice
who'll egg you into a fight
and not be there to hold your coat
who'll tell you so freely what they would do
when it's not their neck on the block
their comfort makes them feel invincible
but if you're smart you'll ignore and pity them
one day they'll be in your shoes
one day they'll feel that relentless pinch
and then they'll learn how to hold their tongues...
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who'll egg you into a fight
and not be there to hold your coat
who'll tell you so freely what they would do
when it's not their neck on the block
their comfort makes them feel invincible
but if you're smart you'll ignore and pity them
one day they'll be in your shoes
one day they'll feel that relentless pinch
and then they'll learn how to hold their tongues...
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I've lived my whole life trudging
one slow step after another
managing accomplishments in life
powered by dreams now spent
well the accomplishments are fine
standing as they do on the husks and shells
of my previous endeavors
shining out on the rubbish heap of dross
while I'm weighed down in the debris
but still life has no end I can see
and one slow step after another
got me into this fix
and one small step after another
will get me out again...
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one slow step after another
managing accomplishments in life
powered by dreams now spent
well the accomplishments are fine
standing as they do on the husks and shells
of my previous endeavors
shining out on the rubbish heap of dross
while I'm weighed down in the debris
but still life has no end I can see
and one slow step after another
got me into this fix
and one small step after another
will get me out again...
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I for you and you for me and we for all of us
if we be united who can stand against us?
the rest of the world unfortunately
but then we were deluded to think there'd be heaven on earth one day
how vain and childish
earth is just a stopping place on our journey
and was never meant to be
anything else
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if we be united who can stand against us?
the rest of the world unfortunately
but then we were deluded to think there'd be heaven on earth one day
how vain and childish
earth is just a stopping place on our journey
and was never meant to be
anything else
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all the high-minded ideas
for surviving the collapse of Civilization
(a misnomer if ever there was one)
are as high-minded and gas-blown
as the Civilization taking its dive
I have a still reliable method
submerge yourself in the cold water by the rushes
and breathe through a reed....
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for surviving the collapse of Civilization
(a misnomer if ever there was one)
are as high-minded and gas-blown
as the Civilization taking its dive
I have a still reliable method
submerge yourself in the cold water by the rushes
and breathe through a reed....
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
I would be the one who saves you
but what good when I am also failing?
good intention alone cannot deliver
the paradise we seek
I'm trembling in the instant
and so are you
and all of us who thought we knew
the actual Plan and its intractable Reality
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but what good when I am also failing?
good intention alone cannot deliver
the paradise we seek
I'm trembling in the instant
and so are you
and all of us who thought we knew
the actual Plan and its intractable Reality
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
we're not who we think we are
our illusions of love and faith
just a drug to soothe troubled minds
but when of our false beliefs we're relieved
and realize nothing has changed
for all our praying and sleeve-tearing
then you rage and boil and then subside
into the grave of our making
as long as we're in this skin
we only know to the limits of our grasp
and even if we did transcend
it is never ours to know for sure....
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our illusions of love and faith
just a drug to soothe troubled minds
but when of our false beliefs we're relieved
and realize nothing has changed
for all our praying and sleeve-tearing
then you rage and boil and then subside
into the grave of our making
as long as we're in this skin
we only know to the limits of our grasp
and even if we did transcend
it is never ours to know for sure....
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
spare me the sermon
the lecture
the civics lesson
or any other pronouncements
about spirit or ethics or politics
or respect for others
I don't want to know it
I don't want to hear
I've sunk in my own quagmire
of misplaced faith and groundless hope
and while I face my fall
don't stand there preaching
your self-serving gospel to me
it's all I can do to try and draw
peace from my agony
and strength from my afflictions
and face my end with more grace than
I exhibited while I lived my hapless fate
and I don't need your benedictions
one day you'll know what I've suffered
then you won't be so free with your advice
or your judgments
on your soapbox spouting while some clown
on the rafters overhead
dribbles spit onto the top of your head...
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the lecture
the civics lesson
or any other pronouncements
about spirit or ethics or politics
or respect for others
I don't want to know it
I don't want to hear
I've sunk in my own quagmire
of misplaced faith and groundless hope
and while I face my fall
don't stand there preaching
your self-serving gospel to me
it's all I can do to try and draw
peace from my agony
and strength from my afflictions
and face my end with more grace than
I exhibited while I lived my hapless fate
and I don't need your benedictions
one day you'll know what I've suffered
then you won't be so free with your advice
or your judgments
on your soapbox spouting while some clown
on the rafters overhead
dribbles spit onto the top of your head...
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completion is inclusive
and no story is ever done
let the god who lays liability on our weak shoulders
while vengeance is the only thing this god is about
mess with us every step of our journey
we're not done until the killing blow falls
and even then the story goes on
if only because there is no completion
as long as we live....
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and no story is ever done
let the god who lays liability on our weak shoulders
while vengeance is the only thing this god is about
mess with us every step of our journey
we're not done until the killing blow falls
and even then the story goes on
if only because there is no completion
as long as we live....
Content (c) 2008-2012 Philip Milito. All rights reserved.
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