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Tend to the Lantern in Your Heart
I recently read an article which states that there is no “one” person who will fulfill us and that many couples initiate a union with a foundation based on each being “on their best behavior,” implying that over time blemishes tarnish bliss. … Continue reading
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Density of Absence
The density of absence is far more than that which is absent… as such, it has it’s own gravitational pull and so we fall toward the center as if IT desires US. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle
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Poison on the Arrows Point
The only truth is the one that I choose, and choose, and choose. What then of these arrows dipped in the elixir of delusion, sent forth by the bow of truth? Love may go awry, but the archer always makes his mark. We’ll sooner die from bleeding than from the poison … Continue reading
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A Sparrow Eats the Universe
If I knew who I’d be by the last written line of this poem. If I knew who’d sway, besotted, beside me to lean in and catch the last word of our maundering sobhet; If this, I’d never have left my … Continue reading
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Word is Metaphor
A word is a metered metaphor for a divine idea whose quality can only only be approximated through language. The true truth to which it points, is unutterable, unfathomable; inaudible echoes caressing the ears of the heart. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle
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Shift
A note to Peter, whom I met through nothing less or more than art. “These encounters always provide some trace of ‘shift.’ We’re all given minute and subtle chances to achieve some prodigious schemes. So I tend to leave no … Continue reading
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Writers are from Mars, Readers are from Mars too.
You were expecting Venus? So that’s where you are; I should have known. The following is a compendium of musings on the balance of reader and writer, teetering on the fulcrum of creativity. ***** A creationist take on the theory … Continue reading
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Some friends are like the leaves in fall
Some friends are like the leaves in fall. From the verdant spring they unfurl in their splendor and vibrancy. In soft whisper and summer hiss, they stage the hues of blossoms and ballads and whistle birdsongs from hidden branches. Elevating … Continue reading
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Align and Mingle
I like the way random events align and mingle with one another – like the clacking of billiard balls after a super clean break. Close your eyes and it all sounds the same, but if you open them you see … Continue reading
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Tagged change, chaos, mind, order, philosophy, sufism, writing
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Quivering Leaves
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is a breeze that stirs a million tree leaves, so much, that each leaf believes it is in love with … Continue reading
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