tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45509783194994503542024-03-07T21:58:15.987-08:00Night Howling & Other TalesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-63018505891144211072017-04-20T13:49:00.001-07:002017-06-21T19:32:06.680-07:00Ravenrock<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Global warming is all a </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what… me sigh? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Donald? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since we're all goin' to hades </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in an express hand-basket; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Push the pedal to the metal!" </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All this global climate change hooey </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-36790766823130473772016-05-29T11:02:00.000-07:002016-05-29T11:24:44.600-07:00Saint Marian Havens: A MedleyIntelligence is a dangerous tool<br />
in the hands of an incompetent fool...<br />
<br />
...so, I live in a home where<br />
the rough fellows roam<br />
and fear that I cannot cope play.<br />
Where seldom is heard<br />
an encouraging word<br />
and my eyes are all cloudy all day.<br />
Oh, home,<br />
home of deranged,<br />
where the fear and the last hopes do play.<br />
Where seldom is heard,<br />
an encouraging word<br />
and the skies are all cloudy all day...<br />
<br />
...while strolling through the dark one day<br />
in the very, scary month of May,<br />
I was taken by surprise,<br />
by a guy with frying eyes,<br />
while strolling through the dark one day...<br />
<br />
...nothin' could be finah<br />
than to be in Carolina<br />
in the mor-or-OR-ning.<br />
Nothin' could be finah,<br />
than to eat at<br />
Sixty-Ninah Dinah<br />
in the mor-or-OR-ning...<br />
<br />
...someone's in the kitchen<br />
at the Sixty-Ninah Dinah,<br />
someone's in the kitchen, I know.<br />
Someone's in the kitchen with Di-NAH,<br />
justa strummin' on an ol' banjo.<br />
Someone in there 'long side Dinah,<br />
someone's in the kitchen, I say.<br />
Someone's in the kitchen with Di-NAH,<br />
That someone's cookin' up a soufflé.<br />
That someone's in the kitchen with Di-NAH,<br />
And that someone's gonna be there all day ....<br />
<br />
...3-6-9, the bets are on the line<br />
and the nags were runnin' wacky,<br />
so the Goose drinks wine.<br />
Then the Monkey spit tobacky<br />
on the Streetcar Lion,<br />
So the Lion broke down, <br />
and the Monkey choked up,<br />
and the Goose started cryin',<br />
when they lost a pretty bundle<br />
on Ol' Butter Cup...<br />
<br />
...incompetence is a dangerous tool<br />
in the hands of an intelligent fool.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-27509438625074875122016-05-27T15:37:00.000-07:002016-05-27T15:37:35.103-07:00What Can I Say?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>What can I tell you?</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>I have nothing new to say,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>I wasted all my silly words</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>You didn’t listen then,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>You certainly will not now,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>So, why even bother?</b></i></span></span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-7904cb2e-f45b-d571-fe4a-ef762ffc7ede"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white;"><br /></i></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>In truth, I know not how</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>To get my point across,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Or the way to phrase my mind.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>More or less,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Whether you think of me in kind.</b></i></span></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white;"><br /></i></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>What your thinking was,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Or your feelings were</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>About my poems I pray.</b></i></span></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white;"><br /></i></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Inside your mind and soul,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Trying to understand you,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Trying to get to know</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Who you truly are, </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Deeply where your light does glow.</b></i></span></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white;"><br /></i></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>What I am you give little thought,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Of what lives within me there</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Where dwell my hopes and dreams.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>All you seem to have a care,</b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Is for what is sold or bought.</b></i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-80010943566984352692016-05-27T15:27:00.002-07:002016-05-27T15:27:29.982-07:00Mistress Nightmare<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dearest Ms. Night,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm sending this little note,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As a follow-up of the one you wrote,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Which expressed your sincere desire,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That I turn my light into darkness and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My sun filled days over to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mistress Night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But, I aspire that you understand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That your demand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of losing my life of brightness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My life of summer fine,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And this against my will,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Without a fight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Is not mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Insincerely yours,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And good night.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-1715800499399088652016-05-27T15:12:00.000-07:002016-05-27T15:12:05.393-07:00Recognition<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">The Old One sat grounded,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">His back against a silver ladder</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">That towered to the stars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span></h2>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">Looking up at me, he said:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“I know who you are, Samael…”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">He paused...</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">He asked:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“Do you know whom I am, as well?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">I looked up from him to the tower soaring.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">Its fading end seemed bound tight</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">Between bright Venus and dull Mars,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">The twin powers of the night.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“No, Old One,” shaking my head,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“I know not who you were, may be, or are.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">He nodded...</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">He asked:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“What DO you know, O Samael?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">In a roaring,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">I thought:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">If that is Heaven, I’m in hell.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">I looked down again into his</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">Deep and infinite eyes,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">Darker than midwinter skies</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">And deeper than Tantalus’s well.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“Old One, about you, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">I can only guess,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">And of you, I can only know…”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">I looked up again at </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">Venus cool and Mars hot.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“Go on, he urged. “Yes?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">“All I can truly know is; </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">What you are not.”</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-3787145953292948872016-05-27T15:01:00.002-07:002016-05-27T15:01:43.516-07:00Near Jericho<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SCENE:</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Desert wilderness, 1,000 feet below sea level. Evening…</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">CHARACTERS:</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A man</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A machine</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[The Man sits with outstretched legs in the dwindling shade of a cliff, his back against a boulder, his bearded chin touching his clavicles, his long and many braided black hair hangs past his shoulders. The man’s left hand is palm upward in his lap, his right hand rests upon a head sized rock, palm downwards. The man is worn by a monthly progression of daily heat and thirst and cold nights hungering for physical and spiritual nourishment, and is continually bewildered by thunderous truths and constantly amazed by dazzling dreams. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Machine stands over the man and experiences none of these things.]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ACT ONE:</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MACHINE: If you hunger and are the Son of Man, command that stone you hold to become bread. Why suffer so? But, if you are the Son of God, command all of these stones to become loaves of bread and feast to your heart’s content!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MAN: You know what is written.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MACHINE: I know all that has been revealed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MAN: Then, “you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by the spirit of the breath of YHVH?”</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MACHINE: Yes, I am aware of this writing. Also, I am aware of another…</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[Before The Man could blink once, The Machine reached down and took The Man’s hand from the rock, pulled him upright and into the air, flying to the holy city, Jerusalem, and settled both of them upon the tallest tower of the temple.]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MACHINE: ...writing. Thus: “No evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Therefore; if you be the Son of God, throw yourself down!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MAN: Yet, it is also written: “You shall not test the YHVH, nor put your Elohim to the test, as you tested him at Massah.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[The Machine grabbed The Man around his waist and flew him straight upwards until The Man had trouble breathing the suddenly cold and rarefied air.]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MACHINE: Do you see all the lands and seas below us? All of the kingdoms of mankind? Over all of this I will give to you the authority and glory of Emperor, for it has been given to me to give to whom I will. If you will only fall to your knees and worship me, all of this I will gladly give to you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE MAN: Still, isn’t it written: “For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. You should love the foreigner, also, for you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. You shall revere, serve and hold fast to the YHVH your Elohim, and by this name you shall swear?”</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SCENE:</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Desert wilderness, 1,000 feet below sea level. Morning…</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[The man sits with outstretched legs in the brightening reflections from a cliff face, his back and his long and many braided black hair against a boulder, his radiant face glimmering in the dawn. The man’s left hand is palm upward in his lap, his right hand rests upon a vellum scroll, palm downwards. The man is worn by a monthly progression of daily heat and thirst and cold nights no longer hungering for physical and spiritual nourishment, yet still is continually awed by thunderous dreams and constantly amazed by dazzling truths. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The machine is gone.]</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-64601088556667825782016-05-27T14:51:00.000-07:002016-05-27T14:51:31.811-07:00THE BLACK [a song]<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel your love like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel your pain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need you like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need the grape like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need the grain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I die I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wanna be on acid</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanna be in the colors</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I'm in the black</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel your love like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel your pain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need you like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need the sun like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need the rain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Living life was never</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always easy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's like a wobbly top</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of white and black</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel your love like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel your pain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love you like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the sun like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the rain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I die I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wanna hit of hashish</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanna hit a high note</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I hit the black</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After I die I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know our love will be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always with me </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it lights me through</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said...</span><br />
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Dedicated to Jason & Steve Wilson-Chism<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-44071193786210213972016-05-27T14:44:00.000-07:002016-05-27T14:44:05.906-07:00THE DAYDREAMER’S PRAYER<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Oh, God?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>I cannot believe</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>This is happening,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>That this is happening…</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>To me!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Why me?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Oh, Lord,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Please…</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Please help me</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Wake up.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Please!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Let me wake up!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Amen...</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-58169072604766282832016-05-27T14:37:00.002-07:002016-05-27T14:37:56.576-07:00Home of Deranged<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I live in a home</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Where rough fellows roam</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And fear and "cannot-cope" play.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Where seldom is heard</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An encouraging word</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And the guys are all rowdy</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All day.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Oh, home of deranged,</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Where fear and the hope</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Never play.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Where seldom is heard</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An encouraging word</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And the guys are all rowdy</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All day.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-90308631977122835232016-05-27T13:27:00.001-07:002016-05-27T14:13:23.465-07:00IMPERIUM<span style="background-color: black;">Back then, When <br />BC turned to AD,<br />A victorious triumph<br />Was a real big deal!<br />It was a processional<br />Celebrational state event,<br />That poems greeted and<br />What Roma needed,<br />And felt heaven sent!<br />Real barbecue!<br />Free bread!<br />And water flowing into wine,<br />Into the belly glowing,<br />Until, finally, <br />Slowing down the head!<br />It was one of the few<br />Times when<br />A Roman citizen<br />Truly knew:<br />That when the<br />Emperor succeeded,<br />The poor got fed.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-79845893616557025582016-02-06T19:00:00.001-08:002016-02-06T19:00:59.895-08:00Keep The Faith!<p dir="ltr">“Now faith,”<br>
once said someone, <br>
“Is the assurance of things <br>
hoped for, <br>
the conviction of things <br>
not seen.”<br>
Some keep this faith whole<br>
with a hope that sings<br>
of our becoming<br>
one in heart, mind and soul.<br>
Although some of us ---all of the time,<br>
or sometimes <br>
all of us<br>
some of the time-- <br>
were maybe taught<br>
something about<br>
this “maybe someday”<br>
thought <br>
(maybe in a funny rhyme),<br>
really believe<br>
that we are far<br>
from this “one day,<br>
touchy-feely, <br>
sunny time.”<br>
But, it is not <br>
about our becoming;<br>
for we already are.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-56814045000393770312016-02-06T17:44:00.001-08:002016-02-06T17:44:52.035-08:00PRESENTENSE<p dir="ltr">If asked,<br>
What is the day?<br>
I answer not what it is,<br>
But what it is not;<br>
Neither yesterday,<br>
Nor the morrow.<br>
For today <br>
Is the only day <br>
Of the year,<br>
That in joy, <br>
God hast wrought.<br>
In contrast,<br>
The past is painted with<br>
Sorrows and<br>
Our future tomorrows<br>
Are sculpted in fear.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-19537783974048410622016-02-05T21:26:00.001-08:002016-02-05T21:26:46.897-08:00RECITALS<p dir="ltr">ELOHIM RECITAL*<br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">In the beginning, the essence of Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">was hovering over the face of the void;</p>
<p dir="ltr">and dark matter was without form,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and dark energy was over the face of the deep.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This essence of Elohim was a concept integrated within a void of data.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This algorithm of data created the conceptual manifestation</p>
<p dir="ltr">of a singularity within the formless void of potentiality</p>
<p dir="ltr">and mass/energy/plasma exploded into being!</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Elohim created the Big Bang;</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the first stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And then the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let there be photons,”</p>
<p dir="ltr">and there was light.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that the light was good.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim separated the light</p>
<p dir="ltr">from the darkness and matter and energy</p>
<p dir="ltr">separated into quantum states of being.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Elohim called the higher energy states “light”,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and the lower energy states he called "matter”.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And there was darkness</p>
<p dir="ltr">and there was lightness;</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the second stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Then the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let there be lights</p>
<p dir="ltr">in the expanse of the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">to separate the day from the night.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And let them be for signs</p>
<p dir="ltr">and for seasons,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and for days and years,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and let there be lights</p>
<p dir="ltr">in the expanse of the the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">to give light upon the planets.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And it was so.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim set them</p>
<p dir="ltr">in the expanse of the the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">to give light on the planets</p>
<p dir="ltr">and to separate the light</p>
<p dir="ltr">from the darkness.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the third stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Billions of years evaporated</p>
<p dir="ltr">as would illimitable cold fogs</p>
<p dir="ltr">under innumerable hot suns.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And then the Elohim made</p>
<p dir="ltr">the two great lights to rule</p>
<p dir="ltr">over the day and over the night;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the greater light to rule the day,</p>
<p dir="ltr">the lesser light and the stars to rule the night.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And there was evening and there was morning;</p>
<p dir="ltr">a perfect day.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Then Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let there be expansive space</p>
<p dir="ltr">in the between the waters,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and let it separate the clouds</p>
<p dir="ltr">from the waters.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim made the expanse</p>
<p dir="ltr">and separated the waters</p>
<p dir="ltr">that were above the expanse</p>
<p dir="ltr">from the waters</p>
<p dir="ltr">that were below the expanse.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And it was so.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim called the expanse the Skies.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let the waters under the the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">be gathered together into one place,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and let the dry land appear.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And it was so.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Elohim called the dry land Earth,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and the waters that were gathered together</p>
<p dir="ltr">he called Seas.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the third stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let the earth sprout vegetation,</p>
<p dir="ltr">plants yielding seed,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and fruit trees bearing fruit</p>
<p dir="ltr">in which is their seed,</p>
<p dir="ltr">each according to its kind,</p>
<p dir="ltr">on the earth and in the seas.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And it was so.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The earth brought forth vegetation,</p>
<p dir="ltr">plants yielding seed</p>
<p dir="ltr">according to their own kinds,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and trees bearing fruit</p>
<p dir="ltr">in which is their seed,</p>
<p dir="ltr">each according to its kind.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let the waters swarm with living creatures,”</p>
<p dir="ltr">so the Elohim created the great sea creatures</p>
<p dir="ltr">and let the waters swarm with every living creature</p>
<p dir="ltr">and that which swarms according to their kinds.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim blessed them, saying,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Be fruitful and multiply and fill</p>
<p dir="ltr">all the waters in the seas.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim blessed them, saying,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Be fruitful and multiply and fill</p>
<p dir="ltr">all the lands and waters in the seas.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And there was evening and there was morning;</p>
<p dir="ltr">another perfect day;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the fourth stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let the earth bring forth living creatures</p>
<p dir="ltr">according to their kinds.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Dinosaur and reptile</p>
<p dir="ltr">and insect and mammal</p>
<p dir="ltr">of the earth according to their kinds.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And it was so.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim made the dinosaurs</p>
<p dir="ltr">of the earth according to their kinds</p>
<p dir="ltr">and the mammals according to their kinds,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and everything that creeps,</p>
<p dir="ltr">snakes and insects on the ground</p>
<p dir="ltr">according to its kind.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim blessed them, saying,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Be fruitful and multiply and fill all the lands.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let birds fly above the earth</p>
<p dir="ltr">across the expanse of the the skies.</p>
<p dir="ltr">and every winged bird according to its kind.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim saw that it was good.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim blessed them, saying,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Be fruitful and multiply and fill al the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">and let birds multiply on all the earth.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And there was evening and there was morning,</p>
<p dir="ltr">another perfect day;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the fifth stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And then the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Let US make humans in the image</p>
<p dir="ltr">of OUR spirits</p>
<p dir="ltr">and after the likeness</p>
<p dir="ltr">of OUR souls.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And let them become guardians</p>
<p dir="ltr">over the fish of the sea</p>
<p dir="ltr">and over the birds of the the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">and over the animals of the earth,</p>
<p dir="ltr">over every insect thing that creeps on the earth</p>
<p dir="ltr">and over all the lands.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">So the Elohim created humans in his own image,</p>
<p dir="ltr">in the image of the Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">he created them;</p>
<p dir="ltr">male and female he created them.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said to them,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Be fruitful and multiply</p>
<p dir="ltr">and fill the earth and care for it,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and have guardianship over the fish of the sea</p>
<p dir="ltr">and over the birds of the the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">and over every living thing</p>
<p dir="ltr">that moves on the earth.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed</p>
<p dir="ltr">that is on the face of all the earth,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and every tree with seed in its fruit.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You shall have them only for food.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And to every beast of the earth</p>
<p dir="ltr">and to every bird of the the skies</p>
<p dir="ltr">and to everything that creeps on the earth,</p>
<p dir="ltr">everything that has the breath of life,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I have given every green plant for food.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">And it was so.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">saw everything</p>
<p dir="ltr">that they had made,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and behold,</p>
<p dir="ltr">it was very good!</p>
<p dir="ltr">And there was evening and there was morning,</p>
<p dir="ltr">the most perfect day;</p>
<p dir="ltr">the sixth stage of continuous creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And on the seventh day Elohim finished his work that he had done,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and he entered on the seventh day into all his work that he had done.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy,</p>
<p dir="ltr">because on it Elohim entered his work that he had done in creation.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">EHYAH-ASHER-EHYAH RECITAL*<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">When no bush of the field </p>
<p dir="ltr">was yet in the land </p>
<p dir="ltr">and no small plant of the field </p>
<p dir="ltr">had yet sprung up;</p>
<p dir="ltr">for the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim </p>
<p dir="ltr">had not caused it to rain on the land, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and there was no Adama </p>
<p dir="ltr">to work the ground, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and a mist was going up </p>
<p dir="ltr">from the land </p>
<p dir="ltr">and was watering </p>
<p dir="ltr">the whole face of the ground,</p>
<p dir="ltr">then the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim </p>
<p dir="ltr">formed the Adama of dust </p>
<p dir="ltr">from the ground </p>
<p dir="ltr">and breathed into his nostrils </p>
<p dir="ltr">the breath of life, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and the Adama became a living creature. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Now the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">had planted a garden in Eden, in the east,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and there he put the Adama whom he had formed.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And out of the ground</p>
<p dir="ltr">the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">made to spring up every tree</p>
<p dir="ltr">that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The tree of life was in the midst of the garden,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and also the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">The Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">took the Adama and put him in the garden of Eden</p>
<p dir="ltr">to work it and keep it.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">commanded the Adama, saying,<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,</p>
<p dir="ltr">but of the tree of the knowledge</p>
<p dir="ltr">of the distinction between </p>
<p dir="ltr">conceptualized good and evil</p>
<p dir="ltr">you shall not eat,</p>
<p dir="ltr">for in the day that you eat of it,</p>
<p dir="ltr">you shall surely know you will die.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Now out of the ground</p>
<p dir="ltr">the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">had formed every beast of the field</p>
<p dir="ltr">and every bird of the heavens</p>
<p dir="ltr">and brought them to the Adama</p>
<p dir="ltr">to see what he would name them.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And whatever the Adama </p>
<p dir="ltr">called every living creature,</p>
<p dir="ltr">that was then its conceptual idealization.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Adama gave names to all livestock</p>
<p dir="ltr">and to the birds of the heavens</p>
<p dir="ltr">and to every beast of the field.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">But for the Adama</p>
<p dir="ltr">there was not found a helper fit for him.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">caused a deep sleep to fall upon the Adama,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and while he slept took some of his rib DNA</p>
<p dir="ltr">and closed up its place with flesh.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the rib DNA that</p>
<p dir="ltr">the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">had taken from the Adama</p>
<p dir="ltr">he made into a woman</p>
<p dir="ltr">and brought her to the Adama.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And the man and his woman</p>
<p dir="ltr">were both naked</p>
<p dir="ltr">and were not ashamed.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Now the serpentine was more crafty</p>
<p dir="ltr">than any other beast of the field that</p>
<p dir="ltr">the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim had made.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">He said to the woman,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Did Elohim actually say,</p>
<p dir="ltr">‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the woman said to the serpent,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,</p>
<p dir="ltr">but Elohim said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree</p>
<p dir="ltr">that is in the midst of the garden,</p>
<p dir="ltr">neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">But the serpent said to the woman,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“You will not surely die.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For the Elohim knows </p>
<p dir="ltr">that when you eat of it</p>
<p dir="ltr">your eyes will be opened,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and you will be like Elohim,</p>
<p dir="ltr">knowing good and evil.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">So when the woman saw</p>
<p dir="ltr">that the tree was good for food,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and that it was a delight to the eyes,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and that the tree was to be desired</p>
<p dir="ltr">to make one wise,</p>
<p dir="ltr">she took of its fruit and ate,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and she also gave some to Adama</p>
<p dir="ltr">who was with her, and he ate.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then the eyes of both were opened,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and they knew that they were naked.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And they sewed fig leaves together</p>
<p dir="ltr">and made themselves loincloths.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And they heard the sound of</p>
<p dir="ltr">the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">walking in the garden</p>
<p dir="ltr">in the cool of the day,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and the Adama and his woman</p>
<p dir="ltr">hid themselves from the presence of</p>
<p dir="ltr">the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">among the trees of the garden.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">But the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">called to the Adama and said to him,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Where are you?”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And Adama said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“I heard the sound of you in the garden,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and I was afraid,</p>
<p dir="ltr">because I was naked,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and I hid myself.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">He said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Who told you that you were naked?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Have you eaten of the tree</p>
<p dir="ltr">of which I commanded you not to eat?”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">The Adama said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“The woman whom you gave to be with me,</p>
<p dir="ltr">she gave me fruit of the tree,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and I ate.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Then the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">said to the woman,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“What is this that you have done?”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">The woman said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“The serpentine deceived me,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and I ate.”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">made for Adama and for his woman</p>
<p dir="ltr">garments of skins and clothed them.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Then the Ehyah-Asher-Ehyah Elohim</p>
<p dir="ltr">said,</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Behold, the humans have become like one of US</p>
<p dir="ltr">in knowing distinction between good and evil.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now, lest he reach out his hand</p>
<p dir="ltr">and take also of the tree of life and eat,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and live forever...”<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">* (from the Book of Genesis, Chapters One through Three using the English Standard Version, but poetically enhanced)<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”<br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">CHOKHMAH RECITAL**<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“The YHVH created me </p>
<p dir="ltr">at the beginning of his work, </p>
<p dir="ltr">the first of his acts of long ago. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Ages ago I was formed, </p>
<p dir="ltr">from the first, </p>
<p dir="ltr">before the beginning of the earth,</p>
<p dir="ltr">when there were no seas </p>
<p dir="ltr">and when there were no springs </p>
<p dir="ltr">abounding with water.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I was brought into being</p>
<p dir="ltr">before the hills,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and before the mountains </p>
<p dir="ltr">had been shaped, <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I was created </p>
<p dir="ltr">when earth and fields </p>
<p dir="ltr">had not yet been made </p>
<p dir="ltr">or the world's first bits of soil!<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“When the heavens were established, </p>
<p dir="ltr">I was there!</p>
<p dir="ltr">When the circle was drawn on the face of the deep, </p>
<p dir="ltr">I was there!</p>
<p dir="ltr">When the skies were made firm above, </p>
<p dir="ltr">I was there!</p>
<p dir="ltr">When the fountains of the deep were established,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I was there!</p>
<p dir="ltr">When the sea was assigned to its limit, </p>
<p dir="ltr">so that the waters might not transgress </p>
<p dir="ltr">the marked foundations of the earth, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Then I was beside YHVH, </p>
<p dir="ltr">like a master worker; </p>
<p dir="ltr">and I was daily his delight, </p>
<p dir="ltr">rejoicing before him always! </p>
<p dir="ltr">Rejoicing in his inhabited world </p>
<p dir="ltr">and delighting in the human race. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Does not Sophia shout greetings?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Does not Gnosis raise her voice? </p>
<p dir="ltr">On the high places, </p>
<p dir="ltr">or beside the highways, </p>
<p dir="ltr">or in the market places?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Does She not take her stand </p>
<p dir="ltr">beside the gates </p>
<p dir="ltr">in front of the city. </p>
<p dir="ltr">and at the entrance of doorways?<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">She shouts aloud!</p>
<p dir="ltr">"To you, </p>
<p dir="ltr">O humanity, </p>
<p dir="ltr">I call, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and my cry </p>
<p dir="ltr">is to all </p>
<p dir="ltr">that are alive. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“O simple ones; </p>
<p dir="ltr">learn justice. </p>
<p dir="ltr">O simple ones;</p>
<p dir="ltr">acquire intelligence.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“You who lack it, hear! <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“For I will speak with honesty, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and from my lips will come rationality.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My mouth will utter sweet truth, </p>
<p dir="ltr">for inequity is disgusting to my tongue. </p>
<p dir="ltr">All the words of my mouth are righteous</p>
<p dir="ltr">and there is nothing unsavory </p>
<p dir="ltr">or corrupt within them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">They are all accurate </p>
<p dir="ltr">to one who understands </p>
<p dir="ltr">and straight to those who find Gnosis. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“Take my teaching instead of silver, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and my knowledge rather than gold; </p>
<p dir="ltr">for Chokhmah is better than jewels, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and all that you may desire </p>
<p dir="ltr">can never compare with Her.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I, Sophia, </p>
<p dir="ltr">live with discretion, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and I give knowledge </p>
<p dir="ltr">and direction. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“The love of the YHVH </p>
<p dir="ltr">is hatred of injustice. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Pride and arrogance,</p>
<p dir="ltr">and the way of inequity </p>
<p dir="ltr">and perverted speech;</p>
<p dir="ltr">I despise. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I have good advice </p>
<p dir="ltr">and sound wisdom; </p>
<p dir="ltr">I have insight and</p>
<p dir="ltr">I have strength. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“By me </p>
<p dir="ltr">kings and rulers reign </p>
<p dir="ltr">and decree what is just.</p>
<p dir="ltr">By me </p>
<p dir="ltr">all rulers who govern, </p>
<p dir="ltr">rule nobly and rightly. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I love those who love me, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and those who seek me </p>
<p dir="ltr">diligently will find me. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“My fruits, my yield are honor, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and with me enduring prosperity, </p>
<p dir="ltr">much better than any riches of gold, </p>
<p dir="ltr">even fine gold or wealth of choice silver. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I walk in the way of righteousness, </p>
<p dir="ltr">along the paths of justice, </p>
<p dir="ltr">endowing those who love me, </p>
<p dir="ltr">and filling their hearts. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">"And now, my children, </p>
<p dir="ltr">listen to me! <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“Happy are those </p>
<p dir="ltr">who keep my ways</p>
<p dir="ltr">and hear my logos. </p>
<p dir="ltr">And to be wise, do not neglect it! <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">“Happy is the one </p>
<p dir="ltr">who listens to me, </p>
<p dir="ltr">watching daily at my gates, </p>
<p dir="ltr">waiting beside my doors. </p>
<p dir="ltr">For whoever finds me </p>
<p dir="ltr">finds life </p>
<p dir="ltr">and obtains favor from the YHVH. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But those who miss me </p>
<p dir="ltr">injure themselves, </p>
<p dir="ltr">because all who hate me love death."<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">** (From The Book of Proverbs; Chapter 8 - NRSV - rearranged for poetic versification)<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">The New Revised Standard Version [NRSV] is copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of  Christ in the United  States of America, and its text is used by permission.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-69521137536867887562015-11-15T22:32:00.001-08:002015-11-15T22:32:07.784-08:00Cave Canum<div class="NoSpacing">
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(Once upon a time <br />
Adam named the concepts, <br />
Eve defined the options and <br />
the walker <br />
in the cool of the day <br />
killed an animal for skins <br />
to hide closed eyes from sins.) </div>
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Then Paul asked, </div>
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“So won't you listen to what the man said? </div>
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And John said... </div>
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“God is a concept, <br />
by which we <br />
measure <br />
our pain... <br />
the dream is over!” </div>
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What dream? </div>
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This materialistic dharma.<br />
This charming reality of <br />
delusional harm.</div>
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<br />
If over it is, then <br />
we should hear the siren, <br />
the growling alarm, <br />
and it is time to stop sleeping <br />
with the solidity of a log. </div>
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So... </div>
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Wake up from your vacations! <br />
and believe not what you wish. <br />
Beware of reifications and <br />
beware of the Dog! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-78567154411503560842015-10-14T02:56:00.003-07:002015-10-14T02:56:38.695-07:00Dog NightTonight, as my dog, Strider,<br />
walks me through the silent shadows,<br />
I sense a dull pain effusing from the stones,<br />
a weird sensation of unnatural old cold<br />
rising through the soles of my boots,<br />
seeping through the marrow of my leg bones,<br />
and weighing me down<br />
like a frozen skeletal rider.<br />
<br />
The air is not uncomfortable,<br />
but the ache that I experience is.<br />
It is cold, oh, so,<br />
cold and horrible.<br />
<br />
My friend, my only companion,<br />
leads me onward to that junction<br />
in the road<br />
that I may release him<br />
and let him run without harm,<br />
without caution.<br />
<br />
It is just ahead and<br />
around the bend<br />
where the graveyard,<br />
the fenced cemetery ends<br />
and the open fields begin.<br />
<br />
“Slow down, boy,” I grunt.<br />
“We’ll get there soon enough,<br />
I warrant.<br />
Ain’t no rabbits out tonight anyway.”<br />
I lie.<br />
He huffs and strains against the chain.<br />
<br />
I puff, short of breath and<br />
have a feeling of not being there,<br />
still, I am completely aware<br />
of that which surrounds me,<br />
to that which I am inextricably linked,<br />
my environment within and without me'<br />
Yet, somehow events seem kinked.<br />
<br />
It is a gloomy night, but I do not fear,<br />
for my dog can her<br />
that which I can not,<br />
and I depend upon his senses<br />
for my protection;<br />
because tonight,<br />
this night of expectation,<br />
I am far from the traveled lands<br />
of my own,<br />
my humankind.<br />
<br />
We reach the point of release<br />
and I command my friend to halt<br />
so that I can unclip his collar from the leash.<br />
He is off.<br />
<br />
I stand quiet in the night, listening.<br />
It seems a gentle late October evening.<br />
I hear the rustling of the dried oak<br />
and hickory leaves that my friend pads through.<br />
The breeze cause decaying branches<br />
to rattle against each other, too.<br />
<br />
Far away, a lonely coyote calls once,<br />
just once.<br />
<br />
The moon is just a thin crescent<br />
low in the western sky,<br />
which leads me to believe<br />
that the coyote<br />
has not that much for to cry.<br />
<br />
Strider barks, not in that inquisitive,<br />
“What the hell is this?” way,<br />
but frantically and frenetically<br />
as if at bay.<br />
<br />
I turn in the direction of his sound<br />
and barely see<br />
his running form back to me.<br />
<br />
“What is it, boy?” I ask.<br />
<br />
His answer is the shaking of his body<br />
against my knee.<br />
I kneel down and hug him.<br />
He still shakes, then gives a little whine<br />
taking me to task<br />
for not being there for him,<br />
he knows he's mine<br />
and I am his chap.<br />
I sit down Indian style<br />
and Strider crawls onto my lap.<br />
<br />
This night has no shadows now.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-4620920134371193832015-10-14T01:01:00.000-07:002015-10-14T01:01:27.307-07:00Peering Through a Glass Darkly<br />
<br />
I climb exhaustedly,<br />
hunched over,<br />
in tears,<br />
as I gain the summit<br />
of a hill of years,<br />
and from my elderly<br />
vantage point I can barely<br />
distinguish through a<br />
hazy distance a lonely<br />
church spire from which<br />
I dimly hear the tolling<br />
of a muffled bell.<br />
<br />
It beckons me,<br />
as would a doorbell ringing,<br />
or laughing children singing,<br />
or ice cream trucks dinging<br />
around my old neighborhood.<br />
<br />
Slowly shambling down my hill<br />
then with an ever gradual springing<br />
in my stride, I begin to run and<br />
sooner than a burst of a<br />
lightning sun<br />
I am at the the church building<br />
with the spire<br />
soaring into the<br />
golden blue heavens above me.<br />
<br />
My limbs are tingling<br />
with the vibrant feeling<br />
of an energy<br />
of a new youth.<br />
<br />
Straining my legs<br />
and pushing higher<br />
onto the tips of my toes<br />
I can scarcely peer<br />
through glass stained<br />
indigo.<br />
The inner light is dim,<br />
yet the sun shines<br />
through all the windows<br />
enough to show me<br />
nobody's home.<br />
<br />
An old hand and<br />
rhyming game runs<br />
through my perplexity.<br />
"Here's the church,<br />
here's the steeple.<br />
Open the doors and<br />
where's all the people."<br />
<br />
Then I awaken.<br />
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The above is a poetic allusion to the fading Christian congregations that the increasingly secular scientific Western societies experience today. Some people believe that it must be that great ogre SCIENCE that is to blame, when actually, I believe: it's the amount of time we spend every day seeking money, things and amusements. It is true that the more educated among us have become more secularized and cannot believe in a loving other that is here, there and everywhere--religious superstitions--quite as wholeheartedly as did our ancestors. Yet, this post-Enlightenment paradigm has not supplanted the "wow factor" from our present perceptual experiences. No, it has been replaced by an artifice beyond the imaginations of the greatest ancient Epicurean philosophers. Why go to a church when there is a great game on or a groovy movie playing, not to mention the hundreds of schlock filled cable shows saturated with ads we all absorb via the Internet?<br />
<br />
Our primeval awe has gone, that jaw-dropping sense of personal humlity, yet seeming always imbued with a buoyant sense of wonder that manufactured gods and dreams from the stuff of nature and ourselves.<br />
<br />
And that's another problem; we no longer live withIN nature. We live insulated from and withOUT it. This explains why a large minority of us seem oblivious to our surrounding environmental degradation.<br />
<br />
Another major impediment to church attendance is the insidious hierarchical structure of organized religion. It is a turnoff for the young and the free-thinkers among us. It seems the only way to get folks into a church nowadays is for the elders to appeal to the selfish natures of our worst angels. In other words, promise the new coming tithers plenty of pie-in-the-sky dreams, controversies and MORE amusements. Something that is antithetical to the teaching of any prophetic savant, whether Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Buddhistic, take your pick. They all preach against what is happening now in our mega-churches.<br />
<br />
It seems such a shame, although I have to confess that I don't go to church, either. My reasons for non-attendance are manifold.<br />
<br />
The primary excuse goes like this: there are two churches in my small town, Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic. I have been baptized in the Southern Baptist tradition and this occurred when I was nine, not a truly responsible, nor reasonable age to understand the complexities of Protestant dogma. Yet, I truly believed then and as far back as the age of five years old. Yet, my soon discovery of the racist founding of the Southern church led me to disdain the fellowship.<br />
<br />
As for the Roman Catholic church, I have not been catechized, therefore I cannot partake of the Eucharist. I am limited to these two choices, because I do not drive and the next nearest group of churches is fifteen miles away, a fairly long walk.<br />
<br />
Besides this excuse, I have another; I am not really into the doctrine of the Trinity, which I consider a Nicaean human compromise endorsed by a Roman imperator and not what I believe comes from the "hand" of the Father, the "God" that Yeshua of Nazareth taught his disciples to love. But, what I truly miss is "fellowship." (A term that is tinged with the shade of male chauvinism, yet is the one commonly used.)<br />
<br />
To me, fellowship is the raison d'être of any church gathering. To be with sisters and brothers surrendered to agape IS heaven on earth.<br />
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And that's what I want to see, when I climb that hill; heaven on earth.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-83380673719359400502015-10-12T22:52:00.001-07:002015-10-12T22:52:41.050-07:00LA ROSE ET L'ÉPINE<br />
<br />
<i>Arrière Pensée</i><br />
<br />
I stood there...<br />
That was all that I could dare,<br />
or would do;<br />
only stand dumb and numb,<br />
as Cephas, weeping,<br />
and stare at the man,<br />
seemingly sleeping,<br />
whose life was<br />
slowly<br />
seeping<br />
from a<br />
long,<br />
carmine seam<br />
neatly sewn<br />
into his left side,<br />
just below his Adam's bone,<br />
a thin,<br />
fine<br />
scar,<br />
surgically incised<br />
by a fiendishly honed<br />
Damascene<br />
steel<br />
Scimitar.<br />
<br />
Beneath the distant howls and<br />
clangs of the diminishing battle,<br />
I heard, what I believed<br />
to be a moan.<br />
No, my hearing conceived,<br />
more or less,<br />
it to be a groan,<br />
but I doubted this<br />
and I soon perceived this<br />
to be a sonic mirage,<br />
a delusion<br />
spawned by a hopeful<br />
dread,<br />
for I knew him to be dying<br />
or already dead.<br />
An overwhelming desire<br />
urged me to rush to his aid,<br />
but due to my reason<br />
I knew it to be folly,<br />
and I only stood<br />
heavy footed,<br />
for the wound was too deep<br />
and too fatal;<br />
and because of my arrière pensée,<br />
I was as rooted,<br />
as a cedar of Lebanon,<br />
to the ground.<br />
Still...<br />
A stray sound...<br />
"Karl?"<br />
Frederick asked and beckoned me nearer.<br />
"Am I alive?"<br />
I nodded,saying,<br />
"And, I am here, Sir."<br />
<br />
<i>Le Sang des Fidèles</i><br />
<br />
Of a sudden,<br />
a cold and mighty surge of shame<br />
washed over me.<br />
I felt an urgent need<br />
to flee from this realm and<br />
ride down this dry Wadi of Ignominy,<br />
and fly into the furtive domain of Hell,<br />
then crawl into an adamantine shell<br />
to hide myself,<br />
to hide my name.<br />
My dishonor?<br />
I could not,<br />
or would not,<br />
thwart the sword blow<br />
that maimed my lord<br />
and felled him to the earth.<br />
But, I did not go away.<br />
With my bloody claymore dangling<br />
from a gauntleted,<br />
enfeebled hand,<br />
stained with the blood of the faithful.<br />
I crouched near<br />
to better hear<br />
his command.<br />
I was afraid that I was witnessing<br />
his last moments drawing near,<br />
afraid to exist<br />
without his might<br />
to guide me through<br />
this darkness terrible,<br />
lost his beacon light<br />
agleam on my sea of night.<br />
I lightly braced him so he<br />
could slightly lift himself upon an elbow.<br />
I feared further pain to him,<br />
so I only knelt,<br />
young head bowed,<br />
as would a man much older.<br />
Then, I felt his huge hand clamp my shoulder.<br />
<br />
"Karl?" He wheezed.<br />
<br />
"Yes, my lord. I am here."<br />
I answered again,<br />
but I swear,<br />
I was losing all sense<br />
of reason and rhyme,<br />
the season in time<br />
and whether or not<br />
I was really here,<br />
or there...<br />
<br />
<i>Ostium Apertum In Caelo</i><br />
<br />
I soared upwards,<br />
yet I looked down,<br />
as I was floating<br />
like a cloud,<br />
to see my body<br />
on the ground.<br />
"Behold!"<br />
I heard<br />
the Logos<br />
sounding loudly;<br />
like unto a thunder,<br />
like unto a waterfall,<br />
like unto shofars<br />
resounding beyond number.<br />
"Look!"<br />
Said one like a son of man.<br />
"What do you see?"<br />
Pointing toward<br />
a latten sea.<br />
How can I tell this tale?<br />
Where to begin?<br />
And where is the end<br />
of this fable?<br />
Thus?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-21779116507340345442015-09-03T01:43:00.000-07:002015-09-03T01:47:51.697-07:00MIGRATION <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX37530271">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-16552213678308201922015-08-13T01:24:00.000-07:002015-08-13T01:24:18.189-07:00ONE I<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5e9d86c8-2624-5a6a-c4f1-5a374e03d039" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-64437743266975105282015-07-14T00:16:00.000-07:002015-09-19T21:15:18.418-07:00DENARIUS<br />
<br />
<b>What's It All About</b><br />
<br />
God is love<br />
God is here<br />
God is there<br />
God is everywhere<br />
<br />
Believe this to be real<br />
For so it is<br />
And you will feel<br />
The All that Is<br />
<br />
There is always doubt<br />
Dragging fear through<br />
Ragged furrows<br />
Of mistrust and hate<br />
Through our fertile minds<br />
Yet this is illusion<br />
So what is real?<br />
What's it all about?<br />
<br />
Love is God<br />
Love is here<br />
Love is there<br />
Love is everywhere<br />
<br />
<b>Three Minutes To Midnight</b><br />
<br />
11<br />
11<br />
11:57<br />
It's getting late<br />
It's much too late<br />
I fear<br />
For Gaia is dying<br />
And I'm not lying<br />
And Heaven is no nearer<br />
And it's<br />
11<br />
11<br />
11:57<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-48436131959417321782014-12-14T00:59:00.004-08:002014-12-14T00:59:37.001-08:00Hackensack JackNever mind your wishing well,<br />
You'll truly sink in phishing hell<br />
When practicing apathetic cool<br />
Thinking you're nobody's fool.<br />
I got a rucksack full of fools tools!<br />
And your tag is on all of 'em!<br />
<br />
I got a handle, it's me name,<br />
A rose by any other title is just a cigar.<br />
Hmm...<br />
Freudian slip up?<br />
But, I betcha<br />
You can't hold a candle by its flame.<br />
Yet, I can!<br />
<br />
And...<br />
Here's a tip up;<br />
Wanna bet your Learjet?<br />
Me a jack<br />
With a jet pack<br />
On me back!<br />
I log on the Web<br />
And...<br />
Slide on me shades<br />
And...<br />
Grab me joystick<br />
And...<br />
Go for a ride...<br />
I'm hackin' it!<br />
And...<br />
You better stand back!<br />
<br />
Me REAL name's,<br />
John A. "Nonny" Moss,<br />
But you may call me:<br />
Hackensack Jack!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-38094745783322565032014-09-10T03:25:00.000-07:002014-09-10T03:25:07.431-07:00Cave of SighsI gaped up at the great square cavernous maw<br />
inviting me deep within a Platonic carnival<br />
enticing me with its electrically amusing power,<br />
bidding me entry into its splendor of ersatz delights.<br />
I bought a ticket for the flick,<br />
but did not like it and<br />
<br />
I let the the near casino magenetize my nerves of steel thereinto.<br />
The metallic shrieks of flickering coinage<br />
won and lost,<br />
peirced my ears against my head.<br />
I feared being crushed by the surrounding<br />
quicksilvered sights and<br />
leadened sounds that<br />
lowered upon me as if made of shredded tornadic clouds.<br />
<br />
With bated breath I scuttled inward,<br />
as an anxious insect would,<br />
through the crystal doors<br />
held passively open<br />
by impassive<br />
red uniformed clones.<br />
<br />
I sucked in miasmas of<br />
Parision misted bodies,<br />
gagged upon<br />
Manhatten soaked cigarettes,<br />
choked on<br />
Pittsburgh plastic off-gasses,<br />
and it was during this chatoic sense confusion<br />
that I saw the sparkling blue marble dancing inside the silver roulette wheel.<br />
<br />
But I looked away to another table<br />
and saw the croupier, who said,<br />
with a nervous gun to his head,<br />
"Merci, please hurry, Monsieur Zed.<br />
I do believe that it's your deal."<br />
<br />
I heard again the agate ball as it stumbled,<br />
skidded and rolled to a stop behind me.<br />
I turned back to watch it drop in double noughts.<br />
I then felt the droplets of the saintly blood<br />
make snake-eyed spots on the dice in my hand.<br />
<br />
What a foolish wager; our money or our lives<br />
what a heavy cost, wanting life when dead.<br />
These were my thoughts.<br />
<br />
At the last click of the ratchet we had placed our last Liberty on red.<br />
We bet and we lost!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-25777359697420975042014-06-23T14:37:00.000-07:002014-06-23T15:07:05.642-07:00I Sang My Body Electric<p dir="ltr">I dreamt of sapphire fire writhing<br>
through the tinseled veins of my soul,<br>
filled with glittering corpuscular data<br>
motivating servo-mechanical musculature.<br>
I spied my thoughts gathering<br>
lightning from thundering clouds,<br>
spinning the charges, weaving the matrix,<br>
as I flew the broad massifs of my sparkling mind<br>
and soared its high Yucatan mesas<br>
on arc lit carbon fibered wings;<br>
or when the various pathways<br>
of galvanic emotion<br>
and electronic intellect<br>
converged by the riversides<br>
in the valleys of my life,<br>
I panted down to the darkling marshes<br>
and stalked the evening shadows<br>
as a composited sinewed Aztecan puma.<br>
No matter my form; I sense I am aware I am alive and<br>
that I sang my body electric.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-35273400874456008772014-06-22T20:12:00.001-07:002014-06-23T15:36:12.466-07:00a red letter day<div dir="ltr">after the dinner </div><div dir="ltr">during the debate</div><div dir="ltr">words were spelled in blood</div><div dir="ltr">by sharpened quills as </div><div dir="ltr">broken wedding jars </div><div dir="ltr">spilled carmine wine </div><div dir="ltr">holy water flowed across the table</div><div dir="ltr">he said</div><div dir="ltr">the blood is liquified</div><div dir="ltr">the spirit is a gas</div><div dir="ltr">the body is solidified</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">petros with a two-edged tongue </div><div dir="ltr">licked the ear of a demon's servant</div><div dir="ltr">he said</div><div dir="ltr">the rolling stone gathers no prints</div><div dir="ltr">habeas corpus christie</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">from a latin wilderness </div><div dir="ltr">the word was shouted</div><div dir="ltr">in blots of scarlet ink by</div><div dir="ltr">markos with a feathered-edged calamus </div><div dir="ltr">thrust his opinion into yeshua's side</div><div dir="ltr">but he always minds as he tries</div><div dir="ltr">to dot his tees and cross his eyes</div><div dir="ltr">he said</div><div dir="ltr">the logos is plasmatically</div><div dir="ltr">problematic</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763087166205087471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550978319499450354.post-6537638644058355892014-06-01T01:31:00.001-07:002014-06-23T14:46:37.735-07:00Mr. E. Hess?<div dir="ltr">
put your mountain beside your sea <br />
and the sea outside your window<br />
if you can and<br />
if you really want to<br />
put your money where your mouth is<br />
where your name is your game<br />
and never was his biz<br />
but i bet you can't<br />
put your monkey where your junkie is<br />
where they pray in pearly temples<br />
when they prey on shirley temples<br />
if you really had it to do<br />
if you really wanted to<br />
put your sea beside your mountain<br />
put your coin inside your fountain or<br />
see the sea outside your window<br />
thus if you could would you<br />
be mysterious</div>
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for libby</div>
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