tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342873350429081462024-02-08T12:45:55.464-05:00HEART-HEALING THE CHARIOT WAYPrecognitive Prescient Prophetic Poetry by WILLIAM O'CONNORAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.comBlogger1128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-84145232464288761872017-10-30T15:02:00.000-04:002017-10-30T15:04:47.049-04:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 163<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Pity them their faiths, their beliefs;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Their passions and their politics,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For they have no acquaintance</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>With history; no knowledge</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Of the past. But, simply, what</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>They're told and are dependent</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>On the opinions of others, and</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>So: Never can they be Free.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-28006980755756802092017-07-16T14:49:00.000-04:002018-01-28T11:47:39.847-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Vese 162<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Smiling faces peer out from pictures.</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Smiling faces, lost in time, are gone.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Forgotten, are not recognizable now.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Just smiling faces. Must have meant</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Something once. Now just residing,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Confined to the faded photographs.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Stare. Still. And. Looking up at me.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Smiling.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-10041764582192422052017-06-05T16:32:00.000-04:002018-01-29T13:05:35.993-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 161<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>In late afternoon light is bent to yellow;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To a lamp-vent liquid shallow shadow,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That then first turns to an orange hue</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To splash the black upon rooftops</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Of the City into a dark azure blue; as,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Under traveling gaze of a setting Sun,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Prints of the fire escape shift upon</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Redbrick faces of the tenements,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Climbing on them in crawling browns.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And then the night wind and this cool quiet</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That it softly brings; sitting on folding chairs Upon </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>those lofty refuges of the high-rises;</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Their roofs: These tar beaches of the City.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-49116651143125433732017-05-12T18:07:00.002-04:002018-02-11T15:55:31.845-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 160<div>
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Like all species, political entities evolve.</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Some state, some nation, some country</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Might seem permanent, last a long time;</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Might seem fixed in the society of nations.</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Soon enough, though, it shall cease to be;</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Shall be dissolved. It shall be forgotten; as</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Our religions and our faiths might appear as</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Quaint; may seem, as absurd to generations</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>To come as well as are our philosophies, our</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Beliefs of today. And, yes, so shall we too. </i></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-58345409384143478612017-05-12T16:42:00.000-04:002018-01-27T12:50:01.750-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 159<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Not just</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Is it best described</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>By mathematics;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The universe is mathematics.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Those rules for</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Existence, for all which stays,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For all which stands, in Being,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Are the relations, are equations;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Are the links, for That Which Is.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Nothing could Be,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>If absent itself in other, or</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Not be known to other, or</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To remain as an unknown.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-17927011219307663712017-05-12T12:04:00.002-04:002018-01-30T18:28:31.188-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 158<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Spit in the eye of society.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Poetry and Philosophy</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And physics too, aren't</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>But a necessity for Man's</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Continuation; they have</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Advanced our evolution.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Fight on. Carry on, in the</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Resistance to Ignorance.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Sole sin and transgression</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Is denying nature of reality.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-82358120390393429622017-05-10T16:12:00.001-04:002018-02-03T18:19:47.492-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 157<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To stand aside is sole, our only obligation;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Not be partisan to the day, or to the hour.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>All these arguments, which partisans hold</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Dear has been argued thousands of years.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>These follies; that go to make for politics,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>In our nation, soon shall pass; soon shall</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Be forgotten. Our work, our enterprise, are</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Now began. We can't be followers of fools.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-74677445624396175982017-05-08T20:08:00.000-04:002018-01-27T14:18:40.409-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 156<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>This tired race</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Shall never conquer the stars;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Shall never print its foot upon</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Distant planets and alien moons.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That adventure awaits a new;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For a more courageous Man;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Who seeks to pierce those</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Far distances that Today</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Bars us, that keeps us,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>From our destinies. </i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-49327705854177899432017-04-17T15:00:00.002-04:002018-01-27T15:24:29.443-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 155<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Someday soon;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Maybe it's already happened</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>There will be a transformation;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>A new beginning.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Everything we hoped for,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Everything prayed for,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Everything stated in</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The ancient prophecies</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Shall be born and, yes, it has!</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>But, I guess we missed it.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-72637995642644232892017-04-15T14:34:00.000-04:002017-10-23T13:32:26.531-04:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 154<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Hard numbers of science can't sustain us.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Can't grant to us some sustenance; a relief.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Can't give to us a brief suspension of pain.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It's in the hope chest of belief; in the myths;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>In the mythologies, in the faiths, we found</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Our salience. It's these have kept us alive.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-37225852551985050362017-04-15T13:27:00.000-04:002017-10-24T18:54:29.605-04:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 153<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We're not dogs. We have no masters.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We serve no gods. We obey no lord.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We can teach our own selves.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We invent our own faiths for life.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We have no need for these states; for,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>These nations run by these plutocrats.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We rule ourselves.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-87135488158734016792017-04-07T19:39:00.001-04:002017-10-25T16:13:23.548-04:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 152<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It's for our revelations we live.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For those sudden inspirations</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Which shall come to us when</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>They'll come. Our allegiances</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Solely are to them: to Insight.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Not to a nation or to any state;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>But to our own minds. Alone.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-41476403690647904372017-04-01T11:40:00.001-04:002018-01-27T20:27:41.792-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 151<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To know The Not;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To have recognition of Nothing</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Is the beginning of knowledge;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Just its start; just an inception,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Into some brief understanding</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>In the learning of What Is Not.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To study blankness, whiteness,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Begins, in the listening to, the</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Beats of our hearts.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-25127424095996730602017-03-29T18:32:00.000-04:002018-01-27T15:53:31.279-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 150<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>If you're lucky enough</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To be able to do anything</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That's new, that's original,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That's unique; something</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Only you could do; then,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Well, you're lucky enough.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And. If you can do it well,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That's all for the better.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Whether done good, or</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Done badly, don't matter.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Just the doing is sufficient. </i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-58551167821783255722017-03-28T19:22:00.001-04:002018-01-29T17:42:01.687-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 149<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>You've become your own instrument</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>When you're a poet. You became your</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Own </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>conductor of your own symphony</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Of words, holding </i></b><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">aloft baton of syntax,</i><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Beating time in a measured verse; and,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Then, reciting new shouts at the world.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Few can know this power.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-7169104136546990832017-03-28T18:25:00.000-04:002018-01-27T16:38:34.012-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 148<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The function of mankind is:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To create. To make.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To produce. To do.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Not be partisan in politics;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Not die for some ideology,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Invented by the politicians. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We got our crafts to pursue.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We walk on our own paths.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The smart thing to do, by this</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>World's wisdom was never</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The right thing to do. So.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We'll go our own ways.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-74242898755914383702017-03-24T18:50:00.001-04:002018-02-02T16:20:52.404-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 147<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>There's a joy in beauty.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It's got nothing to do with truth,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Since facts are asymmetric; never balanced.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It's got nothing to do with ethics or morality, </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>With right, with wrong, or with anything else</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Society or State might hold dear; might believe;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Might value, nor what may be judged important.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It just is. So. Then: Yes. Fine. It's good enough!</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-79932437049870031872017-03-22T19:20:00.001-04:002018-02-11T16:55:28.146-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 146<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Each of us is creator;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Is maker, by our own right;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>By a god made by us residing</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>In our o</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>wn head, resulting</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>From our own s</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>tudy. Not one</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Demanding a subservience,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Or for a slavish supplication.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Our obligation is to seek</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For who we are and to be</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>What we are. Our Quest is</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Where it takes us. That's</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The adventure of life; in</i></b></span><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>A finding for our destiny.</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-39400003214553371702017-02-18T20:09:00.000-05:002018-01-27T21:11:53.319-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 145<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Holy is the day and sacred is the hour</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And time, n</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>ever shall it be returned.</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>What's put off for fear; for sloth,</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Pursues us in regrets. The bold,</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Though their lives were shorter,</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Made statement; made imprint;</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Were remembered for it. Who'll</i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Then shall remember us?</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-57833759275813003102017-02-14T14:56:00.003-05:002018-01-28T16:45:01.193-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 144<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Well, then, what's it all about?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Life? Love? Liberty? Family? Maybe.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Maybe. But there's always an "AND."</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Another then to be attached; to add: a THEN. Learning there's a magic within this stasis of Our solitary existence; that there's an energy;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That every stone has a voice; every cloud has</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Its very own rhyme in i</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>ts wrinkled rhythm of movement.</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> And the question is: Why is That?</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-51513591593466678022017-01-30T20:27:00.001-05:002018-02-18T23:50:19.797-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 143<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Pawns we are for these politicians;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Pieces to move in rigid formations,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Pushed in line by surly bureaucrats.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Our lives mean nothing at all to them.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Merely are we here to be of service,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To be shoved forwards into battle</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For causes we barely understand</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And have for us but little benefit;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Merely are we to be played,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Upon the board of life.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-58922142597459024452017-01-15T18:31:00.002-05:002018-01-29T17:42:28.629-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 142<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Among men, there's</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>A natural aristocracy.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Few are born with</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The kiss for creativity;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The gene to challenge</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Assumptions which</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Everyone takes for</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Granted; that had</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Seem secure from;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That had been way</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Past any dispute.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Honor their courage. </i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-51314703528814841082017-01-09T21:28:00.000-05:002018-01-29T14:08:31.053-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 141<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Night scream call of owls seeking prey,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Hunting the hidden vermin of the day. Here we're silenced; no noble speeches</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Have we, constrained by uncertainties.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Should we show who and what we are?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Should we declare what we've become;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Now we know we arrived </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>from tomorrow.</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-28793428650508387592016-11-29T12:51:00.001-05:002017-11-04T19:52:31.447-04:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 140<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>As every boxer knows the legs go first.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Who skips roadwork only kids himself.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Pound pavement every day is the way</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To do it hitting daily upon those trails.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>And so it is too for every skill and art.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734287335042908146.post-53611262027401536152016-11-29T12:26:00.000-05:002018-01-29T16:30:49.188-05:00Blue Sun Series: Confluence: Verse 139<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Speak not of the sanctity</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Of labor. Grind from toil</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Weakens, when not done</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>For a purpose of spirit; to</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Add and to make and create;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>But solely, for remunerations</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Of the purse; for thick wallets.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>What we do for work shapes</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Who it is we are now; gives</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Prediction of what it is we</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Can become and aspire to.</i></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00536872149082744489noreply@blogger.com0