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Tag Archives: Metaphysics
POEM: Nobody Really No’s
Nobody Really No’s The apple falls The shoe drops The plan it tracks The gravity of such law as undisputed You need not condone Whatever weigh You obey Such gravity Know more Know less Sow it is With love Know … Continue reading →
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Tagged Law, Love, Love Poems, Metaphysics, Nonviolence, Physics, Poetry, Respect, Spiritual, Truth
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POEM: Trash Talk
God is culpable Of more than you can Imagine Your momma Fodder unknown Know Job A dyslexic dog Dissembling I’m OK, you’re KO Unsporting A boxer of tiny portions And don’t get me Going On That big, ugly, unmentionable cistern … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ancient, Art, Attitude, Awe, Dream, Events, God, Gratitude, Job, Life, Love, Materialist, Metaphysics, Mind, Modern, Money, Nature, Ode, Parodies, Philosophical, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Resistance, Sacred, Silence, Soul, Truth
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POEM: More Than Just, A Tinkle In The Pants
Sum people say Show me the money Only taking That folding Money Maid of paper Illegal to ink for won self You’re money or you’re life Weather helled up Or razing heaven Our soles speak As bodies of evidence And … Continue reading →
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Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, Business, Change, Crazy, Creation, Darwin, Events, Evolution, Free Will, Future, Genius, God, Gödel, Guns, Heart, Heaven, Humor, Illegal, Integrity, Life, Logic, Love, Metaphysics, Modern, Money, Moral, Mystery, Nature, Philosophy, Physics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Pride, Randomness, Religious, Rich, Risk, Rules, Science, Security, Spiritual, State, Status, Time, Truth, Vocation, Women, Worldview, zombie
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POEM: A Blinding Faith
Hers was a blinding faith Sow bright That it often left her without peer Few could fathom such countenance As she left them smiles behind A grate number are partial To glean faint moonlight Mirror dim reflections Of their dreary … Continue reading →
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Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Change, Control, Cynical, Cynicism, Faith, Hate, Heart, Hope, Hubris, Life, Love, Metaphysics, Ode, Optimism, Passion, Philosophy, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Religious, Rumi, Science, Security, Skepticism, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Truth
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POEM: Insane Asylum Patience
Whose violence is worse They argued The insane asylum patience Condemning barbarism As the strongest barbarians Write history And write makes right Or sow it might As cartoonish caricatures Capture humanities A tension Leaving those under Lying causes Uniformly camouflaged … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beautiful, Change, Choices, Christian, Evil, Experience, Free Will, Gandhi, God, Hell, Hindu, History, Insanity, Islam, Jewish, Journalists, Law, Life, Loss, Metaphysics, Moral, Murder, Nature, Necessary Evil, Nonviolent, Patience, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Prophet, Reality, Religion, Religious, State, Universe, Violence, Worldview
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POEM: Succor Punch: Owed to Water
Water is Liquid liveliness On the surface So abundant Yet its unique Properties for gotten Pre-sumptuously owin’ The establishment Of hour get-up and go Taken For granite In difference to animating schemas And listless graces Making passable Setting in motion … Continue reading →
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Tagged Awe, Buddhism, Buddhist, Creation, Doctrine, Events, Evolution, Experience, Facts, God, Humanity, Life, Literacy, Logic, Meaning, Metaphysics, Mind, Nature, Ode, Philosophical, Physics, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Rationalization, Religion, Science, Secrets, Transcendent, Trust, Truth, Universe, Wisdom
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POEM: The Meaning of Vex Lex
In a universe beyond apprehension She caught herself Vexing once again Is there meaning? Looking above The stars just winked Looking below The grass said “How can you stand it?” Looking forward Her next meal said “Eat me.” Looking back … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abyss, Authority, Awe, Change, Christian, Community, Conservative, Conundrum, Curiosity, Darwin, Evolution, Existential, Experience, facebook, Facts, Food, Foolish, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, Future, Gift, God, Gödel, government, Hope, Humanity, Humor, Ideology, Job, Law, Learning, Legalism, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Metaphysics, Mock, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Philosophical, Philosophy, Physics, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Present, Questioning, Questions, Randomness, Reality, Relationships, Rex Lex, Sartre, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Solidarity, Spiritual, Spirituality, State, Subjectivity, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Work, Worship
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POEM: Unemployed Stat
Unemployment hit a 5-year low Still, Bob remains 100% unemployed This short poem highlights the difference between statistics and people. Statistics can estimate probabilities with some accuracy of how a large group of people may act, or be affected by … Continue reading →
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Tagged Christian, Culture, Darwin, Decentralization, Defense, Dehumanizing, Employment, Environment, Extinction, Fascism, Female, Foolish, Free Will, Freedom, Future, Genius, Harmony, Hope, Hubris, Humanity, Impersonal, Institutions, Intimacy, Ironic, Labor, Law, Meaning, Metaphysics, Modern, Nature, Physics, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Relationships, Rich, Risk, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Songs, State, Statistics, Success, Sustainable, Temptation, Truth, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Eat Your Heart Out, Skepticism
Eat Your Heart Out, Skepticism Jaden’s skepticism Was like a cannibalism That learned to crave The taste Of it’s own flesh and blood And could settle for nothing Less Then a connoisseur Of embalming Empty vein hopes Of immortality In … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acceptance, Consciousness, Courage, Diminishing Returns, Experience, Facts, Faith, Foolish, Free Will, Grace, Heart, Hope, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Metaphysics, Nature, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Prison, Relationships, Risk, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Self-Discovery, Skepticism, Subjectivity, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Jumping From The Ledger
Rejoin the rat race And all that chasten Daring to make A rodent in the machine Which is all the rage The bounty on your ahead A golden hamster wheel Retard after 50 years Left dumb Lips pursed For so … Continue reading →
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Tagged America, Ancient, Art, Awe, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Change, Character, Conservative, Courage, Crazy, Death, Deficit, Denial, Dream, Dreams, Employment, Environment, Experience, Failure, Faith, Fear, Food, Foolish, Freedom, God, government, Grace, Greed, Happiness, Hate, Health Insurance, Heart, Heaven, History, Illiterate, Income, Injustice, Intimacy, Jerusalem, Jesus, Job, Justice, Liberal, Liberation Theology, Life, Literate, Love, Martyr, Meaning, Metaphysics, Mind, Money, Mystic, Mystical, Obama, Oppression, Paranoid, Passion, Pastor, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Poor, Poverty, Preferential Option for the Poor, Present, Pride, Productivity, Prophet, Proprietary, Rage, Rat Race, Reality, Relationships, Republican, Rich, Sacrifice, Secrets, Shareholder, Silence, Solidarity, Spiritual, State, Success, Theology, Time, Values, War, Wealth, Welfare, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Balms Around Every Corner
Truth lives at peace with facts Facts war with truth As an orderly Gone astray In an awe in compassing hospitality Scurrying from one stat to the next Drunk on 100% proof And in all probability Will perpetually pass attest … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abyss, Addiction, Alienation, Ancient, Argument, Awe, Beautiful, Blessed, Crazy, Dream, Enlightenment, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Fear, Food, Freedom, God, Gödel, Heart, Heresy, History, Hospitality, Humanity, Imperialism, Journey, Joy, Life, Literacy, Logic, Love, Meaning, Metaphysics, Mind, Modern, Objectivity, Physics, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Questions, Reality, Religion, Revolution, Rich, Sacred, Science, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Soul, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Time, Transcendent, Truth, Unity, Universe, Virtual Reality, War, Wealth, Western Civilization, Willingness, Worldview
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POEM: Lovers of Dirt
Lovers of Dirt Wile in cathedrals The atheist Dares claim The title Of mass debater As little comes From behind the veil That doesn’t exist In the slightest Hint elect To believe Methods to their madness Seemingly beyond approach However … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abyss, America, Apocalypse, Atheist, Authority, Awareness, Awe, Change, Choices, Citizens, Climate Change, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Corporate Personhood, Cynical, Cynicism, Death, Deficit, Denial, Dream, Elite, Enlightenment, Events, Evil, Evolution, Existential, Experience, Facts, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, Gender, Genius, God, Happiness, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Holy, Hope, Hubris, Human Nature, Humanity, Humility, Intellect, Ironic, Israel, Jesus, Journey, Justice, Law, Lazy, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, masculinity, Meaning, Metaphysics, Militant, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Objectivity, Perspective, Philosophy, Physics, Play, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Present, Progress, Prophet, Proverb, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Rich, Sartre, Science, Skepticism, Society, Soul, Spiritual, Spirituality, State, Subjectivity, Supreme Court, Time, Toledo, Transcendent, Truth, Unity, Vocation, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Women, Work, Worldview, zombie
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POEM: Straight Shooter
Straight Shooter If I were to do anything And you looked back at me If you were to say I can see that Then you might just know me However, if this frightens you Then you might not just know … Continue reading →
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Tagged Absurdity, Control, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Life, Metaphysics, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Science, Scientific Reductionism, State, Statistics
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POEM: Traveling North Still
I was traveling on a journey And it was definitely not south I watched the mile markers grow in number Until I found myself in a different state Noticing that The mile markers restarted And lo, it was different Though … Continue reading →
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Tagged Balance, Change, Control, Courage, Existential, Free Will, Freedom, God, Helplessness, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Joy, Law, Life, Meditation, Metaphysics, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Prayer, Progress, Reality, Responsibility, Science, Serenity, Soul, State, Subjectivity, Time, Universe, Wisdom
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POEM: Stage Coach
Stage Coach One day I lost my script And was taken back Only to have scene The other actors Guise Now In the audience Having won More stage Contracted This is a good example of one of my elegantly ambiguous … Continue reading →
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Tagged Authenticity, Blessing, Disease, Freedom, God, History, Justice, Life, Metaphysics, Modern, Play, Poems, Poetry, Shakespeare, Short Poems, Time, Women
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POEM: Infectious Hope
Hope is a blood-borne pathogen The seed of martyrs Inflaming that allergy to injustice Present in us all Infected by a singular epiphany Of friend and foe Alike I see hope as an irreducible reality in human nature. Just like … Continue reading →
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Tagged Analogy, Awareness, Bible, Christian, Christianity, Control, Cynical, Enemies, Evil, Faith, Genius, Hate, Heaven, Hope, Human Nature, Injustice, Jesus, Life, Love, Metaphors, Metaphysics, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Psychology, Reality, Resistance, Respect, Shakespeare, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Truth, Violence, War
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POEM: Incompetent Evil
I don’t care much for evil I don’t care much for incompetence Though when present together Incompetence becomes a blessing As in math, sometimes in morality, multiplying two negatives can produce some positive results. There is at times some hope … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art, Balance, Blessing, Control, Death, Evil, Facts, Happiness, Hope, Human Race, Life, Materialism, Metaphysics, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nihilism, Optimism, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Religion, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Stupid, Transcendent, Values, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Barbarian Hordes
Only after building the wall To keep the barbarian hordes out Did I realize That we are the barbarian hordes Exclusion is the most barbarian practice. Inclusion is the most enlightened practice. To evolve in our humanity we need to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Authority, Cynicism, Enlightenment, Facts, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Meditation, Metaphysics, Mind, Modern, Nonviolence, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Rules, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Spiritual, Subjectivity, Transcendence, Violence, Western Civilization, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: Wading for Gödel
Wading for Gödel A play of mathematical imprecision Fraught with everlasting interpretations Malingering, idoling away the ours For a character whose reputation must impossibly precede him Like the brutal distinction of jealousy and envoy More afraid of the unknown than … Continue reading →
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Tagged Absurdity, Alliterate, Attitude, Character, Choices, Conundrum, Experience, Free Will, Freedom, God, Gödel, Hell, Jealousy, Law, Life, Metaphysics, Mind, Musings, Mystical, Paradoxes, Perspective, Philosophical, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Suicide, Time
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POEM: God is Love
God is love And everything else If there were anything else The classic formulation of “God is love” is attractive to many people of good will; perhaps, because of its implicit assertion of nurturing life as a primary characteristic of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Absurdity, Art, Atheist, Beautiful, Control, Creation, God, Heart, History, Life, Love, Metaphysics, Mind, Modern, Mystical, Nature, Philosophy, Play, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Power, Reality, Religion, Science, Skepticism, Spiritual, Status, Theology, Thiest, Transcendent, Worldview
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