Tag Archives: Mystic

POEM: What Counts?

Mysticism is at the heart of all true religion. Experiencing the mystic, the sublime, may involve wooing over generations, even eons. However, on some inexplicable occasions, mystic experiences fuel an incinerator that lays waste to all convention and worldviews. The … Continue reading

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A Spiritual Autobiography

I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group.  While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading

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POEM: How Does It Awe End?

Sow ponderous are wee The nature of God And God of nature Never two be the same As one Awe weighs Whichever becoming Created in won mine Weather mirror mortals Or I am parish-able being A quest in during Too … Continue reading

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POEM: God’s Perish

I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading

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POEM: Joining That Mystical Union

Having Evolved Too keep Every last won Of this sophisticated specious Under opposable thumbs Like a perch In a stream of consciousness Executing my porpoise The best I can do A thwart on the phase of humanity This avowing That … Continue reading

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POEM: A We Occupation

I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading

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POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun

There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading

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POEM: Rare Prayer

I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading

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POEM: Not The Usual Joke

A Hindu A Muslim A Christian And a Jew Walk into a bar And the bartender says Greetings, Mr. Gandhi Let me guess You don’t want “the usual” This short poem takes the format of a common joke. However, one … Continue reading

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POEM: Seriously?!

The Zen master was nearly Finished with his instruction When he got to non-seriousness I was greatly relieved For I was taking nothing He was saying Seriously This short poem gets at one of the great paradoxes of enlightened spirituality: … Continue reading

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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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POEM: I Will Join The One, There is No Other

Alone Where is God in that? Does salvation lie in community? Wherever two or more gather In character At present will be God Therefore, I will join the one One who was left behind The one who’s going places no … Continue reading

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POEM: Pulling a Steckler

Pulling a Steckler Steckler was the type of guy Who would ruin The fun Of magic tricks Enjoyed by friends By revealing their mechanics Partly to annoy Mostly because he could His routine was so common His act was named … Continue reading

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POEM: Certifiable

Certifiable Respectability is the currency of the establishment A religion of red carpets and relics Propriety is its only denomination Holding sway with all that moves Trafficking in status A multitude of sins covered in fine veneers Indulgences purchased by … Continue reading

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POEM: Rumi-nation

I live in a perpetual Rumi-nation This simple one-line poem reflects a basic experience in my life, in general, and as a poet.  As a poet, my mind, at times, drifts into aha moments of epiphanies, and at times, races … Continue reading

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POEM: A Lousy Take on Lao-Tse

A Lousy Take on Lao-Tse (Tao Te Ching 38) When Tao is lost There is virtue When virtue is lost There is morality When morality is lost There is propriety Yet oddly Even when Awe is lost Tao remains The … Continue reading

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