MIRRORS OF CONCIOUSNESS
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AFTER HOPES FALL
AFTER READING I CORINTHIANS 3:18
ALL CREATURES LOVE GOD IN CREATURES
AS A RICHNESS GATHERS
A SIMPLE CONCEPT OF ENLIGHTENMENT
AS IS THY NAME, O GOD
AT
THE LAST JUDGMENT
B...
BELOVED BOTTOM
BURNING LUMINOUS HOLES/
WHEN LOVE BURNS HOLES
IN
THE SOUL
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COMMENTS ON SAINT MARK'S JESUS
CONFIDENCE IS:
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DIVULGENCES
F...
FIGHTING CONSTRICTIONS
FINAL BAPTISM
FOR NELLY SACHS AND HER WORK OF PEACE
G...
GOD IS A
HOLY INFLUENCE
GOD IS NAKED
H...
HOW FULLNESS FLOWS INTO EMPTINESS
HOW STRANGE THAT THE GREATEST BEAUTY
SHOULD
WOUND US SO...
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IN MY PRIMAL WOUND WORDS FLOW
IN THE HAPPENING NOW
IN THE INFINITE PLENTITUDE
INUNDATION
I PRESSED MY HAND PRINT IN SOFT MUD
IT SEEMS LIFE-EVIDENT
L...
LIFE FEARFUL AND MISSING THE POINT
LIFEING
A NEW WEEK
M...
MAY THE BEST GOD WIN
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ON A DAY LIKE THIS
ON I JOHN 4:19
ONLY THE REAPED GROWS
OUT OF THE ACHE
P...
POETRY'S TONGUE
PRAYER ANSWERS
PURPOSES AND
ACUMINATION
R...
RELIGION
RELIGION'S FAILURE
S...
SOME STRANGE CIRCLES WE GO IN HEALING
SOUL-SOIL AND WORMS
T...
THERE ARE ELECTRIC ARCS
THERE IS A NEW CRUSADE
THAT WILL LINK US TO EVERY BEAUTIFUL SOUL
OF THE AGES
THE SILVER SHIVER OF FREEDOM
TO A SACRED CHOIR
IN HONOR OF THEIR BECOMING THE BEAUTY
THAT
COURSED THROUGH RACHMANINOFF
TOPICS AND COMMENTS
TRUE ART
U...
UNCLINGING AND LIGHTER THAN AIR/HE MOVES
IN
INCARNATION
W...
WE SHOULD CARRY THE SKY WITH US
WHAT IS DUE AND TRUE
WHO KNOWS THE POWER OF POETRY?
WORD
FORMS AND SPIRIT
WRITING ON THE BOOK OF LIFE
LAST POEM IN FILE: THERE ARE ELECTRIC ARCS
THE POEMS:
ALL CREATURES LOVE GOD IN CREATURES
We love the beauty
of all creatures,
whether beauty of body or soul.
It is beauty
and
its inwrought pleasure
that we love and seek
--if we are alive!
One soul loves the paintings
of Michaelangelo and Bottacelli;
another
loves the feel of leather
under his rump, and the wild look
in a good horse's eye.
Another soul sits for hours
entranced by flashes of beauty
seen in a soap opera:
They each feel mingled stirrings
of primal, spiritual passions
that are their rightful domain.
All creatures love God
reflected in creatures.
To love God nakedly
is to place your lips
over the small orifice
from which
white
waters
of northern glaciers
flow out
of ancient stone.
GOD IS A HOLY INFLUENCE
God is known
by
His influence:
the "in-flowing" of his transparencies,
the liquid spaciousness of the holy
affecting the character.
God
is seen in God's effects:
the influence of invisibility
is visible.
It is we who are designated to be
God's palpable expressions!
HOW STRANGE
THAT THE GREATEST BEAUTY
SHOULD WOUND US SO...
How strange
that the greatest beauty
should wound us so...
We fall into the rose
and thorns prick us,
we lie amongst fragrances
and bleed.
There are times
when the heart longs
to stop beating,
when the mind aches
to release every image
and
rest in the spaceless spaces
of the hidden, holy sea.
But heaven is full
of beloved faces,
and every soul there
wants to run
and kiss us
back
into our
passionate love
of God's rose,
its
holy fragrance
and
thorns.
IT SEEMS LIFE-EVIDENT
It seems
life-evident
that where we are most vulnerable
there we are meant to be
most ecstatic:
Love alone laying her
transparent hand
over the quivering green bud of us,
kissing our core with wind.
And so love-warmed life thrusts upward,
naked, tender, open,
in the midst of
its hard,
gray whorl of sharp, dead sticks
and leaves.
PRAYER ANSWERS
From our Lord's freedom
and to His freedom,
all good things flow.
To let go!
is to flow into His freedom.
as our freedom;
His goodness...
as our only actual good.
Goodness will flow
through us and unto us
in specific things
picked by God
to uniquely be
part of
us
in Him.
So, let's let go!
and fall and flow
into freedom!
AS IS THY NAME, O GOD
The
young brightness of a Man
who stands in a shadow of light
amidst a Sun we cannot see,
star-centered
in the midst of the world,
calls
for our soul-seed hearts
to crack open
to the light of Him.
He moves through coral-colored
conical shells
as
beauty moves.
He moves through the swirl of foam
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