Tag: Philosophy
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Whiskey Painters
I’m taking a break from my memoir for a while. For the next few weeks, I’ll mostly be reprising the poetry that I’ve written for this blog since I began it over a year ago. Whiskey Painters 4×5 inch masterpiecespaintswere carried in a small Anacin tin folding brushcompleted the ensemble table in the barthe painter’sbrush…
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Incompetence
I’m taking a break from my memoir for a while. For the next few weeks, I’ll mostly be reprising the poetry that I’ve written for this blog since I began it over a year ago. Incompetence imagination knowledgepractice and experienceequal successso they say incompetence negatespractice experienceknowledge and even imagination on any given day seems we…
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Gemini Mind
I’m taking a break from my memoir for a while. For the next few weeks, I’ll mostly be reprising the poetry that I’ve written for this blog since I began it over a year ago. Gemini Mind Gemini mindsplit in twoknow theuniverse is finebut need tofix it still politics warswith sanityenlightenedrealizationsconfrontthe hubris of contemplations fight…
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A True Memoir ~ Mostly
A True Memoir ~ Mostly mental gymnasticsput yourself backin time to who you and theywere then but with hindsight perspectiveevaluation andintrospection attempt to be fairto youself andthose who accompaniedyou througheach of the physicalemotional and psychical features of yourhistorical arccradle to grave memoir needs a personal perspectivebut realistic truthfulevlauation of times and events leadingto the writing…
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Affirmations / Aspirations
Affirmations/Aspirations I amWe areLoveCompassionThankful I amWe areThe VoidThe TaoThe Source I amWe areThe quantum fieldThe unified fieldThe universe A wave ofUniverse energyA point of viewLooking at myselfThe universe As I recedes New wavesCome forth newIndividual pointsTo view the ONE –LE
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Seeking Its Level
Seeking Its Level As a stream windes downLooking for the seaSo life seeks outIts own conclave-ity Parallels between life and waterAre ancient and universalThey both seek their levelThey both reach for their source Existance cycles from sourceTo level to source – water is lifeNo water – we’re extinct – beliefeSystems – indulged irrelavance –LE
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Premature Death
Spirit vs Form – A Poor Life vs No Life 11/1/83This poem fits into the timeline of the memoir around this point. Chris (my brother) told me of our tragedy last night, the death of my sister Becky’s baby, only 2 hrs old. Time for another reassessment of my views on life, death, and the…
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Summer’s Last Holiday
Summer’s Last Holiday used to be the summerseason’s first holidayMay-day, still celebratedaround the world onthe first of May celebrates labor’s victoriesof the late 19th and early 20thcenturies over robber baronsand their bankers and lackeysfederal, state, and local our owners bought and manipulatedthe levers of power; moved ourcelebration to season’s endreduced to backyard smokey grillsand a…
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Seventy-six Trombones
Seventy-six Trombones seventy-six trombones in the big paradeplaying the seventy-sixth part of the gamewondering how deep is the benchhow many more ready to take my place? guess it’s all moot since strings areall I’ve ever played, four, six, and twelvefretted and fretless, trombones in asense I guess, nonetheless circlings of Sol a trombone eachanticipating the…
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Lynn – Part 4 – Memoir Continued
Religious Complications Lynn never mentioned that she was religious, although she did have a ‘New Jerusalem Bible’, which she said was Catholic and that she just liked having it to document things in. We considered ourselves to be ‘spiritual’, but not religious. At least, I thought we did… WRONG! I had given up on religion…
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