Categories
Random Posts
- Volume is no substituteVolume is no substitute for power; It’s not the loudest shouts that prove most true. These sounds that shake foundations may undo in minutes what …
- A Hard FreezeWhen the temperature drops with the sun, there is a stillness that comes on the world: like a blanket of crystal on the lawn that …
- ChiaroscuroNothing holds a shape without its shadow: that place at the edge where the lines are rough and sharp defined shapes blur in a limbo …
- Volume is no substitute
Recent Comments
- Irene on Some ancient affirmations
- Rekha on No More Sad Weepings of Regret
- Novena on Wake Up: sonetto rispetto
- John on On the Veranda: serenade
Subscribe
Join 298 other subscribersMeta
Monthly Archives: January 2005
After Our Summer is Gone
Just because we stop, the world does not see fit to up and quit: although we think our present season the focus of the universe. Just because our silicon has returned back to native dust, and what we’ve turned with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged aging, illusions, inevitability, maturity, relativity, seasons, summer, time
Leave a comment
The Seeker’s Lament
For forty years I’ve sought some kind of truth and come up empty-handed, more or less. What dreams I held like treasures in my youth have lost their gleam; my hands, their tenderness. The journey has not gone as I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged achievement, emptiness, enlightenment, failure, journeys, seeking, struggles
Leave a comment
For Starlight Born with Robbie Burns
Although some celebrate today the Scotsman’s favorite bard, my day is elsewise occupied and I shall find it hard to think of he whose “Auld Lang Syne” will ring out through the night. For this day someone else was born … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged birthdays, daily poems, Divine Mother, love, mother goddess, Robert Burns, Starlight Dances
Leave a comment
The Starting Point
Like all Capricorns, I suppose, I am continually attempting to fashion some kind of theory of the universe. In conjunction with that astrological impetus, my real world experience in information systems technical support insists that this theory include a practical … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged astrology, living, paganism, personal history, philosophy, purpose, spirituality
Leave a comment
An End to Parables
I’ve spent a life in parables, disguising my ideas in costumes and strange metaphors deliberately unclear and so perhaps convinced the world that I’m a harmless quack, imagining just chimeras with no spine in their backs. But recently, while looking … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged communication, conversations, misunderstanding, parables, understanding
Leave a comment
Communication for a New Age
This is primarily an intro to several chains-of-thought that make up the bigger picture. They probably will not be chained together in this way once each of them has been fleshed out a bit more. Each historical age is determined … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged communication, history, hypotheses, language, personal music, society, substance
Leave a comment
More on Sanity and Madness
Who could imagine their ancestors all stark raving mad, or at least each generation marking out as bad an apple flung far from the tree, opposed to status quo and causing much embarrassment, endless grief and woe? Yet isn’t it … Continue reading