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Causes Worth Fighting: Petrarchan sonnet
We each must choose the causes worth our fighting from a great myriad of pointless quests designed to breed confusion in our breasts and keep the fuse inside us from igniting. The frivolous is made to seem exciting; it titillates … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, belonging, choices, illusion, life, Petrarchan sonnet, poetic forms, sonnet
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Mother Earth
She waits for us to understand, or better, to remember: that at her breast we all have suckled since we each began; and for a thousand thousand years have eaten at her table, imagining some unseen other laying out the … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, current, earth, Gaea, life, mother goddess, NaPoWriMo, unity
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Road Going Nowhere
On the south side of the road going nowhere Winter wind letting the chill into my bones Standing tall, as if I don’t care, Acting like I’m supposed to be there As if lost highways had a need to be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged belonging, highways, loneliness, relationships, roads, travel
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Love is Enough
Back in December of 1991, Aaron Flinn and I were attending Berklee College of Music. We co-wrote this song as both a tribute to our main inspiration (the Beatles), and also to reflect our own vision of the world as … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged acceptance, belonging, love, tolerance, wholeness
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Redefining My Peer Group
When you think about it, what does a jury of one’s peers really mean? Legally, I suppose it means that because all individuals are theoretically equal under the law, one’s peers in a litigious sense means other equally theoretical equals. … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, community, definitions, friends, friendship, peers
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After a Line in Rumi
Between the acts on the great stage the green room swells with life; like ocean waves the movement never stops. Each spent performer, bathed in sweat, absorbed into their entourage, glows with the energy of the crowd. Around the curtain’s … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, belonging, Bhagavan Das, intoxication, performance, Rumi, safety, singing
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Joy to the World (a different version)
Joy in the world! The time is come! Let earth reject all kings. Let ev’ry heart give itself room, and with all nature sing, and with all nature sing, And with, and with all nature sing. Joy in the world! … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, celebration, ecumenics, inclusion, joy, Joy to the World, nature, paganism, wholeness, Yule
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