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Society’s Man
Society, your dream would have me beg for pittance from a cruel employer’s hand, and from my knees downward, not use my legs, preferring that I genuflect, not stand, to act as servant, bound to divine whim that your appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged childishness, damnation, dreams, expectations, individuality, manhood, maturity, religion, service
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On Milton and Dante
To each their own: let others speak of hells where self-damnation wreaks eternal havoc on the mind and soul; its torments let their thoughts embrace, imagining some devil’s face. I will not heed such useless folderol. It should suffice that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged allegory, coersion, damnation, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, personal responsibility, religion, salvation
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Tell Your Children
Thinking of Richie Havens (thanks to poetbear for dutifully transcribing “Younger Men Grow Older”), I reached into the deep chasm of the archives and pulled out the only Richie Havens-inspired song I ever wrote. It dates from about 12 years … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged conflict, damnation, exclusivity, fundamentalism, religion, spirituality, war
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Martyr Without a Cause
Waken, would-be martyrs seeking causes to in an instant devote life and limb, and cling half-drowned along the upturned raft of culture that leaking, seeks the bottom of the quay. The words that might be spoken now are silenced; upon … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, causes, damnation, foolishness, martyrs, pointlessness, selfishness, service
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Ecumenics
A conversation I had earlier brought this thought to my mind. I am, as one who seeks to find the commonalities in things, constantly drawn to comparative religion. My view of the varying religions of humanity, their supposed differences and … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged connection, damnation, ecumenics, exclusion, martyrs, religion, spirituality, wholeness
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Self-Damnation: a casbairdne
With words, my sentence fulfill: the weak willed soul seeks to fail, its too frail form doomed to fall before bringing home the grail. Too true; the trials and tests that beset the searcher last past the point where the … Continue reading
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Tagged casbairdne, daily poems, damnation, failure, Irish verse forms, poetic forms, self-loathing
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