Tag Archives: identity

The Five Pillars

I’ll write this down because I might forget, and in the morning not be as profound. The pillars underlying everything, at least the point of view that shapes my world, are time, essence, identity, impermanence, and illusion. These five interconnected … Continue reading

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On Sharing the Wealth

If you do not add something of yourself
to everything you choose to pass along,
what kind of an inheritance is that?
Why should your downstream children give a damn?

What good is simply sharing more bad news?
How does that help us to improve our lot?
There is no solidarity in that,
just mindless repetition, nothing more. Continue reading

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Anti-Amergin: chant

I am not just my name and sign,
I am not just my sex,
I am not who I voted for,
I am not where I’m from,
I am not just the work I do,
I am not just a son,
I am not from a somewhere else,
I am not just like you, Continue reading

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Nothing But Us: echo verse

What happens at the point the point when we get in our lives in our lives where decisively, we choose we choose something to believe in to believe in much greater than ourselves, ourselves, and with surprise we find, we find … Continue reading

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You Don’t Know Me

We exchange pleasantries online or on the town; you’ve read my poetry and perhaps you have found some similarity between yourself and me, but you don’t know me. We talk of politics or turns that life may make; something I … Continue reading

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What’s My Name?

What’s my name? You may have seen it in the papers Saw the lines ’round my face and you read about my latest capers What’s my name? It’s on everybody’s lips Who’s hip, who’s tripped, who’s slipped, who’s got a … Continue reading

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On Dialogue with Self

When does a dialogue with self cease being a monologue? At what precise moment does the epiphany conceived of self-deliberation end its foolish premeditation on some inner change of being and address itself to the self in others, recognizing in … Continue reading

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