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The Camp Meeting
“This town needs a revival,” I heard some sure person say at the supermarket just the other night. I thought about replying, but instead just walked away; no point in telling people that they’re right. There’s at least 50 churches … Continue reading
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Tagged fundamentalism, ignorance, intolerance, proselytizing, religion
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Damocles
If you would have me write of bliss, exclaiming art mere artifice, a simple sham designed to fool the ignorant who fill our schools with some vain hope of what might be: quite useless, a mad symphony that holds no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged art, artificiality, artists, balance, bliss, creativity, Damocles, ignorance, integrity, truth
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Stretched at the Seams
I’m living in a small, rural town again. It may have a university campus smack dab in the middle of it, but face it: Natchitoches, Lousiana is not a center of urban sprawl. I’ve lived in small rural towns before. … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged adjustment, communication, ignorance, relationships, rural living, small towns
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No Shaman Left to Heal Our Tribe
Come, dig the grave, but not too deep; the eighties were a shallow time. We spent a decade just to learn how to maintain appearance’s sake and delve with questions, off-the-cuff, in cocktail conversation bluffs. Come, dig the grave, the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged commercialism, culture, daily poems, history, ignorance, Jim Morrison, music, substance
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Instrument of God
You call yourself an instrument of God, selected to seek vengeance for some wrong; I wonder, do you ever think it odd that retribution should be your sole song, that God, who has a symphony of life to call upon … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged daily poems, deities, hatred, hypocrisy, ignorance, jihad, religion, terrorism
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The spheres of thought that tangents bring
The spheres of thought that tangents bring in touch with mine are lessening, perhaps in spite of my attempts to cross each bridge, and burn each fence so that the world seems more to me a web of connectivity. It … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged creativity, expression, ignorance, limitations, tangents, thought
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Pagan Comm(unity)?
About two years ago, I participated in a discussion group that included a number of relatively famous pagan “elders”. There was some scuffle regarding some relatively unsavory behavior on the part of one of the members, a leader of a … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged community, discord, elders, ignorance, illusions, paganism, unity
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