New poem: ""Honoring the Teaching"

 

Honoring the Teaching

 

The gentle, soft-spoken American

gathered, collected, and purloined

ancient wisdom teachings from arcane

spiritual traditions and packaged them

for modern consumption into a teaching

that he called the Way of the Eternal,

fabricating the longest unbroken line

of Spiritual Masters in the world; but

despite the fraudulent packaging, I

honored the spiritual wisdom of this

New Age religion of the Holy Light

and Sound of God, and it gave me all

the answers I was looking for to be

the writer that I became, free to speak

with a voice of my own.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

New poem: "Requiem for Charlie Kirk"

 Requiem for Charlie Kirk

 

Charlie came and did what he was

born to do, and he was taken away

by a hate-marked bullet to certify

his mission on Earth; a soul contract

to bring together the two factions

of life that the nasty woke virus had

divided; an honest young man with

a wife and two children who brought

a message of love from God, and

then went back home again.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Saturday, September 21, 2025

New poem: "The Hypnotic Sleep of Life"

 

The Hypnotic Sleep of Life

 

A tree in the forest falls to the ground,

and it makes a noise when it comes crashing

down; but if there is no one to hear the noise,

philosophers ponder whether there was any

noise to be heard. Rumi said to tell it unveiled

the naked truth, because the declaration is better

than the secret. I wasn`t in the forest when

the tree came down, but I heard it. Not literally,

or in my mind; but in the clarity of my soul`s

understanding of life. “Before enlightenment,

chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop

wood, carry water,” says the Tao. I chopped

wood and carried water before I heard the tree

in the forest fall down, and I chopped wood

and carried water after I heard the tree in the

forest fall to the ground; but I was not the same

man before as I was after enlightenment. “There

is only self-initiation into the mysteries of life,’”

said Gurdjieff, who woke me up from the

hypnotic sleep of life.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Sunday, September 7, 2025

 

 

 

New poem: "The God Code"

 

The God Code

 

Soul’s divine imperative + karmic

determinants = individuation of a new “I”

of God. Every soul has the God code, which

is the same for every person; and it’s the God

code that determines who we are—or, rather,

what we are divinely destined to be. Male,

female, the gender does not matter, because

soul has no gender. It’s the gender we choose

to be that challenges our destiny: female

this lifetime, male the next, and a confused

admixture of the two another, all for growth

in love and understanding to fulfill soul’s

purpose of creating a new “I” of God,

and we have forever to get there.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Thursday, June 12, 2025