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Voices In the Darkl

Cautious spirits test the waters of my world and call to me....then go away. Perhaps they are perfecting inter-mind devices, just like psychic Edisons, Marconi's revenant in breakthrough just for me, or else perhaps celestial wallflowers, much too diffident to follow up my name with headlines from beyond the grave. Am I their snuffling guinea pig?--- their crude receptor in this mass of flesh that yearns for finely-tuned antennae (please God, invisible,) and color pictures if one may, upon my mental screen? No, I am most content upon this cautious course, though I know not the hazards of its path, the travelers, or the design, nor may I fine their metaphysical intent. The reader knows, I speak with some regret. for there are those who will decide that I bear watching, lest my touch upon their world begin to fade too much, that I be too entranced of waves they cannot... will not see. Though I may somewhat fear the world beyond white doors, I still invite my curtained friends to part the night with energy no instrument that science met may sense just yet--no no, not yet. ~

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 8/9/2012 10:44:00 AM
spiritualism...? lordy, your poems are deep and complex! this one is easier for me to absorb than some of the others, but I'm still struggling...I can't say publicly what your poems do to my head :-)
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Robert Ludden
Date: 8/9/2012 5:52:00 PM
A little struggle is good for us, I think. I fear, though, that when that is your reaction, that you'll give up :-( and not read them any more. Actually this is quite simple, little metaphor in it. I heard voices, that is all. Lest you be alarmed, they were very rare, and I havn't heard them for a long time... but when it happens, I want to pay attention.
Date: 8/9/2012 10:00:00 AM
I sense a little of the "heresy," here, a little of Camus. "Though I may somewhat fear the world beyond white doors....." I am probably reaching, but you are surely among the 1% (or less) with intelligence enough to rebel. I salute you for that. I'll read this again to see if my metaphysical suspicions are contained in your so articulate work. Love, daver
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Robert Ludden
Date: 8/9/2012 5:55:00 PM
Thanks, I don't really want to rebel. I'm just a guy who has had a little bit of metaphysical experience, and would like to have more. :-)

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