Foundation.
Based on a simple question.
What form does paradise take?
Is it simply when one doesn't suffer the mental confusion between unconscious, and conscious desires?
Such as finding love, friendship, material or spiritual wealth, etc. Etc.
Paradisus (L)
Consciousness and Unconsciousness
Rests and bows in peace
As tranquility flows
Through the good heart's
Altarpiece
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Copyright John Duffy
Paradisus translated:
Paradise.
Perfect in me the gift
That I might perform in tune
To the maker of the stars
And the face upon the moon
Create in me an artist
Who would paint his masterpiece
From the journal of his heart
To the canvas altarpiece
Make in me the poet
With an everlasting script
Whose words reflect the glory
Of the Riser from the crypt
Writing verses for the angels
The little babies never born
A special place reserved in Heaven
Where every heartbeat is a poem
Touch me with your spirit
To inspire me with peace
Forming words into a genesis
That forever shall increase
Michael 7/1/2022
To war we march in search of peace.
Young men and women bright eyed and naïve
learning lifelong lessons from the deceased.
To spread democracy, the world we police.
Our military might the judge, jury and executioner.
To war we march in search of peace.
In foreign lands our flags hang like an altarpiece.
Us secure in our suburban sprawl never
learning lifelong lessons from the deceased.
Decade after decade our war budgets increase.
One in eight Americans live in poverty. Yet,
to war we march in search of peace.
When the will the needless violence cease?
Not until our leaders and politicians begin
learning lifelong lessons from the deceased.
Bride, groom and twenty guests blown to bits.
Nine civilian deaths for each military loss. Still
to war we march in search of peace.
Learning lifelong lessons from the deceased?
Vacation in Manhattan
Thought I was going to be bored when we
Were told we were going to see
A panel hinged shutter
My speech was beginning to stutter
Jan van Eyck’s nude art I see
12/28/2015
The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck is a very large and complex early 15th-century Early Flemish polyptych panel painting. The altarpiece comprises 12 panels, eight of which are hinged shutters
Artists: Hubert van Eyck, Jan van Eyck
Period: Northern Renaissance
Dimensions: 11' 6? x 15' 1?