(“Anagogical Moments Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil)
Godlife
God and Life are one and the same
Synonyms you could say
But with differences.
God is the intangible,
Life the visible and touchable.
No matter how much we try, God
Remains just out of reach
But Life is what we know without a doubt.
Yet even within the tangible and sensory
There is the intangible always present.
If you doubt this, find a person who is dying
And see how different they look
After they have gone.
(9/5/25)
Categories:
anagogical, god, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
(“Anagogical Moments Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil)
In A World of Our Own Making
Everywhere I look I see what I see
Through a lens of my own making
A composite fly-eye’s view
Of everything I have ever seen,
Heard, touched, felt and known
A world of my own making in constant flux.
Everything is thus a filtered projection
To a kaleidoscopic mind
And yet the coming to realization
Of the light within and behind the projector
Is a process of reminder and recollection
An undoing of an unknowing at our core.
Even the hardest rock or highest peak
Eventually falls apart and washes to the sea
But eventually is too long for me
In my rush to have it all now;
The taste of alpha and omega
And all points in between.
But then the nectar of the flower here
Now reaching up through the crack
In the sidewalk of my concretizing mind
Is as sweet as that of any
Wild and free blossom
That I will never see or know….
(7/1/25)
Categories:
anagogical, allegory, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
("Anagogical Moments Merit Badge", 2011, original oil)
Ineffable
No matter what you think or say
About reality, the true nature of Life
Or mind, or God
You are wrong.
And that is simply
Because what is real and true
Is more subtle and immediate
Than we can ever say.
Doesn’t mean there isn’t a truth or reality
Just that it is always beyond thought
And thus speech;
Always, and for everyone.
And this makes you wonder
What is it then we use our superior primate minds for?
Mostly to divide and conquer it seems
Certainly not to live in peace and harmony.
Meanwhile birds sing, bees gather nectar
Children laugh and elders sigh
The world turns, beautifully and inexorably
And we are here to simply notice and enjoy.
(9/7/24)
Categories:
anagogical, appreciation, celebration, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative