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Lila
This form was made from star stuff
To radiate endless love.
My soul is whole, but part of
land, sea, and sky above.
I am whole, but only half of
Creations infinite expanse.
I think that you are Lila
The universe’s perfect dance....

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Categories: lila, change, dance, for her,
Form: Blank verse
Lila and the Demon
I spread my toes wide in the sand,
tanned feet in stark contrast,
the white sand squeeked like cornstarch,
saw the shadows that we cast.

She sat forward, hunched, hands clasped,
her shoulders round and frail,
her clear blue eyes were milky now,
her face seemed pinched and pale.

Just last month she...

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Categories: lila, caregiving, confusion, health, life
Form: Rhyme
If God Did Not Play Hide and Seek
If God did not play Hide & Seek with us
We would see GOD, all of God, nothing else!
So He hides, then gets more elaborate at hiding;
To humans He seems reluctant to be found - as it were -
Those who seek in earnest, will find Him
Because...

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Categories: lila, analogy, bible, games, jesus,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Big Bang For Your Christmas Buck
I
If we humans did not exist in eternity, before this experience that begins with a birth and ends at a funeral, why the desire for immortality? whence do thoughts of "eternity" arise?

II
Our science, even faith traditions, since the famed German,  Martin Luther's rebellion in...

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Categories: lila, angst, universe,
Form: Prose
Solution To the Ego Illusion
1. Avoid Manichaean Concepts and Boxing - making categories - of Human Beings 

2. Watch your thoughts intensely, but kindly: judge no one, not even yourself. Enjoy the drama. We are actors anyways (Ask Shakespeare, or Hindu thinkers who flesh out the concept of Maya...

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Categories: lila, angst, bible, community, discrimination,
Form: Epigram
Dickinson Love - Or What the Dickens
I
If u loved, you may write sound poetry;
If u loved & lost, words add a higher degree
Of lonely beauty and crowded clarity
As was true of Dickinson, POET, Lady, my EMILY

II
Life and breath can yield great writing
Love and loss point to truth, reuniting
Where all are level,...

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Categories: lila, for her, loss, love,
Form: Epigram




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry