Born of Ares,
In every life violent.
Born of Ares,
In every life brave.
Bound to children of Love,
Aphrodite’s daughters and sons.
In every life devoted,
to affection and protection.
In every life his,
those children of War.
Born of the bloodshed,
the chaos,
and the courage that comes before.
Categories:
polytheist, appreciation, beautiful, birth,
Form: Free verse
I'm reading "Daring Democracy,"
Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen,
noticing here too
racial justice glops onto EarthJustice.
This isn't news,
although maybe gospel GoodNews,
that polycultural regenerativity
and multicultural democratic health
are two reverse faces
of White
and Climate
Fragility,
In turn,
the ancient green health/wealth Face
resisting white nation-state western privilege,
militarism
colonialism
patriarchalism
nature/spirit dualism
fundamentalism
Anti-evangelical multicultural health,
regenerative wealth.
I lay my Daring Democracy paperback aside
lost in wonder
how we ever could imagine
degenerative monocultural elitism
as more worthy of a healthy democratic republic
than regenerative polycultural privilege
of sacred grace
Equally true
and cause for gratitude
whether atheist,
and/or monotheist,
and/or polytheist,
and/or pantheist,
and/or panentheist,
and/or ecologist,
and/or co-redeemer for EarthJustice.
Categories:
polytheist, deep, earth, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
What is the difference between an atheist and a panentheist?
Atheists cannot discover any signs of divinity outside ourselves
While the panentheist uncovers what organizes interior landscapes
and exterior climates.
In Buddhism we have a principle of Emptiness
and a correlated principle of Interdependence.
Atheists stop rather abruptly with the Emptiness platform
while panentheists are bogged down by all us Interdependents,
sorting through co-dependent relationships
but without the therapy bills
Emptiness feels like an unfamiliar but theoretically endarkening relief,
like co-relational belonging
before association turns into sour longing loneliness.
So maybe a LeftBrain empty atheist
is also a RightBrain interdependent polytheist,
and the two together are a panentheistic Buddhist.
There is no inconsistency here.
just two faces of eternally timeless
human longing to divinely belong,
just as time is lost to sensory review
when it becomes most sacredly replete.
Other than that, one is harder to spell
and takes a whole lot longer to say.
Categories:
polytheist, atheist, space, spiritual, time,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
How a poet mess up a
verse to fright,
Deep inside but no
time to vet lost,
On the dark shadowy
paths, nothing has
caught,
As we observe sun
rise and set lost,
How ridiculous it
is, chore day to
night,
You would not be
immortal, a mere het
lost,
Spell what’s a
thing, what’s thee
height,
Mortal everything,
mortal net lost,
Here you will be
allegedly call a
polytheist,
For which you
sentenced gibbet
lost,
Soldier and
commander same
ambition to fight,
Rear one got fame,
and frontier get
lost,
The criminal, who
denies the
hypocrite,
Here I there you,
only a pretext lost,
Wonder If I be bosom
in just a blink
sight,
As river intrude
silently to sea and
met lost,
The journey
commences or stopped
in plight,
Go ahead, above, up,
So never get lost.
As wishes won’t come
true till death
arrive at site,
Shahid no way to
escape, will you pet
lost.
Shahid Hussain
Chouhdry
Categories:
polytheist, voice, voyage, wisdom, work,
Form: Ghazal