False Spiritualities
Our age is full of spiritual criminals
“I teach you!” I will show you the way!”
Yes, they will help. Of course. For money
People want to find the way. The way out
Why? People are fearing. Hmm. Future
Yes. But maybe too late, the gate is closed
Then came the help! The spiritual teachers!
“I teach you practices, knowing, meditations!”
They will teach you. Believe them. Lost money
One session is seventy to a hundred pounds
“We need to help you! This is our job! You!”
They are selfless angels! They are the saints!
Then the blind person’s wallet and credit cards open
“You have problems, we fix everything in your life!”
Naive people are victims of pseudo-spiritualist hyenas
There are traditions for help
Old churches, ancient religions
Do not follow the false teachers
Follow the ancient texts, prophets
Crystal clean sciences, theologies
Categories:
spiritualities, fate, life, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Dumpster-Diving Deity
By Mark D. Stucky
Dirty, broken, and forgotten,
discarded as worthless junk
at garage sales and trash collections,
were treasures I have rescued.
Where others saw rubbish,
the eye of this beholder
saw creative potential.
After repairing, cleaning,
and polishing or painting,
the old items were resurrected
into new lives and new homes
with myself and others.
Likewise, the Word-made-flesh dumpster-dove
into the bloody wreckage of our world,
to rescue us from our garbage heaps,
repair our hopeless brokenness,
scrub our grimy hearts,
polish our potential,
and find us forever homes
within divine community
in this world and the next.
(First published in Calla Press, 25 May 2022. See also my poems “Broken Beauty,” “Purgatorial Perceptions,” “God Around the Corner,” and “Quantum Spiritualities.”)
(Image collage from images by Pexels and Noupload on Pixabay.com.)
Categories:
spiritualities, god, humor, metaphor, religious,
Form: Free verse
Quantum Spiritualities
By Mark D. Stucky
Where the world’s religions
diverge in creeds and practices
surely some beliefs went astray,
but is there a “one true faith”?
Is there one universal spirituality
with rigidly equal requirements
for all peoples across all millennia?
A universal spirituality field
across all of space and time?
Or does God encounter us where we are,
in the quantum foam of our chaotic lives?
With experiences as diverse as individual snowflakes
and as unpredictable as quantum particle positions?
Will we have, if we’re mindful,
unexpected meetings with
mystical forces in thin spaces
where heaven and earth touch?
Spiritual entanglements
between God and our souls?
Seemingly random events
taking us closer to destiny?
(First published in Agape Review, 20 March 2022. See also my other “quantum” poems.)
(Image by geralt on Pixabay.com.)
Categories:
spiritualities, faith, god, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Inner faces dealt a deal
Similar prophecies fulfilled
Judicious divines intuit
Universal moralities determine best
Such spiritualities minds taught
Tantalizing glimpses strive
Important finds uncover
Secular dignities identifies
8/6/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
spiritualities, analogy, appreciation, encouraging, hope,
Form: Acrostic
Indiscreet gazed glare
Lived spiritualities listens do ones sweet whispers
Organizational perspectives viewed waiting a for you
Various amours fling dreams of you
Endless amor I love her/(him) so
Yearly some summarize passions sword cutting the void
Overwhelming feelings of my aspects sweet passions
Unfulfilled wishes I ask, will you be mine
7/11/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
spiritualities, analogy, appreciation, for her,
Form: Acrostic
awesome beauty stands
glimmering tarnished knot in the
eyes of no man heart
~
yet hugs in spirit
congested it with thoughts of physics
spoils the purities
~
soul drenched in just lust
of spiritualities
tainted and combust
~
fair thee wroth it is
about me not about us
I've come to the wrong
~
I lay my selfish
burning down please forgive me
spiritual beauty
Categories:
spiritualities, analogy, appreciation, beauty, longing,
Form: Haiku
G rest Divine intuit
Of prophecies fulfilled
D ifferent modalities than man
Inner faces deal
Similar prophecies fulfilled
Judicious Divine Intuit
Universal morality is determined
Such spiritualities think
Tantalizing glimpses stride
Important finds uncovered
Secular dignity and identified God is God
1/12/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
spiritualities, analogy, god,
Form: Acrostic
Sitting with me as a very good friend
To turned me in spiritualities warrant
Connecting me with the power like current
To be with Allah whole month and inherent
Ramadan in need and is indeed a good friend
How can I let you go making me a different?
Categories:
spiritualities, friend, relationship, religious,
Form: Free verse
No Theme Chosen Mankind’s Spiritual Quest
An Acrostic by James Edward Lee Sr.
Numerous articles feature.
Other characters feature.
Traditional absolutes overarch.
Humans stop.
Evolutionary jumps move.
Malevolent spirits sense.
Erratic leaps spin.
Continual ascensions smell.
Holy ghosts culture.
Orthodox spiritualities character.
Sudden enthusiasms talk.
Earliest humans center.
Noble essences take.
12/23/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019
Categories:
spiritualities, analogy, appreciation, engagement, humanity,
Form: Acrostic
We are here
and sometimes there
for each other.
How else could we support
this glad global network
of becoming?
Health is here
when abundant life is not over there,
just past some eastern sunrise horizon,
while I sulk and stain my past
missed opportunities
stalking toward, and balking against,
our appalling future
dodging unnecessary climate pathologies,
paranoid and dogmatic ethologies,
faithless loser psychologies,
frantic lose/lose unsurvival ecologies,
upside down logicalities,
out-chucked enculturing mythologies
settling for Left-Yang either/or toleration management
when we are designed for both/and
natural spiritualities.
We are rightmind here
and sometimes left disembodied rememory there
for each suffering other.
How else could we win/win support
this glad local/global health network
of being/becoming inter-relationships?
Categories:
spiritualities, health, integrity, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
It's so hard to teach "men" with "********" mentalities
The alphabetic of spiritualities.
That does not mean to give up your hope
One should keep saying it! Simple, it's not to them
They shall keep calling you, myna, parrot, moo or so and so
Please, remember
Few are the members
Many are the numbers jumpers.
Categories:
spiritualities, wisdom,
Form: Free verse