Category: Poetry
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RedFlame DeepWater (pt.3): Becoming Invisible
After the RedFlame Initiates Destruction in your life and you Return to the Scene to see if you can rebuild what you had, you may realize that it isn’t possible. On the spiritual path, we are given opportunities to grow in awareness, often through painful experiences. During those times, we have the choice to go…
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RedFlame DeepWater (pt.2): Return to the Scene
The deepening of spiritual awareness can go through many stages, some repeating and bringing up old patterns to make conscious, some with new, unexplained events to experience. I am currently working on a long narrative poem called RedFlame DeepWater. I previously posted Part 1, RedFlame Initiates Destruction, about the sudden events that can enter our…
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RedFlame DeepWater (Pt.1):RedFlame Initiates Destruction
See, Introducing RedFlame DeepWater for an introduction to this series of poems. RedFlame DeepWater RedFlame Initiates Destruction Out of the abyss, erupted RedFlame, Intruding in my life, and holding others to blame. I was content in routine, and collecting possessions, Ignoring nudges to change, and nursing obsessions. This beautiful place I have created, And built…
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Introducing RedFlame DeepWater
My next collection of poems, titled RedFlame DeepWater, is a pivitol series for me. The collection is about the, sometimes intense, events on the path to spiritual enlightenment. It includes a symbolic description of the experience referred to as “the dark night of the soul.” The dark night of the soul is a time when everything…
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Revealing
I hope that my writing will uncover not just the good and true of the world, but also the things that bother us, taunt us, and immobilize our Spirit and our creativity. Revealing these things brings them out of their hiding places, and they terrorize us no more. Revealing Revealing Revolt, Revenge, Revile, Revert. Revealing…
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Suspended in Thin Air
There are times we find ourselves in difficult circumstances, death of a loved one, financial problems, uncertainty, illness, injury, or spiritual crisis. I wrote this poem with these experiences in mind. These are times we get wrung-out and squeezed down to the essence of life. At this moment in our history, individuals in our society…
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Integral Poet Manifesto
Reprinted below is a brilliant description of what it means to be an Integral Poet, and I wholeheartedly agree! The Kosmic Karma of an Integral Poet Paul Lonely A Manifesto Plagiarizing and Expanding the Visions of Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose. One There are three types of poets: ordinary poets, great poets and seer-poets. Ordinary poets…