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The 'Voice of Reason' Contends...

by Richard Lloyd Cederberg — Read all 280 poems by Richard Lloyd Cederberg

America is being buffeted now with violence, lies, half-truths, and rhetorical frippery. Extensive political, economic, spiritual, and sociolinguistic restructuring is underway, and much of what we have come to understand in our lives as being normal, ethical, and moral, will never be the same again. “There is a way that appears to be right to a man, but in the end, it leads to death.” (Proverbs 14:12) Poetiprose

Monday, February 20, 2023


Poem Artwork
With eyes closed,
how fast can man go
in self-fabricated vehicles,
extemporizing tasks at hand
without breaking the laws of
the commonwealth, or of
any res-publica, simply
in an attempt to
suckle gratifications pap….
.
Considering what is judged in
accordance with approved usage,
how high can a man fly (or remain
certain of his world view) before he
begs for supplemental oxygen….
.
There comes a time
when true
understanding
is akin to an escape from
calibrated consciousness, when
awareness (at last) figures the illusions,
and seekers of wisdom are forced
to question everything,
indiscretions,
repulsions, the
blather of alcoholics,
concocted pretense, and
all those many self-important
personalities striving to extinguish
another’s lighthouse, because of jealousy,
or worse yet, uber-reverence…
.
And because
of fearfulness, or
chronic insecurity, too many
adopt an ego-eyed mind-set that
cannot accept anything other than self,
the beast of intellectual elaboration
making points,
seeking meaning,
the art of lifelessness,
pasting this bit with that bit,
a patchwork quilt of notions
from white bread poetizers
their neurotic worlds, their fraught achievements,
arrogant dipso-humorists slogging a middle-class bio,
bursting with haughtiness, and notions of
sublime involution, subsisting only
for self-satisfaction
self-realization
self-worship
in false humility fluxing smugly
in vain attempts at immortality, all
as the VOICE OF REASON CONTENDS:
.
‘Vicariously you live through your
refinements, your heroes, your talents,
and what you think you understand
about life, in an attempt
to rehash what
you find acceptable
before you disappear into
a cesspool of personal struggles,
in a never-ending search for meaning, and
a trendy relevance of thought and expression….
.
Never knowing
that before these
get too dulled, jaded,
complacent, or uncaring,
and lose the creative fire pushing
them, to explore new lands uncharted,
and the yearning to make a real difference-
considering that if the average human never
really cares that crop-circles are formed (perhaps)
from wormholes opening and closing in preparation
for the ‘almost-upon-us’ planetary reset,
or if he misses the deeper
insights of Genesis Chapter 1,
hinting at another incarnation of
Earth destroyed before Adam and Eve,
or if he never considers the ‘harps-10-strings’
as ten dimensions the present universe was sublimely
created in, (lessened when the first couple
was cast from the garden)
or if he never knows the
gift of artistic conceptualization,
or the true bliss of spiritual relationship,
or if he never fully understands the reasons
why one succeeds, and another fails,
or the reasons why
some convey through pridefulness,
and others through omnipotent grace,
(and why both seem at times similar) or why
some are bold to denigrate another’s holy faith,
and some are inhibited, and hide behind facades……
.
Considering these things…
.
Perhaps, before departure,
we should all join hands together,
and tell another that we love them,
or appreciate them,
or respect them,
in a celebration of what
living and creativity (really is),
and what our individual roles (really are)
in this Mystery of Being, that can never
be fully apprehended by anyone…
.
© richard lloyd cederberg
2/2023
          A NEW RACE OF HuMANS



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Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on March 1, 2023
'COME...LET US REASON TOGETHER' AND 'COME, LET US FOLLOW THE OLD PATHS'. INDEED, 'HIS' VOICE OF REASON IS HEARD THROUGHOUT HIS 'WORD'. BUT THOSE 'THAT WILL BE SHAKEN...WILL BE SHAKEN' AND ALL WE CAN DO, AS BELIEVERS, IS PRAY FOR THE STRENGTH OF MERCY AND GRACE TO KEEP OUR COURSE...AS WE CONTINUE TO 'CRY OUT' WHILST MAKING OUR OWN WAY HOME. THANK YOU, RICHARD FOR THE FINE 'MIDNIGHT' CALL. AMEN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by JoAnne Cromp (Reader)
Reviewed on February 20, 2023
Richard,

you have so much profound prolific prophetic fruit but especially now more than ever! Dreams of revelations are coming brother!!

I too have felt so much lion that wants to let it rip and ROAR, and correct others Your extremely brave and courageous as I see you like David and Goliath, a tiny young righteous Godly boy took a small shiny round stone and took a giant out because of his faith belief in Almighty God saying who is this uncircumsised Philistine thinks he can come against a child of God~~!!!! He POUNDED the giant~~~ That's just what we must adopt in spirit for these crazy times...You are a prophetic voice in the end times Richard.

I think we all need to develop this edge of bravery right now, especially now it seems everyone is fearful, filled with self interests only or zombified, can't fathom a intellectual conversation, they can't comprehend what's TRULY going on carnally and spiritually , but we all know America has profoundly forever changed. And we must bring the unity of God and family and country like never before!!! AAAaaahhhh, tell me where to find such souls Richard that are on our wave length or maybe there are millions of us just holding their feelings deep inside?? That's where we must put faith in action to be fishers of men through discernment and that starts with love of the Father in us through prayer and foot work despite our profoundly busy lives.. I see so many hurt sad people, especially hurt men that are devastated over America. *90% are military vets who need encouragement, light, hope and love... They must know from us God cares and loves them profoundly. They need hope because we needed hope, a bright light in the darkest of times to keep going in this battle...We are in the greatest times where we in one way or another will be part of bringing in those harvest sheaves!!!!

We must try to keep our sights on things above..!! I do believe this is my so called hill I will die for my beliefs because I've took up the whole armor of God and if real persecution happens my faith will be greater than ever. I've asked God why has He planted me and others at THIS time in history and we are the lost tribe of the house of Israel and we are the new face, the new voice whether people like it or not!! He wanted us to witness His greatest glory in the earth. I cling to my most cherished scripture KJV Isaiah 40:3131 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Yes we are being attacked spiritually profoundly everyday but i remind myself to overcome because He HAS overcome for us !!!!. I believe we will witness the greatest power shift between America and China and we will win in the end but there will be great sacrifice. I think it will be setting millions of people free world wide and He will expose our enemies profoundly, which is wonderful Richard because I love when Satan and all his Jezebel and Baal servants is exposed before the entire Heaven and earth. All will be ok because the Heavens angels are guarding all of America. Yes we go through trials like of the health battles but it is to strengthen us for greater testimony.. Yes it seems like a powerful past dream when I knew as a little girl how profoundly blessed I was to be an American citizen as I said the pledge of Allegiance I spoke.. Imagine that Richard I KNEW how special America was and is. She and Israel are the keys to His future plans in His bride...That is the key to having peace is understanding America is not like America in the past, that she has changed, shifted into greater glory.. She needs prayers 24/ 7....The eagle is battered, broken, in a dust storm and can barely see, on the threshold of death but through her covenant with Almighty God, our Creator of all life, imagine that He will not abandon her or His children!! Blows me totally away!!!!!! Our Father is not finished with America. We have needed to be on our knees for Him many many decades. This is how we defeat powers of hell...It's going to be bumpy with major sacrifice but we WIN in the end. We are discovering God, family and country are so treasured and we must get back to that. He uses His five fold ministers for the perfecting of the Saints and it is not nearly time for tribulation. The Lord has promised us seven fold blessings and our faith will powerfully alter and many will be like lets pray and fast and have many Azusa Street Revivals. Imagine what one man who started the spark who was used back then for the Lord and is returning like lightening rods in Kentucky. I'm so excited for Americas future. In these times I listen to the shofar as I read scripture and it is so powerful.

Pray that the Lord will work to sharpen my gifts as He peels what's not of Him out of me with more bravery as I will pray for you and Michelle protection, discernment and blessings...The best is yet to come! Halleluiah & God bless!

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 20, 2023
As I read this, I was reminded of what my doctoral committee member, the editor of the New England Review told me of my poem, Multiversity, "Cynical."

Like every field of human endeavor that I've never experienced, there are winners and losers. There are those who strike a chord and become well-known for a single flash of creativity that goes around the world like a lightning. And there are those who, you so eloquently describe, spend their whole life wasting it away trying to be something they never will be.

I help all I can largely because I'm comfortable with me with the way I am and comfortable with the world the way it is, needing a lot of improvement before everything is better. But you and I will be long gone when things get really hard for generations to come because of our general ignorance of praying for lost souls instead of fixing things that really need fixing right now. Example: repairing railroad lines so that accidents like happened in Ohio, won't. Idiots with money testing out their self driving cars to the limit can go to hell for all I care.

Ron

Reviewed by Elisabeth Barstowe
Reviewed on February 20, 2023
Love the last verse. This should be done well before departure though.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on February 20, 2023
As you so well delineate in this remarkable poem we live in desperate times among desperate people trying to make a name for themselves through any way possible, except thru the right way, which you finally lay out in the final stanza. May better day lie ahead, the mystery of love in light of the mystery of Being.

Reviewed by Ann Marquette
Reviewed on February 20, 2023
WOW! You hit the nails on the heads! Our world is in a terrible state, but then all Revelations will come to pass before Jesus returns, before we have a New Heaven on a New Earth.

Although our current world situation is sad, I try to care for each day and whatever is in my life's circle. And most of all, I thank God each day for my life and all His many blessings. Gratitude makes life better.

Love and God bless you Richard,

ann


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