food for the mind, body and soul, sir ace! love the way you developed this idea-- an effort worthy of much study... "where fear and love are synonymous" how this line resonates at a deeply personal level-- life events currently have me walking on The Edge. many thanks for this sweeping perspective. as always, a pleasure to read your stuff...
best,
carolyn
This transcends philosophy to become a kind of science of the spirit and the creative fire. Normally I'd say such things can't be fixed and defined, but you've come damn close...though you were wise enough also to remind us that they're always in motion and flux. Fascinating.
Your work always has an incredible scope, but you've even transceded that...the is stunning in its universality and its individual perception! Really Great Work! And one that will be remembered for a very long time!
you've become a holy man and, by God, this is the sermon I've needed to hear. nice presentation, from opening lines to that profound and profoundly difficult to accept reality with which you close. Dawn
We are only temporary conduits of zillions of waves of light and knowledge. Thoughts and revelations come and go at the speed of light. Our worlds are constantly changing around us, whether or not we want them too. Matter and the mind are in constant motion. Even Love is a kind of death. Free will involves creating our worlds from the variables around us-choosing is creation. Stagnation is choosing not to choose and staying motionless until the universe forces change apon us. Wise ponderance, my friend!
Seriously profound write on the nature of living "faith in the evidence of things unseen." The cascading rush of consciousness that animates these lines lifts the reader on a wave of glittering revelation, drenching one in psychospiritual energy and vision and wisdom.
Sheer brilliance! Looks like your signpost has turned up, then! Phew! Reckon A.Keith B has put his finger on it - as much as a finger can pin it down. Thoughts are not to be thunk but lived as the existing reality; their inception and reception the tension/countertension that holds a conscious being together: well, we must all know that that's right - the stresses and strains of material life does more, at least, to blow us right apart! Quite Biblical, really: Jesus says that " you have to lose yourself to find yourself again". And so right that life IS what it's not: "reality" isn't what goes on OUTside of us but INside of our heads. I have just been awake for over an hour, thinkin about what I was getting at in Trading Places - on the journey we "don't exist" because mentally/emotionally/spiritually you can see that fellow travellers are either "where" they have just left behind, where they are headed to - or somewhere else completely. I should have got up and come straight here, cos this explains it rather neatly. Reality is spiritual: you can't think yourself into enlightenment, but you can rationalise yourself into oblivion... like wot I'm doing now... THANK YOU!! This is a banquet for me this morning and am obviously making the most of it. Sorry - it's what you get for being absent. Also the result of being on a very HEAVY translation course this week which is doing me head in: 6hrs spent yesterday over 4 short lines of Hebrew poetry! A picnic by comparison! Glad your fire and ice are holding creative tension. This is majestic metaphysical magnificence, Jude, and as Eileen says, worth being away on the mountain for... Kate xx
A creative exploration of the oxymoron, "free will." We are bound by our experiences and cognitive schemata that shape our thought and feelings. One has to let go to experience something grandeur and to explore the outer boundaries of our consciousness. Great write.
Deep stuff, Robert. Einstein said "Imagination is more important than knowledge." One can look upon that line and learn that in peering through a pinpoint hole, we can see the entire universe if we take the time to imagine that we can do so. Living is not about the "stuff" that circles around us, it is about the full circle of life that is within us. It is about yin and yang and how one must support the other for either to exist. This is an excellent mind-bending poem, Robert. It elevates the reader to a higher level of perception.
Take care,
Sherry
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best,
carolyn
Simple truth. Bombastic and quietly amazing!
Signpost
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Your work always has an incredible scope, but you've even transceded that...the is stunning in its universality and its individual perception! Really Great Work! And one that will be remembered for a very long time!
Jennifer;)
You ARE poetry. Such beautiful wisdom in your lines...thank you, I needed this one, BOY, did I need it today.
Keep me in your prayers--
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(
Is not to be discovered but appreciated
Love these opening lines in this captivating poem, Robert.
Peace, Carole
Thanks for this fine offering!!
Something to read more than one time!!
Good to read you again!!
Love Tinka
Don't think I or anyone can add more than Kate has..lol
Reindeer
Eileen
Felix
Take care,
Sherry