Strong words, strong message, and light... the burden we must bear with resurrection in mind.

more light! more light! You are a luminous being!!

oh my...felt as a weighty read this afternoon...yet it is a few days old...perhaps light's burden has lightened a bit since then...

STRONG..each one of your thoughts has great depth and foresight!

The stronger the light, the stronger it butns.....people forget about that part.........

Great write.

Good Lord! Remind me to go away more often... or at least to leave your page alone for a bit to let others have their proper say and to let you get on with your work... the work that only YOU can do, Jude. In my totally wobbly physical state, this renders me completely (well, you know...!) speechless; it is rapier-like and scintillating, sparking off all those synapses you're so keen on. This is flagship stuff and I love the form and "wandering" layout which is such a sharp contrast to the piercingly acute thoughts which this poem articulates but suits its message well. You have grasped here the inexpressible of the observable and tangible and left us grappling towards the answer that might only be found super or supra-naturally: we have everything that pertains to material wealth and understanding to bring the very best to our created world - but the supernatural wisdom to interpret and apply it seems cloaked to our veiled minds which seem to prefer to live in denial and ignorance in pursuit of the purely immediate - both in spatial and temporal terms. The result is as you flawlessly pen it here. Fantastic lines: "Because dreams are dining in a field of cotton exchanging recipes that time will devour" and "Because millions of dislocated bodies are at the centre of attention rotating to the momentum of an unfocussed world". Jaw-dropping... off back to bed in a heap! :))... But I'm doing well, thank you! xx

A masterful write Jude....brilliant!

love and peace, Carole

SO many quotable lines here. ..."truth is a dying poet/the answers lay in a scroll of dust. . ." You have captured the truth, and
it is even uglier than we thought. But only by capturing and imprisoning it -- torturing out sane behavior? -- do we have a chance of keeping the poet alive. Hope my point is clear. Yours is not only clear but
beautifully expressed. Encore! Encore!! P <3

Wow - Hope you find that avenue, Jude - in fact, I hope we all find it soon.

This has a seething rage and power. A very good poem, Robert.

Calvin

It is always refreshing to come back to AD and see your magic come alive... this is more then a poem, this should all make us "wake up" and take notice... excellent write

You've been reading the NY Times again, haven't you, Jude. ROFL

Jude you have put the world into a deep perspective of where we are going and what is the cost of us going there/ Your verbal journey leaves not for a means of return to what might have been which makes this work all the more poignant.

Felix

A poem somewhat like a solar flare with equal parts beauty and terror illuminating all the paradoxical realities most of us would rather not acknowledge. Line by line an exceptional write.

OH Jude ...you feel so much... sense so much..digest too much..wish I could lighten the burden..
Incredibly profound write..saved it..ty

Vesna:

Where one lives is the window out of which there is despair.

Jude, this is, and has got to be, simply one of your best. A powerful expression of the truth cast amongst a cosmos of light.

i like this

Oh boy. You've hit the heights here.
Facts all facts but from such an interesting dimension.
Didactical write..

Deep. The light of reason falling on the prism of truth to cast colors of life upon the wall of reality. Wonderful poem.
Abdi-Noor

Beautifully deep and so very powerful Jude, this is outstanding poetry, one of your very best. Saving this one,

Reindeer

(Tears streaming down face) Jude,
You ARE a Being of the light
this is transendent, crisp,clear, wrenchingly beautiful!
Amazingly in tune with all that surrounds us!
Many Blessings ~ Shell

A knock out write!!

Love Tinka

This one speaks to the mountain tops,
and beyond the heavens!
Great one Robert!
Bravo!

I agree with Eileen.

Here is a poem that, like light, is part exposition, part illumination. This has the density we all feel with the increasing weight of darkness that seems to characterize our time. Yet it also implies motion toward something and the necessary shedding of what hinders our progress. Though all seems dark and foreboding, we have only to look at light from a diferent perspective, through the prism of your clear and multi-faceted poetry, Jude.

I'm trying to get my bearings to digest this incredible lamentation. You outdid yourself with this one, my dear Jude!
All the shades of the spectrum are here with the images to match.
You surely have captured the tenor of the times!Brilliant work!

Love,
Eileen

At times it seems as though I am navigating my ship through a mire of refuse and negative thought. I feel as though the breath of the unenlightened has stolen the sky and is causing me to breathe in the black sooty air of confusion. Pressing through to the other side is like walking 50 miles on a balance beam, wondering when and if we will stumble and be sucked into the sea of oblivion. All of this is, of course, a curtain of illusion and if we venture past it, we will find the shining prism of light that calls us to a higher place. This is an excellent contemplative poem, Jude.
Take care,
Sherry

The totality of this, I think, is avoiding deposits of political fat and wasteful matter of the earth's metabolism. If the earth and heavens respond to this at all, it will be because the prophet of Jude is being heard. We do understand the nature of this relationship, but it doesn't alter the fact. This writing needs to be written on a goatskin scroll and preserved for the future of humankind.

Sage

Good compendium of normalcy in the celestial hurtling spheres