There is much wisdom in this offering that is deserving of much more than a single reading. Thank you, Jude. Love and peace to you,

Regis

For there is so much more I recognize....

this stanza felt to me like the grand column holding the structure of thought in the remainder of the poem, Jude. I like your designing thoughts very much, though I am sorry for you and others of us at times who encounter the growing pains of inspired motion. lots to think about here. I'm taking in small chunks just now and must go digest. Dawn

the fine art of compassionate detachment; its road to Unity
and Light...
an engaging, powerfully moving write, Jude.
peace and blessings,
Carolyn

For there is so much more I recognize
Than the mere habitant of night and day
And there is so little I can identify with
While saddling the parameters
Of noncompliant response and opinion

This is wisdom...

"Accepting the transient position
That I am more than I can recognize "

Most profound lines, these. Our vision is so often blurred. And what if you could read the mind of 'god'? That's too much for me to know; for if we were to 'know', to what would we aspire? (sorry, I'm rambling. 'Guess you could say this sent my mind a-wanderin'.)

Good to read you again,
Tami

Tons of old prints, swords, and walking sticks blending into that structure, Jude. Back to the memories you have grown to know is standing in the corner, an astrolabe and a suit of armor. With high ideals and a design for a better world!

Sage

there is always one path that keeps us coming back :-) Great write.

Ah, Robert, how well you comprehend your circumstance. Write on, poet!

Excellent piece Jude!!

Love Tinka

Like Einstein said, "I want to know God's thoughts!"

Love & Light,
Joseph

"And there is so little I can identify with While saddling the parameters Of noncompliant response and opinion." You are one of a kind and I doubt you run into many who can participate in your ideas. Being brilliant can have it's down side I guess:>) Wonderful write, Jude.

Very insightful and spiritaul affect you leave with the reader!!!!

A splendid piece of writing Jude.
love and peace...

Carole

Brilliant, Robert, and sweetly done.

The less I recognize the routine of being
The more I blend into its structure
And enjoy the purpose of spontaneity <-----Not by definition or intellect. But with acceptance and senses, one's released from such a struggle. To inner freedom.
Great illuminating journey...

It sure can be frustrating as we watch our fellows banter on about things that have little lasting consequence. However, consider the huge job that is to be done by those who live above the fray, those with the insight to see into the eternity of man and past his daily destruction, sorrows, woes and pain. We are but feathers upon a mighty wind, blown to this place for the purpose of enlightening those who wish to understand; embrace the challenge, teach by example. The road to enlightenment is taken one step at a time...even Christ couldn't change the world in his lifetime but the stains of his suffering and wisdom still ricochet within the walls and hearts of humanity. Leave a spot of your indelible ink upon the earth and upon humanity, Jude, make a difference.
With this poem, you leave much to be chewed by all who ingest your great insight and wisdom. Wonderful write!
Take care,
Sherry

As always a pen from you offers the deepest thoughts.

As always you dazzle me with your insight into the very existance of all that man aspires to understand. Where others fear to seek the answers to the many questions that linger in the mind and soul you rush forward to embrace them and dig the black earth off the hidden graves of eternity. Great work Jude.
Felix

I don't think it was meant for us to understand it all..besides, the struggle we encounter to do so, sure makes us stronger as we go along.
Excellent thoughts here Robert.

Lisa

To accept the design and the architect who built it is to accept the why we were born.

Ah, yes, brilliant! The nature of vision indeed. The more we know the less we know and the more humbled we become, then having greatness vested upon us. Giving up to get - but with purpose and pro-activity. Letting go in order to lay hold of. Believing to see makes the undisclosed visible and real... something like that, anyway. We can either live life in the moment or allow it's greatness to slip through our fingers unattained: seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary and realising that what we deem momentous is pretty ephemeral and worthless sometimes (like a championship football match... now I shall be punched...) is to live through the eyes of a newborn babe and in the mind of God. Love this... but totally frustrated that my feeble grey matter can't reproduce the quote about "seeing the whole of life in a grain of sand"-thingey... doubtless Gorgeous will put me straight... True communion with life's design goin down here. Enjoyed this free-floating, bobbing balloon of a write, Jude. TY Kate xx

Another truly remarkable and cerebral write Ace !
As the late and great Carl Jung acknowledged at the end of his illustrious life.." I know there is a God ! "..
particularly drawn to your notable passage " As to witness the vast architecture within all intentions !
Peter

ditto...

love your work!!


Vesna:)

Okay, if you say so...!?! ;) ed

yeah..that's it...what i've been trying to say all along...beautifully expressed, sir...

"The less I recognize the routine of being
The more I blend into its structure
And enjoy the purpose of spontaneity"

We should quit trying to understand it and simply accept that we ARE.
See? you just made me smile again. :-)

Carmen

The less I recognize the routine of being
The more I blend into its structure
And enjoy the purpose of spontaneity

Ditto! :-) ~~Nordette

The inability to identify can be a strength. Enjoyed.

Awesome!
My favorite lines are:
'Accepting the transient position
That I am more than I can recognize '

how true.
Best wishes always
from
kay.