Category: Poetry

  • You Know As Well As I. . . .

    You Know As Well As I You know as well as I. . . . that when the air clears and the morning is sharp. . . . the night air brings the sleep that rests. . . when food again pleases the appetite needing palliative measures, you will find what is necessary to rise…

  • We Are Becoming. . . .

      We Are Becoming. . . . The Physicist, David Bohm is quoted as saying that no theory can adequately explain all facets of Nature which is infinite.  And that quote  I read only this year affirmed my thinking.  For me it was a truth that anything or all things in the act of becoming…

  • Coming To The Altar

    The Teachers Speak. . . . What is suppressed is what we are most afraid of and fear carries a sub label of secretive which must go along with the word afraid. Even in today’s world of reality shows,  there are still those who carry their fears close to the chest.  And often do not…

  • There Is Still Time

    There Is Still Time I say. . . . What more can I do?  I am tired and I am old. You say. . . . You are still breathing.  And as long as there is breath, you can still create. And I say. . . . It has all been said.  How many different…

  • The Uncovering

        PHILIP FRAMED THE MYSTERY Genesis 1.26  Then God said “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air and over the cattle , and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that…

  • Intensity Of Purpose

    Intensity of Purpose One of the first unhappy side effects of the medications taken for my cardiac problem was that it took away my morning exuberance that had me thrusting my feet to the floor all the days of my life till then.  (yes,  I am grateful they have kept me breathing!)  But without my…

  • Times Such As These

    We are told that hearing you will hear and not understand and seeing you will see and not perceive.  Simple words meaning simple things?  But of course you see and of course you hear unless physical impairments prevent us.  But it is even more than that.  In the process there are the cries in crisis…

  • To Regain Our Knowledge (that we are safe)

    One of my reader’s comment on a poem of mine was that it gave her a safe feeling. And after much thought, I came to some conclusions. The first being to educate ourselves to broaden our premises so that the unknown will become a known. The narrower our premises the more outside our frame of…

  • Different Can Be Good

    Different Can Be Good It was a hurried morning when our two oldest sons were home from college and I told them that I had had a vivid dream and wrote down some things while half asleep that I did not know about and thought that they might.  I showed them the notes. I knew…

  • On Being Different

    A recent journal entry on being different. The Teacher Speaks. . . . Take it this way.  To be different means you step out  from the crowd.  When you, as an example,  are different in your posing the question as well as answering with what it is you know and cannot see the difference, it…