The Self

Free Will

And Love

 —the three grand illusions of life

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

I stare back from the last horizon,

 and scientists look bemused

 

Theologians prey among themselves,

 mystics stay confused

 

Once through the light Divining

 no beginnings or their ends

 

All truth transcending within itself

 —as time and space descend

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

If all there is…

 —is all there is

 

     (then)

 

All you can do…

 —is all you can do

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

     Listening to James Ladyman 

 

 

 

“A Man’s true spirit can only be forged and replenished

    —in the fire of the unknown”

 

(Last Line Of Chapter 18 In My Novel ‘Revenge Along The War Trail’) …. Published Sept 1, 2016 

The sand was hot,

  as she came up behind me singing…

 

 “You put the ‘Man’

    back in Romance

               

  “And I’ll put the ‘Lay’

     back in Lady”

 

(Miami Beach Florida: May, 1982)

 

We never safeguard our progeny

 by overprotecting our kids

 

The blankets that we spread

 and fences we build

 

Imprison,

 rather than defend

 

Ensuring weaker and hapless offspring

 —inside a diminished and helpless world

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

Get through the dialectic

  before the day is late

 

Don’t wait for an invitation

  as they slowly shut the gate

 

The wolf now dressed in spun wool

  has broken from his cage

 

He hungers deep inside our fear

  with ignorance and rage

 

As traitors lurk in front of us

  to vanquish and to quell

 

All time has stopped, their curses screamed

  assassins pledged to hell

 

The moment to act is calling

  the odds both long and wide

 

This battle worth refighting

    for those before who thought and died

 

So if truth’s your greatest weapon

   wield it willingly and free

 

The enemy is upon us

  —and must leave on bended knee

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Just because you can

 —doesn’t mean you should

 

 (and)

 

Just because you should

 —doesn’t mean you can

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

When you split the beam and the splintered edge

 is all you’re left with

 

The only one you’ve outsmarted

 is yourself

 

A prisoner of your severed choice

 and schizophrenia

 

The victim of your hearts defeat

 —and loves denial

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

Poetry…

 arresting the mundane

 acquitting the spirit

 

Convicting

  all redundancy

   —freeing the truth

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)