The Reason I
The Reason I chose — iUniverse, initially, to ink my trilogy inspirations. So much to do with the dotting of one’s own “i” in an age of the imminent eminence of immanence. An Age where OP-ED can mean OurPlanet-Environmentally Dysfunctional and the proliferation-of-selfies-tedium — POST– a daily infusion into Big Data. Daily our “i” is […]
THE BELONGINGS OF PARADISE — [APOETESSAY — by mdok]
[In West Milford WV there is a little street, off the main drag, called Paradise Lane. One imagines such a place where such as Buber felt the reciprocal BOP touch of hand and horse and “found” his concept of I-Thou. We all have memories of such “afflatus moments,” where “environs” becomes spirit — with resonant tones of […]
THE FIFTH GREAT FREEDOM
President F D Roosevelt in 1941 proclaimed the four freedoms integral to the American experience and concepts of human freedom as — Freedom of Speech — Freedom of Worship — Freedom From Want– Freedom From Fear. Artist, Norman Rockwell published his four painting of them in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. Today, 75 years […]
CURRENT CONSEQUENCE COMMENTS
This will be brief and not cover all issues pulse-pounding my brainion’s deep breathing. In climate issues it seems this is the pivotal year historians will look back to when the alarm really sounded loud and it was either shut down and humanity fell back asleep or it became the wake-up call that waked us […]
[See under — mdok — 8/15/18 : An APE — APOETESSAY — The Cosmosion Oscillations of Purpose]
‘–(Make the connect of this COSMOSION to the poem group SEVEN PILLAR VILLANELLES FROM THE TEMPLE OF LIFE AND TO KEYSTONE-CROWN CONCEPT TO THE GLOSSARY PRESENTATION OF A— AND ITS PLACE IN THE PALINDROME AND ITS FUNCTION IN TIME AS THE PENDULUM)–
ON OUT-SMARTING THE SMART PHONE SMARTIES
SMART!? Probably has something to do with my age and the way my cognitive craves have been nourished over the years. A few months ago, I left my old Samsung for a new Apple. Well, I “sung” better before and the Apple has taken a real bite out of me with all its Apps/Sites/Facebooking and […]
108 years ago — birth date of Jabez Hanford O’Kelly
108 years ago — birth date of Jabez Hanford O’Kelly. A great father, husband, and craftsman of his trade. He didn’t like anything to do with theater. Never attended or credited any of my performances. Never went to movies. When Mom wanted to go see Gone With The Wind — it was she and I […]
THE AGE OF THE PAGAIAN COVENANT (with PAGAIA & PAGAIANISM)
The ancient term of PAGAN referred to those who found the powers –as divinities– in nature: basically worshipers of Nature. The three Old Testament derived religions were, basically, worshippers of what transcended Nature: the glories being, basically, beyond this life. GAIA, the Greek God of Earth has in our time been recast in the GAIA […]
I’ve Been to Heaven
ONCE — I’VE BEEN TO HEAVEN’S REUNION I’ve been to Heaven, been to Paradise– Strolled Elysian Fields holding Love’s hands. That Eternal Now of All still alive —- Family Fluxions of Angel Wings, Chalice-stirred Overflows of Communion, Alchemic Elixirs of commonest things. Oh, timely presencing of Presences! Oh, such a Now, so held in magic’s […]
ANNUIT COEPTIS — NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM*
MY, HOW EVERY NOW AND THEN AGAIN, EACH THINKS OF WHAT COULD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN. CATCHING OUR BREATH, WE PAUSE O’ER PRECIPICES TO PONDER HOW FLOWERS GROW WITH STONES IN WANTS OF WONDER, HOW DEWS, STORMS, AND SUNS SHINING THROUGH PRIME HARVEST’S TO TIME ANY SUCH A ME WITH SUCH A YOU. MY, HOW […]