Cakes and Religious Freedom

Hey, Mr. CreativeCakeMaker,  we are Atheists needing a cake for the meeting of the American Humanist Association and the Freedom From Religion Association. Will you make us a cake or will “your” religion not allow it. Please, we would like to know ASAP. Meeting may include the “Spiritual But Not Religious” crowd as well. This […]

Covenant and Immanence

I need to comment on my Poetries of a New Spirituality so any reader will have the “gist” of what I mean. There will be more to be said, for sure, but this, in brief, will orient you. Two key concepts: covenant&immanence.   As  to traditional concepts of covenants with transcendence — this is covenanting with […]

Self Publishing

There is general wisdom on the street that paying to have one’s own writings published by a self-publishing company ( iUniverse, Xlibris, etc.) is the option for the less talented and unconnected. That does not bother me at all — though it may be so in some cases. I chose this publishing route (being a […]

Another School Shooting

Again a school slaughtering in Santa Fe Texas — and, again, I go to sing my song again –WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY GOODBYE?. The high tenor C’s of cries getting ever-sharper with each gun/vehicle/bomb massacre of innocents. So far in 2018 22 school shooting incidents and 35 killed. And the news media and […]

SO&SEW&SOW&SO

SO&SEW&SOW&SO ( Something of a Hawking’s Memorial) Soundings So it is we see through some third-eye’s batting stare, Sight-Owl-Solar-Sound to track attack as with all three eyelids For the sight-feel-hearing of doles&days&dramas rustling in the dark’s Black-Holes–as if to mock Harpocrates, The God of Silence– And switching the VACANT-VACUUS-VOID of such vicious V’s Into a […]

On Knowing

Did not know When the womb-lights came on Don’t remember the breath-pain When I came out gasping And cried into the room-lights. I know they happened I know life means waking-up From the night into the light of day I know too that someday/night I’ll not wake-up–lights out-air-out: I’ll be off&gone — gasping done  — […]

What Does it Mean to Say Goodbye?

[ A song by mdok from before Parkland and before the next and the next. . . . ]   What does it mean to say “Goodbye!” With grass so green, the sky so blue? What does it mean to say “Goodbye!” Bird’s nesting, daffodils nodding “Hi!”?   A softness in the wind still blows […]

The Daylights

In this casino world of HappenChance & SuddenChoice it’s best to beam one’s SteadyReady on the rolls of ChosenCaprice & ShakenDice — Or fest a WeakenedLight with a TokenVoice.   I came to help you live and thrive; to help you die–to help you ask the questions that answer why. I came to be a […]

mdok

MANIFEST DESTINY’S ODYSSEAN KAIROS. HAPE-HOME [Home Address Planet Earth-Humanity’s Own Mother Earth] is a covenanting, hold, holding, beholding, being beheld — very mortal bond like stones that hold the water. Homer’s Odysseus is the classic Hero’s journey to home requiring victories over many obstacles and life-threatening scenarios. Most conclusive are the grasps of Calypso and […]