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 Continue reading →

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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 Continue reading →

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News Items

Real News from Columbus, OH 2016 ( my UU Retirement after 50 years )

Fake News from Clarksburg, WV Italian Festival 2015

Blog and Commentary

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 Continue reading →

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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 Continue reading →

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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 Continue reading →

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Seven Pillar Villanelles from the Temple of Life

SEVEN PILLAR VILLANELLES FROM THE TEMPLE OF LIFE

With echoes of mid-Wednesday from the seven days of Altarpieces, with poem iv from Sympathies as midwifery pillar balanced here by the three on either side; and the aahh of Continue reading →

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The Trilogy

THE TRILOGY – This is self-published with iUniverse. I’ve designed all the covers and as much as possible the interior pages. It has been a struggle to have my interiors followed to my satisfaction — particularly in the last book Continue reading →

The Afiradapo Trilogy

Altarpieces

ALTARPIECES — Structures of Poetry and Spiritual Thinking — Basically a collection of poems over my life span to that point.(Not all: some lost.) A theory of poetry ( inclusive of the poet’s personal world) and evidences Continue reading →

The Afiradapo Trilogy

Sympathies

SYMPATHIES — The Aoide Protocol — This is a song book: hearing-singing the music, crafting it in voice-performance, structuring it in memory so it’s not forgot. Thus, the AOIDE PROTOCOL. — Aoide-Melete-Mneme. This is a book about magic: the magic Continue reading →

The Afiradapo Trilogy