WHO AM I?

WHO AM I ?

I stand here alive,
Fit to fiddle and thrive,
While so many die
Or in poverty live
Or strive in terror’s hive
Dreaming to play one’s hand as I.

Old I be — mostly written-off,
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IMBIBES OF INTEGRITY

Three Inhales for the Road Ahead — 7/20/19 — mdok

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WE MUST FREE BEAUTY — NOW!

We must free Beauty — Now!
Life’s front pages cry foul!
She is hidden away
As brutes drama the play.

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THE HOLD AS ABSOLUTE EPILOGUE TO THE BREATH OF LIFE

This Site is crazy. A book goes from prologue to epilogue — while here one sees the Epilogue first at the top. OK! Because epilogue is prologue&prologue is epilogue. THE HOLD is absolute because it has no boundaries and is Continue reading →

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The Hold

LETTER TO THE EDITOR — Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

From late 1969 to 1973 ( year of Roe vs. Wade ), I, a liberal minister in an Indiana college town, was active with a nationwide Clergy Referral Service (CRS), counselling women/families about abortion and where they could safely go Continue reading →

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Blog and Commentary

BREATHING AS EXERCISE

All doctors, nutritionists, Gurus of Gut, and body-folk entire — stress exercise. Different stretches for  different folks for sure. A personalized plan is the key. But it seems few really stress the exercise dimension of breathing all on its own. Continue reading →

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The Breath of Life

THE HOLDING OF THE HOLD OF THE HELD

This brief, but major, APOETESSAY summarizes the core dynamic of my writings on breath and covenant.

These words theorize (mostly poetically with nudges from the sciences and concepts of webs and networks ) the nature of existence as it evolves Continue reading →

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The Hold

FOR SO LONG…

For so long we’ve longed
A belonging for a home
That homes a homing
That has a being’s begun
Beyond a being’s begone
Sings a song that songs
A singing aptly sung
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HOW EINSTEIN WAS BOTH RIGHT AND WRONG

[To be read as an Addendum to the APOETESSAY below on BREATH&BEING]

Below these comments are references to some recent science articles, which I feel — howsoever poetically — assist what I’m attempting to say about a universal law of Continue reading →

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The Breath of Life

THE STRANGEST TIME

It’s almost like being new-born again —
Only now it’s old-born back through the womb;
Death’s grab of umbilical’s other end:
To retract a life to no longer roam.

As yanked-out of nothing from which one came,
All creatures are Continue reading →

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The Meaning of Sacral Humanism

This phrase “Sacral Humanism” was introduced on this site in the article “Three “S” Words to Clarify,” where “sacral” was used to replace “secular” as the defining adjective for Humanism. So, I’m going to explain this now. Humanism is prevalent Continue reading →

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