Month: August 2024

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. Hartshorne’s Matrix or,　How to Think about God Any process discussion of God cannot fail to mentionHartshorne’s Matrix, his greatest metaphysical invention.The Matrix is a square, sixteen fold, or four by four,Sixteen squares filled with letters, cunning to the core, It presents formal… Continue reading Hartshorne’s Matrix

Omnipotence. Can we not say —God’s power must exceed all other power,Is the highest conceivable form of power,Is beyond question the greatest power,An exponentially greater power,Beyond imagination, than any other power,An all-surpassing power,Including even, self-surpassing power,And still say that even the greatest power,Is, among many powers,Only one power. Omnipresence. We are sometimes here, sometimes there;God… Continue reading Five Short Poems

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. God’s Masterpiece, Subtle and Sublime An Actual Entity is Whitehead’s term, short and terse,For what he conceives as, the basic unit of the universe. An actual entity is an “atom” of process, a pulsation,A throb of actuality, that only for a split-second… Continue reading God’s Masterpiece, Subtle and Sublime

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. Omniscience, or In All Ways Wise If God, in essence, cannot be otherwise,Or cannot be other than wise,God is, always and ever, other-wise.That is, of each and every other,In all ways wonderously wise;Otherwise, God would be otherwise.And so, as God is in… Continue reading Omniscience, or In All Ways Wise

Click on the Play Button Below to hear a reading of this poem. God, the Creatures, and Creativity Is God the ultimate, you may wish to know.I answer, yes, of course—but also, no.For some in process thought there are three:　　God, the Creatures, and Creativity.Of these three, Creativity favors first in creation,Since God is, of the… Continue reading God, the Creatures, and Creativity

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. Note: The following poem has seventeen sections with the title of each section set apart in bold italics in the original manuscript. A Process Theology in Rhyme Or, A Poetics of God 　Theological Words One might find it oddThat God is not… Continue reading A Process Theology in Rhyme, or a Poetics of God

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　　　Concrescence It was Whitehead who was the first to show　How all actualities come and goIn bursts first of presence, then of absence,　In fast fleeting moments of concrescence. Note:Thus the ‘production of novel togetherness’ is the ultimate notion embodied in the term ‘concrescence.’… Continue reading Concrescence

Click on Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　　　The Concept of God 　　The Supreme Irony,　　　　viz,　　That what cannot be,　　　　is. Note:Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites—of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity,… Continue reading The Concept of God

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. 　　　The Many and the One 　As the many and the one　　Mingle　The many become one　　and Single　And increase by one　　to Tingle　The universe entire　With creative fire. Note:The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities… Continue reading The Many and the One

Click on the Link below to hear a reading of this poem. 　It’s About Time Time does not flow, but grows like grass,One blade at a time.Time is a like a bottomless hourglass,That flows, yes, but quantumly,One grain at a time.Time gathers like a pointillist painting on an easel,One drop and . . . Pop!… Continue reading It’s About Time