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Charles Hartshorne’s Cumulative Argument for the Existence of God Likening the argument to a cableMade strong by many strands,Hartshorne adduces six arguments:(That will be his logical bands)Ontological, cosmological, and design,Epistemic, moral, and aesthetic,That undergird his cumulative stand. Saint Anselm famously said:“God cannot be conceived not to exist” which some applaud,And, “That which can be conceived… Continue reading Charles Hartshorne’s Cumulative Argument

　Antiphonal If, in space of mind, heaven’s locus lies,And bread be daily, which the hungry fear,For these contingent days a love should rise,Nor beauty sing more than the earth we hear. When lascivious spring through April strays,When the pulse is pleasing and love begun:Nor dawns forever, cry the finite days,And, this my morning’s mercy, cries… Continue reading Antiphonal

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem: 　Prima Donna That first fellow’s enate fallAdumbratesThe quainter limp of allWho amble from a lifting yard. But it was agnate she —She — not he(and this quite privily)Who made the limping hard. Winds of warm rain rose in the cognate veinAnd she… Continue reading Prima Donna

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem: 　The Man with Catarrh The man with catarrhWho strums a guitarSneezes, and evensThe score with Stevens. Abiding in stone—aGirl—one of your MonaLisas, that old floozyWho embraced Brancusi. A chap with no salaryNow framed in the galleryWheezes: gutturals bassoProfundo chez Picasso. The blind… Continue reading The Man with Catarrh

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem: 　Madrigal of a Hedge Priest A hedging priest among his sticksUnder the morning storm of rain,He sees his windy weathers kickThe seagirls from the seaweed lanes. He, with his cherry chain of beadsAnd all the starshorn Jacks and Jills,Summons death for his… Continue reading Madrigal of a Hedge Priest

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem: 　Sea Change When one sweetheart bloodied myself in stainsAnd her sexton minister drained my bellsThe mister of my graver bonesShoved his ghost into the limping wallsAnd with my sailing man of nowhereI crossed the channels of your spheres. Cadaver’s belt on the… Continue reading Sea Change

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem: 　　　　Trinity Sunrise 　　　First there will be　　　　a glow,　　　Then it will begin　　　　to blow,　　　And then there will be　　　　one goddamn helluva show.

Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of the poem: 　　A Conceptual Bestiary　An Adventure in Rhyme, Rhythm, and Reason A felicity of thought is feline, and when it occurs,resonates within with cognitive zest and lingering purrs,that reverberate a catlike curious moodwhere thoughts constellate in certitude. Some thoughts are massive, like a Brahma… Continue reading A Conceptual Bestiary

Click on the Play Button to hear a reading of these poems: 　　　Where Sea Meets Sky 　　Look, and as far as you can see,　　There is a line at the limit of the sky-blue sea　　That aligns with a line of the sea-blue sky　　And there, at the horizon, you can see　　A portal that opens beyond to infinity.… Continue reading Where Sea Meets Sky

Click on the Play Button to hear a reading of these poems: 　　Sabbatical 　A question germane and grammatical:　　On the Sabbath,　Does God sometimes take a sabbatical?　Some would affirm this idea,　And most emphatical,　But I, for one, would reject it　As very problematical.　And with Blake would suggest how　Zest and exuberance is rest enow. 　　Than-Bauk 　Master John Locke　Admired Bach, and　Jean… Continue reading Three Poems 03