Let us go then . . . Let us go then, faraway and far, And roast marshmallows on a star It takes little time or little care In that, now, already we are there. Limerick 01 God has a light-of-hand trick Slap-shtick slippery and slick, Surpassed by none, Self-surpassing by one, In quantums flickering quick each and every Augenblick. Limerick 02 La… Continue reading Three Poems 02
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Fractures in Zhineng Qigong
Fractures heal in an instant; tumors disappear in a twinkling of the eye. For example, fractures can heal in an instant . . .如可以愈骨折于顷刻 如可以愈骨折于顷刻rú kẹ̌yǐ yù gǔzhé yú qǐngkè 如 rú for example; such as; as if; like;可以 kẹ̌yǐ can; may愈 yù heal, get better;骨折 gǔzhé fracture (med.)于 yú in, at, to, from, by顷刻 qǐngkè instantly; in a moment * * … Continue reading Fractures in Zhineng Qigong
Three Poems
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of these poems. Three Poems (1) Channeling A poem with terza rima should be jauntyWhen one is channeling Alighieri, Dante. A poem should a mystical turn takeWhen one is channeling William Blake. A poem should be metaphysical funWhen one is channeling John Donne. A poem… Continue reading Three Poems
Sea Change
Click on 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 animal… Continue reading Sea Change
Concrescence — Encore!
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. It was Whitehead who was the first to showHow all actualities come and go,In bursts first of presence, then of absence,In fast fleeting moments of concrescence. It is said that concrescence occurs all at once;This is bewildering, and not only for a… Continue reading Concrescence — Encore!
Hartshorne’s Matrix
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
Five Short Poems
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
God’s Masterpiece, Subtle and Sublime
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
Omniscience, or In All Ways Wise
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
God, the Creatures, and Creativity
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