Category: Audios of Poems in My New Book

　 　　　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

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

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

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!

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