Boxed

The lone ones crawl through tunnels searching for light

repeating the routes the brave ones traversed

With heads out front and unsure of their footing

they move on their knees to what the journey presents.

As their eyes suck in the darkness

night weaves a wrap for their retinas to hold.

Their voices long for ears other than their own

and silenced-sounds surrounding their thrones.

Unaware that their freedom is a few bends ahead

where fresh-air pours in under the canopy of night

they stop to die in the box that's home

gift-wrapped, bowed and parceled, Sent.

*Jesus is the trigger in the trap that brings down those values and principles upon which our systems stand. He forces us to re-think our relationship to the divine, religion and the state.

*Silence can be such a sweet sound.



*Democracy cannot be "promoted" on top of a a mountain of corpses.
-Asef Bayat

Blaming escapades

We'd like to save ourselves

but can't

We blind ourselves to our escapades

escaping, if possible, our original dis-grace

We fall deeper into the ancient hole

dug eons ago while fleeing first

It's tragedy we long

Responsibility we set aside

Felix culpa we sing at Easter time

yet quickly suppress the message therein

wrapping all in blaming tones

unable to listen to our own

With difficulty we accept ourselves

and the pathetic state of our kind

but if we would responsibly say Yes

our present stumbling would occasion grace

*Studying your own experience demands more bravery; you never know exactly what you might discover.

  -Carol Shields

*I just think too many women, and men too, arrive at old age without having touched their authentic self.

  -Carol Shields

*I think love is the basic building block.  It's your basic molecule.  Why else would we make an effort to be sort of good in the world and with one another, if it weren't for this kind of mystical connection that holds us together?  Why else would we do it?

  -Carol Shields

A hole in the heart

There's a hole in the heart

where dark secrets keep

a cave where ghoulish tales hold.

Sin stalks the bat-caverned way

with fecal droppings perfuming the air.

There, Jesus huddles, stoking a fire.

 *We human beings are so intent on proving ourselves to be gods and goddesses that we end up proving ourselves to be devils.

*Living in the illusion of our professional importance.

*Humanity was before humans were.

*He just finds life too wonderful to give up easily.

  -Timothy Findley

*I think you reach a plateau of spiritual contentment through love - and only through love.

  -Peter C. Newman

*Spiritual strength among employees will be invaluable if businesses hope to become competitive, productive, and happy places....Standard full-time jobs and traditional corporate culture are disappearing.  People who work will need to find spiritual resources within themselves if they and their businesses are to prosper. Workers will have to find contentment in themselves, rather than simply buying into the corporate race.

  -Peter C. Newman

*I don't know  how pursuing a more spiritual life is going to work out in the end, but it would be absurd not to try.

  -Peter C. Newman