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The Dark Crystal

(x = space)

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The Dark Crystal

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I simply thought of glass

A piece of glass

Dark purple or some such

Through which to see

Thus darkly

That

Like the shadows in the cave

Is all we get

For now

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But Saint Paul

Might have meant

A mirror

For a glass

As it were

A looking glass

That has those dots of age

All around

And in the middle

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We try to see ourselves

We can’t

Maybe when we’ve grown so far

No

Not even then

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The glass is cleared

At last

By faith and love

And maybe transformation

So that maybe

We are ready

With new eyes

More than our senses

Or clarified

So that

All things look new

In truth

Discovery

And life

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1 Corinthians 13:12

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

King James Version

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Moment Clear

(x = space)

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Moment Clear

(to go with “The Moment,” “Moment Passed”)

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Hello

You must be God

I don’t know what I’m saying

I could read from a book

I suppose

You’d know the words

And I guess

That you know mine

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Why are you invisible

Why are you only known

Through agencies

Through angel words

And actions

Fighting

Providing

Or announcing

Such a scary thing to Mary

Words in the sky

To frighten shepherds

Though getting them

To Bethlehem

As well

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And may I know you

Unseen and surrogates

The promise

In the making

Of the cosmos

Promising perfection

With you later

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Well

Maybe it’s simple

Believe in you

Or not

You remain the same

And for some reason

Have a plaintive part

As if you long for us

Having made us

Then pushed us along

From making

Into life

Into choices

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And we may choose you

On our own

Without good evidence

Through with impulsive knowing

That there’s good and bad

Somehow both

And good is better

Bad amounts to nothing

Even though it gets to dress

In temptation

That we find compelling

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Oh God

How do we know

How do we choose

I guess we do

We do

And that is all

No more

No less

Through faith there is the grace

The gift to everyone

In shadowlands

Enough clarity

To know you

And to have you

Knowing

You have us

Through the next moment

Of posterity

Into eternity

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That’s it

We believe

And you remain

Unrevealed

So that faith keeps to the road

As invisibly as ever

The way

Belief and grace

Shall take us

Knowing when we fall

From lack of evidence

Or from gilded devils

With their feet out

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We can pick up ourselves

And even reach for you

To know that something’s

Someone’s

There

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In an Anodyne Moment

(x = space)

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In an Anodyne Moment

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Before the heat returns

And the noise

Before senses assaulted

Once again,

Taking hits against reason

And the cool of insight

May I say

While I can see

That there are good things

Happening

There are good people

Everywhere

And I am glad to be on Earth

Part, party, and partner

To all this

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Unchained

Unchained

 

I should say something spiritual

Because I always should

You should, too

Not because we’re prophets

Or Plato’s philosopher-monarchs

But because the world of “ness”

Ideals

(chairness, truthness)

Is far beyond us

While we’re looking in the cave

And through dark glass

 

So anyone might speak

And everyone should have a turn

Not for the ego, no

Not for hidden revelation

Revealed for a profit (that’s the

money and the ego-kind)

But because everyone gets a turn

And another

In each round

That’s how we talk

And carry on with each other

And with God

 

Each one matters

In spite of what we do

Angels as the agents

Will keep tabs

Keep count

Make sure we get it right

Or pay for it later

No, it’s not a matter of punishment

It’s an issue of being fair

Though for each one lost

There will be a reckoning

(sorry)

So give each one a chance

Or maybe lose it later

 

And this is spiritual?

Well, not everything is gospel

As in good news

Sometimes the news is hard

Maybe the bookkeeper takes a lead

From our own media,

Which certainly must tell us

What we value

No?

Then change it

Change everything, if need be

If you can follow the rule of love

To do it

 

Bring your new army to the door

And don’t release a rock

From a sling

Or fire a shot

But win the day because

The gates of hell will not prevail

Against us

 

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padlocked fence

 

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Prescribe Contemplation

Prescribe Contemplation

 

Forgive me

For a fat mind

And soul leaden

With lethargy

Crowding out the angels

Pressing leaves of better notions

From a wisdom tree

I’d do so much better

Reading these even if I can’t

Hear heaven’s language

While living low to

Ground

Unearned wings

Plus siren’s wax all

Impeding taller clarity

 

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