Wednesday, June 30, 2010

something E chooses to remember...


In the Wild World


In the wild world
I would love you
without guilt
I would call you
trembling,
I would seduce you
with words,
eyes, hands, lips
careless as wind,
I would speak
all the names
of your hidden desires
and give them to you,
day after day
until you are breathless,
aching
and burning for my touch.

J.L. Stanley, 2006

Friday, June 18, 2010

a pueblo indian prayer

Hold on to what is good,
even if it's a handful of earth.

Hold on to what you believe,
even if it's a tree that stands by itself.

Hold on to what you must do,
even if it's a long way from here.

Hold on to your life,
even if it's easier to let go.

Hold on to my hand,
even if I've gone away from you.

__

Beautiful

Thursday, June 10, 2010

the wisdom of oscar wilde

...who, though the few quips below are indeed shaded in hues of wisdom, was not necessarily a wise man. [disclaimer]

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Muslims die for a lie each and every day.


"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
No one is perfect, especially Christians. Sinners will never be perfect, nor forgiven.


"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."
Christians don't follow Christianity. They follow a real and living person who can be known, loved, experienced, enthroned, and embodied... Much of what passes for Christianity is not Christianity. And, paraphrasing Mr. Wilde...

'a man is not necessarily Christian because he believes he is.'

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

a form to explore... on another day

Dodoitsu - a fixed folk song form of Japanese origin comprised of 26 syllables total in four lines of 7, 7, 7, 5 syllables respectively, unrhymed and non-metrical.

e's muse - no. 001

E has been overworked for much of the last two months, but still he's found some time to post here-- mish mash mostly. He hasn't seen, let alone heard from his muse for much of that time. Not a single poem written in almost two months, talk about dry spells!

But E has had other things flashing through his mind; images of canvas, fluid lines and rose madder. Wood, nails, tears and spears. Rough-hewn sketches of pain and lamentation... and hope.

E knows that the idea of 'hope' has been over-hyped and misnomered by rough political beasts on their slouching journeys toward Washington, pregnant with hate for traditional values, insistent upon allowing the unwashed unrestricted access to the killing of their unborn, all the while eargerly pushing their own malorifically dark seeds into the light of day... unabashedly and unashamed. But E is also here to tell you that there is real hope left in the world; there is real light, which has never ceased to shine, yet remains, astoundingly, unseen to so many who believe hope is altogether lost.

Where is my muse? She is here; she never left my side. I have simply ignored her that I might please others who are less lovingly appreciative and understanding of the length and breadth of my many and several talents.

Ignore her and she'll sit quietly still-- she'll never leave --but ignore her too long and she will make you earn, by sweat and labor, the return of her good and graceful attentions. Her smile alone is enough to make a man fill great canvases with seed for untold others among the muse-led multitudes.

Friday, June 4, 2010

a song of life unrEalized










Fear is the thief of dreams












 
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