Visitation
All of us have much to thank to young thinkers, people of intelligence and substance in an age that we, today, think it fun to mimic or ridicule. These were the great thinkers that guided society in ways that we can be truly thankful for even now. These men and women, were those who refused to tailor their writing to religious dogma. Rather, they interwove religion into higher realms of thought and inner consciousness. IBM
Fables
Written without intent, waking suddenly at 6 am on 6 August 2014. Having penned it, I turned over at 6.25 am and had another hour. Later, the first reports on the news that Europe’s first spacecraft Rosetta is entering a triangular orbit around Comet 67P after “a ten-year chase”.
I write this because my patience is tried when I’m asked to abandon all logic and to accept that the entire Universe is only eight thousand years old. I’ll turn over again!
Life is the Beauty of Freedom (An Indirect Ukraine Dispatch 29) Revised Version
Written on September 6, 2015 in Gloucestershire, it is dedicated to Frau Rita Schneeweiß in traversing the heights and depths, in conquering all, as we rebuild bridges where bridges have fallen or been knocked down, building bridges where none before existed. We step forward, confident, sprightly, for we have overcome, and will overcome, all!
Momentous ~ Outside Time
WRITTEN on 31 March 2015 its publication prompted the Author Note … (at the end) and which is why this whole piece - both poem and prose - is also found in Poetry entitled A Momentous Day. Six years on, my faith remains immoveable, and I have faith’s freedom to live quite easily way, way outside the box, nine years on.