New poem: "My Afterlife Perspective"

 

My Afterlife Perspective

 

I have an afterlife perspective on life

that gives me all the freedom I want

to walk through every system of human

thought and not get stuck in the mire

of inevitable doubt; and as happy as I

am in my afterlife perspective, it’s

not something that I can share without

being labelled “strange,” “weird,” or

“something else.” But not unlike the

mystic poet of Amherst, Massachusetts

who told her truth “slant,” I work my

afterlife perspective on life in the poems

I write, because that’s what I’ve been

called upon by life to do.

 

Composed in Georgian Bay, Ontario

Monday, April 8, 2024, on the day

of a total solar eclipse.

 

 

 

 

New poem: The Magic of "Doing"

 

 

The Magic of “Doing”

 

I was born with a hungry mind,

and I read and read and read to fill

an emptiness in my soul that could not

be filled no matter how much I read;

and I despaired. But in the depths

of my despair, Gurdjieff came into

my life like a gift from above, proving

yet again the ancient saying: when

the student is ready, a teacher appears;

and the wily old master taught me how

to satisfy the hunger of my insatiable

mind by nourishing my soul with

the magic of “doing.”

 

Composed in Georgian Bay, Ontario

Monday, April 8, 2024, on the day

of a total solar eclipse.