Make A Prayer Of Your Day

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Make A Prayer Of Your Day

The poem reminds me of how easily we fall into the slumber of our day-to-day life and get caught up in our take-for-granted world. Perhaps that is why we make and need drama. The dramatic has a better chance of getting through than the everyday and commonplace. Yet, it is in the commonplace and everyday in which our lives are lived. Poetry has the power to penetrates the veil and re-imagine our daily lives from a soulful perspective. Poetry can bridge the two, offering a way of seeing the everyday imbued with life and meaning.

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Lessons From The Pandemic

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Lessons From The Pandemic

 In this era of suspect surfaces and social distance, now that we are sheltering in place, we have a chance to “face the barren truth of our lives” and to seek “new ways of loving the untouchable in each other.” The pandemic is forcing us out of our usual routines and challenging us to create new patterns. What old ways in your life would you like to let die during this period of transformation? What new ways would you like to invite? What old ways in the world would you like to be transformed and what new ways would you like to invite into life?

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No Advance Notice

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No Advance Notice

Talis Wong welcomed me as a second guest of honor at the table reserved for Judith Delozier and the students who were attending her class in Hong Kong. Strangely, I had written this poem a few days before hand. Judy and I had talked about meeting in Hong Kong, but made no specific plan until I arrived. So, the poem was prescient. I had written the poem to express a feeling of welcome from life and did not have the meet-up with Judy in mind.

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Binary Code In The Garden Of Eden

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Binary Code In The Garden Of Eden

A simple search of the internet will yield a thousand formulas for success, each with its own claim on truth and promises to heal our wounds, to kill our stress, to lift us out of impoverished lives, and to land us in happily ever after. I am not immune to the power of these promises and have spent thousands on gaining access to the secret. My life is an unsolved mystery; but I have a strange sensation that I am also the only detective who can "solve it." This is my poetic ode to the mystery!

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