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Connected Independence

Posted on Nov 14th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  It is wonderful to move To a new place every day. It is wonderful to flow Without ice and mud Everything my friends, Is gone with yesterday. All the words are gone. Now is... More »

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Moments of Beholding

Posted on Oct 31st, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  The hour is striking so close above me, So clear and sharp, That all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: There's a power in me To grasp and give shape to... More »

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Innate Freedom

Posted on Oct 3rd, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

    But the effect of society is not only to funnel fictions into our consciousness, but also to prevent the awareness of reality. . . Every society, by it own practice of living and... More »

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Dipped in Bliss

Posted on Sep 19th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  No drives, no compulsions No needs, no attractions Then your affairs Are under control You are a free person.   Chuang Tzu wrote those thoughts in Chinese over 2300 years ago. The concept that... More »

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Guided Acts

Posted on Aug 21st, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  The diverse response and grades of significance that an object elicits can be illuminated this way: An animal may see an oddly shaped black and white object, a tribal person a rectangular flexible object... More »

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Eclipse

Posted on Aug 21st, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  Sheba's Gifts to Solomon   Queen Sheba loads forty mules with gold bricks as gifts for Solomon. When her envoy and his party reach the wide plain leading to Solomon's palace they see the... More »

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Blinding Brilliance

Posted on Aug 15th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  While evidence of our intellectual and technological genius is all around us, there is growing concern that in other ways we have seriously underestimated ourselves. In part because of the blinding brilliance of our... More »

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The Fruit Of My Own Seed

Posted on Jul 25th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  So though the eyes love attains the heart: For the eyes are the scouts of the heart, And the eyes go reconnoitering For what it would please the heart to possess. And when they... More »

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My own Greenery

Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  As long as we stay in closed rooms And stiff coats, we were disguised; But toward the end of winter the carnival Helps us to play at disguise for a while.   For soon... More »

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A Drop of Consciousness

Posted on Jun 27th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal

  The great sea set me in motion. Set me adrift. And I move as a weed in the river.   The arch of sky And mightiness of storms Encompasses me, And I am left... More »

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