Troubador of Verse

Quotation: As it Is ~ William Blake

(Thanks and a tip of the hat to Graham Stephen of WP’s mandalavihara)

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

Sonnet: A Loftier Perspective

(Scientific research shows increasingly that the sights and sounds of nature are beneficial to us in a whole list of ways.

There are those who point out that Heaven on Earth is actually promised to us. We affirm it in church every time we pray.

There are those who theorize that, to see it, all we have to do is to go ~ armed with our new understandings and abilities ~ back ~ to the Garden)

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymzu2j6knvk9ece/A%20Loftier%20Perspective%20.mp3?dl=0

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A Loftier Perspective

Our Mother Nature paints a masterpiece
Upon the morning and the evening sky
To bring our minds to calm and hearts to peace
Although we pass it all unseeing by

The Times New Standard

(If you’re among those who presently imagine that nothing ever changes or can ever hope to change, you’ll want to skip this poem till it’s your time to read it.

If you’re the kind who sees change evolving around you at breakneck speed, it is your time, and this is for you)

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kpgbaifpx0rip63/The%20Times%20New%20Standard.mp3?dl=0

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The Times New Standard

It’s not that in the past
One sometimes didn’t “have to lie”
It’s now those standards of
Old measurement do not apply

Coming Into Ashland

(A true tale from the poet’s thirties)

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5co2v0mksdateg/Coming%20Into%20Ashland.mp3?dl=0

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Coming Into Ashland

Life had gotten very strange
In my mid thirties, one odd year ~
My situation rearrange
Itself be needed, this was clear

I consulted then a map
To see what might appear
Appropriate — friendly, mayhap,
And also reasonably near

My inner eye of one small town
A border near became aware
“Ashland,” brought a thoughtful frown
“They have a Shakespearean Fair…”

Behind You

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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5vkks1m9hhpbfbb/Behind%20You.mp3?dl=0

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Behind You

Move to resolve a problem
Don’t let it settle in your mind
Do not let it habit be
‘Tis neither selfishness nor whim
To bring light to the blind
Their inconsiderations see
Whom you treat considerately