Author: Gerry

  • Brings the deity

    Cem Santa Rosa Chapel 022414-5

    Blessings can be derived
    from pain.
    But that does not mean
    the experiences of pain
    caused the blessings.
    Without the pain,
    the blessings
    and understandings
    may have been different.

    Although prayers to a deity
    may be specific
    And they may be followed
    by an action or event
    It is not to say the prayers
    caused the deity
    to give a response of action.

    God’s existence,
    and our dependence
    on His benevolence,
    Does not mean
    He acts in lives
    as we imagine.

    How has it been shown
    that the desire for our own,
    or our loved ones’, well being
    Brings the deity
    to attend to us?

    The force of goodness
    and creation
    which we think of
    as God
    Is either an enormous ego
    which requires us
    To believe
    all glory and honor to Thee,
    Oh mighty One,

    or,

    On the other hand,
    The Creator
    may have made creation
    to be a good in
    and of itself
    To evolve
    and grow
    and die
    through mighty natural forces.

    If there is human will
    and power
    Then the power is subject to the rules
    of nature the Creator set in motion,

    Or not.

    If we think
    we are not subject
    to the rules of nature
    Then nature ultimately
    comes around
    exhibiting our folly.

    If the Creator created nature,
    and Man in it,
    to glorify the Creator’s
    Own being
    Then there must be
    some purpose
    which impels Man
    and all creatures
    To impact on their own destiny
    in the realm of nature
    the Creator created.

    With this comes
    decisions and free will,
    The will we may have
    is manifest in how
    we choose to respond
    to each circumstance

    Or not.

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    Santa Rosa Redwoods

  • Homepie

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    Out in the world
    The children hurled
    Their laughter to the wind.

    The world wasn’t ready
    For thoughts so heady
    Creative minds swirling with the wind

    Compadres treasure
    Their unique pleasure
    In blowing off the wind

    Out in the world
    Their lives unfurled
    Buffeted, not blown over

    The gentle breeze
    Of friendship’s ease
    Brings laughter in the wind.

    Homepie

  • Jumble mumble

    Jumble mumble stumble fumble
    Heartache landscape escape moonscape
    Words absurd perturb unheard
    Anticipate resonate hesitate upon fate
    Journey gurney ferny attorney
    Trajectory refectory intellectually reflexively
    Icarus Orion speak to us
    Bring near the horizon
    Jumbled stumbled or tumbled
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    Reflected glory
    Shade moonlight to view the belt
    Stars or reflection
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  • I think that’s called “grace”

    Zebest of Zebest

    He came into the courtroom to face his fate
    He saw so many friends and a smile lit up his face
    I think that’s called “grace”

    She managed her needs and watched out for her partner
    a delegater extraordinaire in the most trying of circumstance
    I think that’s called “grace”

    A great crash. A great recovery
    Then months and months of hard discovery
    Lived in a thing called grace

    Traveling right beside us, kindness always ready
    Thoughts on stars and numbers, heart on those who love him
    I think that’s called “grace”

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    Smiles and kisses, dreams and schemes, hopes and visions
    Lived through with grace and stamina
    I think that’s called “grace”

    Gentle knowledge when it is so hard to get through
    Friends who keep and share what is true
    I think that’s called “grace”

    Growing together all our days, adversities intruded
    But never once in all that time
    Was discouragement included

    Precious time
    With hope in mind
    Of love that never dies

    Thank you, my darlings. I have known grace
    In you. My heroes. Love you mucho
    I think that’s called “grace”

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  • drops falling like glass

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    I want to go to the mountains
    I need to wander down trails
    And see clouds build like fountains
    I need to lose my travails
    Amid granite and pine trees
    I want to see bear tracks by streams
    I need to hear birdsong and buzzing of bees
    The clear mountain air lingers in dreams
    I need to travel down roads
    Through a forest beyond some pass
    To see waterfalls power explode
    Over cliffs, drops falling like glass

    I want to gain hope for my memories
    To rest in their places amid Dardanelles and minarets
    Grandeur to inspire poet’s deepest reveries
    Meadows where wind and water’s flow wash away any regrets
    Quiet streams or rapids
    Each evokes the hearts peaceful habits
    The glory of nature to bring
    Giving space for the troubled heart to sing
    Inner peace through wonders of nature
    A stable retreat to question our Creator.

    You are not here. Where are you?
    Where’d you go that I can’t go?
    Where’d you take the stuff you filled my heart with?

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  • Is poetry a hobby or an addiction?

    Is poetry a hobby or an addiction?
    Is it a mixing together words affliction?
    How many times do words bounce around
    Before they hit the poetry ground?
    Scrambling chance meanings like dancers
    Moving across the floor as carefree prancers.
    Or they can be words so sorrowful and true
    That just reading them makes one feel blue
    Either glad or sad have their place
    To help humans sort out inner space.
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  • if by chance we should dance

    George Takei
    if by chance we should dance
    to find true love brought from above
    if we are boys or girls we’ll give it a whirl
    either way there’s a thrill today
    to know we are free to be and live in glee
    of lives together, light as a feather
    so let’s just dance, given our chance
    to be happy with the one we love
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  • Words less restlessly

    Words less and more than their meaning
    Meaning
    Meaning derived by context
    Context
    Context both solid in the being and fluid in the history
    Fluid
    Fluid erodes through friction on the surface
    Surface
    Surface meaning gives way in time
    Time
    Time inevitably revises perspective
    Perspective
    Perspective gives way restlessly
    Restlessly
    Restlessly perspectives shift
    As words and context shimmers
    On the surface as fluid
    Meaning emerges less restlessly

    This place has a mystical air

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  • Silly not haikus

    BOS meeting
    Contingency attendance
    Consent calendar
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    Mindfulness trainings
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    Can’t be a haiku
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  • Winter solstice

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    Winter solstice
    At the seashore
    Bright blue days
    But cold winds before
    A lonely night

    Light house of old
    At the pigeon point
    Where travelers came toward
    The beautiful but treacherous
    California coastal shore

    In a fog drifting along
    Intermittent solar flare
    Somewhere out there
    Forged where we used to be strong
    Before mists enshrouded cares

    Unable to see beyond
    The haze and waves so bright
    Groups of seven or nine
    Birds with broad thin wings
    Flying low, gliding close, formation fine

    To see their way below any fog
    Avoiding glare which
    Blinds us who stare
    Moving on down the coast
    To see what is beyond
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