Of love & loneliness

Of love and loneliness,
which does more harm?
Pity most the one
who suffers both.

Sin

The only sin
is fideism.

Always

Always, the profane over the insane.

Some are

Some are selves and some are slaves,
but society has no say in which be which.

Sublimity

All sublimity is subliminal.

New poems

+11

The worst villains

Those who made wars necessary are the worst villains in human history. And good luck ever identifying them, so well are they hidden.

Of love & justice

Justice without love will always harden;
love without justice will always wane.

On life

Life is just the dying part of death.

Irony

Irony:  knowledge that bestows only the power to acknowledge.

But

Consequence wins, but action dares.

Mistake

Don't mistake intensity for warmth.

To err

If err you must, best to err
on the side of kindness.

NLP - Abecedarius

Much-appreciated appreciation of my submissions over on The American Scholar's "Next Line, Please" this week, where the prompt was to write an abecedarius.

New poems

+15

Snow magnolia

Causation

Diversity of formula, diversity of form.

Chooses

The Christian imagination, too, is tortured, simplistic, and ultimately forsaken. I can't fathom the mind that, confronted with breathtaking complexity, chooses to worship a patently false abridgement.

New poems

+13

On repeat

I often say the same thing
but never repeat myself.

Life changes

At some point, life changes, the profit we seem to gain from experience shrinks, or even seems to almost vanish. We are pronounced qualified for routine and set to it, to be rescued only, eventually, by the cessation of self.

Nations

The problem with nations is that they are conceived, defined, and defended in difference and division, not in connection and unity.

By honesty

What is revealed by honesty may be small and dull

but it is precious and I love it.