Category Archives: God

Hell hath no fury

Posted on March 21, 2010 by

… that I was never her type, that she’s regretted getting married to me every single day since the wedding, that we have nothing in common and that she had a more intimate relationship with my friend Bud. Continue reading →

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You are so far away now

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

My mind is turned away, / it won’t allow you to enter Continue reading →

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Leonine

Posted on July 11, 2008 by

I have a terrible face, even a cruel one. I’m scarred and disfigured. I seem to have had a few harelip and other operations too many. And the crown of my adornments might be misleading, my forceful symbols misread, my … Continue reading →

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A dream of fire and air

Posted on June 20, 2008 by

I was blue in my dream, like an Indian god, but my headdress was Mayan, and I was kissing a reluctant sun whose serrations were cutting into me. Treacherous heavenly body! I, come out of brown clay, was burning, my … Continue reading →

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More unstable than atoms

Posted on May 15, 2008 by

The air I’m breathing is something else The ground I’m walking on is something else The time I’m going through is something else The love I feel is something else All of these are forms, all an approach to one … Continue reading →

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A different kind of communication

Posted on May 10, 2008 by

I’m going to let Buffy Sainte-Marie speak on the topic of telephone – because this song is what came to my mind first when I read Sunday Scribblings‘ invitation … Moonshot Off into outer space you go my friends we … Continue reading →

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A door

Posted on May 8, 2008 by

Not the da Vinci original but a copy from the protestant church in Haigerloch, southern Germany. The person to the left of Christ is clearly a woman. This painting is older than Dan Brown’s The da Vinci code but would … Continue reading →

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Round

Posted on March 16, 2008 by

Circle Round Globe Eight Double circle Eternal “Hath no beginning, no end” – Niebla ( © during a cycle on a globe in 2008 ) Inspired by One Single Impression’s topic Circle.

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Beat the Retreat

Posted on March 17, 2007 by

The lyrics of one of Richard Thompson’s greatest songs have a mystic or sufi ring: Beat the Retreat I’m beating my retreat Back home to you I’m beating my retreat Back home to you I’m burning all my bridges I’m … Continue reading →

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From Kabir’s mystic songs

Posted on March 8, 2007 by

I do not know what manner of God is mine. The Mullah cries aloud to Him: and why? Is your Lord deaf? The subtle anklets that ring on the feet of an insect when it moves are heard of Him. … Continue reading →

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