From now on it will be the simple things for me in my writing. Back to the basics. I don’t need to distill the best of my best or try all the way to write something absolutely perfect. Too pompous. Lay back a little, think down to the root. Think back to the roots of…
Tag: Philosophy
A Pantheistic Paean
« To God all things are fair and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right ». So did once say the ancient Heraclitus. To Him God is both the sheen of day and the obscurity of night. The cruel winter meets with the gentle summer and one may take surfeit just the…
An Evening Tale-Part II.
Perhaps a dove among the mourning doves is my beloved now. Such light wings and what chilling song! I’d appear bulky and sullen before them. Denying me, they hide between foliage as the sun hides in the grayness of the evenfall –now cold and foreign appear the high clouds and the cobblestone wall. Maybe, maybe…
The Beginning
I call Dionysus the loud-roarer! Who wails in revel! First-Born, two-natured, thrice-born, Bacchic king, Wild, inscrutable, cryptic, two-horned, two-shaped, Bedecked in ivy, bull-faced, war-like, howling, holy, Divine victim, feasted every other year, adorned with grapes, bedecked in foliage. Euboleus, counselor, Zeus and the maiden bore you… on a secret bed, immortal Daimon; Listen happy one…