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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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FORK IN THE ROAD
When you throw yourselfdown from the top of high mountainsthe Earth does not take youinto her armsand comfort you. When you kneeland kiss the ground,the Earth does not praise your humility. It is for this reasonthat she is called ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged comfort, earth, fork in the road, humility, light, oneself, right, The Great Mother, wrong
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REBIRTH
There in the dark, waiting.The unbornseeking their opportunity,moist earthwhere they can flowerand be carried along on the stream of unfolding consciousness. Only by constant vigilanceis the Bind Weed,stored in the Dreamtime,abandonedto the stagnant backwaterof time – to come no more. … Continue reading
Posted in Waves Talks & Poems
Tagged consciousness, dark, Dreamtime, earth, flower, opportunity, rebirth, Time, unborn, vigilance
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CORPSE IN MY ROOM
An old machineresting theremade of bits and pieces;whatever happened to be spareof water, earth and fire and air. An old machineconnected to the mains,switched on, is conscious of its pains. Switched off, inert,it does not know its ending;lies in the … Continue reading
PYRAMID REFLECTED ON THE NILE
Earth >body > mind > spirit > god. God >spirit > mind > body > earth. .
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged body, earth, God, mind, Nile, Pyramid, reflection, spirit
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PATIENCE
There is the patience of the tree,with feet set fast in earth;buffeted by storms,stripped of leaves by droughts,home to birds and parasites,bored into by beetles and worms,reaching to ever greater heightsuntil sawn and dismembered by men,or turned to a heap … Continue reading
FUNERAL
We crawl our way from earth to starnor calculate from birth how farour tiny feetwill take usbefore the karma that we meetwill break usand cast us adrift on an outgoing tide. While those onshore mutter simply,“He died!” Ding-dongFay’s goneLife longDeath … Continue reading
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged birth, Brian Taylor, death, died, earth, funeral, karma, outgoing tide, star
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HOW OLD ARE YOU?
How old was Jesusat his Birth?At the Crucifixionshining all his worth?Or Resurrected –God connected? Who can sayhow old they are?Even in the Elysian fieldsvirtues’ flowers to withering yields.Thousands of years on,Death still follows what’s born. Gods and ghosts,Denizens and animal … Continue reading
Posted in Centre
Tagged birth, crucifixion, death, Deathlessness, earth, Elysian fields, ghosts, Gods, Humans, Jesus, karmic shell, path, Resurrected, viewpoints
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JUPITER SPINS
Jupiter spins, they say, three times as fastas earth and thus enjoys a shorter day.They say the sun will grow and then, at last,burn up the planets which lie in its way. They say, the universe is growingor perhaps has … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged black holes, Blondin, brighter than the sun, dep inside, dies, earth, here, Jupiter, planets, space, sun, telescopes, universe
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