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EMERGENCY EXIT
I must be present nowbefore I can have a past;I must be present nowto create a future then. If I still my present mindand exchange present thoughtsfor nothing at all,I have escaped past and futureand achieved a timeless peacewith no … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged Abraham, emergency, escape, Exit, future, I am, past, present, thoughts, timeless peace
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THREE TIMES
Adjusting the Presentwith Past and Futureis like adjusting the Feetto fit the Shoes.Any way you look at this you lose. Don’t stop talking about tomorrow.It wasn’t like this before the war.I’ll get it right next time.You owe me one. It … Continue reading
AGING EARLY
(A SELF-DESTRUCT GUIDE TO BURN-OUT) Behold the Politics of Despair! From Madrid to Botus Flemingthey have looked into the Futureand seen the Nothing there. They have joined up with the Lemmingsand rush to pubs and clubswhere they drink as much … Continue reading
WAITING
Magdalen’s groundsare full of life,full of space. Space, which is mownand cleared,tended and enclosed,its waterways unchoked,brown and sparkling clear. It is home to ducksand coots,to dragonflies and deer. Grass and paths and gatesand streamsand yesterday’s undergraduatesare waiting. Not for the … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford Blues
Tagged being, bless, deer, dragonflies, empty heart, eternal sigh, future, genius, letting go, Magdalen, Oxford, past, peace, space, undergraduates, waiting, Yes!
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SHADOWS
We peer into the shadowswhere yesterday’s sunlight glows,trying to capture and holdyesterday’s sunlit gold. We peer into tomorrowto predict and plotwhere that sun will likely go(but where, perhaps, it will not). Today’s sunshine still blazesits disc ever overhead.Past and future … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged darkness, future, land of the dead, light, past, predict, shadows, sunlit gold, today, tomorrow, yesterday
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FREEDOM
Freedom from the Pastis the Present.Freedom from the Futureis the Present. The Presentis a crack that runsthrough the universe.Into it everything disappearslike snowflakesinto a bonfire. For Māra’s people,the Presentis a mental spacefilled with memories,thoughts of the Future,sense impressionsand a random … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged blazing, crack, freedom, future, memories, past, present, sense impressions, snowflakes, sun, thoughts, universe
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
It was different in the past.Especially in the village. Before you could readBefore there were newspapersBefore there was radioBefore there were telephonesBefore there were filmsBefore there was TVBefore there were computersBefore there were smartphonesBefore there was the endless whisperingof global … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged body, Brian Taylor, Church, computers, face to face, friends, future, global gossip, Hey, Imagination's Daughters, market, neighbours, Now, past, present, smartphones, suffering, TV, womb-tomb
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PEACE
Freedom from the Pastis the Present.Freedom from the Futureis the Present. The Presentis a crack that runs through the universe.Into it everything disappearslike snowflakesin a raging furnace. For most peoplethe Presentis a mental spacefilled by memories of the Past,thoughts of … Continue reading
Posted in Waves Talks & Poems
Tagged Brian Taylor, clear sky, crack, freedom, future, memories, mental space, past, peace, present, sun, thoughts, universe
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ORPHEUS IN EXTREMIS
He turned his back on the graveyardand with the sad songshe had taken downinto the stiff clay of the underworldlike root-fingersstill singing in his ears,walked towards the future. Before him floatedher death mask,warmed by the pale fireof yesterday’s desire. Fire … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, Brian Taylor, death mask, desire, empty space, forgetfulness, fountain, future, girl, grave, nothingness, Orpheus, Proserpine, silence, smile, stream of being, sunlight, underworld
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HOPE AND DESPAIR
In the Presenteverything gets donehere. From the window of the mind,the Future is therewhere the consequences wait. The mind invents this Futurein order to see consequencesthere, not here,and move towards them. If these consequencesare seen as essentialand realisable,the mind is … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged consequences, DESPAIR, future, here, hope, mind, past, present
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BLONDIN Poems 