Tag Archives: Here and Now

POSTSCRIPT TO TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Universal Octopus

EGO’s been on his perchin the old Knowledge Treefor more than a million yearsand, through the power of its corrupted fruit,has eased its way into millions of human minds,filling them and their bodiesand everything elsewith millions and millions of tears. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle | Tagged mind, dream, Tree of Knowledge, tears, Ego, separatism, Here and Now, identity, wake up, discover, task, exist | Leave a comment

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Universal Octopus

The pulling string,which is Time’s tether,bringsand bindsall thingstogetherin the contoured galleries of our minds. Piaf has been deadthese thirty years or moreand yet her voice is boughtand sold in any CD store. Yesterday and tomorrow,mingled joy and sorrow,are raw material … Continue reading →

Posted in Blondin | Tagged bad dreams, dream, God, Hamlet, Here and Now, infinite space, joy and sorrow, king, mind, present, Senses, Time, tomorrow, yesterday | Leave a comment

HERE (AND NOW)

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Universal Octopus

Clusters of English “unofficial” roseshave climbed the fence to face the sun.Each in its crimson finery supposesthat it, alone, is the only one. Honeysuckle tangles with its vagrancebramble and lavender, rose and gorse,fills the still air with its golden fragrancethere … Continue reading →

Posted in Gnomonic Verses | Tagged bramble, foxgloves, Here and Now, honeysuckle, lavender, living world, privet, roses, shamrock | Leave a comment

SEPARATISM

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Universal Octopus

This flowering of the Human Spiritis a reaching outinto the empty wastelandof the egoic mindin search ofthe lost gardens of Eden. This fruitless endeavourto fill its wastelandwith memoriesof its past (My was)and thoughtsof its future (My will be) is stitched … Continue reading →

Posted in Gnomonic Verses | Tagged Eden, egoic mind, future, Gnomonic Verses, Here and Now, Human Spirit, light, memories, past, peace, separatism, thought, un-separate?, wasteland | 1 Comment

LA PLACE DE LA CONCORDE

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Universal Octopus

(Harmony Square) La Place de la Concordenear the Hôtel Crillon. In the Temps Perdu:Madame Lafarge(who never forgets)and the tricoteuses(who never forget) sit and knit and wait for Marie Antoinette. “With my machine,”Dr Guillotin tells the Assemblée Constituante,“I cut off your … Continue reading →