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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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FINISH YOUR SUPPER
Doing something is the State of Beingin motion, should be,echoes Gnome allowing an eternal momentto expand into a continuum of prayer, a chorus of obscenities,choruses Gnome a symphony of joy. an orchestra that has crucified its instructorand can no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged being, doing, Elysian fields, eternal moment, Exit, Forgetfulnes, Gnome, joy, Lethe, Life, martyr, paradise, prayer, sacredness, sangsara, spiritual satisfaction, Team
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CALCULATIONS
Space you measure in feet and inchesand shoes by where your big toe pinches;seasons by cherry, rose and snow,when may comes and swallows go:empires by rise and fall of kings;weather by rain and drought and flood;dead trees by whether the … Continue reading
MAN INVENTS
Man invents and Man becomesthe slave of his invention –Time-clock invention.Maintenance and breakdown.Marriage the chains of Marital Fidelity.Governments and the lawsof taxes and repression.Medical Science and the slaveryof Pharmaceutical Propaganda.Money. Clothing, the Tyranny of Brand Names,clothing factories for Indian children.Agriculture … Continue reading
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged egoic self, fidelity, freedom, governments, invention, Laws, Life, Man, medical science, money, pharma propaganda, See!, slave, spiritual vision, tether, work
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NEW DEBTS TO PAY
Wandering on through a wasteof perils we have so often faced,blown by hot winds of desire,pursued by our own shadows,touched by the invisible fire,surrounded by supravisible foes. From waste to waste.From oasis to oasis.And every place ispopulated by its demons … Continue reading
WAVES
Time drifts away,as mist fades on the mountain.The world itself is hardly more real,the living waters springingfrom life’s fountain run dry,leaving discarded bonesbleaching in the sun. There is no moleculebut strives to be the whole(or if it can’t encompass that, … Continue reading
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged Brian Taylor, children, fantasies, fountain, friend, inner garden, Life, mist, mountains, neighbour, powers, sandcastles, sun, thoughts, tide, Time, whole
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FOR MOTHER AND CHILD
Why wake him?You woke to nothing,do you think he won’t?Your hand will guide him firmly and away,your lips will teach the nonsense he will say,your sins on himevery day. At best,he’ll pass the testyou failed,but where you wonwill be undone. … Continue reading
FREEDOM TO OR FREEDOM FROM?
Power aimsat Freedom To;finds itselfon a collision coursewith all the other Freedoms Tothat inhabit gods and men and beast;storm and drought and pestilence;sickness, old age and death. Wisdom aimsfor Freedom Fromdiscovers that all the competing Freedom To’sstruggle within the stadium … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged breath, death, drought, freedom, freedom from, gods and men, Life, no death, old age, power, sickness, storm, wisdom
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KATHLEEN
‘Going out there is no other,coming back there is no trace’.Love and care for one another,smooth the sadness from her face. Like Orestes how she travels!Light-foot ever, onward roams;as the skein of life unravels,everywhere she makes her homes. Loves she … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford Blues
Tagged Eurydice, grass blade to her star, Kathleen, king of Shades, Life, love, Orestes, Orpheus, Oxford Blues, pain, Pluto, sadness, smile, sunshine, travel
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PURIFY THE MIND
From Mt. Kailas,birthplace of Shiva,Lord of All,the snow slides down the Himalayasmelting into pure waterand becomes Gangathe holiest of rivers. Absorbing the works of natureand of man, it flowspast temples, villages,rice fields and factories,and Calcutta slums,and comes,at last, to meet … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Bay of Bengal, Brian Taylor, Calcutta, elephants, funeral relics, Ganga, Himalayas, Life, Nature, pure water, Shiva, snow
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IN AND OUT OF WINDOWS
“In and out the windowsas we have done before.” Moving in and out of beingstopping just this side of seeing,in and out of life they pass,kestrel, robin, spider, mouse.Each their special shapes they wear,striving on from here to there.From here … Continue reading
BLONDIN Poems 