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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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MIRROR
I shone a lightinto the mirror of your mind,there was no reflectionand my light disappeared.No recognitionbeyond the blank starethere. .
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged Bamboo Leaves, light, mind, mirror, recognition, reflection
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PURITY
In the dark tabernacle,a shaft of sunlightillumines the heartand shines througha million years of dust. Clouds and clouds of swirlingdustspirallingthrough the lightwhich spills in a golden poolon damp, grey stone and iron rust. When the light movesit does not take … Continue reading
PYRAMIDS AND SARCOPHAGI
Why did they spend so much time therein the anteroom of death?What could they prepare?Paper possessions as light as breathwere too heavy for their dead to bearaway from the fire.Why did they keep their eyeson pyramid, tomb and funeral pyre?Even … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged breath, Brian Taylor, dead, death, dreams, eternity, funeral pyre, identity, light, mind, pyramids, sarcophagi, tomb
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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
HALLOWELL
The tide that started flowingall those years agohas eddied roundand doubled back,has shadowed our diverging tracksand monitored their going.It sidles in and splashes at our feetleaving us very little common groundfor if and when we try to meet. Every step … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford Blues
Tagged absinthe, Brian Taylor, dead blackbird, dead cow, Dorset, Euro Express, Hallowell, light, opium, Painted Veil, sunflowers, tide, Tuscany, Van Gogh
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BUDDHA’S SUNLIT CHAMBER
In Buddha’s sunlit laboratory(or Dhamma chamber),experiments by laboratory assistants(or monks)demonstratethat if you shine the lightof investigationon form, feeling, perception,thoughts and consciousnessand apply continuous mindfulnessat the very centreof the rising and fallingof these phenomena,all things are seento be without a permanent … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged Buddha, Centre, consciousness, dhamma, feeling, form, Gautama, investigation, light, monks, peace, suffering, thoughts, Visakha Puja, vision
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THE LIGHT
Consciousness is Lifeis the Light that lighteth Everymanthat cometh into the world. Everyman is not that Lightbut can become a witness of that light;that, seeing it, othersmay believemay becomechildren of that Light,may dispelthe Darknessof the Children of this World. .
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged children of the Light, Children of this World, consciousness, darkness, Everyman, Gnomonic Verses, Life, light, witness
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FURZE AND BRACKEN
The furze and brackenis browned and a little battered.The Michaelmas daisiesand brambles shine in the September sun.A Painted Lady slowlyopens and closes its wings. Every momentis a fork in the roadand every forkis always the same,the choice between right and … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, brambles, choice, fork in the road, light, Michaelmas daisies, Painted Lady, September sun
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SEPARATISM
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
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SINGLE-MINDED SALLY
Single-minded Sally woke up just before she diedand, looking round the Faces,saw there was no place to hide. Single-minded Sally knew she’d left it far too lateand she could not think of any way to make the Faces wait.And the … Continue reading
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Tagged breath, death, died, faces, fearful din, humour, light, Sally, surprise, unblinking eyes, yellow, yellow teeth
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BLONDIN Poems 