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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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AND ASHES TO ASHES
Mingled dust of privet and rose petalsswept by the windgathered into cracks and empty spacesalong the bottom of the wall. Mingled dust of hopes and memoriesswept by the mindgathered into cracks and empty spacesalong the bottom of us all. .
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged ashes, cracks, dust, empty spaces, hopes, memories, mind, privet, rose petals
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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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LORD OF THE JUNGLE
In the Jungle of the Worldand the tangle of the Senseswe build us hutsof mud and heartacheand make (and mend) our fragile fences.“This is ME! This is MINE!”is the burden of our song. We cannot see, still less define,that pain … Continue reading
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged butterflies to stars, evil, good, heartache, Jungle, letting go, ME!, mind, MINE!, prison, sanity, virtue, world
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GHOSTS
All that once was livingpasses through molecular gauze to filter out the elementsthat conform to the Laws of Physics. And what remainswill float awayand compel another birthin Hell or Higher Heaven worlds,or back here on Mother Earth. But what is … Continue reading
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged birth, dreams, elements, existence, ghosts, Heaven, Hell, laws of physics, living, matter, mind, Mother Earth
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LINNET IN A CAGE
Take away the brainand the mind has nowhereto shape itself in.It needs to find another somewhere. Take away the mindand the brainis a runaway trainwithout a driver to apply the brakes. The brainless mindfades backinto the fading ofits own devices. … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged brain, brainless mind, cage, linnet, mind, mindless brain, runaway train
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THE BEGINNING
Trace it all back as far as you canfrom where it ends up to where it began:From knife to the hand,from hand to the eye;from footprints on sandto the sun in the sky. Trace it back further to where it … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged beginning, footprints, gateways, Gnomonic Verses, mind, Mozart, rose, seascape, sensations, sky, windows
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LETTING GO
Where it is thought that treasure lies,the mind is drawn because of ties. Where the treasure is not thought,no mind is born and nothing sought. .
Posted in Centre, waves
Tagged letting go, mind, no mind, nothing, thought, ties, treasure
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BETHANY
In the grey mist of an English dawn,the starling stamps and prods and probesand generally disturbsthe lawn,seeking to confirman English proverb. Beneath the green of an English lawn,the patient wormcatchesthe bird. In this numbingcosmic dance,each one givesand takes his chanceto … Continue reading
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Tagged Bethany, Blondin, cosmic dance, English dawn, flesh, mind, proverb, secrets, starling, worm
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