Tag Archives: seeing

DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Universal Octopus

Ethics is the highest science,concerning itself with survival,not merely know-all. A man without Ethics,ever thinkingnever seeing,is already drowning;ever sinkingever lowerin his diminishingsea of being. .

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THE SEASON

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Universal Octopus

The season slidesto wind and showersand sharp hot sun(for rare half-hours)and all the worldlays waste its powerspursuing what it cannot own. Then mists and fogs and hazy sunriseships’ dull horns and lazy gull cries. Now blazing heat(bone dry pails)sandy feetsingle … Continue reading →

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TRENINNOW LANE

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Universal Octopus

Treninnow Lane is tangleddark and overgrownwith angledbeech and arching sycamore.No cars drive downand fern and nettle,dandelion and dock slumberin this extraordinary summer’s heat. Spiders’ webs are spun tightand Speckled Woods and Tortoiseshells meet,lifting and drifting,in and out of pools of … Continue reading →

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SEEING THE OBVIOUS

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Universal Octopus

The fisherman sees the fishbut not its painuntil as fishhe swims this way again. The rich see not the poorthey have inventedand, not contented,strive ceaselessly for more. Abraham’s descendantsfight for their promised land,and while they swarm and fight like antswhose … Continue reading →