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Brian Taylor is a Poet and Philosopher who lives in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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ARMISTICE DAY 2014
What They died for has not survived their sacrifice. The fabrics of communities that were theirs are pulled apart by rough fingers of their unappreciative heirs. Their homes are bulldozed to feed the appetites of developers. Their schools are surrendered … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Armistice Day, ceramic poppies, communities, Education Factory Farming, God, Hearts, homes, Jesus, materialism, Morality, peace, schools, silence, suffering
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FOUNDATION
The great Foundation on which all things rest is soon lost sight of, soon forgot, fails to hold man’s interest as entanglements lead to great confusion (due to the power of the great Illusion); until he cannot see what is … Continue reading
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Tagged Be, brain, Foundation, grief, heartache, illusion, joy, let go, myriad images, pain, real, rest, sermons, silence, silent, space, stillness, void
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MASTER MAGICIAN
The Ego is so adept at adding things on to increase its dysfunctional self. It is hard to be sure that a Man is truly acting without ego or whether he is acting the role of a man who is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Ego, healing, Khaos, magician, pyramids, silence, Tao
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GREAT MEN
But really you see there weren’t any great at all. Those may not have stumbled, heads high, walked tall, filling the silence where others mumbled. But words fail skulls fall. And before? Before, they could taste, smell, see, tell, bore. … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, blood, Brian Taylor, Centre, happiness, silence, skulls, thinking
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CALCULATIONS
Space you measure in feet and inches and 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 … Continue reading
SILENCE
Opium heals, applying a chemical bellows to the Vital Heat; a golden silence. At what cost! Matchstick limbs out of Auschwitz, fever-bright eyes. Such sweet poison! Music heals, early music; Greek Olympian music. Clusters of notes with open phrasing dancing … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, Brian Taylor, Centre, dance, silence, sky, star, void
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BANDS
Down on the plains the air is thick with dust and shouting. (Even the animals shout as they are goaded to where they do not want to go from where they do not want to be). All curse and squabble … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, Brian Taylor, Centre, mind, silence, sun, Time, void
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