Monday, December 26, 2011

the point is Being

The point of religion
[yes, the reviled "r" word]
as always intended
being to live intensely
and richly, here and now,
a life overrun by significance,
daily lives integrating rapture
and insight stemming from
dreams into the human experience,
and strength overcoming
their terror of mortality.
Aspiring to live generously,
desiring to inhabit each part
      of their humanity,
living large-hearted
      and justly
are these faithful.
I pity the grasping
and mean-spirited.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Divorce

I've been married before
a state in which I chose to live
but not like Washington or Oregon
and I've been divorced
but that's a condition
not a state to my way of thinking
it's being dis-married
or un-stated
I am an un-married man