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This is a dream.
All that is required of me
in this moment
is sustained, unaltered awareness.
This is the essence of sight,
where light and shadow become one.
Writing in the form of artistic expression is an engagement with life; it is understanding or "standing under," as a writer friend of mine put it, the interactive flow of life that is, at its core, internal. It is only an illusion that we stand outside of life as the observer, for life is one orchestration of many instruments. The cello is not separate from the violin; both are wavelengths of the same ocean in deep introspection. The living of life is always self-recognition – the whole seeing itself in parts. Each part a specific aspect of self-discovery. It is in the wonderment of that, by which writers are compelled to write. It is a deeply spiritual exercise, a meditation.
I guess you could say, it is the Rite of Writing.
Carl
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GLASSY EYES
The glassy-eyes of spirit fatigue
masked by the iris and pupil of the mind
to hide the cornea and sclera
protecting the soul
from too much cause and effect,
brought on by the ego
stumbling through the day,
looking alert but sound asleep
How opaque the glass of soul?
A matter of density,
the hardness of dream
into rock-solid reality
Soul glass is made
from the sands of time
burned by the heat of experience
into reflective or refractive looks;
a medium of awareness,
giving peeks into reality.
The better the glass
the clearer the looks,
the cleaner the view
through the dream
The wiser of beings
do superior glass making
Their acuity of consciousness
makes a better glass,
gives a larger mean free path
for the photons of spirit.
Their eyes allow in all the light
They wear no masks for protection
Set side by side with everyone else,
they are like glass to brick.”
Thinning of the Veils
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The Rite of Writing
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Audio Book
Poetry:
a work of spiritual, socially-relevant poetry and memoir. Carl Hitchens – Drumtalk, June 2018
Spiritual and socially relevant poetry
iUniverse, 2013
Meditations on Divine Names –
A Multi-Faith Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
Maja Trochimczyk, Editor
Moonrise Press, 2012
Historical Memoir-Myth:
War is the nexus between the human condition we have and the one we’d rather live. From the inside out, we live war or peace.
iUniverse, Dec. 2010
Book Sellers
Lani Hitchens
SouthWest Writers
2018
