A Beautiful Question
Those whose faith is not passive, but engages reality, will receive a second, more fulfilling blessing in the harmony of belief and experience.
Blessed are those who believe what they see.
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All The Colourful People
We went down to the sea to walk on sky. To wander between the stars cast perfectly in reverse on this first mirror, shining in the millimetre of silk left floating above the saturated sands as the tide retreats…
Playing with Time: Milton’s Satan, similes and subversions
The invitation is to recognise your fallen nature because this will lead you to a full understanding of Milton’s message at the end of the poem; although fallen, there is nevertheless the possibility of “A paradise within thee, happier farr”
Fanāʾ
A tired man, awoken in the middle of a field and some lonely guitar strumming a single tree’s movement against the night sky. I know this place well, have been […]
One Blossom
Do you remember what it felt like to let go? Do you remember what it felt like to let go? To stand out from behind your dark corner and look […]
Language in the Ether
Prologue “It is language that shoots up like fire – wrought from a vision of where we must go and from a grip on where we are now” — Antjie […]
Still Life
To live slow enough to hear the sun, watch its symbols slide across your bedroom on a lazy afternoon spent seeing shadows rise and fall over sheets, no music this, […]
On Words
So immersed in language did you become that eventually every word, every utterance became something entirely divine. And then you couldn’t speak at all for fear that you might sully […]