Down and Deep
Down and Deep, in shadowy Soul of Man,
Among wanton desires and greed,
Can there be a winsome plan
For Love and nascent need?
Can some benign and gentle force
In shapeless wonderment
Come to settle in due course
Fulfilling noble Testament?
Were we to call such Phenomena
A Deity from No Time and Space
Would we be judged Anathema
Or God’s servant full of grace?
Wander and wonder we through ageless
Eons of Earthen causes and effects
Glimpsing beauty and sages
Man’s mortal goodness and defects.
Until the Orb upon which we dwell,
Spins one last earthly time
And settles some in Hell,
Others in Heaven’s Holy Clime.
On a long-ago parchment it is said
Man’s search for the Holy Grail
Doth lead Man to dread
The fiery furnace of Hell.
So, see wonders of this ageless Orb
Listen to the music of your Soul
Allow not your lives absorb
The leaf of the Lotus toll.
BR Chitwood – June 24, 2019
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Author: Website: http://brchitwood.com - B R Chitwood - My Mission: Writing to Discover Me
I'm a young man in an old man's body, trying to catch up to myself, trying to find pieces of me I left back in a disconnected youth and the early years of manhood. I'm a stereotype of many in my generation who can play the 'blame game', yell 'foul', and 'let's start over'. But, we are what we are, the sum of all the scary kid-emotions we experienced, the gin mills and piano bars that became our sandboxes of pleasure - lotus eaters of the best (or, worst) kind, the love affairs that did not quite settle us down, the sad poetry and songs written in bars and motels along the way... A Dreamer! A Wanderlust! The world needs such fools as we to write our books, our poetry, our songs, to offset the madness that plagues the soul.
I've written fourteen books, over three hundred blog posts, in search of those pieces left somewhere in many parts of the globe. You can preview my books on the next page. There's even a Blog page...all my posts are not showing on this recently created blog page, but, if you want to read more, go to my official blog site and check out the archives: http://www.thefinalcurtain1
Writing for me is therapy for the soul.
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Beautifully said Billy.
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Thank you, dear Denise. As always, you make my day! ♥♥
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Nicely done, Billy Ray. You’ve a poet in your soul.
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Thank you, good buddy! You’re very kind! All my best! ♥
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About the time I think you’re a master story-teller, along comes an uncharacteristic Billy Ray poem, that makes me rethink your strengths. I guess you’ll have to muddle along being great in both!
Jay
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You ‘youngin’, you sure know how to put a smile on an old man’s face…do me some more! Thanks, good friend, for your kind and wonderful words. I’m doing fine at the moment, likely have maybe two, three more book inside me…he says, tongue in cheek. Later, podner! ♥♥
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