God of Public Stanzas
God was rather mean, interjecting in today’s poem, “I will not be there when you need me / next, because you could not follow my lines” – and it was true I did not write down the words and phrases He/She was attempting to feed to me, but this spiteful God that is more of …
Essays And Memos On My Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Ontology – Internet Archive
In addition to my four books of poetry (so far), I have uploaded a collection of essays, short essays, and memos to Internet Archive for free download https://archive.org/details/essays-and-memos-on-my-fundamental-misunderstanding-of-ontology-by-richard-j-tilley Here is the list of essays, short essays, and memos included in the book: Towards Post-Violence Societies: An Outline of Interdisciplinary Violence Studies and Violence Research Rights …
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I woke about 10 pm and God is here. We talked about poetry.
God, presenting Himself as male, said He likes this poem, even though I refer to God in how She presented Herself as female, for quite some time. (God has presented Herself as male before, God is endless and above gender.) Amongst the downfall of sleeping armieshttps://subspacewagon.systems/amongst-the-downfall-of-sleeping-armies/ I was re-reading it, to re-familiarize myself with the …
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Memo: Availability as an Indicator of Post-Capitalism
First world culture-benefits live within a paradox of being both hyper-capitalist while also demonstrating post-capitalist values through all that remains in touch, in availability. Abolishing capitalism if often mistakenly imagined as a barbaric age in which nothing is available because no one will want to create or produce without the benefit of being paid. This …
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Excessive forgiveness is a great lie in theology. Forgiveness comes with a sobered evaluation of oneself.
You don’t have to forgive yourself. That is really not a thing. People say that it is and will even try to convince you that it is something that must be done, but no honor is served by doing so. Stop and think it over. Do you really, truly forgive yourself for what you know …
Reposting: Clarification of a poem
Lots on wordplay in the poem I wrote this morning. I suppose it helps to know that “love-in-idleness” is just another phrase for heartsease, which is a flower, a pansy, the type that most hybrids come from, Viola tricolor, / family Violacease. Play on heart /mix of/ word refrain (musical), symphonies, lecture halls, decry, shifting …
Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)
By nature people tend to see and hear and they want to see and hear. It really cannot be helped and isn’t going to be washed out of them in the space of a few social media messages. And yet, the all intellectual, justice-striving liberal left has no problem making fun of these very people …
Reposting Meaninglessfull Note on Music and God: the truth of silent observation
Just realized I haven’t listened to any music for a few days now. I do wonder if not listening to music for a while explains how I was so productive [recently]. I once went 6 – 8 years (?) not listening to music in order to get closer to God. It worked. For clarification, I …
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Romantic Awe and the Traces of Deleterious Dispensation
Romantic awe is like stroking your fingers along the inner traces of a sobole clock, so close to recess, so moved as to recoil. Romantic awe is lambast in sheep skin, too close to forging tidings; too far from our god-mother’s solstice embrace. What I have spent time attempting to warn you about is the …
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