I’m not free, She said, I can’t fly free Among the clouds. Gravity is oppressing me And holding […]
Stoicism
My newest poem, Are You Free?, Is now available at the Free Verse Revolution blog: Are You Free? […]
Bob Dylan and the ghost of Leonard Cohen Sitting shivah on short stools Yarmulke pinned to gray curly […]
You can look in your books, Old and new, Of beginnings and births, Journeys and exiles, Looking for […]
Chaos around you: Be in the world, not of it. Chaos within you: Be still, breath, Be present […]
A Cyprian merchant ship Wrecked on Grecian shores. Everything lost. Discovered the wisdom of a dead man In […]
“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say” – Marcus Aurelius, translated […]
Please note, word “Logos” in the poem below is not the plural of the English word “logo,” rather […]
Allen was in Asgard reciting America and Singing the Buddhist Bible Blues for All-Father Odin While Bobby and Baldr compared […]
The curtain begins to fall, Darkness is all you see, “But I haven’t completed five acts,” You protest, […]
John W. Leys 