Light a stick of jasmine tonight
And I will light one too.
A stick shall burn near the sea,
And another near the mountains.
Is not jasmine the same scent for everyone?
Burn a tapering candle tonight
And I will burn a tapering candle too.
Category: Passion
The Time When the Universe Began to End
(About a 4 minute read)
It is incredible to me that the Arab and Persian Court Poets lumped possessiveness in with love to arrive at the concept of “romantic love”. But they did. The gods themselves were so disbelieving when they witnessed it that they forgot to wank for six days and six nights, and stars began to fall from the sky. The universe began to end! Nevertheless, it was true. The poets really, honestly did lump possessiveness in with love!
The consequences have been devastating. In effect, the poets created a schizophrenic concept of love.
Love is a Lawless Thing
Love is a lawless thing, subversive of every tradition and custom on earth. Do you think people don’t sentimentalize it? Anyone who fails to grasp how lawless, how subversive love can be is sentimentalizing it. Love is a lawless thing and yet, paradoxically, love knows of laws the Law itself does not know.
I Will Sing Songs to the Ice
(About a 3 minute read)
i.
Something huge fell against my door last night.
Something crashed the silence of the night.
When I was calm enough to look through my window
I saw a tired stag with a broken leg
Struggling to rise.
It failed at first, but then, with horrendous effort,
At last gained its feet.
Last night I saw a tired stag with a broken leg
Slowly cross my yard, pausing every few feet,
Perhaps to ease the pain.
The fur on its back was tuffed up and disturbed
Like the stag had been pounced on and in a fight.
Last night I saw a tired stag with a broken leg.
Last night I saw a tired stag with a broken leg.
Last night I saw a tired stag.
ii.
You are comely and beautiful.
Your still-satin skin glows
In the grace of youth.
You are comely and beautiful.
Your life opens towards the future
Like petals spreading in the morning sun.
You are comely and beautiful.
Your mind roars over the rocks
Like a crystal cold mountain stream.
You are comely and beautiful.
Your heart yearns for the heights of love
Like an eagle for the sky.
You are comely and beautiful.
Your still-satin skin covers sleek muscles
Covers sleek muscles and unbroken bones.
You are comely and beautiful.
I watch you as you take my breath away.
iii.
Tonight, I can hear the cracking of the ice
Beneath my feet.
Tonight, I can hear the cracking of the ice.
My winter is half run.
At 62, my winter is half run
And my life now thaws
Into your spring.
Rushes over boulders into your spring.
I have loved you more purely and more passionately
Than you in your youth might know.
I have loved you with eyes that see well beyond yours.
I have loved you until my heart
Has broken and been reborn.
Tonight, I can hear the cracking of the ice.
Tonight, I can hear the cracking of the ice
Beneath my feet.
So tonight, I will sing songs to the spring.
“You can fly higher, my love,
You can fly further than you think.
“You can fly higher, my love,
You can fly more beautifully than you think.
“You can fly higher, my love,
You can fly to intimacy with the sky.”
Tonight, I can hear the cracking of the ice
Beneath my feet.
And so tonight, I will put on heavy skins
And sing songs to the ice
Before my fall.
Tonight, I will sing songs to the ice,
And I will put on heavy skins.
Curious readers might want to check out Sharon’s poem, Struggles on the Ground. It strikes me as having themes related to this poem’s themes.
Dreams Gained and Dreams Lost, Dreams Regained
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Paul offers his take on the difference between an enthusiasm for something and a passion for something, and on what the difference means to our dreams, ambitions, and visions of ourselves.
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THE CRITICS EXPLODE! “Paul Sunstone knows all about dreams. He knows how to mangle and crush the dreams of his readers. He is the terrifying juggernaut of blogging.” — Arun Ghani, India’s Blogs and Beyond, “The Herald and News”, Hyderabad, India.
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The Morality of Putting People to Narrow Uses
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Paul offers his take on the morality of putting people to narrow uses, such as only being interesting in someone for sex, or only for their entertainment value.
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THE CRITICS GO NUCLEAR! “Once again, Paul Sunstone has taken it upon himself to discuss morality. Hence, once again he has taken it upon himself to load a high calibre rifle with a shotgun shell. Typical Sunstone, he is oblivious to the fact the shell didn’t fit, and he is just as oblivious to the fact his notion of morality does not fit the moral requirements nor standards of human nature. Sunstone is proposing a moral code for bacteria.” — Gus “Gunning Gus” Johnson, The Blog Critic’s Column, “Leper’s Gulch Gazette”, Leper’s Gulch, Colorado, USA.
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The Wisdom of Uncertainty
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Paul zealously offers his opinion that to embrace uncertainty is necessary and key to living a passionate, spirited, and authentic life.
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THE CRITICS ENTHUSE! Zut! The Grand Fraud American of Blogging once more crucifies our world’s conscience and decency by attempting to undermine all that is holy and sacred about life. He urges us to reject the certainty of every principle that is certain, reject the certainty of every truth that is a rock. I will not lie about the pig. He is an outlaw, a criminal, a villain. It is up to our world to deal justice to Paul Sunstone. At last, he must be guillotined. The guillotine must be returned to the public service of our world!” — Aloyse Leblanc, Le Critique Passionné de Blog, “La Tribune Linville”, Linville, France.
