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poem: Thanksgiving passes, Winter Solstice nears, Advent begins (via negativa)
The Season of Advent Begins
Pregnant with Anticipation poem: Thanksgiving passes,
Winter Solstice nears,
Advent begins (via negativa) and now the family Thanksgiving
bountiful feast has been eaten
and the days revelry abated
( the dominant culture’s lies
about its oppression of the Native
American’s laid bare) entering the liminal space
of late Autumn’s cold, short days,
the Winter Solstice nears
(the dominant culture’s
Black Friday and pre-Christmas
buying frenzy muted) preparing ourselves through
deep reflection and contemplation
in our stillness and quietude
(the dominant culture’s frenetic
holiday festivities and prideful hail fellow
well met transmuted) coming into the Advent season of the
coming of the Universal Cosmic Christ
and its call to “the high price of full
consciousness” (the dominant culture’s
distortions of Santa Claus and the churches’
sentimental baby Jesus plays notwithstanding) Christ consciousness incarnate
Jesus is Lord, Come Lord Jesus
(not the dominant culture’s current day
Caesar of power, control, and violence,
but Christ with us in the neighborly
community of the Kin-dom) Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
November 28, 2021 Image by Matthias Stromer
‘Annunciazone’ Author’s note: My poem is meant to
convey the story of Universal Cosmic Christ
consciousness breaking into the worldy
human empires of the many Caesar’s and
their power, control, violence, and oppression.
As a universal cosmic, spiritual story, it extends
beyond the institutional Christian church and is
available to everyone regardless of personal
religious beliefs. It becomes part of the human
story of spiritual growth towards True Self and
belonging in Authentic Community together.
The quote in stanza four is from Richard Rohr.)
Pregnant with Anticipation poem: Thanksgiving passes,
Winter Solstice nears,
Advent begins (via negativa) and now the family Thanksgiving
bountiful feast has been eaten
and the days revelry abated
( the dominant culture’s lies
about its oppression of the Native
American’s laid bare) entering the liminal space
of late Autumn’s cold, short days,
the Winter Solstice nears
(the dominant culture’s
Black Friday and pre-Christmas
buying frenzy muted) preparing ourselves through
deep reflection and contemplation
in our stillness and quietude
(the dominant culture’s frenetic
holiday festivities and prideful hail fellow
well met transmuted) coming into the Advent season of the
coming of the Universal Cosmic Christ
and its call to “the high price of full
consciousness” (the dominant culture’s
distortions of Santa Claus and the churches’
sentimental baby Jesus plays notwithstanding) Christ consciousness incarnate
Jesus is Lord, Come Lord Jesus
(not the dominant culture’s current day
Caesar of power, control, and violence,
but Christ with us in the neighborly
community of the Kin-dom) Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
November 28, 2021 Image by Matthias Stromer
‘Annunciazone’ Author’s note: My poem is meant to
convey the story of Universal Cosmic Christ
consciousness breaking into the worldy
human empires of the many Caesar’s and
their power, control, violence, and oppression.
As a universal cosmic, spiritual story, it extends
beyond the institutional Christian church and is
available to everyone regardless of personal
religious beliefs. It becomes part of the human
story of spiritual growth towards True Self and
belonging in Authentic Community together.
The quote in stanza four is from Richard Rohr.)
poem: and now it is in the hǣlan
poem: and now it is in the hǣlan
and so in our aging
suffering the upward fall again
in this cruciform world both broken and whole
holding the tensions deep in our souls
resolving them within
Reconciling, Transforming, Creating the new thing
being present with ‘what is’
seeing how it can bring us closer
to renewed wholeness: Mind, Body, Spirit
once again finding our Self
re-balancing the tensions of
Creation, Life, and Love
mindful of Relationships, Community, Cosmos
responsible for hǣlan one another
with compassionate intent (not duty)
now let the hǣlan begin
all in harmony Self, Neighbor, Creator
walking each other Home again
Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
August 4, 2021
art images: Shamanic Healing Hands Art
by Maria Sabina
Jesus healing Peter’s mother-in-law
Illumination in the Gospel
of the Abbess Hitda of Meschede
Author’s note: hǣlan is Old English for
healing. This poem is inspired upon my
wife experiencing a stroke from which she
is currently recovering nicely but not without its challenges.
poem: prepare to be interrupted by God today
poem: prepare to be interrupted
by God today take a break
from the 10,000,000 things
that distract us see the Universal Cosmic Christ
by whatever name
in the stranger, other, oppressed especially those
making us the most uncomfortable
in our privilege allow the truth, beauty, and goodness
that surround us to act in
mercy, radical grace, and radical love turn so that hearts are opened
minds transformed
and spirits lifted up and so this shall be the new way
that God is always with us all
in the mutuality of giving and receiving Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
April 20, 2021
by God today take a break
from the 10,000,000 things
that distract us see the Universal Cosmic Christ
by whatever name
in the stranger, other, oppressed especially those
making us the most uncomfortable
in our privilege allow the truth, beauty, and goodness
that surround us to act in
mercy, radical grace, and radical love turn so that hearts are opened
minds transformed
and spirits lifted up and so this shall be the new way
that God is always with us all
in the mutuality of giving and receiving Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
April 20, 2021
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quote: the universal cosmic divine will
Reflection: 50th. Year Anniversary of ‘Be Here Now’
Reflection: The inside out and upside down ministry of Jesus, the Universal Cosmic Christ (by whatever name) and my prayer to be with those on the margins as God calls me
Reflection: The inside out and upside down ministry of Jesus, the Universal Cosmic Christ (by whatever name) and my prayer to be with those on the margins as God calls me
( I originally wrote the reflection below several years ago as I underwent a particularly challenging realization with the institutional church of which I was a congregant eventually resulting in my departing the church for what for me is a much more meaningful spiritual life centered in celebrating the gifts of all spiritual traditions and being grounded in the evolution of True Self (discipleship) and belonging together in authentic communities (the kingdom or kin-dom). My relationship with the Divine Cosmic Will (God by whatever name) has never been stronger.)
My increasing awareness, especially now in my life, is that Jesus is always with the outsider and outcast who suffers and hurts for the world and shares the pain of others.
Jesus leaves the institutional worship place, sometimes in anger, as we see in the Temple story of the ‘den of robbers,’ to be with those who are on the outside and who just can’t cut it in those places anymore. I think of this as the spirituality of imperfection. Certainly we all are united in our imperfections.
In Jesus going out to these outsiders, he, of course, takes leave of those who are arrogant and prideful and all knowing and thusly, the insiders of the worship place’s, with their dominant cultural traditions and hierarchical hegemony. These insiders are, of course, generally those leaders in power and control, officially or otherwise.
Other good and innocent souls linger there as well perhaps holding onto the law and its rules of right and wrong not having yet experienced the truth, beauty, and goodness of our shared suffering and wounds and imperfections.
God send me into the messiness of this world with the imperfect souls such as myself so that we might commune together in the dark shadows and light spirits as your Beloved children through grace, love, mercy, justice, peace, and hope!
Amen and Amen
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