🔉Who are you?
Who would you like to be?Nobody else really, only meI would miss my friends and my familyAll the things that we’ve seenAll the things that we’ve doneLiving our lives and having such funMy only wish to set me freeI would…
🔉Looking through
On the perfect, clear surfacethat is the mirror of the mind,Thoughts, like fish, break its surface.And, although brief, they simply twinkle.In a flash I know their worth,and I am pulled towards those that beguile.Yet now, when they end, as does…
The Brief Necessity of Vulcan
Vulcan, the Roman God of Volcanoes was chosen as the name of a theoretical planet that was thought to exist as the innermost planet of our solar system. It’s time as a possible planet began shortly after Newton’s theories of…
A pale horse
Defining Spirituality. This rather nebulous term can be defined as methods for overcoming ‘the inevitable suffering of existence’. Suffering seems unavoidable – we can try as much as we like, but death, disease, wanting (famine) and violence (war) await us…
Nemesis
Nemesis ‘All that I am saying is I want you out of my life – forever.’ ‘Oh, I see.’ ‘Ahh – No, no, no, no. I don’t believe you. That’s your problem, you never, ever see. You have always lived…
The Five Heaps (Skandhas)
As normal, thinking adults, our minds are said to be ‘conditioned’. These conditions are the countless experiences that shape and define our sense of self and the reality in which we dwell. Whilst the common goal of all spiritual awakening…
The End of All Things
Sometimes we discover a terrible truth. Sometimes we feel justified to treat somebody harshly, yet afterwards we may discover these justifications were wrong, and so we learn a terrible truth. This truth completely eliminates any rational reason or justification for…
T’Poet
Another poet from YorkshireWhat’s gone wrong with the bloody placeWe’re meant to be dour and taciturnNot emoting all over the place They’ve gone an made this un t’laureateHe says he don’t care ’bout the moneyNow listen lad tha’s from YorkshireSaying…
Flip
Roll up, roll up and play the gameGood luck is at your sidePlace your bet, make your choiceCheck out or let it rideYou think that you are in controlBut the Fates they will decide. FLIP. LIFE – is just a…
The Ground
The words terra firma bring music to the ears of a person who has experienced a rough flight then learns the plane has landed safely. We Earth creatures are attached to the ground by a wonderful power called gravity. Even…