THE BLOG 'The Ways of Being's' overture to the poetry here.

FIRST:

Thank you so much for finding this Blog. Each post having a sonnet in it, along with some commentary about it. To give you a taste of what you’re in for. That and to induce you into purchasing a copy while here. Also for those unable to buy a copy of this book at this time.
Likewise a place where you can respond to and criticize its poetry and suppositions. To incite you into either your reviewing and/or your criticizing them someday.
The first of the three books of 99 sonnets, published and released by Adelaide Press in New York, the 10th of December last year.
While having had to attend to more pressing matters, in time I’ll post the rest of the sonnets, in this website after the first five sonnets you can see here. That and when permitted by the book’s publisher. As well as your comments and feedback, I’ve received about them, on a monthly basis from then on.
Please note each verse, (i.e. each sonnet) is meant to be read in order. Sequentially, since most of them relate to, either the next, or the prior one posted there.
Hopefully, stimulating some thoughts, impressions, insights, some intuitions and/or some perceptions in or from you.
Should you decide to respond, there are comment sections/windows for you to do so, beneath each of its postings. Perhaps a dialog will ensue, of some interest to us all.
Regarding my acceptance and my posting of your comments, I’m more apt to, if they relate in some way to the poetry and/or the comments previously posted. Not way out of bounds from their intention and/or their subject matter there.
So, have a look at them, in the Overture, the first five in the Blog. There’s also some further examples on this Website’s Excerpt Page, indicative of those in Volumes II and III.

So with that, here is the:

THE WAYS OF BEING

to whom we first here pray:

In the name of the fact of Existence,
and that of the spirit in its Being.
We pray here, to their innermost essence,
their truth and beauty, all from which we spring.
Their ways of being, when a multitude,
the ways of their being, when on the scene.
To their oneness here with our gratitude,
their ways of being, when behind our screen.
For raising us up from out of the depths,
to experience another way to be.
Where if watching our steps, when on our treks,
might find if there’s one with a master key.
While still on these verdant and mordant shores,
living like sheep, rainbows and dinosaurs.

Forever they’re being throughout their existence,
a fourth greater than the four-fourths of their presence.

COMMENTARY:

Among all what could be said and implied from any one of the lines above. Notice the prayer isn’t to a personified God. Nor does it ask you to believe in anything. Belief: defined here, as something held to be real or true, without evidence or proof. Thus subject to argument and/or confrontation. Nor is it a call for affirmation for what’s being said in these poems.

Rather (regardless the beauty, mercy , enmity and tragedy in existence) the prayer is to that, what we either perceive, experience and/or know inwardly to exist. Whether within us or not, whether an illusory pareidolia or not. We perceive, feel and know at least something exist. It’s a prayer to all of what exist.

A prayer of gratitude, not to a concocted anthropomorphism, a personified entity above the sky, that generally people call God. Nor is it a prayer for something that’s wanted.

In other words, one either sees, perceives, or experiences a greater or a higher unity, capacity and/or spirituality in phenomenon, or one does not. A faculty that requires considerable Spiritual Development, if aspired to beyond what naturally and/or what superficially or ordinarily occurs in us, on the surface level of our consciousness and being while here.

Belief in a limited, personified God, is seen as antithetical, if not an anathema, to having an experiential spirituality, like that suggested above. Due, (while recognizing a religion’s auxiliary cultural, and social service functions) to belief’s lack of efficacy, (in its ability to know). Belief, opinion and dogmatic religion responsible for so many conflicts, calamity’s and atrocities throughout history. However evolutionary significant it may have been.

REFERENCES:

Esoteric: More for a specific audience.

Narrative Poetry: Stories told in verse.

AVILIBILITY:

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