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WATCHERS

Sharing, as if a prayer & prayer in protest, with the shocked and suffering people of Norway and all everywhere wounded by the assaults of unjustified violence:

WATCHERS

Men of… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on July 24, 2011 at 5:56pm — 4 Comments

A DAY IN THE LIFE 15 JULY 2011

Yesterday I created four compositions and have decided to string them together as a single work in chronological order. If you would, please read through so as to experience each of the four perspectives

The Rise & Fall of Civilization – 7am…

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Added by David Sparenberg on July 17, 2011 at 2:03am — 3 Comments

MESSAGE

i cannot be the answer

to your loneliness

i cannot be the healing

of your sorrow

here in the… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on July 8, 2011 at 4:25am — 3 Comments

SACRED PSYCHOLOGY

Anger is a mood,

an emotion .

Experience it and let it go.

Like a wave of the ocean,

it moves over the surface,… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on June 3, 2011 at 1:27am — 2 Comments

INKTOMI'S MESSAGE, a retelling out of oral tradition

Inktomi, spiderman, visited the tribes of the Northern Great Plains. Each time descending from the sky on a silken thread, Inkto brought a message of desolation to the Arapaho, the Blackfoot, the Crow, the Cheyenne, Dakota, and Lakota. Each time, Inkto told the people, “Changes are coming, a harsh time, and mother earth will suffer. Her oldest children will cry out in terrible pain.” Each time, Inkto looked…

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Added by David Sparenberg on May 29, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

AN OPEN REPLY TO BOB PIPPIN

Well good morning Bob. Eva thought you insulted me with your recent comment. I do not feel insulted but will treat your question seriously. Unfortunately, it appears you, like most others, are not such a careful reader, which is a problem that needs some development to counter a culture of distraction and "short attention span." And this is a serious concern. When I write, I am a careful writer/speaker, aware that I am often… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on May 21, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

TURNING TIDE

Come—and we shall go down to the sea and the seashore and call it Sea of Galilee although it can be any sea and any shore anywhere and we will gather there spontaneously by the hundreds and thousands and hundred thousands to listen to the world-wind and speak in payer as a communion to the rising water the salted amniotic fluid of ancient earth life and the fishermen shall bring fishes and the bakers bring bread and the… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on May 18, 2011 at 3:24am — 2 Comments

LIFE IS A DESIRE, NOT A MEANING: an addendum to “On the Foundations of Green Acting”

Life is desire to create life, to proliferate, to be alive; to encroach upon nothingness and to exceed beyond death. Meanings are variables. With a disposition of openness meanings remain questionable—Socratic. Because we endanger life when the imposition of meaning becomes extravagant and overruns the vital dynamic of desire.

For… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on May 16, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments

RE GENESIS -for Jean Houston-

Here we are

between renaissance and oblivion

feeling the pendulum swing

set in motion by many forces…

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Added by David Sparenberg on May 11, 2011 at 1:22am — No Comments

FROM KABBALAH

In the annals of Kabbalah there is recorded that before the present Earth-world—of beauty imperiled, of diversity being diminished—there were seven other worlds, brute works of monstrous forces and inhabitants; worlds out of balance, lacking perfection and even the potential for perfection. But God destroyed each of the seven and created anew until arriving at this present Earth-world, which with the help of… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on May 9, 2011 at 2:18am — 1 Comment

COMPASSION

The pure and sweet souled man Mahatma Gandhi commonly said, "I am a Hindu and a Moslem, a Christian and a Buddhist.” In his ashram at daily prayers, Gandhi prayed to include all faiths. We too would benefit greatly from his lesson in tolerance and participation. Truly the essence of all religion is compassion.

Can we say: I am a human being, living here, in this time, in this space, a…

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Added by David Sparenberg on April 29, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

AT LEAST CONSIDER THIS

Where is God

Is God leading the chosen

across another desert

into a new Promise Land

Is God hanging on the cross… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on April 26, 2011 at 11:24pm — No Comments

THROUGH THE EYES OF BLACK ELK

“So I dressed myself in a sacred manner”* and went and stood out beside the highway, where endless people passed by in speeding cars. Many looked but few saw me, like an old eagle fallen to the ground. Some children pointed in my direction; some teenagers laughed and made humiliating gestures. To most, I remained as I had always been—an invisible presence passing among them.…

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Added by David Sparenberg on April 24, 2011 at 5:48am — No Comments

FLOWERS & BUTTERFLIES

Every fine word will fall. As a flower withers and is no more. As a bird falls from a poison sky. As a butterfly catches fire and crawls without wings to troubled death. The flower is the legs of earth that brought us here and weds our destiny to the wind. The bird is the shaman who sees afar. The butterfly, as commonly held, is the story of the soul that by some miracle of creation evolved into acts of beauty and is tortured by a love of death in the fire-pit of extinction. Every word of… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on April 17, 2011 at 2:41pm — No Comments

VIOLENCE: EARTH, HUMANITY & GOD

Today we hear about the violent Earth—eruptions of fire, rogue waves, tremors, quakes, mega-storms, speeding walls of ocean water, weather like a rampaging berserker. But we accept without question the violence of humanity. We do not know this Earth as experience, in relationship, anymore than we know God as an authentic and intimate relationship-experience. For most, Earth is not a living truth but a warehouse of resources, exploited to supply senseless and even… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on March 29, 2011 at 3:48am — 7 Comments

FUKUSHIMA – A Protest Monologue

There is a scene in Bram Stoker’s Dracula which is, for me, the most frightening. It is not a depiction of the vampire’s infernal, blood lusting eyes, of the vampire’s gore dripping fangs and death mask fixation, or even of the vampire vertically scaling the wind tortured, towering walls of Castle Dracula in guise of a biomorphic demon, at once inhuman and reptilian. The situation of ultimate, paralytic terror is one in which the nosferato, the unnatural fiend, enters a room silently through a… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on March 21, 2011 at 11:26pm — 6 Comments

THE CHOSEN

The chosen will not be chosen

through some grand and mystic mystery:

a golden cloud will not descend

celestial trumpets not sound…

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Added by David Sparenberg on March 15, 2011 at 2:13am — 1 Comment

STREETS OF CAIRO, BYWAYS OF BENGHAZI

how many Jesuses are in the streets of Cairo or the byways of Benghazi where blood of innocents is spilled to fortify power for the latest emperor of madness and oil

where the kingdom of heaven wears the camouflage of rebellion and speaks in the language of eyes of eyes meeting eyes

where the banners of humanity are unfurled to signal an uprising of peace and freedom justice and democracy where there exists—

like the spontaneous flame of an angel’s combustible… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on March 3, 2011 at 4:56am — 3 Comments

ECO-POETRY BOOK INVITATION

Dear Friend at PEACE FOR THE SOUL,

Sending a warm greeting to you! Over several decades I have dedicated myself to creating a unique, artistic voice to speak into concerns with which we are all involved—the state of our shared…

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Added by David Sparenberg on February 11, 2011 at 1:47am — 1 Comment

IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME

Nobody is spared some contact with the common diseases of human uncleanness and planetary abuse. Cancer, madness, rape of the Earth. Nobody is spared degrees of involvement with acts of crime, violence, which, always and everywhere, are eclipsing acts of beauty and reverence.

Trust is destroyed; compassion belittled. Each heart is crucified and… Continue

Added by David Sparenberg on February 8, 2011 at 2:17am — No Comments