by phillipw | Apr 10, 2020 | AS, RO
The Paltry Importance of Royal Families: Ashoka’s Abhisheka Why mention families in carvings on Your stele, or other unimportant things Like genealogy, your father gone To be among his ancestors, those kings Not worthy of your note? The high shaped rock...
by phillipw | Apr 7, 2020 | AS
Ashokan Dominance An emperor becomes a convert to Ascetic truth, a truth that speaks decrees Against the slaughter of poor beasts, yes, true To mercy. Soon the ruler starts to seize Adherents in his regal grasp, the nuns And monks in their humility and calm,...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AS
Astrological Intimations Perhaps we should have been the Gemini And not Aquarians. Aquarians Are watery at best up in the sky. We should have both been harsh barbarians Of love, the pair of us, the twins of lust And not so much of brotherhood. We might Have been...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2020 | AS, BU, CH, JE, SA
Petaled Salvation An emperor or any man must grope His mumbling way if he would go as pure As Buddha or as Christ. The slightest hope Is offered. Jesus holds out just one sure Path forward into holiness. “Go sell All, all you have and give it to the...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2020 | AS, NE, ST, SU
Thorn- Żytkow The one who is the heavy star inside Gives gravity to hold together red Intensity. His presence is implied Because the more amorphous one was fed By greed that made the weighty globe suck in The essence of the one in orbit with Him,...
by phillipw | Feb 20, 2020 | AS
Ashoka Insists with Hard Things The Maski iteration edict Maski edict (detail) ~ Wikipedia An emperor gives commands and they are carved In stone a thousand miles away. A bulge Of rock gives overhang defence. Once starved Of contact with him, people now indulge His...
