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 | Apr 6, 2020 | GU
One of the most famous mythological figures in Chinese Buddhism is Guanyin Bodhisattva. His name means “observing voices.” When he hears suffering cries , he appears instantly to help . He is enshrined in Buddhist temples in China . He is also she,...
by phillipw | Apr 6, 2020 | BA, DI, EM
Little Blues Packets Thomas Wentworth Higginson reported Dickinson’s comments about sweets in a letter to his wife: “‘People must have puddings’ this [was said] very dreamily, as if they were comets—so she makes them” (L342a)...
by phillipw | Apr 6, 2020 | DI, LO
Some Keep a Glossolalia Sabbath (or Xenolalia Really Since Every Soul is Born into This One Natural Religion) “….. “Dickinson wrote that ‘While others go to Church, I go to mine, for are you not my Church, and have we not a Hymn that no one knows but...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2020 | BE, MA
Not for Conquering to Crush and Make a Cruel Empire but for Unforgotten Beauty “Hystaspes had a younger brother whose name was Zariadres: and they were both men of great personal beauty” ~ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 919 So what if you exist in words alone In...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2020 | AM, BA, DI
Slanted Raising Agents When Emily abandoned schoolwork, she Assumed the baking in her family home. She turned away from the formality Of thinking of philosophers. Her dome Became the kitchen ceiling. Still, the view Outside that house took in the graveyard...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2020 | BE
The Tasteful Judge of Beauty “But I am a great admirer of beauty myself. For in the contests [at Athens] for the prize of manliness, they select the handsomest, and give them the post of honour to bear the sacred vessels at the festivals of the gods. And at Elis...
by phillipw | Apr 4, 2020 | OL
Ancient Youthful Masculinity Eight hundred years before the Christ was born, Oympic games rose up in glory, sweat, And blood. On hairy bodies (that were shorn Of clothing) manly arms and torsos met And grappled, struggles complicated by The slickness on the skin of...
