How I Would Write It

I love you,
For I will walk through the desert
To bring you the scarab ring.
I will watch for you...
Only know me,
So I can have the love I want.

How She Would Write It

She loves herself.
She walks through the desert;
She will be her own camel.
She knows only she can do it
And only she can carry her.

1. Do it for the joy. Not to please your audience. By doing this, you'll gain an audience when fortune strikes.
2. When you have a muse, write it. The minute the heavenly muse brings a theme into your mind, find time to put it to paper.
3. Don't do it for money. Certainly, as Pythagoras said, the mean man can take away what you have, but the wisdom gained, and the joyful heart, that is why we do it.
4. Be at peace. The writer needs to be at peace, as this is what writings are for, is communicating peace.
5. Be in love. The writer needs to be in love. Lucretius, in "On the Nature of Things" began his theme on Epicureanism with an exultation of Love. For it is man's greatest gift.
6. Everything is a muse. Everywhere you go, you'll take bits and pieces of knowledge, and you need to write it down. This builds the mind's capability to integrate knowledge, and transform it.
7. Write simply. Write complexly. Not platitudes. Not doublespeak. Write clear, and rich sentences, without platitude, and without unnecessary academese.
8. Build layers of meaning and nuance. Don't be afraid to enrich your audience, and have under layers of meaning, or be afraid to take things and make them meaningful.
9. Don't be crude. Don't write about suffering, and don't write without hope... hope is a powerful tool, and suffering needs to have a purpose, not be the point.
10. Kairos is not our ally. He is our enemy. The timing of the Zeitgeist and what it deems popular, is not our business... if we write well, we will be remembered.

Oh, you Sea People
Why are you called so?
Because you crossed the Red Sea?

To the depths of my soul,
Had I known...
You'd steal my seraphim.
I pleasantly muse,
And you still rage about a childhood
Ill, that for all truth,
Happened when I was not yet a man.
I suppose your Karma works
By theft, lies, deceit, slander
And cheating and swindling?
Yes... you spin your magic web
Of lies, stealing someone's poem
I know not whose...
Hieronymus Bosch,
And trips to heaven and hell...
Tell me... did you visit Jotunheim in a dream?
Did you go to heaven, or hell?
No... but you steal even that from me.
I forgive you... though...
Which is what you ought to have done me.
I hope you enjoy your world,
Which you have fought so hard for,
And have won by your own prowess.

Be intentional with every word.
Defer to the Saxon or Germanic tongue.
Have an idea, and say it.

"The lead tablet at Ebal
"Was not hindered by the red tape
"Of academia. Therefore,
"We ought to ignore it
"And throw the lead off the team.
"Though, it clearly can be seen
"From the article the letters drawn,
"We will say it's like a rorschach test.

"The 24th Century Anomaly
"Coincides with the Flood Myths in China.
"We know it happened from Tree Rings
"In an ancient tree in Ireland.
"But that can't be evidence of the flood.
"Nor can the fact that the Neolithic Civilization
"Ceased existing at that exact time
"Give us good evidence for the same.
"Also, Adam and Eve are not in Chinese
"Mythology, despite a monument erected
"In their honor, around the second Millennium BC.

"The Egyptian Chariot Spoke
"Found off Neweibu Beach
"Doesn't exist... despite it existing
"A decade ago when you first heard about it.
"Buried, blacklisted, and now forgotten.
"It was never authenticated by a renowned
"Artefact dealer, nor was it dated to the 18th Egyptian Dynasty.
"No, you see, ships sank in that area many times
"And that explains why so many chariot pieces were scattered
"On the Seafloor.

"There were no Venuses found in the Americas
"And E. B. Renaud did not speculate
"On a universal Neolithic Religion
"Of a Mother Goddess,
"Which the Venuses were not found on the American Continents.
"No, this article was not taken off of JSTOR
"And the author you read is crazy,
"And no such citation ever existed.
"Nor does the Bible mention "Peleg"
"That the Earth divided in his days.
"I'm sure it does, but it doesn't mean what 
"Brandon says it does. Obviously...
"That'd be absurd.

"Papias was an idiot, and Erasmus even said so,
"And he was dead wrong when he told us
"Who wrote Mark and Matthew;
"And He didn't say he wrote the Book of John
"By John's the Elder's own word.
"Who is that John? It's not the Apostle John.
"And certainly, Luke was not a good historian,
"And he didn't get everything contemporary in his gospel.

"Also, Psalm 22 doesn't say 'My hands and feet are pierced'
"But rather it means 'Bit by a lion's tooth,' and the Dead Sea
"Scrolls don't say "Pierced.' And Psalm 2 doesn't say
"'Kiss the Son' No, it says, "Kiss the pure'
"The "Pure" Begotten by God. And the Bible is full of Anachronisms.
"Like David says the Walls need rebuilt, Moses says there will be a King
"And that there will be a curse, if the peoples sin,
"And Isaiah 53 clearly does not talk about a man's soul
"Being offered for the sin of the people. Not at all.
"And Zechariah doesn't say Joshua (The Hebrew form of Jesus)
"Will reign as both Priest and King, and forgive sins.
"That'd be absurd."

The Sanctity of a soul
And belief in it,
Though a soul be hard to define
We know it is what it is,
Leads to a more subtle morality
Which enables the human animal
To experience and enjoy love.