My instrument is mind; My measurement is meaning. I ponder upon the Words spoken by the prophets And come to accurate conclusions. Yet, the precision--- Words can be too precise. For, it is the accuracy of discovery For finding the true meaning. If the words were precise--- Not even the definitions Of these scientific terms are--- There could carry no meaning. For, surgically, some concepts are too dificult To write precisely. Yet, that doesn't mean we cannot be accurate In describing them.
The Tale of the Two Princes
I heard a preacher once preach A sermon on two princes: The story goes as so: The crown prince had a list Which, for his joy, was promised to him. He had no expectation for the things on that list Prior to the King and Queen promising him the things On that list. The second prince, Being far more popular among the people For his sunny disposition, Had nothing promised to him. He, too, had no expectations; And the King loved him more than the crown prince. Thus, when Michaelmas came The two princes were bestowed with gifts. The crown prince, who was promised everything on his list Was given two things from the list. Looking for the others--- For they were semi-precious stones Which he liked--- He became sad that the thing he was promised Was not given to him. The second prince--- Whom the whole kingdom loved--- Was given coal. And the second prince said, "Ooo! I can make this into diamonds "If I press hard enough upon the coal." And the whole kingdom was stunned That the prince who received coal Was celebrating that he could make diamonds From his coal. Thus, they became wary of the crown prince. So, the King---having laid out his plan Very carefully, to defame the crown prince And bring honor to the second--- Took the coal from the second prince And gave him diamonds to replace the coal. Then, he distributed among the kingdom How honored the second prince was For receiving coal and doing a dance for joy. However, the semi-precious stones Asked for by the crown prince Were all he asked for--- There was no other request he had And the whole kingdom had promised him everything on his list Down to the last sum. And he had only received a twentieth of what he asked for. And he wept that the promise made to him was in vain. Thus, the crown prince absconded his crown And gave it to the second prince Whom, having the sunny disposition Was happy for getting coal for Michaelmas. Later on in life, The crown prince grew to be a wise man And the second prince to be a foolish man. For, the crown prince never received aught That he asked for. The second prince, he received everything. The crown prince grew strong, he grew wise He labored on his princely duties--- Knowing that the kingdom belonged to his cousin--- While the second prince spent the riches Obtained by the crown prince. For the crown prince had obtained many riches Yet the second prince ate all the riches up--- If there were even a gem able to be bought By the crown prince's labor, The second prince was the one who received it. The crown prince, having worked hard For his salary, was perplexed. "Why did all the riches go to my cousin?" And, lo, it was because he was the king? So, the crown prince was saddened by this That all of his labor was spent to feed the second prince On his worldly lusts. The crown prince, though, Had time to understand what he would do with the profits. He, happy his crown was stolen, Will be a benefactor for the people. This was what he set his heart to do. For though the crown prince asked, And did not receive aught he asked for from his kingdom;--- Rather, he was scorned when he asked And given only a partial sum--- He was thankful that his wretched cousin Had the crown and not him. For, remember, he only wanted semi-precious stones; And his cousin wanted diamonds. Thus, the crown prince worked upon his princely duties Peering over all wisdom, to divine a strategy To save his kingdom from the barbarian onslaught. The second prince, he was allied with the barbarians. It came to, that the kingdom fell But the crown prince escaped with his life. For, he had accrued wisdom in his poverty--- For he was now poor, for all the sustenance he gained Was given to his cousin--- And thus, through the roughness of his life He attained a true knowledge Which the second prince had not attained. And, had he received the semi-precious stones He may not have acceded the office he did obtain Which was as a counselor to kings With wisdom, honor and glory. Though, his kingdom still hated him He had attained to the truth which could have saved it.
Abide the Snow
How I love Thee, oh Stately King The worlds seen from Thy peak. Beneath Thee, Thy black Princes' tor Gather by the valleys for war. It, the breath of Heather Blossoms Stain the rocks with liquid crimson; The Princes reign above the lot Of men, who upon earth, the gods They have all stopped believing in. Thus, Mount where the Nard Flower's sin Had grown, and the harlot's love washed Thy foot, Thy fragrant soils soft,--- Thy Statehood beams upon the breadth Of all worlds and cloudy hex. Thy peak is worshiped for its height; Princes beneath Thee ready fight; And the steeples of thy Welkin Ring, for Thou art the very vault in View of those who see Thy splendor; And raiment of the Prisms wore Thou upon kneck and ivory knape--- The sash of Thy Kinghood---irate That the very dogs Thou wished good Sought to steal from we poor our food.
Where I Came From
Where I came from, Robots were friendly. Chip, the local nurse bot At the General Hospital Meandered about and piqued my childish curiosity. It could think, move, it was as human As any man I'd met. There were no smart phones. Man was at peace; The stars shined bright. The grocery store Had a coffee grinder And about thirty varieties of beans. It wasn't racist to portray Indians; It wasn't racist to portray Black Folk; It wasn't racist to portray Quakers. They were iconic imagery. Stories were at their peak; The best ones were being made. I was taught a hundred tall tale and fairy tales Iconic of the American Mythology. That was my education; Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and The Three Bears,--- We sang patriotic hymns at the beginning of every class. We said the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America Which was a republic, under God. The Ten Commandments were written on the Statue of Liberty. They were on the pillars of courts. There was no internet. Bugs Bunny was on every day, For about two hours a day. Elvis was bigger than the Beetles. There were ten channels on cable. And most of all, there was love.
What I Learned from Ezra Pound
Cantos is difficult. It's not meant to be interpreted. Yet, I think the joy for Ezra Was to see what people read into it. And as a poet, I shall treasure this wisdom. A person's interpretation doesn't have to be correct. What they see in my poem is like poetry all in itself. I get to listen, and that's truly what I want Poetry to be about. That poetry is about sharing, and listening And understanding. That it is an art for finding what is in another soul. That is what I learned from Ezra Pound
Analysis of “Upon a Welsh Mountain” by BarddyIbach
1. The first line is the beginning of imagery, the snow is upon the cap of the mountain Cwm Idwal. 2. More imagery, of an Eagle flying over the mountain. 3. More imagery of the cavern beneath the mountain, splintering into rocks the color of bone, and crystal. 4. Here we have the first hint at a metaphor. "Legends lost in prayer." The legends lost in prayer, it seems like the mountain is hindering the prayers or hindering the legends. Perhaps it means ancient celts who climbed the mountain for rituals, or perhaps it means the "Legends were lost in prayer." The legends were lost because of prayer. Which, invokes a sort of strange notion that the mountain is hindering prayers, and listening, thwarting, overshadowing. 5. The firstyear birds sing their songs. 6. Over the mountain's "Brooks". Bach is a name which means "Brook" or "Dweller near the brook." So, it is evoking a water source. Or, perhaps the poem is saying it is a Bachelor. Which, the second meaning is far less likely, and I believe it is evoking the sense of the surname "Bach" which means "Dweller near the brook." So, it is referencing a brook or stream near the mountain. 7. Here is another evocation of the Satanic Imagery. Of one hindering prayers. The mountain's name in English is "Devil's Kitchen", and the "Beast" here indwells within the mountain's heart. The poem keeps evoking a sense that the mountain itself is the devil. And it exists and is tangible. The miners, within the mountain's heart, are working for their gems and gold---infering there is wealth being offered by the mountain, though likely not integral for the meaning of the poem. Only that there are people mining the "Beast" for its jewels. 8. The mountain is the narrator, and its "Song" could qwell a "Sailor's Quest". Probably talking about the treasure found in the mountain. It might even be boasting of the author, talking about the quality of the poem, that the poem can fetch a fair price, and this description of the mountain is worth something. 9. Imagery of the mountain's facade, where heather bloom. Heather is a form of colorful flower with rich pinks and purple tones. On the mountain, the heather blooms. 10. On the edge of the mountain's existence, "Thistle Spawn." Maybe a subconscious reference to Christ's parable about the heart overclouded with thistle. The mountain has wealth within it; the devil has wealth to offer, and it is like thistle. 11 - 12. Invoking imagery of the fog upon the mountain, and its peak resembling a melted crown. 13 - 15. The Starling is a faux blackbird. Not sure if the author was invoking the "Blackbird", as the Blackbird is an emblem of Poetry, symbolizing the Poet. Yet, the birds fly upon the mountain, perch, land upon the boughs of the trees which grow upon the mountain. They also "Chuckle" giving a sort of onomatopoeia of the bird's sound. Also using a word already coined, which was clever. Probably evoking that the poets who get their wealth from the mountain are not true poets. They're starlings not blackbirds. 16. "Scree" is rubble that usually exists on the side of a mountain. The birds are perching around all of these features, of trees, scree and mountain facade. 17 - 18. Ravens call, and they perch, and the mountain is being described in all of its geological features. 19. The ravens call a "Tailor's Tale" of "Frosty fell and reason" of "Wounded hound" and "Fatal Moorland Bell." It is invoking the solitary and isolated nature of the bells and ravens calling through the "Moorlands". A moorland is an uncultivated hilltop. So, these sounds are echoing. 20 - 21. Here, it is saying, "Love not my debris" and "Love not my Princely Tors". The monuments of victories in the past, a cairn is a monument left. And it is signifying a "Victory". It is saying to love not the sustenance of the mountain, or the sustenance of the devil. It exists. It is an obelisk. It is ever present. But, don't desire it. Don't desire it to bring you victory. 22 - 23. Time erodes the bairns. The children. Time always erodes away the children of men. It even erodes the rock facade of the Mountain. Wealth fades, and any sustenance from the devil will fade also. 24 - 25. Imagery, and giving the English Name of "Cwm Idwal", to liken the mountain to the devil. Also, to prosperity--- 26 - 28. Down a "Griffon's" back, imagery of the mountain. Evoking power lust, trying to obtain great feats through the means of wicked prosperity. 29 -32. The last line talks about how there is nothing to add or take away from the mountain. Just like there was nothing to add or take away from the devil. He was perfect, and didn't need pomp, pride or splendor. He just was. Evocative of Ezekiel 28's King of Tyre. He was perfectly created, and we will be destroyed if we accept his wealth. Thoughts: The poem invokes the Inevitability of the Mountain, the existence of the mountain. It can bring you wealth, it can bring you power, but don't covet it. Like the Devil. Also, invoked in the poem is the meaning of the worldly, seeking power and wealth and honor, when at the end of the day, the Mountain was inevitable, and it outlasted all of the sons who sought its wealth. There is hubris in the mountain, though. That it is neither the greatest mountain in the world, nor is it the most beautiful. It is simply a mountain, but it isn't the place to seek fortune. The poem almost evades the seeking of fortune, like one ought not seek it at all. Further note: I don't think the author was aware of this meaning, however, he was intending a poem to divine the meaning of the mountain, Cwm Idwal. The poem was given by the providential hand, to sculpt a meaning. I'm pretty sure the miners were mining coal, not gold or diamonds, but the fact is great wealth lay contained in the mountain, and being that I think it is coal, there's an evocation of where you source your poems. The great poets, the ones who are more like "Blackbirds" not "Starlings" are the poets who sing from the purest sources. They don't draw their chaff from impure sources. They don't draw their source, and it comes out as coal. Rather, they seek the highest mountain peaks. The Devil, imbued in the mountain, is like an impure source, low and not high. He gives you coal, black lung, and drawing from the sources which he offers you is like drawing from an unclean source. A source that is harmful for the environment. However, that begs the question of whether the poet was himself drawing from a pure source, and in a certain way I think he was, as I don't think he was consciously intending the metaphor. When bringing to bear imagery of crowns, beasts, and the Devil's Kitchen---the mountain itself seeks a subconscious meaning. It needs its fulfillment through the verse, to seek the mountain's meaning. And the mountain has its meaning. Is the poet a blackbird or a starling? That's the question. Does he draw his poetry from pure sources, or does he draw it from impure sources? The mountain itself is a pure source, and the metaphor is latent within the mountain, in all forms. So, the poet is a Blackbird, but critiquing those who seek to this mountain---like those who go up to it to pray---these are not true poets, but will be washed away by time. After a day's worth of thought: It seems the poem is imagery of the mountain. Taking the form as if the mountain were alive and is a person, or living entity. However, I find the mountain itself carries its own meaning, which the poem sought to ascertain. More Thoughts on "Upon a Welsh Mountain" in Verse I find one writer of the skill I desire. One who has better craft than myself. aPhilosophical--- I interpolate Nietzsche with "A Wanderer Above the Fog"; I find meaning in the mountain That it is Satan. I find a perfect metaphor. Yet, what did the author intend---? It is beautiful. The Mountain lives. Has veins, a back; It has a belly. It has a home and halls. Is the mountain a Barron? Intended by its author, The mountain is alive--- It has "Autumn's Veins" It has white hair And it has thistles for body hair upon Its feet and arms and back. The mountain is a man. The wandering of thoughts are interesting--- The chimes. Sometimes the chimes bring true wisdom; Yet is it what the author intends to say? Imprinting onto the poem--- Interpolating: interpreting, It forms into an objective meaning--- There is truth, yet it ought to be patiently pursued With many wrong utterances. For that is freedom. It is not even that the mountain is a mountain But that it exists. It is alive, Life flows to and from its ravines; And that brings me peace. Barddylbach, Alwyn. "Upon a Welsh Mountain." Allpoetry.com, 2019. https://allpoetry.com/poem/14711100-Upon-a-Welsh-Mountain-by-Barddylbach?c=1166423195. 7/25/2021. Web.
Fairyland
A war between Christendom and Paganism Is that text Fairyland. Baal, Athena, Thor, They battle Brittos, Beowulf, Joash. Pagan myths circle the brow And heroes must defeat it Within that very thought. The lustful Greeks, the violent Nords, The inhumane Canaanites; The Manichean Zoroasters, The Materialism of Babylon; Paganism is found in many forms And my heroes must do aught battle with it. For, as Chesterton said, There is one rival to Christianity And that rival is Paganism. The age of the epic is not dead; For religions encompass philosophies And there is only one philosophy Which produces love. All else must be fought with mortal combat And Eternal Rewards dolled out to those Who cling to God like Jacob did the Christophany. For, there is only one God, and he is Jehovah-Jyra
Dear, Alex Jones
Dear, Alex Jones Sincerely, I saw you arguing with my Doppelganger---I've seen him before, with the girl I liked, and I'm not even kidding you with this---and you were pointing out the flaws in my writing. I am sorry that I had never had an editor look at my work. I think it's pretty good for never having anyone look over my work. He had a sissy accent, kind of gay, and it looked like the two of you were arguing over YouTube. It was some new format your show took. Whether this was just a dream, or perhaps it was something that truly happened, I don't know. But the son of a cur looks just like me. But, I know it isn't me. It's something far more nefarious. I call him death. He calls me his brother, I call him my doppelganger. And, he stole from me. I've seen him wonder who Chantz was---which should have been obvious---and he didn't know who Paul Bunyan was. I saw that in my dream, and I immediately knew both of them. The dog in the Happy New Year tiara is Chantz. Which should be obvious, considering Chantz is Beowulf's steed in a number of my works. So, please don't put down the writing. I'm doing the best I can with the resources I have. Though him, he is Satan himself. Death. Abaddon. Who all the Thirteen Kings take the form of. It's why the doppelganger theme is so prevalent in my writing. What he is, I don't know. Probably some beast that spat out of hell. But, the dogs on my book pictures are Miley, Scruffy and Chantz. I love dogs, and they're as much a part of my family as the others. We treat them like children, and I grow very attached to my animals. Even the fish, who I did a few poems of their tank. I have to say you're onto the truth. If you just adjust your thinking away from deliberate conspiracies of the Government, to a sort of culminating corruption compounding itself into these problems, then you'd have your answer. I don't doubt that men like George Soros or Jeff Bezos are scheming to make more money. I don't doubt that certain democrats are scheming to usher in socialism. I also don't doubt that certain Privately Funded Military Groups or Anarchist Groups are attempting to establish enclaves within the United States Borders. There are other things, as well, that I don't doubt. However, Alex, all of them work together by demonic influence. You must understand people are not smart enough to work so efficiently on the large scale. People, when they are demonically inspired, act an behave in manners that produce causal chains of events that the people made unclean by the demons don't understand is happening. It snowballs out of control, until there is at last what looks like an intelligence behind the events. And certainly there is an intelligence behind the events. The chemicals produced in foods are only meant to preserve them, but the evil entities behind them know that they cause cancer. Then, knowing that it produces those results, they begin to be megalomaniacal, and what results is unhappiness. We ought to recognize that. Though, it is not the government doing these things. It is rich men in business suits. And those men are only looking at the bottom line of profits. If ruining the ecosystem or markets are their way to make more money, they will do so. Some democrats are certainly conspiring to usher in a socialist regime. Some Anarchist Groups are trying to create autonomous zones like C.H.A.D.. But, at the end of the day, it all works together to produce the result we know is inevitable. And that is Christ's Second Coming. And if you have faith in Him, it doesn't matter what my doppelganger does, as he's only out for a short time, and will be defeated at the end of the age. I? I am simply the wise man who knows the name of The City of God.
Dear, J. R. R. Tolkien
Dear, J. R. R. Tolkien Did you successfully create an English mythology? I'd say the answer is unequivocally yes. Reading the Poetic Edda---you sly one---I see the inspiration to your mythology. Even where you got the term "Middle Earth." It used to be a strange thought to me, how Middle Earth could exist. Where is Middle Earth? It never occurred to me that our Earth was Middle Earth. My scheme of the cosmos, taught to me from a young age, was always what science taught. I hadn't begun to think that you were operating off of a new cosmology. One which I had tasted in my dreams, where the Earth is Flat and the Ettins live in Jotunheim beneath the Earth in cosmology. The fact that the Poetic Edda seems to imply it, is fascinating to me. However, is Middle Earth flat? Or, is it like our world, a sphere? Because what I know of Middle Earth is that it's not really the Earth, but a continent like Asia. And that Arda lies to the outer bounds, as another continent. And in Arda, that is where the Valar live. How your Valar, like Othin or Thor, live on the Earth. Kind of like as if Asgard were simply another continent. I find influences of Columbus's discovery, a whole new world over to the West, resonating in your writing. I must say, the greats borrow. I borrowed from Hieronymus Bosch and Beowulf, though I didn't intend to. As they were driven into my subconscious by dreams. I know you suffered from the same illness. I'm aware of that. The "Elves" might as well be my "Satan Kings", although yours were benevolent and mine weren't. I wonder if you linked the Elves with the Ettins. That is what my mind would linke them with. In the cosmology I dreamt---independently---there was something like Jotunheim underneath the Earth, and I see reflections of it in literature. The Gethens, created by Ursela K. Le Guin, are something like what I saw in Jotunheim, in my dream. That dream haunts me. So does my Beowulf story. So I understand the cosmology of the Viking's universe. I've been primed to understand it, and I hadn't begun o think that maybe Middle Earth were one of these kinds of things, that the very cosmology was different than our planet. To which, when did Middle Earth's events happen? There is a question. If Eurasia is Middle Earth, and North and South America are Arda, what exactly is the time when The Lord of the Rings took place? Perhaps it exists in the gaps of our time. Perhaps it is another time, existing simultaneously with our own? For in my cosmology---the one built in my mythologies---we exist in blocks of time called "Worlds", and they're separated by Kings---those very Thirteen Kings---who keep everyone within their appropriate block. And when the world ends, they destroy it, yet other worlds exist sideways to that other world. And that is the cosmology of Fairyland. There is Mars, Elysium, Jotunheim, Earth, Hell, Heaven, nd twenty-four planes beneath Jotunheim, that each resembles more like hell the further down you go. It's a compulsory creation, worked out in my imagination from looking at Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Obviously it must have had an impact on me. But, I suffered from the same disease you did. I understand the disease intimately. The subconscious creations of these "Mythologies" overshadows the real world, and we must fight to overcome it. Yet, for you it was World War I, and for me it was my Notorious Youth.
Dear, Joe Rogan
Dear, Joe Rogan I watch a clip of you tearing Christianity apart. You said, "It has no proof." To be honest, it is the only religion that has proof. I will lay out a box of evidence that Christianity is true. The first proof, is the prophecies in the Old Testament. There are direct references to Jesus in hundreds of verses of the Old Testament---some of them the Jews erase from the Bible, or try to reinterpret the meanings. Psalm 22. Psalm 2. Isaiah 53. There are others, but the most compelling evidence is those three chapters. Then, the second proof, is archaeological evidence like the Great Isaiah scroll, which has Isaiah 53 in it, nearly verbatim. It also shows the Bible has been preserved through its translation. There is the Tel Dan Stele which talks of a battle that the Bible described. And it confirms David was a king. There's the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles describes the Sacking of Judah by Babylon. Since evidence is most compelling in threes, I'll stop there. Third set of proof is the miraculous adherence of Christ's disciples to Him. These men died for the faith. It was taught to me that there is a three year period not recorded in history, and that three year period is the time Christ lived and taught. So, between AD and BC there is a three year gap which is when Christ taught. I'm privy to the knowledge that you're deliberately being lied to, and since you're so interested in Conspiracy Theories, the hiding of Christ by powerful men is the conspiracy. But, it is known that Christ's disciples died for Him, and men don't die for something false. They normally surrender the falsehood when faced with death, which is why martyrdom is a mark of Christian Conversion. Fourth, and this is the most compelling evidence of them all, is the Laws Christ set forth. Confucius, Aristotle, Mozi, Lao Tsu, Plato, Maimonides, independently discovered aspects of the truth. Since truths must be confirmed by witnesses, each of these men had discovered different truths---yet each had gotten very specific details wrong. Christ, however, His moral teachings were perfect. No rational man can argue with them. And you, being a martial artist, knows that to fight can sometimes be moral, and Christ even maintained that truth when He said, "I come to bring the sword and not peace." The morals of the Bible are perfect, even the transition between the two covenants. From one covenant truth was obtained through observance of rituals and sacrifice, and since that didn't work, God placed truth on man's heart and allowed him to ascertain truth through the knowledge commonly observed by all men. Yet, what's significant about this is that geniuses, men with IQs higher than yours or mine, have found only glimpses of the truth, and often a lot of chaff. That is the best evidence that Christ is God, that a man who lived---his birth records and death records exist at the Vatican---and died, was homeless, a carpenter's illegitimate son, who was probably so poor he would never afford a book. That man came to knowledge greater than nine of the great sages of history. And He came to it on His own, and there is no reason to doubt it. That is my box of evidence. I have far more, ranging from the arrangements of algebra, the order of the universe, the universality of constructs of thought, the ability for language to be comprehended, the similarities of patterns of behaviors in humans, the efficiency of nature, the symmetry of beauty, the emotions inspired by good, the observance of good and evil, love... But these four