Can a man and woman be platonic friends?
The answer is yes, if there is no attraction.
The answer is no, if one or both of them are beautiful.
Age is also a huge factor. If the two are separated by a generation.
But generally, if one of the two are beautiful,
It is reason to be distrustful, should your lover have the beautiful one as a friend.
If both friends are beautiful, just assume the adultery.

However, for the one who truly loves, 
They can be among the Naiads
And Heroes, and still retain their fidelity.
This one is usually obvious;
You have no feeling of distrust;
For in their every deed, they say "I love."

Philosophers be like,

"Do we know anything?
"Do other people exist?
"Is there a Mind and Body?
"Do words have meaning?
"Is there free will?
"Do right and wrong exist?
"Can there be justice?
"Woah, death.
"Is there meaning in life?"

I, a poet, answers all the questions with an emphatic,
"We do,
"Yes,
"Not a real problem,
"Yes,
"Six to one, half the dozen the other,
"Yes,
"Yes,
"I'm pretty enamored by it, too, actually,
"And to love God and others."

The everlasting manchild---
Grown men and women playing with trading cards,
Toys, reading comic books,
Playing video games
Anime, Manga---
It must give way.
Rather, the childish things must be put away.
If you are an adult with an imagination,
Read books. 

And to those who say to the children,
“Read a damn book,” they have yet
To grow up, either.

I

True love doesn't exist
At thirty. There is infatuation.
But, it's the infatuation of two strangers
Having already made their mistakes.
Knowing strangers, having scars
They have separate lives.
There can be no true love.

True love does exist
At sixteen. The ripe age
For falling in love.
The adults, jealous of the truth
Scorn it, for college and careers must come first.
The myth that love comes later in life
Is consolation to those who don't truly understand it.

For, there is no love that hasn't
Grown up together.
Hasn't matured together.
Hasn't roots.
It's why all of our modern notions are wrong
And need to be corrected.

II

Yet, love at thirty,
When there is that spark
Of having just met,
And being known an entire lifetime...
Consider, this you knew in your youth.
Be open to true love
But only in this instance.
And if you find it, do not hesitate.
Now you merge your entire life with theirs.

1. The Sin of Guido

Guido is in hell; for his deception sapped Palestina's walls.
Ulysses and Guido had both purged cities
So deception gained the walls. 
Ulysses Troy and Guido Palestina;
Then they slaughtered and utterly destroyed.
Ulysses used the Trojan Horse;
Guido the Papal Promise.

Yet, Dante, remember who was right in their war.
The Pope wished to unify Europe and end the bloodshed.
So with Ulysses he defended the right of the marriage vow.

Tom, the sluggish Prufrock...
Did he gain his lover through deception? 

2. A Satire on the American Sentence

American poets are slaves to stupid forms; what's wrong with Haikus?

Beatniks created it; I will kill it. I, a rebel poet, too.

My rebellion is form; I defy the generation herefore me.

For when poetry has no chains, only then can it truly be free.

3. The Feuding of the Heroes

I watched the feud of two great cities:
Prometheus stole the thunder, 
And Thalaba prophesied the war.
Prometheus blasphemes like Fucci
In the Circles of hell, being imprisoned
And bears his great grief with patience.

Thalaba, watching Prometheus steal
Jove's thunder, warned of great demise.
Thalaba prophesied blood, and the rain
Of putrid gore, and the oceans turned to blood.
Prometheus threw his lightning,
For he ruled the Earth and all within it.

The two, in great war, flit their powers
So the thunders roared with flashing lightning
And the oceans turned to blood,
While the Earth quaked violently.
The Poets in their prophetic powers
Spoke their curses one toward the other.

I, Thaddeus, watched, trembling in fear.
The war was great, the allies were gathering.
There was the Buck of Rylstone
Who knew the science of the feud, 
And the Mariner with his fleets,
Blown here and there, and everywhere.
Then, there was Prometheus and Ozymandias
Firing their bolts of lightning like the Queen of Hell.
The fleets of the Mariner, and the Stags rid
Into battle; Thalaba, thy wisdom!
Yet, Prometheus said of you
That thou brought shame;
Thou enlarged the fetters of free men!

I, the poor man in his sackloth
Witness the battles of great prophetic might.
The words of curses fire in their heated throws;
I am too frightened to read them.

4. The Only Way Science Could Logically Prove God Does Not Exist

If science said that at the base of everything
Were atoms, and those atoms were immutable
Unable to change, but were consistent, and could not be broken down
Any further. Then, the universe were truly infinite.
If there were not a single bit of choice,
And all things were created by an infinite chain of cause and effect.
If there were no beginning to the universe, and no end.
If there were no true communication; but rather,
Men were limited to only their rational minds'
And its experiences, if energy were created,
If an atom could not be broken down to smaller parts,
If force did not exist in the universe;
By that I mean, all things would be a causal chain
Of matter interacting with matter,
And matter were solid, and not comprised of any void,
If the universe were expanding into empty space
Which existed for eternity.

However, none of these assumptions are proven true.
Rather, just the opposite I'm being told.
Therefore, I can logically presume God exists.

How I rationalize it to my God
Is He's the best one of the lot of them.

5. Hitchens

It's true that a moral statement
Could not be made by a Christian
That couldn't be made by an Atheist.
That's because morality is self-evident.
God exists to pardon us, when we haven't 
Fully committed ourselves
To what we already knew inherently.
And if we decide not to accept His pardon
He exists to bring upon men the recompense 
Of their own ill will.

6. Pocahontas

How can we even know the truth?
If history is deliberately lied about
And written accounts are ignored...
And oral stories are more weighty
Giving justice to the Jamestown Massacre...

Let's look at the facts.
Pocahontas and John Smith were very good friends.
Given the rivalry between the Pilgrims and Powhatans
It's more than likely Pocahontas saved John Smith's life.
It's almost entirely fabricated that Pocahontas was kidnapped
And her dying in England---and I'm not sure she did at this point
Because the historical details never remain the same---
Is license for the Natives to slaughter 300 innocent people?
The Powhatans were cannibals
As was true for almost all Americans both Northern and Southern Natives;
And Pocahontas kept the peace between the two factions.

Given these factual details,
It's almost certain the modern story being taught is a fabrication
Of revisionist historians, and the actual truth
Has been lost if not outright and deliberately destroyed.

This is what happens when you mix politics and history.
When I studied this in 2020, I saw what seemed more truthful.
That Pocahontas saved John Smith's life by laying her head in his lap,
That the two had a sort of paternal relationship---as ten year old girls recognize kindness in a man---
That Pocahontas likely wasn't kidnapped, which likely did not lead to the Jamestown Massacre...
It may be true that Pocahontas got smallpox or fever in London
But that's not the settler's fault.
That is simply nature.
Furthermore, it's almost 100% unlikely that Pocahontas was the reason for Jamestown's Massacre.
As John Rolfe, her husband, and the Shaman Tomocomo accompanied her to England.

7. My Righteousness

I have tried to do what's right
And I only do what's wrong.
At my best, with every bit of my heart
Given to the task, my righteousness
Is like a filthy cloth plugged
Into a menstruous woman.
I can do no good. Only God can.

8. Logos; A Tanka

That which is. Language,
It is what was said. In math
It is what's measured.
In law, it is what truly
Increases peace and pleasure.

9. The Communist

The Communist

In a flourishing capitalistic country
One sees the milk flowing in the streets;
One sees the honey dripping from the sidewalks;
One sees the pancakes on every street corner.
One sees free napkins, free utensils
Abundant waters in the deserts,
Lush forests, clean water,
Sterile hospitals.
They think to themselves,
“Why not share this wealth with the world?
“For, I go here, and there, and I have abundantly;
“Why does the rest of the world suffer?
“Why, do I, having this affluence, still suffer?”

Thus, mistaking the abundance
Like it were freely created energy;
Materialized atoms from magic,
They wish to disperse this to everyone.
And in doing so, a man's work is stolen from him.
Thus, the motivation for producing such wealth
Is abolished, and outlawed; Property, work, pleasure...
It belongs to all, even those who haven't labored for it.

Thus, mistaking this abundance---
As a child I was wasteful, and thought the abundance was 
Free, and would last to eternity...---
They believe they can materialize it for the world.
Yet, they forget that it is labor which creates it...
Thus, a man's labor supports him
And it is a man's property that gives him satisfaction.
But the communist wishes to abolish property,
Therefore, all incentive to work;
Therefore, none work as hard as they could.
It is work which produces from materials
The surplus we enjoy. And when work is outlawed
Because property is outlawed;
And a man is forbidden to work on his own home,
It happens that workers are sluggish, or work is outlawed.
Thus, stipends become more numerous,
And the supplies which the stipends purchase
Become less available.
To wit, men live in squalor.
This is more miserable than the most lavish poor
In our Capitalism. For the poor are well fed
In America. 
The only thing America must do, 
Is to not hinder the poor from finding meaningful labor. 

10. It Would Be A Sin

God, to me,
Must exist.
For without Him
All would be immoral.

It would be a sin
If God would not
Judge... A Sin
If there were no
Heaven or Hell.

In short, 
It would be a sin
If God did not 
Exist.

For, who would then
Recompense suffering?

11. Save Yourself and Us

The impenitent thief said
"Save yourself and us."
Meaning he was not guilty of theft.
Why would a thief say, "Save me"
If he rightly hung upon the cross?
This is something to warn a generation of vipers.

12. 1561

Crosses and Crescents fight on the sun
Like Foo Fighters; oh, the bloody thing they foretell.
The compass points to the West,
And St. Paul's Cathedral is smitten with lightning.
Paul's letters had contrived division
In the Church; thus, the crosses do battle.
Both fall smoldering to the Earth.
For, this division will bring doubt to the world again.

1/21/22

13. The Nephilim

From Jotunheim came the circular shed
Which flies here, there, in the communist wasteland.
She arrives on the shores of the rising sun.
A phantom, a nonentity,
Technically not existing,
She lands, with her beauty.
The wise Shaman recognizes
Her as strange, so places her back in her shed
And she drifts back to see
Never to be seen again. 

14. Without Faith

Without faith
All there'd be is delusion.

15. The Demon of Reason?

The demonic is contra reason;
Yet, TEd's Barney affirms the miraculous.
It is conscious that the Miraculous exists.
Where do you get that image?
I wonder.

The Demon of Reason makes there be no defined
Male or Female gender.
The Demon of Reason makes there be lockdowns
For a virus.
The Demon of Reason believes Homosexuality
Does not hurt anyone.
The Demon of Reason believes poetry
Is subjective.
The Demon of Reason calls math
Racist.
The Demon of Reason says Syllogism
Is illogical.
The Demon of Reason contradicts
Himself, when he himself is based off of a demon.

As you can see, the Demon of Reason
Is not reason at all;
It is the whim of tyrants
And the false reality they wish to enforce.

So a germ was discovered?
Are we not forbade from living life
Because of fear?
If one believed in heaven or hell
They'd have no fear.

The Demon of Reason erases miracles from history.
Hannibal's army, their shields sweat blood while the sun grew black as pitch when in battle with Rome.
The rivers ran like blood after the sacrifice of four virgins, which then the General retrieved Feritrius, by which he turned toward the East and prayed to God.
Xerxes had a dream to conquer, which he dismissed, and thus, his kingdom was stolen.
The crosses did battle over the sun.
Even the Demon of Reason itself, is a real demon.

16. The Kid

The Kid said, "Whoever's ashamed of the Gospel
"That same person God will be ashamed of."
How hard was that to understand?
Yet the pious affluence of the nineties
Comfortable, and wealthy, and lacking nothing...
Thirty years later, that mocking has grown louder
And the world has grown cold.

17.

I would rather live poor,
Out on the streets
Than lose God.

18. Why I Am not Sikh

I

I am not Sikh
Because, while all of its values are true,
There is a season for war.
There is a place for evil.
There is a place for suffering.

If a nation will oppress you, you must kill it.
If a man is evil, he deserves evil to be done to him.
Suffering can be a call to repentance, and bettering one's own moral character.

And if all those things we hold in common,
Then the last thing I will say is that I am a sinner,
And I, just like you, need Jesus' forgiveness.

II

Also, I cannot believe all paths lead to God.
Many paths are outright immoral.
Islam teaches men to lie,
Buddhism teaches men to suffer,
Hinduism teaches men are inherently superior or inferior,
Shintoism and Zoroastrianism say Evil and Good are both gods, and each are strong as the other.
Paganism believes all the gods are at war, and are never in agreement.
Christian Cults usually view life as bad, and will prescribe unnecessary rules,
Judaism is too hard to ever follow, and its laws will bring every man to condemnation; as it ought,
Atheism and Agnosticism are just wrong; I've seen too many miraculous things to believe God does not exist,
Most Cults like the Semitic cults or Egyptian cults preach things contrary to good---in fact, they tell one outright to do evil---
None of these paths seem noble enough to lead to God.
Rather, Christ, He seems the only credible God to have ever spoken,
And as a man in history, we know He spoke.
I find it the only moral way God could reveal Himself to the world,
If God exists---and God does exist.
Therefore, men will be without question as to what is demanded from them.
All religions of the world do not have Jesus
Or the forgiveness of the cross.

19. Divide by Zero

One divided by Zero is infinity,
Because it is broken up into infinite parts
In order for it to divide into nothing.

20. Redeeming Love

Erin looks like Abigail Cowen---
There she is, sexualized for Adult Christian fashion.
Humping, spitting out jiz.
The fetishizing of the Red Haired woman;
It was my thing. I did it first.
But Christian Hollywood stole it from me.

I would never call myself a Christian writer.
A Christian.
A Writer.
But I'm not writing Christian fiction.
It's like smoking outside of a church
When you spit jiz on camera
And call it a "Christian Movie."
Or a Preacher who drops the F Bomb
During mass.
It's irreverent.

Do not take the plough and look back.
At church, or handling holy things,
You don't take a dump, do you?
You dig a pit outside the camp.
If you dream and spritz,
You wash your clothes and are unclean for a day.
You don't go into battle, you keep yourself set apart
From others, for there is uncleanliness in you.
You don't mix leaven in with the sacrifice.
In short, when you are devoting something
To God, you don't mix sin into it.

The Doobie Brothers did "Jesus is Just Alright With Me"
We don't call them Gospel.
"About Time" mentions Jesus as LORD.
We don't air it on PureFlix.
Tolstoy created the most convincing argument for God's existence.
We don't laude him as a Theologian.

Understand there is a time and place for everything.
I'm sure "Redeeming Love" is a good movie.
It just ought not be a "Christian Movie."

21. Christopher Hitchens

The first and second commandments
Are the most important.
For, only the God of the Bible has the true morality.
Only He can have the true morality.
Therefore, one must worship Him.
We do not take the Name of the LORD in Vain...
Either in Anger, or in Deception.
In anger, because one must have reverence.
In deception, because one must not deceive others, by claiming to speak for God if God had not spoken.
The Sabbath is made for economics, and it means one must rest in God's work.
If there is no rest, there can be no joy.
One must honor their father and mother---for we see in China that this works
And we see in Asian societies that this brings wealth and fortune. It works.
Thou shalt not kill---save in war. For, if men didn't fight wars, the Nazis would be in control right now. And the Canaanites were far worse than Nazis.
Thou shalt not commit adultery, because sex is the most powerful force in the universe. It creates life; and when we assume that life is unwanted, that is the most unhappy circumstance. That force ought to be wielded like it could kill.
Thou shalt not steal. So you think this is self evident? While thousands of militants believe theft is moral? It's here, Mr. Hitchens. What did your standard produce? Complete anarchy. And communist societies made it legal to steal---they forbid property to be held, and say the State owns it. Legal theft. So you're wrong, Chris.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor---for this would create the most insidious harm if men, in a custom of law, were given no penalty for perjury.
Coveting is the root of all other sin.

The danger is when we do not obey God's commandments. For when we don't, misery appears on the Earth.
For as adultery runs rampant today, no one can find love.

And your ten commandments are so shitty, that they're being practiced today to a T
And all there is, is a backslide of civilization into unrelenting madness.

22. Awakened Sadness

He parrots wisdom
From some two thousand sages,
Yet he learned nothing.
What a vain thing philosophy can be.

The hypocrite has many words.

23. I Agree with Sam Harris

I agree with Sam that morals can be scientifically explained.
Just, from everything I know about those morals,
It will mirror precisely what the Bible had already said.
And because of that, I believe in the God of the Bible.

24. American Beauty

The Russian Orthodox chaunts are beautiful.
But, it was said, "America has nothing comparable."
I disagree. American Blue Grass Gospel and the Slave Hymns
Are, to my ears, just as beautiful.

25. Logos in Pentameter

There is an order to the universe.
We see it in axioms of algebra.
We see it in Moral Philosophy.
We see the logic of all algebra
Predicts real world objects and physics.
We see in the Object of ideas
That they can be perfectly understood.
We see Christ's Law does create happier
And freer States, where all humans flourish.

26. The Snake-ape

Audiences love it.
Is it an ape? Is it a snake?
No one knows.
Is it a metaphor about man?
Or, is it simply a fiction without a metaphor?

The flying snake-monkey becomes a god.
It despises man---
Is it truly conscious of its own potential?

Had I written the story,
The snake-ape would be a metaphor
About man's progression.
How science made him into a "God".
And subsequently the vanity of it;
The pretension---as any thing which calls itself a god
Is pretentious, and must be pretentious.
The snake-ape would first start in the wilderness,
And evolve into a creature which could fashion instruments
That give it flight; power over fire.
Instead, the snake-ape becomes wiser than man?
It becomes a metaphor about ancient traditions
Needing to be accepted by man
So they are not consumed with science?

I'm sorry, but I don't worship a snake-ape.
Those who do, had eaten the hearts of mankind.
So, one puts forth an utterly foul interpretation for god
And preaches to me how we need it?
Rather, I'd want men to be atheists
So they could at least discover that there is good
With the precise measurements of scientific instruments.
Then, at least, we could better compare what we've discovered
And see it matches up with one particular God
Of a people so small, so minute, yet given the mysteries of the moral universe.

For, men will ultimately discover there is need for law;
They might even go so far as to purge all unlawfulness by pogrom.
Yet, it's Christ and His mercy. That is what man need attain
So he can be truly happy.

27. Some Evidence for Jesus

Why would Abraham want to sacrifice Isaac, if not a picture that God would provide a sacrificial lamb?

Why would Leviticus condone human sacrifice in Leviticus 27:29, when such sacrifice is unlawful? Except in the context that it meant One Devoted to God? That Being Immanuel?

Why would Nehemiah tell the people to eat fat? From what I understand that's unlawful. Unless, it was to establish that the Jews were in waiting for a New Covenant?

Why would Abraham be told, "Your Seed shall bless all nations?" Who is that Seed? Jacob didn't bless all nations. Rather, it seems quite clear that by Jacob, all the nations of the world were condemned to die.

Why wouldn't "Almah" or "Maid" mean "Virgin"? Don't some words have two meanings? And if they do, wouldn't it make sense that a Virgin give birth to the promised Hier, whose coming would destroy Assyria? Rather than a harlot? I've heard it said that the woman was a harlot, but then that's only if you don't interpret the word "Almah" as "Virgin".

What is the "Newly Created Thing" referred to twice in Isaiah? Why does it tell you to forget the old?

Who's Soul is to be made an offering for our sins? 

Who was "pierced for our transgressions?"

Why must we kiss the Pure, the One Begotten by God? My Bible says "Son", but you translate "Bar" as "Pure". So, obviously it makes more sense that the word be translated as "Son". Because a "Son" is Begotten.

Why are there two everlasting covenants? Why did Jeremiah proclaim a new covenant?

Why did Ezekiel say "Arise" to dry bones? If there is not a resurrection?

Why did Zechariah name Jesus as the Messiah twice? As, Uzziah tried to reign as both priest and king, and was stricken with Leprosy. Why is "Joshua" in this instance, allowed to reign as both priest and king?

Why did Job want a mediator between him and God?

Why did Xerxes receive a dream that sounds like God's voice in Herodotus?

Why did the conquering of the Aztecs look exactly like the Prophetic campaign of Joshua? Why did at the same miracles occur? Five hundred Conquistadors would defeat armies upward of five to one hundred thousand without any aid. Plagues descended which did not touch the Conquistadors or most of their armies?

If the Aztec used inferior weapons, and that's why they were severely beaten, why did La Triste Noche happen? 

Why, in 1561 in Nuremberg, did two crosses do battle over the eye of the sun, and St. Paul's Cathedral was struck with lightning?

Why is there a picture of the Dragon from Revelation on a Hindu Temple, and why does it look like an alien?

How did Milton predict Atomic Bombs and the movement of the Universe, and also predict Postmodernism?

Why does Orion have a sling and look like David? 

Why is there a giant figure---looks like a five year old's drawing---that raises up on the horizon in the direction of Orion's sling? 

Why is there a triangle in the summer, called the Summer Triangle, and there's an arrow at the one point of the triangle, and it points to a cross at the other?  

Why is the North Star very dim, when it used to be taught that it was one of the brightest in the Nighttime sky?

Why does Cassiopeia look like a woman giving birth?

Why is there only infinity existing in vacuum?

Why does math work, and prove itself in the real world, even out to the most obscure equations?

Why are we able to communicate?

Why do all of the greatest sages in history come to ideas similar to that of the Bible's?

Why do poets like Virgil and Lucretius find truths, logically prove them, and those truths are what the Bible had said? 

Why is faith called the "Evidence of things unseen, and the substance of things hoped for."? 

Why did the Hundred Years War and Black Plague follow a time period where a Pope was martyred, and Homosexuality was normal?

Why is Christ's law in Matthew 5 - 8 so self evident, if He is not God Come in the Flesh?

Why is Isaiah 53 in the Dead Sea Scrolls? 

Why doesn't the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles prove Judah was a principality prior to Babylonian Captivity? 

Why does the Tel Dan Stele give verbatim the most obscure Biblical detail, and it gets it right? 

How does a feather evolve over even a trillion years?

Can a frog turn into a toad, unless God made it so?

Why did the Hammurabi's code get established right where the Biblical Genealogies date Abraham?
  
Why did Hebrews worshipped God's Son before Christ?

Why were El and El's Son worshipped in Mesopotamia at the time of Hammurabi's Code?

Why does Moses line up with the cult of Aten in the Biblical Geneologies?

If God were real, why wouldn't He reveal Himself?

Why are there miraculous events described in Roman and Greek Historians which directly correspond to places where God would work? Such as Hannibal's invasion of Rome the sun blackened and the shields sweat blood, or the Sacrifice of virgins turning rivers to blood and made a moondog? Are we to believe that didn't happen?

Why did George Floyd's monument get destroyed by lightning?

Why does the complete History as given by Ancient Astronaut Theorists sound like it was describing demons instead of aliens?

Why are there so many myths and stories that resemble one another?

Why does every civilization, on every continent, have a mythology about a global flood?'

If all things are vibrations, and Word is a vibration of air, and Jesus is the Word Who holds all things together,---what, exactly, can science do except prove that Jesus is the Word?

Why would aliens demand human sacrifice, if they were not demons instead?

Who would ultimately hold mankind responsible for all the suffering it created, if God did not exist?

How could a man ever be forgiven without Christ? If sin must be punished, how else could a man escape Judgment unless that punishment were placed on Immanuel?

Will you make the decision to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, and will you repent of ALL sin.

28. Hugo de Masci

It means,
"The Bright Mind of a Servant 
"Who is a Master Craftsman."
I'm afraid it is not the name
Of the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
It is an epithet of the author
Who is humbly proclaiming what he is.

29. 1566

In Basel, the Black Globus flew
Over the earth, and crashed and burned.
Why? To warn we Christian Men and Women
Not to divide ourselves into Protestant and Catholic.
For if we did, the world would crash and burn.

30. Statues

Lady Liberty is not the tallest statue.
In oppressive regimes, they make them tall.
China, Myanmar,---India has one.
What does it mean?
French artisans made Lady Liberty
To spit in the face of tyrants.
All other statues of the world
Were created by their governments.
Ours, was a gift given to us.
We did not erect it out of hubris.
We were gifted it because we are free.
It was not the gift of one government to another.
It was the gift of oppressed men,
To memorialize our freedom.
Let us remember this.
The height of the statue makes no difference.
Rather, by whom was it bestowed?
Is it a symbol of oppression?
Iron being stolen from the poor?
Or is it an act of love given by oppressed men
As a monument of freedom?

31. Stolen Art

Someone stole her art---
With the look I gave
That day I was out for blood;
There I am, with Vin Diesel,
Graham Wardle, and Taylor Lautner.
There I am, with an evil eye
And she prophesies I a poet.
She makes me Apollo.
I the patron of her art,
See in her wisdom that we,
Brother and sister, stand nigh
One another, nearly touching hands.
Forbidden love---all of us are distant.
I saw the beautiful woman
Who made her art,
And she who fashioned the crown---
In two profiles, a melding of many a muse---
Of Athena. Yet, this one, she is unique.
She is beautiful---and I had stolen 
A scene in her art?
I know the day, the exact day.
I did not see her.
But she saw me.

32. Love at Thirty

I

True love doesn't exist
At thirty. There is infatuation.
But, it's the infatuation of two strangers
Having already made their mistakes.
Knowing strangers, having scars
They have separate lives.
There can be no true love.

True love does exist
At sixteen. The ripe age
For falling in love.
The adults, jealous of the truth
Scorn it, for college and careers must come first.
The myth that love comes later in life
Is consolation to those who don't truly understand it.

For, there is no love that hasn't
Grown up together.
Hasn't matured together.
Hasn't roots.
It's why all of our modern notions are wrong
And need to be corrected.

II

Yet, love at thirty,
When there is that spark
Of having just met,
And being known an entire lifetime...
Consider, this you knew in your youth.
Be open to true love
But only in this instance.
And if you find it, do not hesitate.
Now you merge your entire life with theirs.

33. Geekdom

The everlasting manchild---
Grown men and women playing with trading cards,
Toys, reading comic books,
Playing video games
Anime, Manga---
It must give way.
Rather, the childish things must be put away.
If you are an adult with an imagination,
Read books. 

34. The Rose

I came upon a rose,
Whom---I thought boasting of her thistles,---
I asked, "Why boast thou of thine thistles?"
Then, seeing the rose had said,
"I had once thistles,
"Yet the love of my own soul
"Has shed them for the sake of those I loved,"
I realized the Rose was not boasting in her pride.

35. The Laws of Attraction

Can a man and woman be platonic friends?
The answer is yes, if there is no attraction.
The answer is no, if one or both of them are beautiful.
Age is also a huge factor. If the two are separated by a generation.
But generally, if one of the two are beautiful,
It is reason to be distrustful, should your lover have the beautiful one as a friend.
If both friends are beautiful, just assume the adultery.

However, for the one who truly loves, 
They can be among the Naiads
And Heroes, and still retain their fidelity.
This one is usually obvious;
You have no feeling of distrust;
For in their every deed, they say "I love."

36. Why I Ain't a Philosopher

Philosophers be like,

"Do we know anything?
"Do other people exist?
"Is there a Mind and Body?
"Do words have meaning?
"Is there free will?
"Do right and wrong exist?
"Can there be justice?
"Woah, death.
"Is there meaning in life?"

I, a poet, answers all the questions with an emphatic,
"We do,
"Yes,
"Not a real problem,
"Yes,
"Six to one, half the dozen the other,
"Yes,
"Yes,
"I'm pretty enamored by it, too, actually,
"And to love God and others."

37. The Materialist and I

To the materialist,
Life is yet a battery
Where nerves are its acid;
It evolves over eons
Through a mutating gene's luck.
The Frog evolves a uterus; becomes the Toad.
Materials collide with materials---for eternity,---
Minds, matter, breath.

To I, life is Force.
And it is a wonder.
We exist only as Breath;
Our Mind, Heart, Soul,
Hormones, ligaments,
Glands and nerves;
They are only a part of us when we have life...
It is our Spirit---God breathed into Adam,