To Jo Anne on July 22, 2009 Our 20 th Anniversary By Teak Kilmer When I am with you, I am When I am not with you I think of you and I am I see you in the garden my heart lifts. I am happy for you you tend and weed me too I rub you when you hurt make dinners; remove the trash even when I am scarcely present because these and more are due you no matter the wage A thought of you propels me I am with you and I am
Spiritual Etymology by Teak Kilmer Pythagoras discovered God through the amazing orderliness of the Universe proven in mathematics. An early proof for me is what lies hidden in language . One day I discovered (without cover, to reveal) the true essence of the word Universe (see description below) and thus began my quest to explore word origins and my elation at their once intended wonder. Note how the ancients viewed the world, how spiritually they experienced it, how much more forgiving and beautiful their experience and how we have reduced the concepts of our religious and spiritual terms, made blessings into mundane and even sometimes punitive, fear, guilt-ridden and controlling concepts. One of these concepts is the concept of dogma. One day, I looked at the word dogma , and it seemed to be struggling to get my attention. I had never had this happen before. I looked at the word carefully and diligently, ...
Why Frogs? By Teak Kilmer August 3 rd 2002 Frogs don’t fly, don’t sing, don’t do much of anything ... except to croak and peep and when scared, they leap sit on fronds on lilly ponds but frogs don’t fly, don’t sing don’t do much of anything ... save grow their webby toes sidelong snare yucky bugs with their tongue-tongs that are longer than most drinking songs and other frogs of whom they’re fond to they’ll snuggle-up and bond ... but frogs don’t fly, don’t sing don’t do much of anything... except do frog kicks to exercise deep in water, then they rise in purple, green and red some are even blonde it’s said but frogs don’t fly, don’t sing don’t do much of anything ... yet pose on covers of greeting cards for which on my visa I may charge and hereon write poems like this and wish you oodles of birthday bliss HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mabel ...
Oh my you do have a way with words Mr. Kilmer.
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