Soul

Peter on February 24th, 2011

It is through our perception of this realm of manifestation
And our will to reason about all we perceive
That we learn to believe in opposites.

Beauty & Ugliness
Love & Hatred
Good & Evil

Only words.
Only names for the unnameable.
The concepts they speak of,
Only manifestations of the eternally real.

By believing these words speak the final truth
We make their manifestations real.

We [...]

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Peter on October 8th, 2010

When our heart is broken
Or our soul walled off
First a smile
Then a laugh

These are the steps
Through which we rediscover
The step that is love
The healing step
The step which walks through walls

First a smile
Then a laugh
These steps are the healer’s first business

(for Anna)

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Peter on April 10th, 2009

Summers in New Hampshire provide a teenager with blissfully warm weather and an abundance of distractions from the boredom that seems to accompany the day-to-day existence of the young.
There were the streams in which I’d fish for trout, and the marinas filled with pickerel, and Weirs Beach with its small mouth bass. My [...]

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