Until We Are
The Art Again
R.S. Pearson
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Telical Books
2011
Telical Books
First Edition
Copyright 2011 R.S. Pearson All Rights Reserved.
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to condense attention until I am the art again
in every way, every social manifestation
starting from all my creative expectation
all my subject matter collapses within and builds
attention upon attention glorious energy
focusing my vision downward
letting the sensation come back homeward
like it did often when were children
to condense attention until I am the art again
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see how far away
beauty can make me feel
let’s see how far I get
if I keep shining in my heart
that beatific feeling more of the time
believing like a celebrity
that a person could always deserve it
believe it’s not that different
than the norm,
it makes one normal
thresholds of always away
from the complaint
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gears that were ceasing by negating
operating now by gentle straight effort
positive smile of reality
experiential state of consciousness
form smiles of the eyes and belly
all blended, every gear is oiled
positive smile face of past
a music follows you like a sister
the intelligence of design
music, an art gallery
seem the only map here
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with the glorious Earth
that gratitude created
we are fire in glory
glorified every moment
when good people need our caring heart
I know that light, the night, and the city
will make my soul blazon
a three-hundred page spiritual novel
with nothing but this kind of thought
the light, the sky, the night’s trees
mixed with a heart that loves God and others
make a soul a holy fire
if thy eye be single
thy body be full of light
a certain attention is the single eye
what would gratitude do?
would carve out a heaven here
would carve out a heaven in every situation
letting spiritual extroversion
take over me
to reduce muscular movements by one-half
will release stress
while a new state born
for the Word and essence to come back
luxuriating ideas felt
no limitations of the good
forward gratitude for futures towards highest days
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opened the dictionary to three different words at random
they were: faith, greatness and obligation
faith to see a blossom grow
the havingness of the common good
out of the daze that is the lack of acceptance
for having what one wants
experiences the havingness
that is the attraction to the common good
the longitude, latitude and logic
where gratitude puts one
better than where gratitude’s lack
a logical conclusion
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poetic glancing at a NYC street
ancient city grime awakening in springtime
the punch is back in the fight
acting from all good hearts
is it good, great, normal, above average
when thoughts are astray
to steer them to something higher?
on Earth,
every method of self-change seems worth it
just never look to those
who don’t use them to great benefit
or to the ones, happily
soiling themselves to death
with drugs or drink
the greasy spoon aesthetic
emotionally, what is in that emotional mind?
sense what it is saying
poetic glances
sense fingers and toes, body symmetry
senses of "I grew up in… "
that sense after four complete deep breaths with some retention
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a state of calm globally felt
heavenly father divine mother sister son
when the music is so sweet
how am I ever going to learn
to map out the staircase it leads me to?
to map these floors above
when thinking of other things
the music learns me to map out
the staircase to floors above
symbolic invisible ladder
upwards above one’s head
yellow chordal structure
envisioning awakening, evolution
how to deal with people
in all the wonderful ways
a way how we can see music
music has to be composed
from some vision
some higher place
on a sturdy structure
higher than what we see
gives me memories
created that day
of life the way I would have it
let that be a landmark
of the first step of the ladder
seeing where the climb leads
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the things that bloom beautiful
are a must not a should
how much do you need
of things going right
for you to say
“this is enough” and “thank you”?
when something is good
and something is gray
do you get lost learning from the gray?
or see the good?
(the little professor and his useless collecting of knowledge)
from a little child
you needed to know how bad things
could be in other lives
to catch love and give it out to others
prayers of “thank you” only
in advance and behind
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so let me know
as into my good roots I grow
that it is a blessing of which they spoke
I will prepare myself for it
letting no group of thoughts
steal it from me
positive emotion and aspiration
believing in now
valuing the state of the present
it is the most crucial thing
stillness in design capacity
visual engaging for immediate success
belief was what brought us
the golden aims of youth
believe in hope,
peace and goodness
so it will be for many to come
and for this my prayers
answered in mighty affirmation
how it was said to pray
believe in hope
the golden aims of youth
belief was what brought us
answered in patient stares
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wiser than the day
not identified with space and time
wiser than the culture
the end of chronocentricity
the flower is the energy
of work on oneself
the flower coming up
sometimes meets with less resistance
not generating its energy
into falseness but instead in pure blossoms
wisdom lays open the present
to accept the energy, pleasure
and wonder
we can have now
sun, stars and sea
blue and gray solar blessing
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beatific optimistic soul aflame
not in time or season
full and splendid air inside arising
sensing, attention on, relaxing
sensing the body, relaxing it by commands
relaxing ten fingers
relaxing ten toes
relaxing elbows to wrists as knees to ankles
relaxing muscles of the mouth
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the first day of escape
is finally admitting to living in prison
to be in the Spirit is to step out
repelled by prison’s pain begins freedom
the Spirit’s Unknown is the opposite of bondage
faith is
to accept the wondrous
the evidence of things not seen
and the opposite of locked-in negative imagination
bondage from being in the commonly known
childlike acceptance of new life
falling out one thousand feet
dropping to the unknown
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careful now with all your successes
you aren't focusing on only what you couldn't do
in superhuman speed
(repeat)
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only a chemical solution
allows his brain freedom
self-generated or from a tablet
a chemical solution of alcohol, caffeine, tobacco
seems to keep many moving
they know their solution is right when
they can feel right about themselves again
all those they cast down in judgement
they mirror in their feelings to cast themselves down
and never stop playing the martyrs' role because
they just don’t understand freedom
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the awakened heart is up
as long as it needs the divine help
for it to blossom
if it accepts and calls out
the awakened heart is, in fact, awake
as long as we need the divine help
for it to blossom
if it hears us call out