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Nov 21, 2020

Continuing the conversation through time

On the need of the writer to expand beyond the point of view of the individual. — Getting on with the work we’ve come here to do means giving up our claim to it. …

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Continuing the conversation through time
Continuing the conversation through time

Published in The POM

·Sep 22, 2020

Impatience

Impatience is the greatest sin, I’ve heard — or the only. Either way, I’m guilty. How long does it take for one’s voice to mature? For life force to find steady current, wisdom to become solid enough to build a life upon it? My ideas are all pallor, no design or momentum. I think of my friends from college, brilliant minds, seeds of genius. But aren’t…

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Impatience
Impatience

Sep 22, 2020

As the Soul

I It’s always been easier to be intimate with myself — if intimate means honest, alone. To be alone with another is rare, unique in the imperfect clarity of two minds, opened bare — too often all the details of the world seeping in. . . …

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As the Soul
As the Soul

Published in ILLUMINATION

·May 27, 2020

The Next World

a poem… about the path our generation must… —

Poetry

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The Next World
The Next World

May 26, 2020

Saved

a poem… about returning to what you love

Poetry

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Saved
Saved

May 23, 2020

Catching Up

a poem… on the soul and age

Poetry

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Catching Up
Catching Up

May 23, 2020

Process

If I should lose faith in the message that lies like untapped ore or oil deep in bedrock of the life beneath my life, fine. But let me not give up my trust in the creative act, that restores as it opens the inlets to the heart’s flood of longing, whose currents connect with other rivulets of Intelligence — some vast, mysterious network. Let me not lose faith in this, which justifies every being’s attempt to let in, to let out the voice that wishes to bring them back into the commonality that seems all but lost, yet works through our individuality, to bring greater diversity, aliveness, knowledge, back to the center of orbit, which we are all trying to return to.

Poetry

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Process
Process

May 22, 2020

Proof

a poem… on yielding to the call

Poetry

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Proof
Proof

May 22, 2020

Paradox

How much time it seems I’ve wasted, trying to explain to people in their criticism what I knew but could not yet understand. But haven’t they, too, taught me of the very thing they denied, as I grappled with the paradox that the simplest things I tried to make fit cannot be contained? ~ 2015

Poetry

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Paradox
Paradox

May 20, 2020

The Poem is the Love for God

a poem… on joining with life’s communication

Poetry

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The Poem is the Love for God
The Poem is the Love for God
Cole Porto

Cole Porto

Poet, writer and emerging evolutionary catalyst. Blog: notes.coleporto.com

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