http://www.scotherrigel.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:20:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Judge only the judgmental. http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=665 Asteroid, Asteroid, Asteroid Man Flying through the cosmic spaces All fire and raw-edged implacability, Impervious to the railroad Elliptical conformities that befall The lesser bodies. Asteroid, Asteroid, Asteroid Man, Self-directed, Iron-willed, A shooting star is a joy to see: Comet tailed silver slicing like a scimitar Through fixed celestial geometries. Asteroid, Asteroid, Asteroid Man When I heard of the catastrophe ... http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=663 An atheist is just an existentialist with no style or artfulness. http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=652 Those who seek to make crooked trees straight end up with broken, dead or destructive things:  faith in life is of far greater importance than faith in dogma. http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=650 The dimensions of unconsciousness are much larger than those of consciousness. http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=649 Ragged clothes adorn the frame That hunches over the cane, propped Like a mass for which there is no longer use. A crown at his feet is slandered with mud And his contorted visage and dark eyes Seem like the firsthand account of travesty and travail Imparted as if by a mythical bard on the aged ... http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=646 There has been a significant amount of discussion lately concerning the proposed Islamic Center which is to be built two blocks from Ground Zero. The issue of its construction has sparked a conflagration of oppositionist sentiment. The argument against it seems to be based mainly on the notion that ... http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=638 There is a horror – it’s alive - Concealed behind all knowing eyes – A tiger stalking in the trees, A jungle prowler stealthily Emitting low toned growls that are Like visions from the dark afar, Like winds that carry in their hands The riches mined from hellish lands – A predator that knows the art Of menacing the ... http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=632 ? Lawn mower mowing Across the Street Instruments! Instruments! Instruments! Doings A man at the helm, A man at the man; What causes? What moves? What drives? Women live in my head: Distillations, essences, Prismatic Projections, Charms that will Like a sun The ocean’s mighty pulse. Where is the intersection Of spirit and matter? How did we, as humans, Climb out of the dross? What is this hubris Of ego and Free will? Why ... http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=616 What was it that propelled My ancestors To Drive, Drive Their wind drawn chariots Across the deep, blue violent chasm, The storm hungry sea? What caused the flocks Of humans to fly In great migrating droves: Wave after wave of egoistic Flesh falling like promethean comets On these American shores What was it but the desire, A personally distilled impersonality, To improve – The selfishness ... http://www.scotherrigel.com/?p=606