Arlene Corwin Poetry

The Pleasant Difference ‘Tween The Spiritual & Scriptural #2

How to say this briefly:

How to find words for the inexpressible.

They exist.

Here is the gist:

Components – churches, sects, cults,creeds:

The claim of being chosen.

Inner spirit doesn’t need a system woven

Into scripture claiming knowing

What is best for all.

One wherein if you’re good you rise

And if you’re bad you fall.

The faith-based places emphases

On unity of life within the mixture of belief;

Consensus, peace and joy, and getting these;

Transcendent over time and space,

The sense that you are face to face

With truth above reality,

Its indescribability.

Not impossible to voice

With Love that comes, fear that goes!

Erotic, no, more loving kindness big & small,

Universal, if you will.

Permeating, calibrating,

Affixing to an All that’s spirit: all in all.

Practices to help along:

Meditation, psilocybin, prayer and song.

The non– theistic preference

Needs to be demystified,

With road for genius or dunce.

Not piety, religion, magic, paganism, or god-based;

Theological or physical,

But meta-, deeply meaningful,

Yes mystical:

The core of all.

^{The Pleasant Difference ‘Tween The Spiritual & The Scriptural 4.4.2017}

^{To The Child Mystic II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Nature Of & In Reality;}

^{Arlene Corwin}