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Jack Stanza. Mystical poetry and why the ‘i’ must die.
POETRY - BROKEN (CONCRETE) REALITY - PART ONE
Jack Stanza’s title ‘Democrises’ is a collection of poetry and prose about political resistance. It was first published by the underground publisher imprint ‘Shadow Editions’, by Montag & Faber.
RESISTANCE - SOLIDS AND FLUIDS
Shula - ‘Standing on the Shoreline’ a poem inspired by Audre Lorde and then the prose of political resistance, in Solids and Fluids.
POETRY - GRIEF
Grief - a poem by Geoff Hall, for those who have loved and lost and need a channel for their grief. #funerals #lossofafriend
POETRY - LIKE THE MOON
Mystical Poetry: ‘Like the Moon’. The silence and isolation of the poet.
SHULA - MYSTICAL SPIRITUALITY - ‘THE OPPOSITE OF TRUTH’
Shula - Poetry. The Opposite of Truth. Shula tells us that true freedom cannot be gained in the System’s classifications of race, status and gender. #mysticalpoetry #systemfailure
THE ONE THING
Poetry, by Geoff Hall - Find the One Thing you are meant to do and then do it. Deconstruction may not be the best path to follow, out of your slavery to unconscious orthodoxy.
POETRY - LOVE UNDERCOVER
To end our month of Shula’s poetry we bring you - Love Undercover: “This was all a matter of getting to know one another; through the twists and turns of being in the public eye. I went from being ‘Sexy Shula has a Jack on Ice’ to ‘Shula: Princess Predator’.”
POETRY - NAKED NOW
Shula writes in her poem ‘Naked Now’ - (This is sensual, this is spiritual and when there’s no difference between the two, you have quietened the ego-mind and allowed the heart, time to be).
I SLEPT WITH KAFKA’S GHOST
Shula waxes poetical about her life with Jack and the birth of their son, Nic Ticorax (Strix). Jack to her is like Kafka’s ghost. The politics of control lead to the mass descent into compliance.
POETRY - A WISE WOMAN SAID
Shula’s poem, A Wise Woman Said, gives a nod to Joy Harjo. She tells us that she is like the Tree of Life and shuns black and white perspectives.
POETRY - THOUGHTS AFTER A FUNERAL
Geoff Hall - A poem for funerals called ‘Thoughts After a Funeral’, with all the emotions of loss and thankfulness.
un diablo roto llamado Marx (abridged)
Jack Stanza - Marx is a broken devil, whose words of hate offer us nothing but destruction.
BLUE REVOLT (PART TWO)
The Blue Revolt, part two. Ends with a poem by Shula, called ‘In the End’. Jack at his acerbic best and Shula at her most mystical, when she writes about human origins and the death of the ‘I’.
WRITING - BLUE OCTOBER
This month we are celebrating freedom, with Blue October, a time to rethink our allegiances to the ideologies of State. Written by Jack Stanza.
SIGNIFICANCE
We all want our lives to count for something. We would love to have PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE. How does the ‘toxic’ poet, Jack Stanza, find his.
NEWS - GEOFF’S RECOMMENDED READING - (SEPTEMBER)
Awakened Cosmos by David Hinton recommended reading for September. Taoist/Ch’an Poetry and Meditation
NEWS - GEOFF’S RECOMMENDED READING (AUGUST)
Book recommendation for August: Joy Harjo’s ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’.
NEWS - GEOFF’S RECOMMENDED READING (JULY)
PBS’s The Story of China documentary. Out of which came my love for Chinese poetry and in particular, Tu Fu. Read David Hinton’s celebrated book on the great poet.
TIME. ETERNITY. BEING. MANIFESTATION. (part two)
Poetry. By Shula, on Time, Eternity, Being, Manifestation, and breaking the cycle of disorder and unconsciousness.