Our Television Brain and Near-Death Experiences
© Surazeus
2012 04 30

This is my response to the discussion about Near-Death Experiences between Mario Beauregard and PZ Myers. I tend toward believing the functions of our brain are based on the material world, and that mechanical explanations can e… Read full post »

Blue Bic Pen-Cap
© Surazeus
2012 04 30

The following poem I wrote
based on the standard form
of the Psalm of the American Modernist
Secular Self-Help Confessionalist Religion
of the Twentieth Century established
by the Prophet Robert Lowell, my cousin,
fellow descendant of Anne Bradstreet.

Observati… Read full post »

Red-Brick Road Of Amen
© Surazeus
2012 04 28

Water trickles in endless flow of light
splashing in old fountain in city park
where Chattahoochee River falls on rocks
and ghosts of people who lived in Columbus
glide in quiet sunlight on red-brick road.

I park white car and walk to Vintage Cafe… Read full post »

I Look For God
© Surazeus
2012 04 27

Our world spins around. I climb a green mound
where apple trees my mom planted grow high.
I lie on my back, enjoy peaceful slack,
and stare empty-headed at clear blue sky.
I soon will be dead. I get in my head
deep aching… Read full post »

Tubes of Squeezed Words
© Surazeus 2012 04 26

Just another herd of posers
clutching at tubes of squeezed words,
or profound prophets of plastic truth
lost in a wilderness of cement
shouting at television clones?
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Atomic Meme
© Hermead of Surazeus 2012 04 26

Standing at lectern in spacious classroom
at California Institute of Technology
as sunlight streams through high windows at dawn,
Doctor Richard Feynman delivers lectures
introducing college students to physics.
"If, in some cataclysm, that destroys
our… Read full post »

Apples In Michigan Sunset
© Surazeus
2012 04 24

Roar of engines on highway of lost dreams
wakes old prophet who wears steel polished mask
of Philip Levine, fueling us with smiles,
and gives everyone a new leather Bible
with blank pages, then chuckles as he drawls.
"Draw what you forgot in your… Read full post »

How to Properly Sound Shakespearean Using Thou

Every single time someone has attempted to use the original second person pronoun, Thou, when writing, in an attempt to sound Shakespearean or Biblical, as in the King James Version of the Bible, they fail so miserably to use the declensions of the pronou… Read full post »

In Jesus Hand
© Surazeus 2012 04 20

I have been Trayvon Martined, milk-cartoned,
hoodwinked and gunned down in America my land.
I have been Mitt Romneyed, home-mortgaged,
bought and sold as a slave in occupy land.
Vote for me because I am a puppet on a string,
flying on a wing and… Read full post »

I don't believe in "divine" intervention, but I definitely believe in human intervention. If there is a conscious creator, it acts through the agency of humans who choose to treat other people with respect, and help other people whenever possible.

I have heard pragmatic preachers say quite often that… Read full post »

Finite Mass of Matter
Garden Of Epikouros
© Hermead of Surazeus

Epikouros holds cracked tablet of clay
in both hands, pressing fragments to read words
Anaxagoras engraved years before.
"I understand and visualize more clear
mechanic explanations how things work
Anaxagoras reveals when he writes
that Gra… Read full post »

Navigator Of Lost Dreams
© Surazeus
2012 03 29

Where is she traveling now, dreamer of shadows,
who sees beams of light inside our bodies,
and packs thoughts, she wears in silent affection
for lost people who cannot find their voices,
inside fragile suitcase of her wild heart.

Do I hear her voice ec… Read full post »

Herculean Firefighter
© Surazeus
2012 03 29

I am a Herculean firefighter,
I am a revealing fiction writer
and I will rip the mask off hypocrisy.

I stand up and fight for the common man,
I will always lend you a helping hand,
I will wake you from your complacency.  

With the sword… Read full post »

Million Hoodie March
© Surazeus
2012 03 22

Down in Florida on a dark moonlit night
a young black boy walks out to the corner store
to buy a bag of skittles and a soda pop,
talking to his girlfriend on the cell phone.
I am wearing my hoodie in the drizzling rain.… Read full post »

Mirror Mask
Surazeus
2012 03 22

Puzzle pieces of daily incidents
fall on crowded table of memories
heaped in piles I try to categorize
sorting through flashes of insight and words
as I try to assemble all those moments
of pleasure and pain and desire and fear
in some kind of coherent… Read full post »

Voices Of West River
Surazeus
2012 03 19

Translation from Chinese
West River by Byron Wang

Sad breeze blows achievements and prosperity
of ten dynasties, suspended in smoke,
over mountain-ringed valley, where old city,
constructed from memories preserved in poems,
lingers in fragile words of dry wood wal… Read full post »

Golden Hills Of Gaidheltacht
© Surazeus
2012 03 16

Where silver mists of morning swirl
on golden hills of Gaidheltacht,
from Loch Linnhe I walk alone
on rolling lawns in gleaming sun,
and feel sweet love for chirping woods
and Dal Riata blossom pure
though ravens lurk in tangled oaks
in memory of… Read full post »

I watched a documentary about String Theory called the Elegant Universe. The narrator discussed how Theory of Relativity describes how planets and stars interact, while Theory of Quantum Mechanics describes how subatomic particles behave. Einstein spent years trying to developed Unified Theory of Eve… Read full post »

Categories and Motions
Excerpt from Causes Of Aristoteles
Hermead of Surazeus

Each morning as rose-fingers of Eos
paint soft golden glow on buildings and people,
Aristoteles walks in cool morning light
in peripatetic colonnade past baths
in grand Temple of Apollon Lykeos
where boys train bodies and mind… Read full post »

While reading the Salon article, "How Viola Davis took Meryl Streep’s Oscar", by Andrew O'Hehir, about Viola Davis and Meryl Streep being contenders for Best Actress at the Oscars this year, I once again pondered what kind of movie storyline would star an African-American woman that would not p… Read full post »

How to count to 30 using two hands, which should help you understand why Egyptians used Base 6 counting method, which uses 60 as base for minutes and hours, 12 hours for half a day, and 12 inches for 1 foot.

Keep holding up the fingers on your right hand… Read full post »

Kalloneis Lake Naiad
Excerpt from Causes of Aristoteles
Hermead of Surazeus
2012 02 14

Camping on lush shore of Kallone Bay,
below moon-glowing hills of Lesbos Isle,
Aristoteles and Pythias sleep on grass
under willow tree that swirls in night breeze,
curled in loving arms, cheek to cheek, and dream
swee… Read full post »

Future of Book Publishing

I have an idea for a killer web application concept for the functions of authors, editors, libraries, bookstores, and book printers, that would integrate the complete process of publishing books.

There would be a central website where an author, an editor, a librarian, a book… Read full post »

Bird Footprint Words
Surazeus
2012 02 13

When she sees footprints of birds in gold sand,
Hebe breaks stick from dead tree and writes marks
to picture dreams her eyes write on blue sky,
and words splatter raindrops on silent sea,
rippling waves of soft music from her throat.
Six children gather around… Read full post »

Enchant Your Heart
© Surazeus
2012 02 12

Singers prance on electric stage
fluttering dead wings in rainbow cage,
love and romance blinded by rage,
scribbling words in blood on torn page.
I sing now to enchant your heart.
My voice is lost on swirling wind.

Ancient wizard, eyes burning red,
leads ar… Read full post »