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ART, FREE ADVICE, PICTURE POEMS, POETIC NONSENSE, UNIVERSES

THE ICY FLAME

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Before Being was the Icy Flame.
You and I and All.
The Flame conceives.
And From that Eternal Fire comes Thought:
Joy and Love and Pain.
We pretend. We betray.
We deceive Our Selves with play.
We invade the dark relentless void with incandescent Light.
Like candles in a forge we play a game that melts the soul.
Each victory drowns the flame within Our Selves.
And yet The Flame still lingers in us all.
We flicker faintly far from The Hearth of Home.
Burn brightly Lonely spark.
Remember You and I and All:
We are the Icy Fire.

— Lawrence R. Spencer, 2012 —

ART, FREE ADVICE, PAN-GOD OF THE WOODS, POETIC NONSENSE

YOU WILL BE FREE?

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From the Introduction of Chapter IV of the book PAN – GOD OF THE WOODS, by Lawrence R. Spencer

“The soul of man can never be enslaved, save by its own infirmities, nor freed save by its very strength and own resolve and constant vision and supreme endeavor!

You will be free? Then, courage, o my brother!  O let the soul stand in the open door of life and death and knowledge and desire and see the peaks of thought kindle with sunrise!”

— from “Herakles” by George Cabot Lodge  (c. 1873 – 1909),  American poet