Subsets of Reality is a step apart from both of my
first two collections. It is larger, and laid out with an eye to
direct themes and relationships between pieces. Just as the
letters T-H-E are subsets of the word "THE", so YOU-ME-US are subsets
of EVERYTHING.
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There are 3 sections: Lectures to Deaf Ears, Patterns on the Surface of
Reality, and The Real World.
The first section is another set of diatribes, the second further
explores the ripple concept, and the last contains poems based on true
stories, which in turn exaimes the ripple effect in action.
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This is the first book I have designed from the ground up. I
searched for the photograph (my thanks to NASA), laid the cover out
around it, as well as writing and compiling the interior of the
book.
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Excerpts
from Subsets of Reality
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In Circled Patterns
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In circles, as they turn
without apparent reason,
ideas are born and grow
and blossom or perish
in the hand of some cruel fate
that knows neither love nor hate
but simply acts upon us all
as puppets in a play which is too complex
for our feeble minds to grasp.
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In Patterns too deep
for the naked eye to see,
marbles roll and dance
both clumsy and elegant as they spin
away the force that keeps them rolling
and simply bounce randomly to an end
as objects in a game of chance.
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In circled patterns, as we learn
and live in the hand of fate,
we bounce and dance and mesh
in rhythms that blossom or perish
both clumsily and with elegance
as we spin away the force which drives us.
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Roger
Golden 7/13,14/99
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My Heart
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If you are going to break my heart
I wish you'd get it over with.
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Every time I've given myself
the benefit of the doubt,
laid my soul on the line,
and gave my heart away,
it's been used, abused
neglected and rejected
ignored until I implored
her to please set me free.
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And when my heart is given back
it has a million tiny cracks
and the scars get wider,
binding the muscle tighter,
making it that much harder
for to me to try and love again.
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And now you say you're not the same,
that you aren't like those other dames
that if you love me, you'll treat me right,
be my companion, that we just might
be the true love we'd hoped to find
as we wandered along the path of life.
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In my mind, I know the score,
so many times I've heard it before,
love will fade, and it will flee
and you'll be gone away from me
with never a look back
at the wreckage of my soul.
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Roger Golden
10/8/2000
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Teach Me To Fish
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Teach me to fish,
that I may feast for a lifetime;
and show me the pond,
that flows deep with life.
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Take me down trails
That I’d never dreamed;
show me the things
I may not have seen.
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Teach me to fish
with only a hook and a line;
Or just a stick and a light
walking the bank in dead of night.
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Let me tour the majesty
of amazing, primitive lands;
ancient rivers and streams
shining between shores of white sand;
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Teach me to fish
with a net and two poles;
and where to find roots
that I could roast on hot coals.
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Remind me to take
the less traveled path;
for there lies discovery,
and what more could I ask?
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Roger
Golden 2/20/99
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Babes in the Woods
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I've known witches who used the craft,
And witches who followed the path;
Some used crystals and prayer,
A few draped flowers in their hair;
One or two looked at the beauty of passing,
A couple pictured it all everlasting;
I've seen communion beneath a full moon,
And witnessed tea leaves in the light of noon;
Some cast spells with herbs and things dear,
Some stood nude on the shore, shedding tears.
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But never a life have I seen in the mix,
And no needle pains from a bag of sticks;
The only real curse is one self-conceived,
Faith makes it all work, if one only believes;
The farming IS better
if we look to the stars,
Life's little rhythms shine bright and stark.
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Babes in the woods, or angels on earth,
Finding mystery in patterns, magic in birth;
Gathering reagents under a new moon's glow,
Searching for the wisdom we all should know.
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Roger
Golden 7/21/05
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Last
Update: March 3rd, 2008
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