Raw Poetry by Rev. Shakes Spear
Tight-Lipped Monks
The life of the High
Priest, Prophet, or King
comes at the dear price
of having to think.
Sure, it sounds easy
but what do you know?
You sit there, feet up,
watching the show.
Laughing at lines,
dumbstruck by drama,
vicariously
living through trauma.
But when Sunday comes
you ponder the Wise,
and long for that look
they have in their eyes.
What is it they gaze?
What do they behold?
If they see the Truth,
why haven’t they told?
Ah, there’s the Secret;
the Riddle of Man:
to know that God is
I Am That I Am.
10-12-24
Raw Poetry
- The Space Between – 0001
- Moonglow – 0002
- Freesus Christ – 0003
- Strange Visitors – 0004
- A Bucket of Love – 0005
- Now, I Have a Feeling – 0006
- Living Machines – 0007
- Air of Gravity – 0008
- Nothing Personal – 0009
- Re-inventing the Wheel – 0010
- One with One – 0011
- The Value of Cut Flowers (I Made Myself the Judge) – 0012
- Devils Get Bored – 0013
- The Same – 0014
- Power of Love – 0015
- Passing Fancies – 0016
- Withered – 0017
- The Math of Birds and Bees – 0018
- Second Hand Living (Tick-Tocking Away) – 0019
- vALANtine – 0020
- Family Circle – 0021
- Melting Pool (Together We Destroy) – 0022
- Gone Blind – 0023
- Love is All – 0024
- Third Eye – 0025
- Roots (for Lisa) – 0027
- Catjectives – 0028
- Infinite One – 0029
- Listen – 0030
- Umbrellaless – 0031
- Soul Body Free – 0033
- Bed Hogs – 0032
- No Limits – 0034
- Swept – 0035
- Out from the Inside – 0036
- True Things – 0037
- Word Math Magic Time – 0038
- Stimulating Dinner Conversation (Scrambled Eggs and Brains) – 0039
- Pitchforks and Pixels (Read the Fine Print) – 0040
- The Point of the Argument – 0042
- Empathy for the Devil / How We Screen for Gods – 0043
- Invisible Between – 0044
- Big I’s – 0045
- Bright – 0046
- God’ll – 0047
- This Round’s on Jesus! – 0048
- Let Love Purr – 0049
- Circulogically Speaking – 0050
- Brainwashed, Convinced, or Taught? – 0051
- Christ-Sized (Hang Dry Only) – 0052
- Awareness of What? – 0053
- Glutton (Eat with Your Eyes) – 0054
- Caught In a Dream – 0055
- 4 1/2 Star Meal – 0056
- To Dance – 0058
- The Rule of Thirds – 0059
- Soul Ink – 0061
- How to Become a Legend / The Day the Devil Retired / Retail Rebellion – 0062
- Useless Words for Love – 0064
- Here Comes the Bride – 0065
- The Falling In – 0066
- The Ultimate Sin – 0067
- Pretending I’m Not in Hell – 0068
- The Art of Implosion – 0069
- Eat Out the Sky – 0070
- Homophone? – 0071
- Hell Floats (Giving God a Kiss) – 0072
- Nothing Will Stop Me (for my friend, Jerry) – 0073
- Blame It On the Ink – 0074
- Reflection – 0075
- When Love Is All There Is – 0076
- Snakes Dressed as Saints – 0077
- Let’s Write the World – 0078
- If a Thought Is a Thing (Some Thoughts on Thoughts) – 0079
- Love Only Dies – 0080
- Notice the Difference – 0081
- Sun of Which – 0082
- Power of Magic – 0083
- The Opposite of Love – 0084
- Choices – 0085
- The Effect of Cause – 0086
- OK, You Win – 0087
- Just Because (The Art of Now) – 0088
- Or Else – 0089
- When When Happens – 0090
- Miracle Rust Machine – 0091
- All I Could Say – 0092
- Undone – 0093
- Only My Devil Knows – 0094
- Morning Prayer #1 – 0095
- Rome is Burning (Dance the Night Away) – 0096
- And That’s the Way It Is (The Filler) – 0097
- The People’s Man (Welcome to Dizzyland) – 0098
- The Long Blink – 0099
- Long Time Now (How to Master Gravity) – 0100
- Never Never Had a Chance – 0101
- The Lonely Arts – 0102
- Tight-Lipped Monks – 0103
- Making Love with Neville Goddard – 0104
- And Party Ev-er-y Day – 0105
- The Ink I Am – 0106
- Kitty Tripper (An Apology to Paloma) – 0107
- Still – 0108
- My Ugly Mirror – 0109
- Purr Bliss – 0110
- The Bad Man Cannot Know – 0111
- Water is Water – 0112
- Writing in Purrsive – 0113
- Holocaust for One – 0114
- Oh, That Stain – 0116
- Is It In? (Lick, Swirl, and Push) – 0117
- That That That (Hocus-Pocus) – 0118