“He had the face of a boy who would be excited about life; about women, or the perpetual quest of God, or New Bedford rum.”

~ Sinclair Lewis, The God-Seeker

"Only a whole person is a holy person.

I want Zorba and Buddha to meet together."

~ Osho, Zen Master

Skillful Athena, temperate goddess

vigilantly rooted in the acropolis,

observe, listen, guide your sober city of philosophers,

politicians, priests and generals.

Marble steadfastness, she pours her shadow

into the choppy Aegean Sea,

turning chaos into sagacity,

illogic into serenity…

Balance

Enter Dionysus, reeling, prancing,

disoriented--Eros lets fly a barrage

and romance offsets logic,

whirling, dancing , a nymph hooked on each elbow,

a crooked laurel crown and a smirk,

laughing, music, spinning courtesans

with splayed hair,

full goblets, grapes crushed in a vat of blasphemy

vulgar giggling

damn convention!

i m B a l a n c e

Dance with him wise Athena,

seduce her you slipshod reveler.

Crooked Sinner - Faultless Saint

Olive Branch meets Wild Grape

Mature Goddess, Imperfect Divinity
Eternal Wisdom mates with Spontaneity...

Here the straight trunk of time sprouts twisting vines...

weaving together heaven and hell,

giving birth to Michael.

end/Michael Bogar

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