The Beyond Within
Collected Poems
The Beyond Within
Collected Poems
The Beyond Within collects nearly two hundred poems written over ten years. The topics range from prosaic stories of everyday satori to prosody about Native Americans to poetic expositions of philosophy and aesthetics. The poems are gathered into eight chapters with all the poems in each chapter spiraling around a central theme. The chapters are:
- Earth Songs
- Everyday Prosody
- Dharma Poetics
- Native American Poesy
- Chaotica
- Structures in the Void
- Philosophia Poesia
- Political Polemics
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“These poems speak with the voice of a friend, father, fellow traveler, path finder, irreverent white man, carrier of the “burden” and weaver of word webs. Ten thousand faces of compassion dwell in this heart cave of understanding and insight. While his work is both lighthearted and funny it retains an elegant sense of existential celebration of the “mind’s” perception of the moon’s reflection. This is contrasted with the profound empathy and ceremonial understanding of the tragic indigenous populace and their insight into the natural world. This literary endeavor is both challenging and profoundly moving, it is an oasis in a desert of pulp and sand. Coming to his prose and poems is like hearing the sound of the first songbirds after the winter has passed. His works celebrate the joys of a full life in the present moment. A lyrical friend of the Dharma and bridge builder to the ancient wellsprings of poetics expressed with a love of language that transcends genres, these poems travel directly to the inroads of the Heart mind. Provocative, insightful, unorthodox, deeply human and subtle, his words join in and renew the profound mystical poetic traditions in a modern and relevant manner.”
Michael Stults