Poetry

Poetry is like weaving a tapestry or a spiders web, it is mystical really. The muse has found you and so begins the dance. 

Correspondence with P.S. Colley 5/28/2026

Bishop Seraphim Sigrist 2/7/2026

We lost a true light here on this earth today-he will be greatly missed...

I know Bishop Sigrist is not gone forever, but gone to forever and we will see him again on the other side. I met Seraphim J Sigrist back in 2003 or so after reading his LiveJournal and he has been a spiritual Father and friend for me. Thank you for being a light and a guide in this world for me. I will miss our conversations, your deep wisdom and your kind and gentle ways.

*Sharing also Seraphim's LiveJournal

@ https://seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com/

and his books at Amazon for any interested

@ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bishop-Seraphim-Sigrist/author/B079CJD3CS

Note to Duncan M.

We lost our friend of many years yesterday Bishop Seraphim Sigrist (from New York)

at 85 and have been spending the last several days thinking about him

and his writings and our long friendship as well.

You can check out his journal  

@ https://seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com/

and his books at Amazon if interested

@ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bishop-Seraphim-Sigrist/author/B079CJD3CS

Seraphim was like a lighthouse in the middle of a hurricane and he will be missed around here.

He invited our band on many occasions to play live for his Transfiguration Fellowship which we did via the web and he was always so gracious and kind to us.

Seraphim's work was eternal here and he made an impact on my life that will last forever.

The snow is still here on the mountain, but it seems that warmer days and Spring may not be too far off now. It is always good to hear from you Brother.

PEOD Timeline

 

T’ang Poetry, Li Ho and the Influence on the French Symbolist Movement

 I realized that the best of what the French Symbolists (like Baudelaire and Rimbaud) had to offer really began with the T’ang period and Poets like Li Ho (Li He) and it was a thousand  years earlier that these early Poets laid the true groundwork for what would become the symbolist movement (which I believe is a monumental and unrivaled period for later poetry).

8/29/2025

Note To Byron Hoot About Poetic Dialog

I had the idea that all of my poems were like a conversation and that I could enter

into any part of it again, making the dialog of nearly 40 years full of new

opportunities. I decided to take old sections of poems and converse with them a bit poetically,

like having a talk or corresponding with myself in my 20’s, 30’s, 40's and now 50's.

The old poems do not need altering in any way, and I try to retain the flow stylistically too.

It is like having a talk with an old friend. There are new poems to be met on the road of now too 

of course, but this dialog with the years seems needed somehow too.

8/7/2025

Note to P.S. Colley on Poetry and the Creative Process

If you were directing a movie for example, you would have notes first, kind of like a road map of what you wanted to explore in the poem, then a first draft using those notes, then a draft to blog, then a draft to Word.. but this is what has worked for me, and yours may be different of course.

Being attuned to the divine frequency (the Holy Spirit muse) is also important.

Some of it seems unconscious to me as well, or subconscious.

6/22/2025

Project End of Days Selected Poems 1987-2027

 I started writing poetry in 1987 while I was an Undergraduate at Viginia Tech.  Almost 40 years later I am still writing and painting and making music with our bands Spectral Arts & Project Morning Star, which feels like a great blessing still to recieve from Heaven after all of these years. The Beginning of the End and Light & Shadow remain ongoing and Vandalia (the companion to The River of Swans) will also be ongoing. Many of these recent poems will be included in  Project End of Days Selected Poems 1987-2027, however this book will not be a collected works at this time. Wildflowers will be a return to my early poetic form (Notebook Poems) combined with recent poetic revelation and will also be ongoing until I am no longer able to write here on Earth.

May 12, 2025

Virginia