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Jay Murdock
Sep 12, 20121 min read
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word
#JeffersonBethke #Islam #Religion #Entertainment #Video
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Jay Murdock
Feb 14, 20121 min read
While You Were Sleeping – Happy Valentine’s Day!
The lights of the city streets softly illuminated the room. You lay there sleeping just moments after we had made love for the very first...
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Jay Murdock
Jan 14, 20111 min read
The “Isness” of Man
I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that...
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Jay Murdock
Dec 22, 20101 min read
On a Pallet of Straw
They did not travel in an airplane. They did not travel by car. They did not travel on a streamline train. They traveled on foot from...
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Jay Murdock
Nov 24, 20101 min read
Three Legged Chairs
make the poem like the hood couches and three legged chairs at the curb scrawled graffiti on abandon buildings fetid damp smell...
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Jay Murdock
Nov 13, 20101 min read
The Last Man Living
When the last man living Is left alive on earth, And somebody knocks at the door – If I am the last man living I will be no more!...
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Jay Murdock
Nov 5, 20101 min read
Who Remains Standing?
First, erase your name, unravel your years, destroy your surroundings, uproot what you seem, and who remains standing? Then, rewrite your...
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Jay Murdock
Nov 4, 20101 min read
Not So Random Thoughts
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to...
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Jay Murdock
Nov 2, 20101 min read
Thought for the Day
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself. Erich Fromm #ErichFromm #poerty
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Jay Murdock
Oct 15, 20101 min read
A Women Who Loves
A women who loves impossible men sits a long time indoors watching windows she has no brother who understands where she is going her...
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Jay Murdock
Oct 11, 20101 min read
The Artist
I am no artist but in bed I can paint with my fingertip your breast, your mouth and cheeks, and surely your crooked smile that floats...
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Jay Murdock
Oct 5, 20101 min read
The Doors of Perception
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake #WilliamBlake
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Jay Murdock
Oct 2, 20101 min read
The Study of Self
To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened in all...
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Jay Murdock
Sep 16, 20101 min read
My Father’s Geography
I was parading the Co’te d’ Azure, hopping the short trains from Nice to Cannes, following the maze of streets in Monte Carlo to the...
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Jay Murdock
Sep 9, 20101 min read
WITHOUT
the silence of nature within the power within. the power without. the path is whatever passes – no end in itself. the end is, grace –...
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Jay Murdock
Aug 24, 20101 min read
A Phantom and a Dream
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A...
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Jay Murdock
Aug 20, 20101 min read
The True Way
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make...
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Jay Murdock
Aug 18, 20101 min read
Old Man
Like an image from an Ansel Adams photograph, his dark brown skin stretched thin over a face that has seen better days. He hurried down...
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Jay Murdock
Aug 13, 20101 min read
Perfect Freedom
When a fish swims, it swims on and on, and there is no end to the water. Whens a bird flies, it flies on and on, and there is no end to...
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