Poetry of Egal Bohen Cornwall England

Man's Actions

2012-01-27T16:34:00.003Z

All Man's actions are "Natural"

They are part of his psyche

That's why he's on a learning curve

Egal Bohen

January 2012

Bodies are but vehicles

2012-01-27T16:22:00.004Z

If our bodies are but vehicles for the expansion of our minds

They may have brought us as far as they can

If that is the case

Nature

May announce a new model

Soon

Egal Bohen

January 2012

Improve your own behaviour

2012-01-26T17:08:00.005Z

The Best Way to improve your own behaviour

Follow the advice you give to everyone else

Our Life on Earth

2012-01-25T22:05:00.007Z

In order to

Progress our minds

We need first to understand

That our life on Earth

Belongs to the Planet

And

Not

The

Planet

Man

Egal Bohen

January 2012

Living Cosmos

2012-01-21T15:12:00.005Z

We exist not as separate individuals

We might think

But

A phase

An emerging

Living

Cosmos

Egal Bohen

January 2012

Answers

2012-01-11T18:09:00.001Z

Every question

Has it's answer

It's just down

To the individual

To decide

If and when

They

Want to hear it

Egal Bohen

January 2012

Reading

2011-10-30T22:58:00.004Z

The expression of one's thoughts and feelings

Will do more to educate and relieve the mind

Than any amount of reading

The result of other people's thoughts should act on us but as a suggestion

As a stimulant of one's own

One's attitude should be both critical and sceptical from the outset

And

Extremes should be avoided

No one is completely right

No one is completely wrong

Above all

Is misunderstanding

From the notebook of 2nd/Lt Robin Blacker

Aged 18yrs

Coldstream Guards

France 1915

3 weeks prior to being killed in action at the battle of Loos

Acknowledgments to "Have you forgotten yet?"

The First World War Memoirs of C P Blacker MC, GM

What you think is..

2011-07-29T14:48:00.002+01:00

What you think

Important

Because

What you think

What you are

Egal Bohen

Cool

2011-07-29T09:09:00.000+01:00

Cool is finding time to talk

When time you have not any left

Cool is tolerating others

And the things that they have said

Cool is absorbing all the tension

While the spring is being wound

Cool is analysing signals

When they come at you inbound

Cool is moderating answers

As they form within your head

Cool is changing them for something

Less regretted when its said

Cool is understanding fears

And leaving them where they are found

Cool is listening to all

Determining the common ground

Cool is knowing whats important

Also knowing what is not

Cool is staying ever cheerful

When inside you are in shock

Cool is appreciating love

That someone special gives to thee

Cool is thinking the word 'you'

And not so much of that word 'me'

Egal Bohen

Not so much...

2011-07-19T23:42:00.003+01:00

It is not so much what you achieve

In this life

But what you learn

That

Important

Egal Bohen

Perceptions of Reality (or: How to understand a Universe)

2011-07-15T11:58:00.013+01:00

As the Human Mind is bound

Within it's senses

Limited

Imagination it is found

Doth suffer

In parenthesis

(Imagination)

Thus

Restrained

Incapable

(So tightly chained)

May not imagine boundless plains

Nor endless continuity

Perception

It would seem has trained

Tamed

Perhaps

Even maimed

Our modern

Focused

Fettered

Brains

So needful

Emergence

Into an age

Imagine it

Unlimited

In which we fit

Unlimited

Changed

In a look

If we could just

Put down that book

Rules

We have become

As shapes may come

and

Shapes may go

Perception

From our senses flows

Yet all we see

Can be undone

Done up

Rethought

Find

The sum

Beyond the brink

That is not there

We need to think

Ourselves

To where

We understand

Perceptions

Reality

Egal Bohen

(Image courtesy of Hubble Images)

The wonder of the World

2011-07-05T23:56:00.016+01:00

The wonder of the world

The beauty and the power

The shapes of things

Their colours, lights and shades

These things I saw

Look ye also

While life lasts

Note:

BB's Bedside books were written with such love of the English Country side. Each of them carried this beautiful little poem inside.(apparently copied from a Northamptonshire tombstone)

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Watkins-Pitchford

Conscience Requires

2011-06-23T00:10:00.005+01:00

Conscience requires

Unselfish love

For all living things

Which

When achieved

Opens

the

Mind

A pure awareness

Of how things are...

What is going to motivate Mankind

2011-06-22T22:51:00.012+01:00

What is going to motivate Mankind?

His mind To Activate

Behaviour

Is a conscience thing

Where knowledge

Yes

It may well bring

Awareness of our place in things

We have before disdained

Yet possession we may find

Of knowledge

Will not ever define

The pathway of the other kind

We need that we

Progress

Such pathway

Needs no knowledge found

It's source related not to ground

Nor Universe, world stage, nor set

Just Love

So let us never

This

Forget

Egal Bohen

Our world of illusion

2011-06-14T15:33:00.004+01:00

The closer we get

More detail we see
-

But each time we get closer
-

Horizons

Recede

Our world of illusion

You see has no end

No beginnings

Straight lines

Simply curves and some bends

So seek as we do

What a Universe

Makes

The simple fact is

It is us

When

Wake

Egal Bohen

Why talk of Nothing

2011-06-14T15:20:00.002+01:00

If you should talk of nothing
Then nothing you shall see
For nothing is not this world
For nothing cannot be

Nothing has but no thing
No thing there to see
No shape
No sound
No texture
No weight
No density

So if you can describe it
Then do so please to me
For it defies description
It has none you will see

And if you think an empty space
Is a nothing you may find
Just think what is around it
Something on your mind?

While things exist in every form
From thoughts to what you see
There is no such thing as nothing
Just spaces that are free

For as long as just one thing remains
A nothing you won't find
Don't speak of it as if it were
It cannot be defined

So do not doubt that all things are
For it is clear to see
-

That once there was a something
-

Only everything could be

Egal Bohen

Look twice

2011-06-14T00:25:00.002+01:00

Look twice
At everything
-

Remember
What you see
-

Think constantly
About your life
-

If forever
You would be

Egal Bohen

Souls Memories (or Dreams)

2011-06-13T23:39:00.008+01:00

Our human souls

Those parts of us

That when we pass

Turn not to dust

May climb the staircases of time
Move through dimensions

Instantly

To find

Their way to unknown places
There to roam

In times of deepest sleep

Amidst a wordless world

So silent
Thoughts are loud

And take upon themselves

Their shape
-
There they move

In timeless motion

Fly through uncorrupted truth

Until the point when rudely woken

When we call them

Home to roost
-

Whereupon their swift arriving

Causes ripples in our brains
Which

Not designed were not intended
Ever to record

Such games
-
Deposited then within our memory
As they landed

In a heap
Strange memories

Surviving
From a world so strange and deep

And so it is our dreams are sent us

Mixed

Confused

Cut up and censored

Souls memories

From

Our Times

Sleep

Egal Bohen

Parallel Universe

2011-06-01T23:44:00.002+01:00

The best evidence

for

Parallel

Universe

Is:

The

Fact

That you cannot measure

Anything

That

Exists

Against

Itself

Egal Bohen

Itself

Thinking

2011-06-01T20:52:00.003+01:00

Thinking
Is
A
Process
-
Which enables
Us
To
See
-
Unshackled
-
Stark
-
Reality
-
From
Which
We all
Do flee
-
Can't
Recognize
Duality
-
The thoughts
We
Have
It
Seems

Confuse
-
Distress
-
But
Nonetheless
-
Are not
The
Same
As
Dream
-
Thoughts
Express

What we might
Be
-
That
-
Which we might
Do
-
Where fits
The world
-
Where fits
Our
Life
-

Our
Bright
Minds
-
Shining
Through
-
The
Secret
Is
-
Which
I
Have
Found
-
My
Thoughts
-
If
I
Would
See

Is not to fit them
Where I think
-
Their meanings
-
First
-
Would
Be
-
For they are sometimes garbled
(As oft' they are in code)
-
Thoughts
Take a little time it seems
To let
Their colours show
-
And thoughts
Are not the obvious
-
We sometimes
Think they are
-
They often carry meaning
-
In a message
From
Afar
-
Just who you are
And
What you are
-
If you are just like me
-
Is something
You're not sure of
-
But
Something
Flying
Free
-
Looking
For an answer
-
Looking
Where to roam
-
Seeking
Out your destiny
-
To
Find a place
Called
Home
-
So
Thoughts
-
Can be confusing
-
Feelings mixed
-
The
Route
Unknown
-
Elusive
-
Misinterpreted
-
From wild places grown
-
Yet
Thoughts
Let us explore ourselves
-
Discover
What is best
-
Positively
-
Form
Ideas
-
Advance what's good
-
Within our minds
-
While
Quietly
At
Rest
-
The other hand
-
When
Thoughts
Are
Strong
-
Perhaps
They should
Just
Settle
-
Long
Enough
-
To
Let them set
-
Before
We test
Their metal
-
For having thoughts
Is one thing
-
Believing them
The next
-
Time
Can let the smoke clear
-
While
Considering
What's best
-
But
Thinking
Is
Important
-
More time
Of
Ours should fill
-
Thinking
Got us where we are
-
Will take us further still
-
Now
Whether
We
Are
Thinking
Right
-
Well
Thats
Another hill
-
Another hill
That Man
Must climb

To fill his craving thirst
-
For thinking around problems
-
Imagining
The
Worst
-
We can be sure of one thing
Though
-
For the future
That we search
-
We will find time
-
Wherever
We
Are
-
To
Think
About
It
-
First

-

Egal Bohen

God/Science Gap

2011-05-31T14:10:00.002+01:00

God/Science gap

Whilst science

Methodically

Explores

The

Effects

Our souls

are

already

experiencing

the

cause

Egal Bohen

Priorities

2011-05-31T00:19:00.003+01:00

Man might better spend his time

Learning

How he should behave

Before discovering

For himself

How a Universe is made

Egal Bohen

Tuesday 6th June 1944

2011-05-29T00:20:00.001+01:00

http://poetryofegalbohen.blogspot.com/2007/06/normandy-1944.html

Understanding ..Is Thy Ego That Much Greater

2011-05-28T22:29:00.003+01:00

Don’t

Make more of things

That happen

Make them always

Less to be

For to exaggerate

In passion

Is a trap

Life sets for thee

To what end

Would you so travel?

Thinking only

Of thyself

Thinking not

The side of others

Their position

All things else

Contemplate

Your opposition

Does it mean

So much to thee?

Is thy ego

That much greater

Than understanding

Given free

Egal Bohen

Apologies to Followers

2011-05-28T22:03:00.003+01:00

Sorry but my list of followers Icons has disappeared

from my Blog

Don't think I deleted it by accident but I could have done

If I did I apologise to you all

(All 7 of you!)

Sincerely

Egal..

Update...0012hrs

Now all strangely re-appeared!

God قبل

2011-05-27T12:27:00.006+01:00

God is like any other thing in our life

You have to believe in it

Before

( قبل)

You can know

what it is

Egal Bohen

We are not dead

2011-05-26T20:22:00.001+01:00

Conscious states
We each do own

-
Close our eyes
To be alone

Remote the touch
That stillness dulls

-
Leaving sound
Our brain to lull
-
When scent to smell
Is scarce - it seems

-
Our tastes will sleep

-
So soon we dream
-
The humming sound
Left in our head

-
It signifies
We are not dead

Egal Bohen

Old Cold

2011-05-26T18:50:00.002+01:00

Moonrise

-
In a star studded sky

-
Where the ice of space
With bluestone fire

-
Does send its sparkling rays to set
The secret shapes
Which grow in crystal on the Earth

-
That say:

-
I am the Cold

-
I am the Oldest of the Old
-
I was here before the Sun

-
I shall return

-
When all is done

Egal Bohen

(Take a look at the crystal rain:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20110526.html

The Religions of Man Part 11 - or - "Thousands of Years of Incredible Pain"

2011-05-22T10:13:00.012+01:00

Tell me of my God

My guide

Not my judge

Of wide open spaces

Of sky and of love

Tell me of my God

Of light

Not of dark

Of the days that we live in

Not dust from the past

Tell me of my God

Not sheep in a line

Nor of Man's religions

Their dogmas

Their signs

Tell me of my God

A presence in mine

To be found in all things

Connected through Time

For here is God's presence

God's temple of peace

Seen from all places

South, West, North and East

Its the Earth and it’s peoples

It’s colours

It’s sounds

It’s lands and it’s oceans

Where life all abounds

The stars in the heavens

The Planets

Their seeds

These are the God in which I believe

And my God is no harm

To those prophets who spake

For all Mans religions

We now should debate

For my God begat them

As he begat thee

But God has now said

Its time God was free

Free of religions

Which slander God's name

The religions of Man

The fanatics insane

The churches

The mosques

The synagogues too

They have nothing to do with the God that I view

Their purpose was served

When their message was spread

In lands far apart

When men spoke

But not read

In days when Man lived in communities

Blind

Of far distant cultures

Of others

His kind

Their message was sent

Yet again and again

Delivered by prophets

With different names

At different times

With different claims

Religions got tangled

Within their own chains

And these messages left us a terrible curse

The division of Man

Across all of Earth

So it’s time to consider

The future of Man

As I can’t believe that this was God’s plan

For the fruits of Religion

Are seen all around

The innocent’s corpses

The blood soaked ground

We see it each day

On our screens we are taught

Religion

The reason that these people fought

If you add up the dead

The wounded and scarred

The innocents murdered

With complete disregard

Religion does not seem

To offer much gain

Just thousands of years

Of incredible pain

So here is a statement

A statement of fact

Fit for our time

Man move forward not back

Its time to accept

All your Gods are the same

You are killing each other

Just over a name

So we should examine

The Religions of Man

Keep what is good

Use what we can

But when we come to decide

What they’re worth

Remember

It is to religion

That hell owes it’s birth

So to whatever Religion

You may now belong

In whatever language

You sing holy song

Examine your conscience

Your mind let expand

See the twenty first century

As God wanted Man

For God never envisaged

That we should abuse

That greatest of gifts

The power to choose

For God has no favourites

We are all as one

And Religion can’t change that

It won’t be undone

So let us take time to read

What was said

By the various Prophets

Now all long dead

Remember the fact that there can only be

One God

For all of us

Surely you see

So if God should be known

By Man

As a whole

The time now has come

For us all

To enrol

In the knowledge of something

We have missed all this time…..

God is universal

It's senses

Mankind

Egal Bohen

The Wheel of Time

2011-05-16T19:06:00.002+01:00

I am the wheel of time

That turns

Where ever I touch

Life's flame

It burns

Where ever I touch

Is now

It's said

For as I move

The futures read

And present into past

Has fled

Egal Bohen

Privileged

2011-05-10T21:46:00.005+01:00

Intelligence defines his name

Man's destiny

Grows with his brain

But life?

Well,

It is all the same

For from the sea

It surely came

Don't kid yourself

That man is it

He is but just a part

With life he shares

His heritage

Through starlight

From the dark

And should he think

He better is

Because it is

He talks

His cousins

They do just the same

As on two legs

He walks

And should he think

Superior

His manners or his clothes

Remember Man

You're privileged

Just why

God only knows

Egal Bohen

Very Fortunate Monkeys..

2011-05-09T12:14:00.002+01:00

Very fortunate monkeys
With minds that wander free
Our worlds of thought expanding
Rejecting what we see
Beyond the world around us
Reality disowned
We live out our desires
In boxes just like clones
And though we call this progress
As further off we stray
From the system
That supports us
The other monkeys pray
-
Egal Bohen

Like the Morning Sun

2011-05-06T21:01:00.002+01:00

Just as the reed
Is as the oak
It has for us
So clear been wrote
To fear not death
When it doth come
Upon us
Like the morning sun
For death feared not
Where e're it's flight
Is death feared not
Throughout our life

Egal Bohen

This World of which we are a part..

2011-05-05T15:36:00.006+01:00

When nature carries on

Intent on it’s own plan

Oblivious

Indifferent of puny man

That we in desperation then look round

To find a place

A face

To point a finger at

Where blame may be attached

A culprit found

There is no blame

For this is life we live

Here we walk with beasts

On dangerous ground

Where natures forces are at work

With ice and rock

A test for places next

Perhaps where we are bound

The trouble is

It seems we have so long forgot

This world

Of which we are a part

That now we think with arrogance

That we are not

Egal Bohen

This World

2011-03-31T00:54:00.005+01:00

This world we build reflects ourselves

We should see it

As a lesson

Earth waits for change

Expectantly

Our conscious

re-expression

Egal Bohen

Life is a test

2011-03-27T20:49:00.003+01:00

Life is a test

We all must take

That if we pass

We emigrate

Our powers grown

Through steady state

To places new

Fresh worlds

To shape

Egal Bohen

March 2011

Examinations of our Minds

2011-01-18T20:01:00.006Z

To those of us who judge

Unknowingly

By deliberation
I say this

When judging others
We ourselves should exercise
Synchronous

Similar examinations
Of our own minds

That we miss not those faults we own

And yet ignore

When serpent like we hiss
Transfixed

Outside the others door

Obsessed

Enabling words
Formed deep in the abyss
To travel from our minds

So blind
To scornful lips

Words born of arrogance
Part of ourselves

We do not see

Insidious

They lie in us

The same as that we mock

In he

Those faults of others
That of which we all do moan

Forgetful

All the time of those immortal words

Let him who has no sin
Cast first the stone

_

Egal Bohen

Tolerance

2011-01-18T19:57:00.002Z

When we are angry at mankind

Or rave at some depravity of mind

When we would curse behaviour
Of a kind

To argue
Rather than to view benign

It is with our own self

We battle wage

When choosing not to understand
Nor to engage

With anger sent
To where
Perhaps
Is needed help

Lest fearful
Reason may just find the time
With tenderness
To enter in our mind

And so it is
Perhaps from loss of our own face
We are so quick to shout
Of their disgrace

But we should not lose sight
Of our own sins

Though
In different colours dressed
Appear they in

For is not all
Of nature in this life

The good
The bad
Together

Love
And
Strife

As nature
This is how such things will be

So it is not how loud we Shout
But what we see

And seeing do
To help
To

Liberate

To free
With tolerance

Not
Shut the gate

That is

How it should be

_

Egal Bohen

Your World

2010-09-28T22:13:00.007+01:00

Our world

Is no different

To anything else

We might build

We have to put

A lot of the work in

Ourself

Egal Bohen

September 2010

Universe within a Brain

2010-09-07T00:40:00.005+01:00

That which is not perceived

May yet still exist

Outside our minds

Strong and real

As the world we sense around us

Wanting only to be seen

To be understood

Little by little

Piece by piece

An expanded awareness

Of another limitless experience

Built to match the needs of the observer

Incorporating the challenges of a lifetime

A parallel of a parallel

Another Universe

Within

Brain

Egal Bohen

September 2010

As Colour Hidden in white Light

2010-09-06T13:58:00.004+01:00

As colour

Hidden

In white light

Energy

At speed

In flight

Your soul

Vibrating

Rainbow like

Navigates

This mortal life

Inseparable

Human phase

Let loose

Midst life’s bedazzling maze

To navigate

A world unsure

To blunder on

Through misnamed doors

A ship sailed

In a rock strewn sea

False lit with lights

Set to mislead

Thrown onto shores

That crush and bleed

Pushed stumbling down

Onto its knees

But ever struggling up

Again

To battle onward

Through the pain

You know yourself

You need no name

You are the fire

The coloured rain

You travel

Motionless

Unseen by sight

Pure energy

Just as colour

In white light

Egal Bohen

A Word

2010-08-27T01:36:00.001+01:00

A word Is a craft

A thought launched from our mind

Into the flux of invisible time

A drawn out, extended

Gossamer string

That travels dimensions

In need of no wings

Egal Bohen

Defiance II

2010-08-27T01:29:00.002+01:00

I defy the morning rising
Though I saw the setting sun
-
I defy that night is coming
Even though my day is done
-
I defy all that is spoken
But seek truth, where ‘ere its from
-
I defy the masses massing
Knowing not their right or wrong
-
I defy all of creation
Yet I think I do belong
-
I defy the very tempest
Though I know I am not strong
-
I defy all life’s illusions
Yet love what they're built upon
-
I defy that death will take me
It's long lonely journey on
-
I defy the very moment
When all things return to one
-
I defy the state of nothing
Which is why I wrote this song
-
And my spirit will be fighting
-
Still defiant
-
On and on
-
When all around
Is dressed in silence
-
After every thing has
-
Gone

_

Egal Bohen

Epitaph of Man

2010-08-19T02:46:00.004+01:00

As scattered light
Spread by the dawn
Infused in nature
We are born
As grey clouds cross
A winters sky
With silver streaked
We live and die
As cold winds blow
The flurried snow
Into the night
So we must go
But not before
Our time has come
To touch the earth
To feel the sun
Our colours mixed
Our brush out flung
Our canvas painted
With no plan
And yet so beautiful
This life
Of
Ordinary
Man

_

Egal Bohen

Bumble Bees

2010-08-19T01:39:00.013+01:00

Bemused

Befuddled

Bumble Bees

Whose ragged wings

Say

Summers gone

Still bravely forage

On and on

Now amongst

More seeds

Than flowers

Lavender

With sleeping powers

Once yellow coats

Now beige

With hours

Of dedicated purpose

Flown

Such busy lives

They never moan

Back and forth

To and fro

Until the sun sunk orange glow

Sends them to bed

Where

No one knows

Egal Bohen

August 2010

Then go forward as gold that is struck by the Sun

2010-07-06T00:23:00.035+01:00

Awareness

Things

Learning

To See

Language

Installed

Child Life

Carefree

Interaction

The Lie

Distortion

The Pain

Loss of Faith

Man's Delusion

Such is life's game

Hold

To that Moment

You first heard your Name

The lie not yet born

The mind still unstained

Then go forward

As gold that is struck by the Sun

Innocence

Blinding

A Life

New begun

Egal Bohen

July 2010

TRUTH

2010-03-24T20:57:00.003Z

Truth dwells in many places and It travels many
Roads
Truth hides behind our faces whether we be
Saints or Rogues
Truth built the world we live in as it built a
Thousand More
Truth gave us all a conscience, to lead us to their
Doors

Egal Bohen
2010

WASP

2009-11-04T23:34:00.004Z

Now
Would you help
The wasp
That flounders

-
Struggling
In the jar of rain
-
Or
Would you watch
His life expire

-
Never to fly
Once
Again
-
Could he rest upon your finger?

-
Would he sting you with His
Pain?
-
If he flew
Would he tell God

-
You saved
His life

-
Whisper
Your
Name

Egal Bohen
November 2009

Bluebells (Or Memories for Heaven)

2009-04-28T21:43:00.011+01:00

The bluebells stand silently

-
Witnessing
Their green nature
-
Delicate chains
Of
Crisp bells

Weeping
Soft scents
Of
An English spring
-
Draped carelessly
Around old oaks
-
Waves of blue heaven
-
Sweeping down
Beneath the coppiced hazels

-
To
The Valley of the wildwood

-
Egal Bohen
Spring 2009

Right there each time there right within us

2009-03-14T21:49:00.007Z

If you despair
-
That God is missing
-
When God is needed know God is
-
Right there each time
-
Right there
Within us
-
For it is through us
-
God lives

-

Egal Bohen

March 2009

What Colour is Behaviour

2009-03-14T20:41:00.005Z

What colour is behaviour

Where intolerance is bred

Green, violet or indigo

Orange, yellow, blue or red

Such colours live in rainbows

As component parts of life

Yet in tolerance together

Turn their colours into light

_

Egal Bohen

2009

And they all call it Britain

2009-03-13T23:17:00.003Z

Crisp green the stems of daffodils
That brave in spring cold sun
Soft tender green the hawthorn buds
Unfurled with winter done
Bright green the fresh leaves on the limes
That verdant branches lace
Dark green the lily’s slender shoot
The moist earth piercing breaks

But greenest of all that is green
An island Earth did make
And they all call it Britain
Natures green estate

-

Egal Bohen

2009

As either daughters, or as sons

2009-03-11T00:07:00.004Z

Our weapons to defeat the scythe of time

That through Earth eternalise our places

That carry beauty ever forward from our minds

Are our children and such poetry of graces

For while the living stand alone, each every one

They are in truth the verse itself

As either daughters, or as sons

-

Egal Bohen

Something You Don't Want To Hear

2009-03-09T00:48:00.002Z

We choose the place
We go from here
-
Through what to us
Is held as dear
-
If nothing is
Then where you go
-
Is something
You don't want to know

-

Egal Bohen

March 2009

The Balance (Death of a Song Thrush)

2009-01-28T00:42:00.009Z

Life is a balance
-
All
-
The
-
Way
-
Indulgence leads
-
Where pleasure plays
-

You gain

You lose

Your choice

You choose

-
Beware
-
The balance though
-

It moves

-

Egal Bohen

Dancing Leaves

2008-11-12T01:06:00.004Z

O strong doth blow
November's wind
From trees
Their leaves
At summers end
-
Free leaves
That then a’dancing go
Along the lane
Like autumn snow
-
A’dancing
Bouncing
Off the ground
Such haste
These leaves
All crispy brown
-
Announce their passing
By their sound
A'dancing
Flying
All around
-
If autumn has a sound at all
-
Then dancing leaves
I shall recall
-
Egal Bohen
-
November 2008

Autumn Brings

2008-10-21T02:24:00.002+01:00

Dead Leaves
Nuts
Reds and golds
Cobwebs in the grass
Sunlight streaming
Low and old
A Gilded sky
Of yellow hued
Mellowed glass

Soft memories of harvest gone
Fading summer days
English fields of stubbled corn
Bonfires
Berries
Evening haze

Country things

These are the thoughts
That Autumn brings

_

Egal Bohen

Poppies Red

2008-09-15T20:01:00.008+01:00

As poppies
Sway upon the breeze
Warm in the summers sun
Their silken petals
Fluttering speak
Brave words for
Everyone
-
"Our colour is the blood you shed
And when the battles done
You'll learn one day that petals red
Mean wars are never won"

-

Egal Bohen
-

September 2008

Loves Gift

2008-09-02T23:27:00.005+01:00

A
Will
-
To do
-
What we would not
-
or
-
Do not that

We
-
would
-

Egal Bohen

Your Tree of Life is Taking Shape

2008-05-03T00:00:00.003+01:00

Your
Tree of life
Is taking shape
-
Its leaves made of labels
Bearing words that you spake
-
It is best that you think
Of the leaves
You attach
-
Once
Spoken
They
Hang there
-
You can't get them back

Egal Bohen

Dead Skin

2008-05-02T23:55:00.003+01:00

The rock and stone
-
From which our cities are hewn
-
Is but dead skin
-
One must assume
-
-
Egal Bohen

On Earth

2008-05-01T22:56:00.012+01:00

You
-
Should
-
Drink the bead
-
Of silver rain
-
That hangs
-
After the spring shower
-
From a blade of new grass
-
To understand
-
All
-
You need to know
-
About your life
-
On Earth

-

Egal Bohen
May 2008

Noirmoutier (For I Like the View)

2008-04-02T18:28:00.017+01:00

A sea
Of
Green
-
Reeds
-
In the sun
-
That ripple
-
Where
The wind will run
-
A winding road
-
A distant Mill
-
That shimmers
-
In the heat
-
When still
-
A turbid tide
Across the bar
-
Behind the pines
Where salt pans are
-
There Avocets
Wade
White
-
On
Blue
-
To
Fishing huts
-
Bleached
-
By
The light
-
Illuminated
-
Painted bright
-
The
Coloured
Boats
-
Along
The shore
-
Noirmoutier
-
All this
Is
You
-
And
More

-

Egal Bohen..

Believing is Seeing

2008-03-23T18:04:00.003Z

Believing is seeing
Is not what we’re taught
So our lives then remain
Chained to reason
Through thought
If the chain you can break
Light will reign
Not the dark
In a world that is born
Not of mind
But of heart

-

Egal Bohen

March 2008

Finding Out

2008-03-15T23:23:00.002Z

If
finding out where you are
Is the first step to knowing
Where you are going
-
Finding out who you are
Is the first step to knowing
How you might get there

-

Egal Bohen
March 2008

The Big Bang -v- The Big Doughnut Theory MkIII (Or what happens when a Big Doughnut Spins)

2008-03-13T10:40:00.008Z

To be read following:

THE BIG DOUGHNUT THEORY MKII
(Or THE LONG SAUSAGE ROLL THEORY)

Now, those Sausage Rolls without their sausage
Their pastry long, and smooth and glossy
Described how there had never (EVER) been
The need for a
-
“BIG BANG”
-
To start this mess that we’re in
(THE UNIVERSE!)
-
In fact I can think of nothing much worse
Than a “BIG BANG” to start off a whole Universe!
-
Therefore, and in keeping with my original theory
(Regarding the general distribution of matter)
Without any need for a

“BIG BANG”
TO
SPLATTER'
-
Our cosmic dust into a great space
(That had waited how long?)
For this event to take place
I return to my doughnut
The original plan
(Remember the type with a hole, and no jam)
But to make it much clearer (ie the system we’re in)
I have added another element;
-
REVOLUTION (or SPIN)
-
For if our doughnut were of
-
“UNIVERSAL”
-
Proportions
In the form of a vacuum with matter within
-
(analogy DOUGH)
-
In view of it’s totally enormous
-
CIRCUMFERENCE
-
It’s speed could then vary
-
(IF IT WERE TO SPIN)
-
For when “Spun” on it’s axis at slow revolutions
It’s centre could seem to be totally still
Whilst an object attached to it’s outer circumference
Much faster than light might travel
-
UNTIL
-
The dough at it’s surface grew darker and darker
(Just like night)
As it's speed prevented the escape of all
-
LIGHT
-
I would then suggest that this may be the answer
For the reason there exists such a mass of
-
“DARK MATTER”
-
Though
It
Does not result from ANY
-
“BIG SPLATTER”
-
But merely because;
-
WHEN A BIG DOUGHNUT SPINS
-
Light cannot escape
-
SO SOME BITS GO DIM !
-
So you see
(Although on the EDGE you will not)
-
POSITION
-
Determines our SPEED in this plot

And as SPEED is as TIME
(Just in case you’d forgot)

The “SPIN” is the reason;

WE ARE

and

NOT NOT!

-

Egal Bohen

March 2008

2008-03-04T23:12:00.000Z

These poem’s words
Through lines
Lead to
The poets mind
Who wrote
His thoughts
Down
Just for you
He did not ask
That you should find
His verse was good
Just true
Be kind

=

Egal Bohen
March 2008

Perception

2008-03-04T23:09:00.001Z

Ghosted images
Not light
Move through
Our blinded sightless night
Motion
Out of vision’s line
Detected energy
Outlined
The basis of a world
Defined
Perception without light
Unseen
Perception that is real
Not dream

-

Egal Bohen
March 2008

Essential Imagination

2008-03-04T23:01:00.007Z

In nights of no wind
When just animals speak
From the hills to the valleys
Shadowed so deep
A river like silk
Runs silent and dark
Over boulders of gold
That lie in it’s path
Through forests of emerald
Growing tall on it’s banks
Past glades softly silvered
Where Unicorns prance
To cliffs where the river
Falls ravaged and torn
To the plains far beneath
Where a new world is born
Dim lit by a Moon
Is this land of the fawns
Where gossamer wings
It would seem are the norm
For faeries at peace
That in flowers do lie
Are a reason perhaps
That we all want to fly
Yet who could not see
Such a mythical place
(As Shakespeare imagined)
Where time has no place
Is the food for our minds
An infusion of grace
Imagined
Essential
Should you wish to escape
There are many such rooms
In your mind
You may make

-

Egal Bohen
March 2008

Dreams in a Box

2008-03-03T17:15:00.007Z

As dreams in a box
We live out our lives

-
Aware of ourselves

-
Our worlds distance derived

-
Though horizons may come
And horizons may go
In boxes we stay

-
Trapped by Time
In it’s flow

-
Our decisions decide
Where that box with our name
May travel the system
Will move

Remain

-
Escape is uncertain

-
We have to be blind

-
To the world, as we know it

For it’s all in the mind

-

Egal Bohen
March 2008

This Heart

2008-01-27T18:13:00.000Z

This Heart
That Beats
-
So
Constantly
-
In
Time
-
With Fluid Motion
-
Free
-
This Heart
That Beats
For you
For me
-
This Heart
Provideds
Our
Destiny
-
This Heart
It
Is
-
A
Wishing Well
-
This Heart
It
Is
For
Time
To
Tell
-
This heart
It
Is
Your
Life
As
Well
-
This Heart
-
Egal Bohen
January 2008

Soldier

2007-11-22T23:11:00.000Z

If anyone needs to be a soldier everyone needs to be a soldier

-

Egal Bohen
2007

Your Life

2007-11-12T23:54:00.000Z

In your life

Is light
-
Shining
In a dark place

In your life

Is the dance
That
Mocks the stone

In your life

Is carried
Triumph
Over tragedy

In your life

Is the spirit
That you own

In your life

Rests the trust
Of
All
Humanity

In your life

You will help

To lead it
Home

-

Egal Bohen

Sacrifice

2007-11-06T00:26:00.000Z

Sacrifice
-

Is

another

word

For

Learning

-

Egal Bohen

2007

Every Breath

2007-11-05T23:51:00.000Z

Every breath
That
We take
-
Moves us
Into
Our future

Every breath
We
Let out
-
Is our past
-
Left
Behind
-
Our lives
-
But
A
Moment
-
A moment
Of
Living
-
In the air
-
As we drink it
-
Imagined
-
In time

-

Egal Bohen

November 2007

You know it's good to Dream

2007-10-23T00:50:00.001+01:00

Sunlight reflected
Golden beam
A dazzling orb
Floats
On the stream
Where sparkling riffles
Lead me through
A string of stars
That draw me to
A gate of living light
It seems….
-
You
Know
Its
Good
-
That we
Can dream

-

Egal Bohen

October 2007

Andrew

2007-10-23T00:15:00.000+01:00

Although
Sometimes
Misunderstood
His love is true
Straight
From the wood
His mind a star
Sees only light
That darkness
From him
Flees the night
His words
Though oft’ at first ignored
By those who think
They know much more
Prove that his wisdom
Opens doors
So doubters
Doubting
Then
Withdraw
To give respect
Where it is due
To that
Indomitable
Soul
-
Andrew

-

Egal Bohen

Fear Management

2007-10-19T16:00:00.000+01:00

Life
Is
A
Tightrope
-
An
Illusion
-
Suspended above
-
A pit
Of
Reality
-
To live it
-
You need the
Atributes
Of
A trapeze artist
-
Which
Are
-
To have a good sense of balance
-
And
-
Be able to manage your fears

-

Egal Bohen
October 2007

2007-10-16T17:27:00.000+01:00

Sheets

2007-10-15T21:13:00.000+01:00

Image

Sheets

Are but a luxury
We use to end
Our day
Took for granted
Silky soft
To sleep
They lead the way
Yet it was not
So long ago
We gathered in the hay
Made up our nests
In lofty trees
So living we could stay
So no surprise
For pillows soft
We have a price to pay
It is the thought
That some of us
On earth
Still have to lay

-

Egal Bohen

The Turning of the Earth

2007-10-09T01:09:00.000+01:00

Image Credit

Every second
-
Our
Lives
Move
Forward
-
Suspended
Precariously
Between
-
The
Past

And

The
Future
-
Only ever existing
-
For the briefest moment
-
In the flow of Time
-
Where
-
As
With
All
Other
Things
-
Like the turning
Of
The Earth
-
They
Are
Destined
To
Become
-
Either
History
-
Or
Matters
Of
Pure
Speculation

-

Egal Bohen

Africa

2007-09-30T19:47:00.002+01:00

Image Credit

Africa
-
We saw the child
Upon the Earth
-
We saw the look
Of
Nothing
In
It's
Eye
-
We saw the mother
-
Empty Plate
-
We saw that look
A thousand times
Closeby
-
Shed our tears
Shed our tears
-
But
Let it happen
-
Children
Don't
Deserve
To
Die

_

Egal Bohen

-

Darfur
(Then)

Now East Africa (2011)

Eyes Speak Truer Than Do Tongues

2007-09-24T16:28:00.000+01:00

You know
-
That eyes speak truer
-
Than do tongues
-
Once caught
-
A look
-
The
Truth
-
It will foretell
-
Bright
As
The
Sun
-
Egal Bohen

For no one can fix on me what is ugly

2007-09-24T12:33:00.000+01:00

A Thought for the Day
-
From
The Meditations
Of
Marcus Aurelius

-

Begin the morning by saying to yourself:

-

I shall meet with the busy-body
-
The ungrateful
-
The arrogant
-
The deceitful
-
The envious
-
And
The
Unsocial
-
All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance
-
Of
What is good
And
Evil
-
But I
-
Who have seen the nature of the good
-
That it is beautiful
-
And of the bad
-
That it is ugly
-
And the nature of him who does wrong
-
That it is
-
Akin to me
-
Not only of the same blood or seed
-
But that it participates in the same intelligence
-
And the same portion of the divinity
-
I can neither be injured by any of them

-

For no one can fix on me
-
What is ugly
-
Nor can I be angry
-
With my kinsman
-
Nor hate him
-
For we are made for co-operation
-
Like feet
Like hands
Like eyelids
-
Like the rows of the upper and lower teeth
-
To act against one another then
-
Is
Contrary to nature
-
And
It is acting against one another
-
To be vexed
-
And
To turn
Away

-

Marcus Aurelius Antonius Augustus

Roman Emperor

160 t0 180 AD

-

And Still So True

Parmenides saw

2007-09-18T15:00:00.000+01:00

Parmenides

Image Courtesy livius.org

If you should talk
Of
Nothing
-
Then no thing
You
shall
See
-
For
Nothing
Is not this world
-
Nothing
Cannot
Be
-
Nothing
Has
But
No
Thing
-
No
Thing
There
To
See
-
No shape
-
No sound
-
No texture
-
No weight
-
No density
-

So if you can describe it
-
Then do so please for me
-
For it defies description
-
It
Has
None
-
You will see
-
And
Should
You
Think
-
An empty space
-
Is
A
Nothing
You may find
-
Just think
What is around it
-
Something
On
Your
Mind?
-
While things exist
In every form
-
From
Thoughts
-
To
What you see
-
There is no such thing
As nothing
-
Only
Spaces
That
Are
Free
-
For
As long as just one thing exists
-
A no thing
You won't find
-
Don't speak of it
As if it were
-
It
Cannot
Be
Defined
-
So
Do not doubt
That all things are
-
For
It
Is
Clear
-
To
See
-
That once there was
A some thing
-
Only every thing
Could be

_

Egal Bohen

Pity

2007-09-14T00:45:00.000+01:00

Look into thyself
-
What is it you see
-
Is it pity you find
-
For
Another
-
Or
Thee?
-
If the latter
-
Your pity
-
Will be formed
In
Your mind
-
By
A measure of arrogance
-
Your choice
To be blind
-
For your life is a gift
-
Not for you
-
All
Alone
-
But for all of the beings
That find Earth
Their home
-
And
As life is a war
Which we all
Have to face
-
Thinking first
-
Of
Each
Other
-
Should
Be
Our
Saving grace

-

Egal Bohen

Violet

2007-09-07T00:36:00.001+01:00

Photo courtesy John Somerville

Sweet violet

-
Sweet thief of stolen smells

-
Of what

This blushing shame
On thy account
Doth
Shakespeare
Tell

-

Egal Bohen

To Edward

2007-09-04T23:21:00.000+01:00

(The Photographer)

-
His world an image
-
In his mind
-
He Sought
To
Capture
Parts
Of
Time
-
That passed
As
Ships
-
Into
His Bay
-
Preserving
-
So
That eyes might
Gaze
-
Symbolically
-
In
Future
Days
-
Upon
The
Passion
-
He
Portrayed

-

Thus
Edward
Photographic Art Engaged

-

Egal Bohen

Knowing

2007-09-04T23:14:00.001+01:00

POEM
_

Knowing
Is
One thing
-
Being
Another
-
Distraction
The
Reality
-
Illusion
It's
Brother

_

Egal Bohen

Two Worlds Observed

2007-09-04T01:17:00.000+01:00

Photo Courtesy G Mahoney

In
-
Intense
-
Deepest
-
Metallic
-
Blue
-
Shimmer
-
The wings
-
Of
Damsel
Flies
-
Playing
-
In
-
Warm sunlight
-
On the brook
-
That talks itself
-
Through green sedges
-
Across
-
The
Open
Meadow
-
To
-
Slide
-
Silently
-
Into
-
The
Shaded wood
-
Where
-
The
-
Dragon Fly
-
Alone
-
Swift and yellow
-
Hawks
-
Relentlessly
-
Geometrically
-
Up and down
-
Its
-
Course
-
In and out
-
Of
-
Its
-
Shadows
-
Forever
-
Searching

-

(Two worlds)
(Observed )
(Today)
(In )
(Four)
(Dimensions)

-

Egal Bohen

Understanding

2007-08-26T00:44:00.000+01:00

Until
You
Can
Understand
Others
-
You
Will
Never
Understand
Yourself

-

Egal Bohen

Decision

2007-08-20T11:00:00.000+01:00

When
You
Decide
-
Where
You
Are
Going
-
You
Will
Get
There

-

Egal Bohen

To Where the Rainbows Rule Again

2007-08-17T22:15:00.000+01:00

Denial
-
Comes
-
With
Many
Names
-
Anger
-
Fear
-
Our lives
To
Stain
-
As
Bravery
-
Our
Fleetness
Lames
-
Despondency
-
Truth
Doth
Arrange
-
So
Seems
It
Then
-
That
Gravity
-
Would
Sink
Us
-
In
It's
Deep
-
Dark
Sea
-
Not
So
-
Though
--
For
-
The
Light
-
Doth
Strain
-
To
Catch
Us
-
Lead
Us
-
Through
The
Pain
-
To
Where
-
The
Rainbows
Rule
-
Again

-

Egal Bohen

For Helen

2007-08-16T00:52:00.000+01:00

Helen Mary
-
Seeks
The
Blue
-
Sea worn glass
-
Beside the pool
-
Where the tide lays
-
On the shore
-
By
Rocks
-
Small
Stones
-
Sea fairies store
-
Though
Green
Glass
Glistens
-
On white sand
-
By
Oceans
Sent
-
To touch her hand
-
Helen Mary
-
Faithful
-
True
-
Seeks only ever
-
Sea glass Blue

_

Egal Bohen

Cheat

2007-08-07T23:19:00.000+01:00

The

Only

Person

-

You

Can

Ever

Cheat

-

Is

Yourself

-

Egal Bohen

People

2007-08-07T23:13:00.001+01:00

People

-

Are just messed up animals

-

Egal Bohen

The Monkey and the Shrew

2007-07-26T22:25:00.000+01:00

Photo: Courtesy of Greepeace

I was the Bull
-
The
Tiger
Too
-
I've been the Monkey
-
And
The
Shrew
-
I was an Elephant awhile
-
Once
A
Crocodile
Of
The Nile
-
A Lizard
-
I was sent to be
-
Before
-
A
Wolf
-
That
Wandered
Free
-
The Bear I was
Not long ago
-
And
Then
-
A
White Owl
-
In
The
Snow
-
A Whale
-
I've swum
The
Seven
Seas
-
Been
A
Humming Bird
-
Amongst
The
Trees
-
All animals
-
Are of one kind
-
All
Brothers
-
That
Include
Mankind
-
Of course
-
They hear
-
What I have said
-
You see
-
Their spirits
Live
-
Still
-
In my head

-

Egal Bohen

This Heaven thing

2007-07-20T02:50:00.000+01:00

This
Heaven
Thing

Is it a farce

A bit like that saying

That the grass

Is always greener

On the other side

Or is it
Just
A
Myth

To
Hide

From us the fact
That when we die

That is the end

The
Last
Goodbye

-

Egal Bohen

Feelings

2007-07-20T02:22:00.000+01:00

The
Only
Real
Things

In our life

Are
Our
Feelings

-

Egal Bohen

Druid Stones

2007-07-18T21:54:00.000+01:00

The stones stand
Like a circle of crones
Far out on the moor

Resembling witches
Short
Hunch backed
With cloaks down to the floor

As if a meeting
Once begun
Was frozen then in Time

They stand there
Silent

In the mist

In
Some
Fantastic
Mime

Forbidding and mysterious
Is one that towers above

One wonders
What it represents

Power?
Law?

Not
Love

No one knows
From whence they came

Nor what they stand there for

But pray their meeting

Now adjourned

Remains
So
Evermore

_

Egal Bohen