The OSMOSIS Poems: writings from within and out of The Dream - Part 1
By Scott Vanya
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The work I was doing exploring Emptiness, as the holiness that projects out through us into this space, The Earth, produced many, many poems of a similar nature: The OSMOSIS Poems.
The collected books, in four parts, spans, that period and encompasses large portions of 2012 and 2013.
No attempt is made to hide anything from the reader, rather like the archeologist uncovering long buried treasures, I channeled what I found in that place into this place.
Largely I was "moved" to write and these are how the works came. I think they catch the light that graces all men and women's souls.
They are all tinged with a sense of human compassion and "get-alongness" that I am so fond of. Without that, this world just wouldn't make any sense at all.
I think you will see what I mean, and do suggest you read all four parts, as more often than not I was turning over a jewel in my hand and at each poem, a new light was caught.
Peace.
Scott Vanya
I've been writing for a very long time, what seems like my whole life, taking it seriously from the time I was about 11. Now, at 46, I think I may be starting to get the hang of it: Say what you feel, as passionately as you can, but always with an ear turned to those who are listening.Most of my more serious work is done at live performances, which i do totally extemporaneously, channeling the mood of the room as my fingers play on the guitar. You can see some of that if you go to "my" website. (Open Mics Austin is a platform I created to showcase the Spoken Word scene here in Austin, TX. Only a small role in which i play.)As far as I can tell what makes good writing is LOVE. Love ,plainly simply, and with no strings attached.I put these words/books before you, not so much because I want something back from it, because I think and feel like I feel my bones and my soul, if you were to see the world, experience it like it do, for even a brief moment, you would walk away from that happier, more alive, compassionate and in tune with all those around you.Peace, good will, and harmony. Let those be your guiding light.Agape forever,Scott VanyaPublication Credits:Stepping Stones Magazine, The Main Street Rag, www.carcinogenicpoetry.com, Texas Art Initiative, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Walt’s Corner, Manna, Perigee, Chicago Literary Review, Mobius, Cosmic Trend, Pitchfork, Romantics Quarterly, Artisan, Pegasus, The Neovictorian, Red Owl, The Story Teller, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Atlantic Pacific Press
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The OSMOSIS Poems - Scott Vanya
The OSMOSIS Poems - writings from within and out of The Dream - Part 1
Scott Vanya
Copyright Scott Vanya 2014
Published at Smashwords
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Dramatic Dialogue - Many Share Our SoulsBecause the world needs poetsDid anybodyHow HumbleI am a loverI don'tI justIt is as muchMy Title-less ProfessionOn a night like any otherOutside is where we belongSo long, APPRECIATE!StringsThe Eternal...EngagementThe spool is empty, LordToday=Ec-DynamicWere IWhenYou are not alone
A Dramatic Dialogue: Many Share Our Souls
Many Share Our Souls
Cast of Characters
Peace: however you experience her;
Eternity: whatever you believe him to be.
Act I
Peace:
I would that my voice
were to sing
until it
with all the birds I can hear
were blended
into a single chorus.
I would that Will
were something
oftener kept
to the chest
then flung away
like rose petals
rather than
that which
grips a face,
any face,
in tumultuous pangs of remorse
or dread.
Were every face
to free itself,
unhinged,
floating away
on the Breeze
of Time
The World would be a nobler place.
If 'twill not be done
Now
then 'twill never be done
at all!
Eternity:
Yet, My Sweet,
we all come
into the world
suckling at her breast,
the breasts of our mothers,
in one form or another...
Yet, You, My Dearest Distraction,
are
an arriving-at
yet always leaving
from.
Peace:
Flower, Love, flower:
as if but a hand,
stuck out
past the edge
of a bed,
that drops a pen
yet in a single crystalline moment,
by some miracle
rolls back
to the sleeping fingers,
taps them,
and awakens him
again.
We are such,
that finds its Self
then just a surely,
and almost
as swiftly,
loses It.
Eternity:
I am bound to you, My Love,
but not
in the ways
of heaviness nor fear
but rather
The Lightness of Joy and Uproarious Laughter.
I have brushed the hair back
from before your eyes
and all the world
was revealed to me
as yours held mine.
The miracle...
Peace:
Yes, My Love?
Eternity:
The Miracle is
that no matter
how often I hold you
then a blink aft
lose you,
I never ever,
ever,
ever
tire of it.
Peace:
I am engaged , My Love,
but not to the sorrows
of goodbye,
but to the bliss of hellos.
And 'ow often we
draw Knowns
from the Unknowns out
lips to lips attracted,
I rejoice in it, as well.
Eternity:
But we must sleep, My Love,
we must sleep.
Peace:
Indeed we must.
But let it be
to the semblance of my quiet
you drift off,
Whether I hold you or not,
only now,
only now,
just coming
to
for
by
about
You.
We are just souls
moving everyone's tongues.
Sing.
Sing.
Sing.
Sleep.
Hum.
We are at an end.
Peace and Eternity (in chorus):
What must be done
must be done.
Yet on a calm night
The writer awoke
to edify
what was revealed to him,
as