Honest Labor

an orig. poem on water, light, reflection & renewal

I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour. Nor do I find my
hurried life greatly inimical to my correspondence with the Muses. Their
visits to me, indeed, and I believe to most of their acquaintance, like
the visits of good angels, are short and far between; but I meet them
now and then as I jog through the hills of Nithsdale, just as I used to
do on the banks of Ayr. — Robert Burns, a letter to R. Graham of Fintry, dated 9th December, 1789.

Hope (1827) by Paul Lemoyne

Borrowing these vibes.

“the lightning in me that strikes relentless”

Honest Labor

Water reflect view
by light of fire blue
Tide of becoming
cast off all shortcoming
Styx river crosser
Amnesia ark dodger
A baptism dove flood
meet chaos with love
The fractal fluid flow
of the mercury edge glow

Recur visions of gliding
by Moon brightly shining
Dream of déjà vu pier
Waves crashing near
Hear finality calling
Future forebode falling
Sink like an Evil
or rise like the seagull
Refine yourself into
the Truth of not yet new

Become crying crystal
head of a missile
Plunge spear of archangel
straight into a deceit spell
Prayer mnemonic maker
Calm hate of the neighbor
“dare to be honest and fear no labor”

“It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate. You can deceive others, you can deceive your brain-self, but you can’t deceive your mind-self — for mind deals only in the discovery of truth and the interrelationship of all truths. The cosmic laws with which mind deals are noncorruptible. Cosmic evolution is omniscient God comprehensively articulate.”— Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path (1981)

“At the source of the longest river || The voice of the hidden waterfall || And the children in the apple-tree || Not known, because not looked for|| But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.” — T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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see also:

• Derek J Fiedler (interview w/ Matthieu Pageau) || The Symbolism of Light and Reflection (4.45 min) [link]

“Dare to be honest and fear no labour.”