The Poetry of R.E. Slater: Jun 7, 2020

"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Sunday, June 7, 2020

R.E. Slater - Being and Becoming

Of experience and being worldly-wise — I Wrote Those

Being and Becoming

by R.E. Slater

Being Worldly

Being Secular

Being Humanist

Labels meant to make

the people living them ugly

Words meant to divide and kill

create strife and separate

Meanings misused and misappropriated

twisted into definitions of exclusion

We become our words

We become what we say and do

We become our ugly intent

Being is a beautiful thing

Becoming is part of living and maturing

Being is me

Becoming is too

Being meets Becoming

Making both whole

Becoming Worldly

Becoming Secular

Becoming Humanist

These are expressions made whole when

a God of Love is placed in front of them

Who meets me with who I should become

Who meets world with what it can become

Who meets us to tell us Love, and be Loved

There can be no apology
for being who we are

There can be no pulpit
crying separation from the world

There can be no creed of
oneness with God if not also His people

Godly worldliness provides experience where there is none

Godly secularity sees beauty wherever it looks

Godly humanism sees the possibilities of mankind at its best

Being and Becoming

Flowing and Movement

Balance and Harmony

Let it be and become

Undivided and Whole

In this Life now to Life everlasting

R.E. Slater

June 7, 2020

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