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THE HARVEST
In this world I have many friends, We talk and laugh together through the days. Many a path we've walked along the bends And watched as sunset on the horizon plays.
It's such a good life, all in all. The peace of mother nature belongs to me. Animals come running at my beck and call, I'm surrounded with contentment to love and be.
But deep inside there's an emptiness That calls divine light to come and heal. Sometimes it fills with overwhelming loneliness, I long to return to the loving vibration I feel.
But I know the truth, I cannot go alone Each of my friends is part of my divine light, And every animal, vegetable, tree and stone Needs but my help to shine with divinity bright.
So loneliness is overcome by purpose And comfort is found in the little things in life. Responsibility to my brother must be foremost. Through growth, initiation follows pain and strife.
Patiently I await the glorious day When shining with a brilliance yet unknown, Every part of spirit will join along the way And unite in the harvest of what divinity has sown.
Terry Lane
THIS WASN'T EASY
Some folks can write sonnets everyday That's just not the case with me Words don't easily come my way I'm not cut out for poetry.
There's already odes to the glory of love, Meadow Flowers in the morning dew, And the skylark flying up above Just six more line 'til I'm through.
Ila not a Dickinson, Browning. Or Millay How quickly they put thoughts to rhyme. Or maybe they just had something to say In metric versemeterand time.
While this may be someone's idea of fun, When I finish this line my sonnet is done.
Any Austell

THE HARVEST
In this world I have many friends, We talk and laugh together through the days. Many a path we've walked along the bends And watched as sunset on the horizon plays.
It's such a good life, all in all. The peace of mother nature belongs to me. Animals come running at my beck and call, I'm surrounded with contentment to love and be.
But deep inside there's an emptiness That calls divine light to come and heal. Sometimes it fills with overwhelming loneliness, I long to return to the loving vibration I feel.
But I know the truth, I cannot go alone Each of my friends is part of my divine light, And every animal, vegetable, tree and stone Needs but my help to shine with divinity bright.
So loneliness is overcome by purpose And comfort is found in the little things in life. Responsibility to my brother must be foremost. Through growth, initiation follows pain and strife.
Patiently I await the glorious day When shining with a brilliance yet unknown, Every part of spirit will join along the way And unite in the harvest of what divinity has sown.
Terry Lane
THIS WASN'T EASY
Some folks can write sonnets everyday That's just not the case with me Words don't easily come my way I'm not cut out for poetry.
There's already odes to the glory of love, Meadow Flowers in the morning dew, And the skylark flying up above Just six more line 'til I'm through.
Ila not a Dickinson, Browning. Or Millay How quickly they put thoughts to rhyme. Or maybe they just had something to say In metric versemeterand time.
While this may be someone's idea of fun, When I finish this line my sonnet is done.
Any Austell

THE NATURE OF MAN
BY TERRY LANE
Rousseau was an idealist. He believed in the inherent goodness of man. Any evil in man was a result of living in a society that was not conducive to spirituality. Rousseau thought that the customs and prejudices of society prevented man from attaining self-realization and mastery.
I believe that man is made in the image and likeness of God. However, man has settled on the idea of a God made in the image and likeness of man. My God does not appear in the form of a body. He does not get jealous or angry. He does not like one man better than another. He is the macrocosm and man is the microcosm.
By creating man, God joined together spirit and matter. Man's soul is a part of divine spirit, an attribute of God. Therefore, man is inherently good. Man's physical body, mind and emotions are part of matter and worldly illusions. Man's purpose on this earth on this earth is to transmute the lower instincts of matter into higher divine qualities.
Just as man is composed of both spirit and matter, God is both immanent and transcendent.God Immanent is the source of birth and evolution in all of nature. God Transcendent is the manifestation of this source in matter, or nature as we see it. The dual nature of God and man can be seen in all worldly manifestation. It is because of this basic duality of materialism and spirituality that some men have difficulty perceiving the inherent goodness of man. If man does not exercise his strong spiritual will, it is easy for him to be attracted to the material aspects of creation. He will be absorbed by the customs and prejudices of the society in which he lives. These lower instincts, with which man does battle, are but Illusions. They do not reflect his spiritual nature and are therefore distortions of reality.
Man is part of a collective unconscious and possesses a psychical nature which is subject to impressions from divine sources. It is this psychical nature which causes experiences of elation and at-one-ment described so eloquently in the writings of poets and philosophers alike. It is the source or bestower of revelation.
As man becomes disillusioned with the material world, he tends to ponder truth and beauty and begins to understand the attractive power of God's instinctual nature. The unrealized potencies of his own nature blend and cooperate with God. The inherent goodness of man makes his union with God an inevitable, irresistible occurrence.