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(For this poet, the flood of intuitive insight, incoming when meeting any fellow human being, is so overwhelming that in order to concentrate on what that person might be saying she is forced to break eye contact to listen)

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Recorded Reading (1:16): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jl5akup1np833hs40nv8a/Now-Ye-See.wav?rlkey=ny5m8v8l1drgo5j458vb49s1p&dl=0

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Now Ye See

In ancient texts of wisdom
Each seeker deeply delves
Then comes the day when at long last
We see it for ourselves

No longer wobbly aiming
Widely off the mark
No longer looking through a glass
Smoky, dim and dark

Suddenly we realize
The wisdoms which illuminate
Humanity have been the same
Early, ever, long and late

So simple are the tenets
We internalize
Diligently practicing
One morning we just realize

The elders had the right of it
It super simple is
To live in heaven here and now
In agape bliss

It’s only necessary
To the self forget
And stand close to your brother
Close, and closer yet

Until it is effortlessly
To your great surprise
You find that you can see the world
Through that brother’s eyes

Then all the wisdom walking in
Every heart that be
So simply is available —
Were blind, but now ye see!

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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