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Easter Exultet

James Broughton, James Broughton poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Beat poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by James Broughton
(1913 - 1999) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic : Beat
20th Century

Shake out your qualms.
Shake up your dreams.
Deepen your roots.
Extend your branches.
Trust deep water
and head for the open,
even if your vision
shipwrecks you.
Quit your addiction
to sneer and complain.
Open a lookout.
Dance on a brink.
Run with your wildfire.
You are closer to glory
leaping an abyss
than upholstering a rut.
Not dawdling.
Not doubting.
Intrepid all the way
Walk toward clarity.
At every crossroad
Be prepared
to bump into wonder.
Only love prevails.
En route to disaster
insist on canticles.
Lift your ineffable
out of the mundane.
Nothing perishes;
nothing survives;
everything transforms!
Honeymoon with Big Joy!

 

 

-- from Little Sermons of the Big Joy: Poems, by James Broughton

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Themes

  Bliss
  Dream
  Light
  Lover and Beloved
  Sleep


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All: A James Broughton Reader, by James Broughton
The Films of James Broughton: DVD, by James Broughton
Little Sermons of the Big Joy: Poems, by James Broughton
Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996, by James Broughton

 

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