Friday, July 29, 2016

Post No. 208: We Are Literally Nothing


(Image from Strange Notions)

We Are Literally Nothing

Because we are
Literally Nothing,
we have to do
something about
being Nothing

in order to become
Everything That Exists
otherwise, we remain
Literally Nothing.


-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"

My Writing About The Story Of Nothing And Change: The story of change is the story of nothing! –Paul Whiting (written July 16th, 2013 and revised August 26th, 2022)

My Writing About The Creation Of Self-Love: What does Literally Nothing become when Nothing falls in love with itself due to the ability of Nothing to become—literally—Everything That Exists? –Paul Whiting (written May 8th, 2014 and revised August 26th, 2022)

My Writing About The Reason That We Have To Do Something About Being Literally Nothing: Because we are Literally Nothing, we have to do something about being Nothing in order to become Everything That Exists—otherwise, we remain Literally Nothing. –Paul Whiting (written July 28th, 2016, revised July 29th, 2016, revised June 24th, 2022 and August 24th, 2022)

My Writing About How There Is Literally Nothing Else To Do Except Evolve Into Self-Love: Because we are Literally Nothing, there is nothing else to do except evolve into Self-Love. –Paul Whiting (written June 6th, 2016, revised August 23rd, 2016 and revised August 24th, 2022)

My Writing About Owing Yourself Everything: Since you are God, you owe yourself everything, because you are everything unto yourself. –Paul Whiting (written around November 19th, 2012 to November 20th, 2012 and revised November 22, 2022)

My Poetic Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: "Because we are Literally Nothing, we have to do something about being Nothing in order to become Everything That Exists—otherwise, we remain Literally Nothing."

And this poem was also published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher," "Three Dark Horses" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs (please see the hyperlinks below for the blogs), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message I am trying to convey through "Poet, Artist and Philosopher," "Three Dark Horses" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer." Plus, I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message I am trying to convey through my new "The Oneness Of God" spiritual practice!

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

https://poetartistandphilosopher.blogspot.com

https://threedarkhorses.blogspot.com

https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com

This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 208 was edited on May 6th, 2024.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Post No. 207: A Haiku-Style Poem For My Father On 86th His Birthday


(Image from Masons Attic)

Thank You for Teaching Me
(A Haiku-Style Poem With Multiple Stanzas)

Thank you for teaching
me to be responsible
for all things in life!

Thank you for teaching
me to be accountable
for mending my strife!

Thank you for teaching
me to be independent
in all things I do!

Thank you for teaching
me to be one who teaches
others—just like you!

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"

My Poetic Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I reread the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]...

...And I was rereading "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1," when I read the quote below on page 114, which reminded me of how my father, who passed away in 2018, raised us kids—while our mother was dealing with a lot of physical and psychological issues, which she experienced her entire life. Here is that quote:

"My pay—the payoff you get when you 'work for' Me—provides a great deal more than spiritual comfort. Physical comfort, too, can be yours. Yet the ironic part about all this is that, once you experience the kind of spiritual comfort My payoff provides, the last thing you’ll find yourself worrying about is physical comfort.

Even the physical comfort of members of your family will no longer be a concern to you—for once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose—is choosing—its own destiny this instant.

Clearly, it is not the highest action to deliberately abuse or destroy another. Clearly, it is equally inappropriate to neglect the needs of those you have caused to be dependent on you.

Your job is to render them independent; to teach them as quickly and completely as possible how to get along without you."

And I felt so inspired by the quote above, that I wrote this poem on July 6th, 2016 (ten days before my father's 86th birthday), which started out as a classic Haiku-style poem, but ended up being "a multiple-stanza Haiku-style poem," as I explained more of what I meant about this feeling.

I should mention that this poem was written for—and posted on—Facebook, way back when I was actually on Facebook, which I haven't been for years...

And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

However, even though this poem was not written in Salt Lake City, I still have this poem labeled under "My Utah Writing," since the topic of this poem is based upon my family, who live predominantly in Utah.

-Paulee

https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com

This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 207 was edited on May 3rd, 2024.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

My poems that are Haiku in their style—within which one stanza is composed of three lines, where each line has words containing five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively—are a lot more like Senryū poems in that the topic of these poems is typically about people, rather than the topic of these poems being about nature, as is usually the case in classic Haiku poems. And that is why I call these types of poems "Haiku-style." –Paul Whiting [September 19th, 2023]