Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: God

UNTIL NOW

Tusket, NS 1:35pm

Women have been housed

in harems

insane asylums

in societies

They have been burned

drowned, beheaded

allowed to be disowned

by Their own families

& stoned

to death

BEDSIDE PRAYER

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:48pm

I Am God

I Am The Only God

I Know

please do not punish Me

for what I think

I think with My Brain

with My Body

& It is the only

Brain & Body

I Know

TAG LINE

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:22pm

I have stood above

My Paintings

cascading colours

like Jackson Pollock

in a filthy studio

yet now I stand

Above The World

to write a message

not of hope

but of COMPASSION

for it is THAT HUMAN TRAIT

We lack

Which has turned Us

upside

down

THE CHICKADEE CALLS

The Hawk Deck 10:22am

It’s A Fine Time For Me

to write of The Religion For One

out here on My Pristine Deck

in The August Morning Sun —

What Can I Tell Of My View

Of The Self?

The Birds How They Cry

for broken hearts

& bombed civilians —

but wait —

NO ONE SHOULD GET BOMBED:

Ours Is An Earth

of exquisite beauty

& must not be marred

by hatred & distrust  —

I Am Here To Settle Out

the chaos

To Re-organize

The Individual Mind

To See Out Its Full Potential

& Have It Believe

in Life

EXERCISE IN PERSONAE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 9:37pm

1.  Second Coming Of Christ —

immediate result of The Shower Of Silver Lights

aspects:  brilliant light, whiteness (not skin colour),

awakening, worldly vision

2.  The Anti-Christ —

wants to obliterate Christianity —

I don’t want to obliterate

anyone’s religion but I do wonder

what this world would be like

with only One Religion

3.  Black Jesus —

black in colour (not skin colour),

represents compassion,

humanity’s darkness

used in conjunction as opposing element in

The Grand Design Of Our Reconciliation Of Opposites

BLACK & WHITE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:17pm

How Can I Stop

The World

& Say I Am All Things:

I Am The Second Coming

Of Christ —

I Am The Anti-Christ

I Am Black Jesus

waiting out this mess

in My Cathedral-ceilinged

Living Room

where no one dies

cats are cared for

& The Radio Plays

Pretty Songs?

What Is M(eye) God?

The Tomato-coloured Couch 11:25am

M(eye) God Is

By Its Very Nature

The Machinations Of Humanity

Within The Structure

Of All Living Organisms

Intertwined W/ The Bugs

& Held In Check

By The Oceans

At The End Of My Journal

The Hawk West Desk Window 6:34pm

My Famous Shower Of Lights

was not blinding

Its Radiant Spears

Snapped Me To Attention

and Made Me See

For An Eternity

GALACTIC CITIZEN*

The Hawk Kitchen 7:10pm

In The Briefest Moment

I Saw The Spiral

Of A Particle Of Dust

Against The Black Of My Cell Phone

And Suddenly Understood

The Necessity Of FORM

Before My Breath

Took It Away

*Robert David Steele

Open-Source Everything Manifesto

FROM A WOULD-BE ANTI-CHOICE PROTESTER

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:57pm

What would I say if faced

with a pregnant woman about to walk

into an abortion clinic?

“That Human You Carry

Comes From You —

To Kill It Is To Kill A Sacred Part

Of Your Self”