Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: religion

CROWD-PLEASING CHANT

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:22pm

WHO IS GOD?

We Are God

WHAT IS GOD?

We Are God

WHERE IS GOD?

Here Is God

WHERE?

Here!

WHERE?

Here!!

WHERE?!

Hear!!!

WHUZ UP IS DOWN

The Hawk Deck 12:30pm

Imma gonna turn

dis worl inside

out

dem stars is black

‘ginst d’ white

an Imma

wearin’

Ma Gym Cloze

an Red Kicks

ONCE I SAW

The Hawk Queen Bed 7:45am

Once I Saw The Light Of God

Streaking Down Around Me

It Made Me Speak

“I Am The Second Coming…”

 Now I Think

You’ve Found Me

PROCLAMATION 2

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:12pm

I Am Proclaiming

My Godliness

with The Hope

that Others, You

might say the same

for Yourselves:

I cannot say

“You Are God”

but I can think It

& I DO —

I think We all

are God

as The Unit Of Humanity

made up of Individual Minds

RELIGIOUS FIGURE

The Hawk Deck 11:00am

I have turned into

a religious figure

dressed in purple robe

& sun hat

holding My mauve & gold

Journal

on My Knee

I hear the birds

a lawn mower

& write

of The Solace

I seek for Others

Who may share

My View

of The Internal God

NOW

The Hawk Deck 10:22am

Can You believe Me Now —

Do You believe Me Now —

Twenty Years after The Shower Of Lights

that I Am God

from Inside

No, I am not The External God

The Man in The Sky

I Am My Own Boss

with The Meaning of Life

under My Belt

 A Wilson’s Warbler singing His Song

out to Me

from The Scraggly Apple

Can You, Could You, Believe Me Now?

THE UBIQUITOUS FACE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:45pm

We Are The Face

Of God

look no further

than You Own

Navel

Where You Came From

& where Your Inheritance

came from

before You were born

THE JOKER

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:30pm

One hospitalized night

I saw The Meaning Of Life

open out before My Astonished Eyes

to reveal a profound Joke —

A Joke I had no way of expressing

but A Joke to make The World Laugh

not to Death

but to Life

A New Life, A New Era

where God is unnecessary

where God can be laughed off

laughed at

& thrown into a corner

a rigid corner, or pocket (like a pool table)

where He can see

He no longer resides

on Earth

except in the form

of uncornered Humans

Who find Their True Meaning

in a spirituality

unseparate

BONUM NON EST IN DEO:

On the Indistinction of the One and the

Exclusion of the Good in Meister Eckhart

“I Am The Child —

Big Black Book Upon My Lap

A Smattering Of The Universe

Bespotting This Page

Of Lights

From My Diamond Rings”

The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:47pm

RECIPE FOR GOD

The Yarmouth Psychiatric Unit, Yarmouth NS

about ten years ago

Take One Firm Believer

Who Thinks She’s It

Throw In A Dose Or Two Of Scepticism

Stir It All Up

Heap On A Prayer

Cook On High

Until Ready To Serve