MY MISSION
I have a mission— always have. Yet it has come more and more into focus with the rising tide of years. It is this: Through the beauty of language, to help others rebirth their spirits by catching sight of the Light beyond light, by touching the Life beyond life, and by drawing closer to the God of Love, their Source and Happy Ending.
MY CURRENT PROJECT–THRESHOLDS OF LIGHT: EXALTATIONS OF THE SOUL IN ALL SEASONS
Who the poems are for:
For everyone who’s been struck down by darkness;
For everyone who’s been lifted into light
For everyone who’s felt confined by life as it’s been given;
For everyone who’s sensed a vastness just beyond it
For everyone who’s been plunged into the depths of heartbreak;
For everyone who knows that they’ve been saved
For everyone who’s wished for a happy ending;
For everyone who is unable to
For everyone who believes in transcendent Goodness;
For everyone who can’t
I wish for every reader/listener:
To feel that they have connected with, and found an honoring of, a wide range of the core experiences of their lives;
As a result, to feel that they have been seen, heard, and validated in their human-ness;
To feel confirmed in their sense that they are vaster and more expansive than their daily lives have been able to reveal;
To feel inspired and lifted by Beauty, Truthfulness, and Goodness;
To feel that they have been found…and freed!
“These poems not only illumine the depths of everyday life experience, revealing the hidden beauty lying just beyond the edges of ordinary perception. They also awaken our sleeping senses to that astonishing warmth and tenderness which we often miss and dismiss as daily dullness. No, far more than that! Douglas Gillette ventures to share his vision of how we mortals can face death with both grit and grace, surrender and triumph!”
– Rev. Don Jones, retired pastor in the Disciples of Christ Church and Elder in the Mankind Project
These poems encompass a wide range of feelings and images about renewal and transformation, and they speak in a variety of voices and on multiple levels of meaning. Many are bright, soaring even. Some are darker. Many are “lyrical.” Some are more measured. Some are light. Some are heavier. Some are narratives. Some are humorous. Often seriousness and humor are mixed. Some of the poems involve a hint of cognitive puzzling that makes these pieces particularly intriguing, as the solutions to these gentle riddles gradually rise to consciousness.
There are around 350 poems in this collection. Here are two:
TWO POEMS
With Every Other Each Thing
Douglas Gillette: 6-5-14
In the Great Fullness abide all things—everything that walks, slithers, swims, or has wings— also even stranger and more wonderful things.
Each is what it is at its extreme. At the same time, each is seamlessly blended with every other each thing.
In the Great Fullness is a limitless Light and Life higher and brighter than any yet dreamed.
Each thing in the Fullness lives in this world which presently seems, but diminutively, compromised, and most dramatically dimmed.
When we are swept back into that Fullness, we and all things, streaming within us all we have been, all will be transformed in less than a twinkling,
and sing—each as what it is at its extreme, and seamlessly blended with every other each thing.
Copyright © 2015 by Douglas Gillette
You Shall Not Be Forsaken
Douglas Gillette: 10-11-14
For all who grieve missed opportunities with
parents, spouses, partners, children;
for all whose hearts are breaking for the harm
they’ve done — miniscule altercations
or wholesale carnage; for all who mourn self-
inflicted wounds; for all who couldn’t give
their best because of damaged childhoods, or
of their world views or their circumstances
suffered insurmountable limitations;
for all whose lives have been cut short, or who’ve
been stifled in their mental development
or nipped
in the bud by some alternative restriction; for
all who’ve been ignored, abused, bullied,
or made
victims of cruelty or injustice; for all who stand
witness to their gradual diminishing…
I say:
It’s alright, It’s all right.
You have yet other lives to live
and you have never been, nor shall you ever be, forsaken.
Copyright © 2015 by Douglas Gillette
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