Institute of Reflection

The virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation – A Tool for Clearer Thinking, Emotional Balance and a Rounded Perspective
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by Oranmore

Lord Oranmore is struck in wonderment at many of the perplexing questions about the world and mankind’s place in it that can be felt by those of a reflective disposition. These uncertainties and other concerns of this institute receive a rapt distillation into words in ‘Sparkling Fountain’.
POEM

A Question to be Answered

I often question my purpose.
A question proposed.
What is the quest I question?
For life is the purpose quest.
Like a top spinning
The headaches without decision.
What is decision, where is it made
A muzzled head, a wired up brain.
Or, in a phantom from another plain.
Life’s plan is made, then it fades.

The material body made of flesh,
The bones together creak, afresh
Ask the flesh, where is the rest.
The brain answers with the test,
I am thought, from whence is talk?
When this miraculous body walks?
Complicated facts work in the brain,
Emotion, intuition show another game.
Cross wires expire and I start again.

Has the dream grown forom a child,
Emotions burst and broken.
A study of the past, a new reign.
Fallen from the crest, a token
Of all the stories of old that came,
Some remembered and spoken
Good on earth, put others to shame
a round bowl full of devotion.