I recently posted a rough cycle of poems that I wrote between the years 2005 and 2010, subtitled Christian Homesickness. I consider these poems a summary of the creative work from my twenties. Some of them became song lyrics through adaptation and transformation, and some were just meant to stand on their own. All express the experience of being in the crucible of Christian conversion, amidst a simultaneously skeptical and satanic world.
Train to learn to disappear and reappear
And be a type and be before the
All that’s meant to come and stand forever more.
These wishes poured out, deep upon the deep,
Upon the deepest places stored and tried,
He acted out of grief but by the end was
Well trained to make a person disappear and reappear,
And be a type, a saint.
I have also posted a transcript of some prayers that I prayed in 2015 from my home in Queens, which I think could prove useful for those seeking to communicate with God on the topics of the higher life and calling.
“And at this crossroads of my own life, I do indeed conclude that I cannot continue to be yielded to a fully relational grid of interpersonal activity that operates out of a fear of the other’s condemnation, but I must operate out of the knowledge of Your will.”
Finally, I have posted a very short essay that I wrote this past summer (2018) on my theory of personal discourse, which includes the following Venn diagram:
