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    Source & Soul
    Source & Soul
    Source & Soul
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    Source & Soul

    By Monty Marcus

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    Poetry is the expression of spiritual essence mixed with equal parts timing and human observation. It exists within each of us from the moment were poured into the bodies we ?ll and stays there our lifetime. It patiently waits until it matches with the experience needed for it to outwardly show. Poetry is in every part of us; it manifests in everything we do. Poetry is our speech, our cadence. Its the way we walk; the way we carry ourselves. Its in the sounds we make when we laugh and cry. Poetry is the unique story of ourselves, created by us, as we continually write it. Poetry is the source we use to tap into the universal energy that unifies every being living now and that ever has; our soul is the sacred part of us that connects us to it.

    Asked as a young man if I would ever write a book of poetry with themes of modernism, awareness, observation and spirituality, I am not sure I would have comprehended the question. I know I would have understood the meaning of the question; its just that the concept would have been so foreign to me I wouldnt have known quite what to say. I would likely have dismissed the question as one that had been intended for someone else. As the man I am now, I realize I could not have written this book today unless I was also the man I was then. Asked if I have now written a book of poetry with those same themes, I would answer yes, I have been writing it all along.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 6, 2014
    ISBN9781491858479
    Source & Soul
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    Monty Marcus

    Monty Marcus is a writer and poet. His writing is based on life experiences and observations. Writing since 1990, his first book of poetry, "Tug", was published in 2007. Since that time, a deepened view of life has directed his writing towards a blend of real-world experience and spiritual awareness.

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      Source & Soul - Monty Marcus

      A Glorious Material

      God placed

      Inside us

      A glorious material

      Burning pure as spiritual fuel

      Arcing at perfect intervals

      Setting us free from oxidized particles of the typical, standard and plain

      It stays inside us always and forever, no matter drenching rain or astonishing sunshine

      It carries us across and over

      Unbolts bolted doors closed off from unbolted opens

      Breaks small unbreakable bits into smaller pieces of unbreakable bits

      Keeps our blazing eyes in direct line with our unstoppable fire

      Lifts us up when lifting down weakens our lifting arms

      Inspires us to breathe in inspiring breaths and breathe out inspiring words

      Teaches us to lean away from the oncoming storm and lean into the outgoing calm

      It empowers us to love deeply and live our years forever and for always together as one

      God placed this material

      Inside us

      To help us become ourselves

      To fill our emptiness with fullness and empty the feeling of being too filled

      To push us to pull inward when we pull to push outward

      To shape awkward shaped things back into shape again

      To show us new ways to make new things feel new again

      To show us how to love like nothing this hungry Earth could possibly devour

      This material is the divinely given, super beautiful, natural resource we use to create the ceaseless, limitless, glorious engine of our soul

      03/13

      Tell Me Two Things

      Tell me two things

      Say the first as an introduction to the second and the second as a companion to the first

      Let the first thing you say float simple and clean, powered by the pure honesty we genuinely share

      Let the second be a broadcast from the heaven within you emerging from its hallowed space as the ringing bell of truth

      The first should fill me with an ease of understanding that comes from our unique knowing of each other

      The second should crackle out of you like the violet shadow of dusk as daytime returns its gift with the absence of light

      Tell me first what occupies your mind, what holds your attention, what you want me to know about what you want and need

      Then tell me what inhabits your soul, what stops you at full steam, shredding your stillness to a burning pulp

      In the first, I want to feel the gentle connection we have lovingly built and that lovingly endures

      Then dazzle my spirit with what needs to get out of you under the calls of mercy as its force to exit is that unbearably strong

      The first thing you say should come from inside of you

      It should be gentle and warm like the sun singing a lullaby through a trickle of rain

      The second should come from outside of you

      It should scream like a horn blasting its way out of a thunderstorm

      Tell me two things that glow, that have the warmth of being near and close, that stays with us through the high ups and low downs, tell me what opens you, what finds you and fulfills you, tell me everything you have to tell through the sounds of sweetness, fire, chaos and calm

      Tell me two completely different things

      And make them sound exactly the same

      6/12

      Man For Higher

      Higher is not a place you go

      Higher is a place that comes to you

      It comes to you after you have readied yourself for it

      Which comes from allowing yourself to be ready

      A man for higher does not strive to be higher

      He allows himself to be brought up

      He knows it takes coming down twice to go up once

      To rise, he must lift others first

      He knows with strength comes responsibility

      He knows in the darkness he is led by an inner light

      Higher is not a goal, it is not a reward

      It has nothing to do with riches or control

      Higher does not stand taller or boast talent

      It does not call out louder or demand attention

      Higher wants no part of selfish pride

      Higher does nothing to encourage the defeat of others

      Higher simply is what it is and not one thing more

      Higher is a place that comes to you when you are ready

      You will not have to look for it

      You will not have to travel far or pass any test

      When you are ready it will welcome you

      You will know it and be familiar with it

      When you are ready

      You will know this higher place that comes to you is

         from a place

      inside

      of you

      06/09

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