Seeing through the smoke

by Ernest Lowe from the eighties

My search for awareness and my poetry moved back into the

larger world in the eighties. Reagan was elected and re-elected
and poured our wealth into even more nuclear weapons and Star
Wars.

I went through a period of learning deeply about the many ways

we had damaged our home and each other while I had been
"working on myself". At times I felt as though I were on fire as I
tried to reconcile my spiritual vision with this world of greed and
cruelty.

I feel that writing poetry is my way of remaining sane as I pay

attention to the evils of our human nature. Equally, my poems
are my way of affirming that we have a deeper nature where we
know how to act with creative love.

I thank my family around the planet – the many people whose

actions so often reflect this deeper human nature.