John Prophet

poem by John Prophet

It slips in at night. Stealthy and low at first. A few flakes pick up speed as the first low howl can be heard. Wind howls against the house, branches scratching at the window like a cat trying to get in. Heavy wet snow can be hear... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Look in the mirror. What do you see? Depends on the choices you've made. Depends on your programming. Depends on where you were born. Depends on what you were born. Look in the mirror. What part will you play? A protagonist? An ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Bubble machine. Bubbles pinching off. Floating free on creations breeze. Swirling currents, eddies of direction, endlessness. Bubble after bubble. Percolating. Moving away. Deep substrate of existence. Burping up... Read more

poem by John Prophet

The pettiness of people is pervasive. Those who feel better when others fail. Feeling contempt and envy when others succeed. Reflecting ugliness behind their backs. Makes them feel better , superior somehow. People sniping at th... Read more

poem by John Prophet

It’s all magic. All we know. All we think we know, all magic. All knowledge, magic. Wand raised, spun and it began. All that happens magic. Scurry around we do. Oblivious! Oblivious of the spell. ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Indifferent. Existence does not care. Creation’s ambivalent. Ambivalent about the nature of things, simply churns. Our trials and tribulations mean nothing to the stark nature of things. Meandering through it ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Rage rage against the gale. Rage rage against the dark. Rage rage against the gods Our time in this existence is short. Get up off knees and make something happen. Leave a mark to be remembered long after your gone. ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Here. We are here. Don’t know why. Don’t know how. Fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear. Eyes opened seeing. Believing needing, following. Unsure. What to do? Who to listen to? Who to trust, believe? Wh... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Humanity is now in a blender. For centuries humanity lived in pockets, developing different ways of being. Time passes humanity spreads mixing the pockets. Friction, grinding, war, the pockets grind against one anot... Read more

poem by John Prophet

The waters have calmed. The kayak slips by while the warm breeze blows light. The loon eerily sounds it is near. Sun drenched clouds ooze vanilla cream. The sunset throws an orange purple light over it all. ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Where do we live? Is this place even real? How real is real? We open our eyes and find ourselves here. But, where is here? We accept what we see, what else can we do? We move through life doing what we do. It all seems normal l... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Sea of uncertainty. Quantum verse. All options, possibilities play out. Universes floating on fluctuations. Quantum vibrations. Fluctuations of mathematical probability. Multiverse never ending. Adrift on nothingness... Read more

poem by John Prophet

We delude ourselves, always have, still do. Center of everything, gods’ favorite, we knew. How immature! We follow rituals begun thousands of years ago. Started by those who knew next to nothing of where they lived. Their p... Read more

poem by John Prophet

We are all surfing the wave of time. In times immediate wake is the frothiness of near history. Smooths out as the wave moves on. The wave churns and gurgles as the past is being created. We the flotsam and jetsam along for the ri... Read more

poem by John Prophet

What did it mean to be human? What does it mean to be human? What will it mean to be human? Humanity has fought and clawed its way to the current. Wars and superstitions filled our hearts and minds. King of the mountain was the g... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Sciences has opened our eyes on many fronts. We have learned much, but there is infinite knowledge to go. The Universe is larger than humans can possibly know. Our Universe as large as it is, is dwarfed in the Multiverse. So much ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Humankind has been grasping for knowledge from the beginning, fear of the unknown was always forbidding. Why does the wind blow? Why does the sky crack open with light, sound and fury? Why do the oceans roil with such anger? Ho... Read more

poem by John Prophet

What the human mind can conjure.There is a Creator, in my mind there is no doubt. To some degree I can know a mans mind, but the Creators mind is beyond mine to know. There are charlatans amongst us who’ll tell us they know.The... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Are we ready for what’s to come? Will we know how to behave? Never before in human history has there been such disruption. It was once a much simpler place. No more. The future is arriving faster than ever before. Gaia now h... Read more

poem by John Prophet

What kind of God would treat us this way? In mankind the wide spectrum between evil to good can be found. In some, such kindness, while in others a wickedness not to be believed is in play. The ancients believed the gods in Olympus... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Einstein called it spacetime, opposite sides of the same coin. The Universe is expanding. In fact, science says the expansion is speeding up. But what is it expanding into? Time gives us a clue. What is time expanding into? Yesterda... Read more

poem by John Prophet

and will on many more. Each have proven unique, with many lessons to learn. I’ve traveled far but have farther still to go. The road is long and tiresome, with many falling and failing to finish the task. Failing in any wor... Read more

poem by John Prophet

What is truth? We live our lives being told what is true. Truths in science fall by the wayside when new “truths” are discovered. But, how true are they? Religions will tell you their truths. Problem is, few agree. So... Read more

poem by John Prophet

It began as the second decade of the 21 Century entered middle age, an underlying sense of unease, change. New technology increasingly altering perceptions. Reality not seeming so sure. Our five senses, were they enough? Were they te... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Earth is becoming something different, something more. For millions of years proto-humans strode its bounties until Homo sapiens arrived. Once here, humans took millennia incrementally building improving its lot in life. Step by st... Read more

poem by John Prophet

What are we? Why are we? How do we? It’s an infinite place and we so very small. We seem so very much apart. Do we even belong? How could we ever learn it all? We look out, we look up, we look down and we look under. We fee... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Where did you come from? Every ancestor you ever had, had to beget with who they begot. If any link in the chain begot with someone different. If someone turned left instead of right. You’d not be here today. By being here... Read more

poem by John Prophet

We Live in a terrarium.. With our lives we scurry around like little ants. We run to the store. We run to the Dentist. We run to pick up the children. We run to our jobs. Every day pretty much like the rest. Some hold out their... Read more

poem by John Prophet

What is God? What is a god? It’s all relative. It’s all semantics really. To those who wandered this globe fifty thousand years ago we’d be gods. Would those who live fifty thousand years from now be looked o... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Rene Descartes said “Cogito ergo sum” “I think therefor I am”. Consciousness of being is true regardless our reality, be it corporeal, digital or mechanical. We may live in a computer simulation, or made ou... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Took a walk with my dog Rosie the other day. Walked by the orchard on the hill that we go by on our stroll, stopped to look back as I always do. It’s a very pleasant sight regardless of the season. The trees lined up in rows w... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Essence. What passes through. Essence motivates. Moves things along. Entwined within. Indistinguishable. Part of the whole. Spirit. Eternal soul. Called many things. Absorbs energy, stores vibrational knowledge.... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Global revolution. Insidious connections circulating the globe. Tsunamis. Technology tsunamis wash over. Washing over all. Washing away what was. Preprogrammed narratives. Controlled by the few. Infecting, ... Read more

poem by John Prophet

We are born when we are born. We look around and see what we see. We then get on with it. We deal with what we have. This was true for those born one thousand years ago. It is true today. It will be true for those born one thous... Read more

poem by John Prophet

It is a mirage. Spun up in a place unknown. Everything seen an illusion. Ghosts, vapors whiffing in an out of existence. Ghosts in the machine. Infinite iterations running simultaneously. Universe one of countl... Read more

poem by John Prophet

I can still remember, some of how it felt. The newness of things. Each day being a sunny day of newness. Exploration of what's all around you. Exciting! I can still remember the thrill of it all. The thrill fades over t... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Old timer. Reflecting. History, experience. Around the block then back again. Many times. Seasoned. Learnerd. Veteran of human existence. Worldview molded. Tempered under fire. Years in the making. Hammer, chise... Read more

poem by John Prophet

I have thoughts, ideas. They well up from within. We all have thoughts, ideas, welling up from who knows where. Many unique, having meaning. Unique meaning. Our world, all around, pulsating with such thoughts, ideas. B... Read more

poem by John Prophet

We are here. Of that there seems little doubt. Why, or how there seems much doubt. Some say it's due to the divine. That, to me seems like a punt. Humans have always used gods/god to explain the unexplai... Read more

poem by John Prophet

Good and evil resides in us all. Both look out our eyes. Both course through our veins. The spectrum of us is a score played out in our hearts and in our minds. Evil and good are in opposition, spread out on a s... Read more