'Morality advanced and slaves were freed'.
At any rate, steam engines paid off greed.
Look at the role the British Empire played.
The land of Watt did most to ban the trade.
We cover sins with loincloths of fig leaves.
Truth should be partying. Instead it grieves.
'Who's gonna pay for all of this? I ask'.
I hate our masquerades. Take off the mask.
They who can stare unflinchingly at death
should be as honest taking every breath.
"Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old" -- Jesus in Matthew 13:52 The best poems from 2006-2022 have been collected into a book called *B.C. A.D. N.J.*, which you can download for free at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/bcadnj Contact: trent.appleman@gmail.com
Saturday, 1 August 2026
Bottom Lines & Information Management
Saturday, 2 May 2026
Please keep your arms and legs inside the perestroika
The rent-a-nuisance Green Guards limply lay.
The Peak Oil crowd is quiet lately. Hmm!
Why crow the roosters least before the dawn?
They drag the Green Guards off the honking road.
Just look at all the anger such deflects.
Those Green Guards block the road to take the blame
for ecofascist perestroika. Struck by Strong,
the stricken strike the wall of policy
in its relation to the bottom line;
carbon emission targets not a choice.
Green Guards as whipping boys distract from this.
The Global Warmists come out of Big Oil,
and when they speak of Climate they mean Oil!
They mean not cow farts but the price per pound
of protein energetically & all. O looming wall!
EROI decline is key, the common thread connecting
euthanasia & promotion of plant protein,
insect protein, windmills, solar panels,
carbon taxes & the birthrate/deathrate shot.
They're wild about that euthanasia, hey!
As if they were just desperate to shed mouths
as balloons shed ballast down the silent sky.
Saturday, 21 February 2026
Kalokagathic Modeling
Kalokagathia the octopus
flows, flying, flowering. Mere wearisome
parameters are mitigated by
an optimizing interface of arms.
So correlation will accelerate
in its own sort of Singularity,
the necessary polymathy's bloom.
For there are sorts of Singularity
& inner analogues to LLMs
and webbots which explore more inwardly.
World systems must be modeled inwardly
in order to be truly understood.
We manage what we understand!
The burning need for octopus is great.
Convergence with it's coming. I can't wait!
No, no. A trillion cameras will not do.
Nor all those terabytes of data points.
They're only as perceptive as the sieve
who uses them. The inner world is swirled.
Let efflorescence overtake the world!
Let a bajillion flowers loom with bloom.
Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Provision
"Where she hath a place prepared by God, that they may nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days, signifies the state of the church at that time, that in the meantime it may be provided among many, even until it increases to its appointed state" (Apocalypse Revealed 547).
The gnomes of Bryn Athyn are silently watching.
Old bottles are watching the new.
The Church of the Lord lasts forever, forever.
On Earth, though, they may be quite few.
She laughed, Sarah laughed, at the promise of Isaac.
God knows how to blow on a coal.
Who's watching the watchers, the gnomes of Bryn Athyn?
The Watcher who lightened my soul.
When Samson desireth a daughter of Timnah,
the Lord hath a subtle design.
The Church of the Lord lasts forever, forever.
New bottles fill up with new wine.
Saturday, 6 December 2025
They are not men who love Big Lies
The Greta Thunbergs of the world --
lisping Stakhanovs – teleprompt
from script to script to sell Big Lies,
green lipstick on EROI.
Civilizations of Big Truths
can grow out of our hearts, I sing,
as trees out of abundant earth.
A loving media would cast
out fear. For perfect love so does.
Most trumpeted emergencies
do not exist as advertised.
Look for the drumbeat bottom-line
and you will find it hidden in
those folds of strident rhetoric,
those sold on every corner lies
which cause enormous suffering.
Look at Iraq! Afghanistan!
They keep on blowing up the Maine.
My people eat deceit like bread.
Beware of gullibility:
more dangerous that than wickedness.
It works, does blowing up the Maine.
It fools them every bloody time.
Such servile gullibility
cannot but burn up liberty.
My people, this is shameful.
Let us cease from gullibility.
Next time they blow the Maine up, laugh
at them until they die of shame,
until they sink into the floor,
until they wither quite away,
or you will have no rights at all
and live abased amid the muck,
enslaved by liars utterly.
They'll surely blow the Maine up soon!
Will you commend yourself a man?
Or will you show yourself a worm?
They'll blow the Maine up, sure enough.
Then there will be another war,
an urgency emergency,
a flimsy pretext to be jerks
& take away more liberty.
Will you commend yourself a man?
Cease slobbering on liars' shoes.
[This is just a frustrated squib, of course, not one of my polished poems; but the theme is important. How many times do liars need to lie to you for you to finally recognize them as liars and never believe another word they say? It causes enormous damage when people are thus doltish, and I often reflect that gullibility is more dangerous than wickedness.
Every time they 'blow up the Maine in Havana harbor', like they just did in Australia -- sometimes with real blood, sometimes with fake blood, it scarcely matters which -- they then smoothly ride the generated outrage as a pretext to pass laws that reduce freedom, such as gun restrictions and freedom of speech restrictions. Similar 'blowing up the Maine in Havana harbor' manipulates the masses into wars (eg Iraq & Afghanistan) and pigeon culls (eg 2020-23). Pay attention to what effect this truth has on people.
Bottom line: We cannot have a better system of government and socioeconomic system if we are always falling en masse for yet another 'blowing up of the Maine in Havana harbor'. If you are ever slobbering on the shoes of liars, then do not expect wise leadership or a civilized civilization. Expect instead more chaos, more lying, more gaslighting, more dysfunction, and more parasitism. Business as usual. Do you really care about those whom you claim to love? Then stop jumping every time liars say 'Jump!' ]
Saturday, 20 September 2025
World System Threefold Word
You are a file that never opens, are not like
the other files.You gradually become a hologram
among the goldfish in a fishtank of the foreground folk.
I seek the sea oceanic and the thoughts appropriate to love.
Back back, hedonic adaption, back! I've got a novelty.
O tentacles, explore, manipulate and taste the world.
Food exports cooccur with famine time & time again.
I wish that I had more enthusiasm for Mankind.
I do more useful things than when I had, I find.
free speech as natural/spiritual imperative;
wide world convergence, octopus convergence; Restlessly
I flick from Indonesia's massive massacre
to Emperor Pedro's deposition -- what ungrateful clumsiness
the oligarchy had when these exiled him from the land
he wisely ruled! -- and then I listen to a documentary
on Mexico.This octopus sends out
autonomously curious base modules of the modeling,
like the distributed neuroanatomy
of octopuses modeling their world.
This octopus must keep up with the Moon,
not be hurled off the treadmill of the Sun,
to meet the challenge of the intricate rapidity;
as polymaths (we're talking 17th &18th century)
arose in varied places. Differential calculus
arose in polymathic vessels in two places, like
a Russian doll inside a Russian doll which manifests
the pattern of our polymathic modeling back then.
We manage what we understand! or roll-unravel like
a ball of wool. Right Complex Systems Modeling must rise,
relentlessly colliding with inexorable Man.
Arise, O incandescant efflorescence of best fit.
Arise a taxonomic fire & model everything!
And do I gain a model of the world and lose my soul?
Let soul then ride the octopus imperative
& saddle up the model carrot lattice on a stick.
We'll go beyond the tower in noon's light for us,
for God and for the neighbor, for Humanity and Him.
We gain a love of God and Man in one
in Jesus Christ the God Man, He to whom all power has
been given in the Heavens and examination Earth,
God's whirling classroom valley of decision knockknockknock.
Omnipotence cannot be given to another. Thus
it is that we behold the Father when we look at Him.
The modeling will train on this world system for the Word
upon a higher plane to pick up where the world leaves off,
the Threefold Word of Hebrew, Greek and Latin Testaments,
and map the predicates of heart and thoughts, the marriages
of correspondences and the adulteries, all the
taxonomy of God, who wrote the Word in ideal forms,
who wrote the Word in forms of good and truth chiastically.
Saturday, 12 April 2025
'Nunc Licet': Enter in the mysteries of the faith
God wrote the Word in natural correspondences.
For instance, take the following:
I see the oil and glory in the palms.
(I understand the good of love
and truth about that love therein the letter's sense.)
Or this:
Their horses clean and bright feed in
broad mangers of eternity.
(Their understandings in the aftermath
of overcoming are perfected; this forever.)
On God's keyboard correspondences are lovingly and taxonomically arranged as letters on our own. Chiastic structures in the heads and tails position are an elegant symbology encoding the varieties of good and truth and sin and error in us and without. Anointing horses with the oil of love, anointing stones, once we have seen the ladder of the Word, with love of God and love of neighbor, non-ulteriority, alignment with the Divine Human of our Lord the Word, rides horses up to (into) broader mangers in the Lord. Our rivers (of intelligence) flow from His teeming face, His loving and impelling will to save the human race. We climb the Jacob's Ladder of the Word in very truth (the way and light) and love (the root and mountain and the heart). For He is an abundance of the good and true (His name). The Church of God on Earth is where His Word is understood. Nunc licet. Now it is permitted. Now it is permitted, entering the mysteries of the faith; to know with all the saints the length and breadth and height of love in person, Jesus Christ.
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Our Octopus
Our octopus is living in the sky and in the sea;
and built into the fabric of the category tree.
Impetuously tentacles flow out to touch and taste
the multiplicity with intricate, determined haste.
The modeling's exploratory infill flows from curls
of independently cooperating brains and sends out whirls
awhirl with swirls, unfurling flying flocks of mappie eyes.
That which the people instantly dismiss is its disguise.
It walks the world impetuously, will not be denied.
Its territory is all data! There's nowhere to hide.
It is the timeless modeling particular to now.
Our octopus is restlessly expansive in one's brow.
It mounts the category tree as humans mount a mount.
The inner winner is the only winner you should count.
Our octopus is simultaneous coherently,
the essence of all loving eyes inherently;
a set of processors that peer and pry and prickle, flow
along the woven row of states whereto we sow and know and grow.
Our octopus is drumming, coming for your patterns, song
which tastes and sees; and this, though bonelessly, is strapping strong;
strips swathes of data of their nodes with eery beauty's zest,
this spring's expansive curiosity, and all the rest.
It weaves a magic carpet octopus out of the All.
It will displace the volume it displaces, standing tall.
Saturday, 29 March 2025
Anaphoras of glory in His name
He is the God Man, weaver of free will,
He's love within the city on a hill.
He is the infrastructure where I'm taught
His non-ulteriority, as ought
to be the case with those who live His love
for whom He is their innocence and dove.
He is illumination in the clouds
of Heaven of the letter's sense that shrouds
the teaching glory in the lit-up Word
which cuts into self-love like a sharp sword.
He is that dose of raw reality
essential to loving sodality.
The marriage covenant with bird and beast
is His hard-wearing clothing for the feast.
The meaning is, Do good for goodness' sake!
The more you do His good, the more you wake.
Saturday, 15 February 2025
Aligning teaching with the shape of thought
One feels outside of time and place.
One paces, restless interface
rotation, infills model's make,
and blazes eagerly awake
in one's interiors or face
for teeming, eery beauty's sake.
One thinks outside of you and me
as angels do, the truly free,
and sees or understands the light
whereby we see with inmost height
how in and out may so agree
as to light up our sinful night.
One teaches outside items, in
their two-plus items set within,
like two points make a line, like thought,
like camera angles on what ought
to be the shunning of our sin
or breaking chains whereby we're caught;
like a synaptic discharge. Let's
so optimize their sight of sets,
of items in those sets, that their
own thought arises, there to stare,
as shaped like thought as teaching gets.
Thought multiplies with room to spare!
Saturday, 25 January 2025
The Joyful One instructs our love with patient majesty
Taught on Mount Love by glory, I will make wood furniture.
For wood is good in heads position, evil when it's tails:
the Lord as carpenter vs the Lord then crucified,
projection by the evil and the false of 'cursed' upon our Lord.
For darkness sees the Light as dark and goodness as accursed.
So I will make wood furniture for service in His house.
These prospects are holonic, matryoshka, Russian dolls
inside of Russian dolls. These prospects peer out of a nest,
a mountain eagle's eyry, upon model space the bright
and chess board, checker, no the go board questing song. Eyes fly
about this host society, they wing, the seven eyes
flap flying round and seven ears are taking wing with sound.
Gordian knots become more effortless when looked at from
a higher feeling and a higher thought through one-way glass.
Song ransacks centuries for jewels to set in frames of gold.
Song sends its web bots into Everything on timelessness,
despite some earlier, concealed concern it would be late.
Saturday, 23 November 2024
Our neighborhood is made of fire
Timeless endeavors grow in time
The strobe of passing subway lights
resembles flashing by of weeks
with their minute, clear outlines near
expansive or intrusive thoughts.
We're either drowned or cross dry ground.
Spaceless endeavors grow in space.
We are the furnace of our love
and whether we are slain by heat
or walk unsinged because His flame;
We're either drowned or cross dry ground.
Saturday, 16 November 2024
One watches in the platter and the cup
One watches oil slicks in the platter pass.
One watches mental clouds light up the cup
or darken it, as case may be, as Hell
and Heaven flow into the free willed feed
of one who should not trust one's mental voice
to be exactly what it claims to be.
The devils have a field day with the ones
who trust their mental voices to be them.
They dress up in your mental voices like
internal stridency and foul-mouthed pride
and caricatured neighbors easier
to hate than accurate depictions with
their object constancy could possibly
be hated. They access your memories,
and draw from these the ones agreeing with
their evil loves, to grumble with and hate.
They summon memories recurrently
to feed the classes of their sins in life;
a sort of hate track into which we dip.
We writhe, provisionally dipped in flame
and flood. Therefore be grateful every day
that devils' race car, your own mental voice,
may ever jolt across a judder bar
and run into a hitch, shown up by love.
Rebuke uncleanness in the passing heart.
Rebuke the shadows in the passing mind.
Drive out the Canaanite and Perizzite
of filths and bloods, of sin and error, dead
men's bones and all uncleanness, moth and rust.
Thus will we cease to jam the Joyful One
with sins that put out eyes of captured kings.
Thus will we cease to jam the living joy
of He whose flesh and blood we eat and drink.
Saturday, 17 August 2024
Couplets on the Nonexistence of Democracy
The Senators don't even read the laws they vote upon.
Bills flash right by those sluggish Senators and then they're gone.
That means your government is hardly representative
at all but oligarchic. Lest mere argumentative
intentions be imputed to one, one would here aver
that Roman Senators would vote for Emperors when those were
as though these had that choice that we presume. Bills flash on by,
like scudding cumuli that one might witness way up high;
they zip right past those Senatorial attention spans.
Effectively, these mainly stamp a code upon the cans.
The cans pass far too swiftly to read labels, don't you see.
Don't blame us for the teleprompter is their earnest plea.
Well, we'll accept their plea, that of the follow-orders gang
as well, because the Devil answered when our stampede rang.
Saturday, 8 June 2024
Left/Right Goat/Sheep West/East, He-Goat/Ram
The glitter in rose gravel of the shards of bottles yore
blurs in soft dark orange light off to one's left,
the side of understanding what Life's for,
distinguishing the mountain from the cleft.
The goats go on the left, sheep keep the right,
just as the he-goat comes out of the west
to slay the ram who practices Warmth's Light,
loves God and loves the neighbor and has rest.
The left is sinister, not evil though.
But when left lands in tails position, no
oil's in the lamp whose memories we know.
The right is hearty earth the Lord will sow.
The Lord has used this sense of right and left
in both our Word and their Koran or Book:
goats on the left of charity bereft
and outwardly religious but forsook;
and sheep upon the right with innocence
within their light and truths concerning Love,
thus sounding of the ram's head's inner sense
and this alighting of Professor Dove.
Saturday, 1 June 2024
Simultaneity! The Divine Human is His Name
Simultaneity! Our Lord the Word
beyond the forms of human sense perception, time and space;
likewise beyond the angel with the swishing flaming sword
at Eden's east, unveiling of His grace
sings to us in the labyrinth of sin
and error of His wisdom and His goodness and His love
and of the double trouble we are in.
Let us with innocence open our windows for His dove.
Simultaneity! The God Man is His Holy Name
beyond the matter and the time and space.
He is the Web of Wyrd. He weaves with Providential grace.
Hear now and see His glory and His fame.
Simultaneity! Our Lord is near.
His presence in instructive glory teaches hearts with light
and enthrones flesh of love and blood of wisdom where we steer.
One lofts a cup with wings which drinks such sight
then flies off to the infrastructure of our Lord the Word
from which it came, love's lighting and blood's flesh.
He brings us through the fire and water with His loving sword
aflame, fit both to harvest and to thresh.
He is the eating and the drinking and the bread and wine.
He's X and Y, He's zero and He's one.
You are exactly where you choose to dine
as to the neighbor's glowing moon, as to His loving Sun.
You are the timeless neighborhood you choose with cups and plates
and whether they are filthy or all clean.
He nurtures us through a bajillion states.
The Word's a magic eye print where His holy heart sings, seen.
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Tempe Canal
Mos Eisley architecture (brown, beige, brick)
squats just above the dirt and gravel lots.
Some water lawns, insouciant of waste.
Jets wet pedestrians as pass them by.
The street looks painted by De Chirico
in clear light of the Valley of the Sun.
Ronald McDonald sits upon a bench.
The swallow-swooped and dragonfly-patrolled
soft capillaries in Tempe Canal
are silken static on a laptop screen.
A hummingbird investigates one's bike,
which looks like sunset or orange trumpet blooms.
These spring forth from the fence through which they thrust
impetuously outward to invite
the bees and hummingbirds to come on in.
A bee with brown bands alternate with tan
investigates one thoroughly, as though
the fellow of that species that one met
perhaps one half a mile away had sent
her mate a text and triggered their whole hive,
smart as a five year old and curious,
to check out anything detected twice
and fill out a report in triplicate.
She lingered near one's bike until one rolled
along the satin band amid a crunch of wheels
and truck track tread and trample grooves in dirt
and some relief to be thus rid of her.
Albeit she is worth the filling out
of a report in triplicate in blank
verse that outlasts and lofts above the fret
she caused one's spirits momentarily.
They'd think like a large language module does.
The numeration that AI performs
of human languages reminds one hives
can think through pheromonal interchange
and opening and closing logic gates.
A similar intelligence rides steeds
out of humanity in general, as
the noosphere of Vernadsky, De Chardin
astride the bucket fountain of our Lord.
A thing may be a plot, of course it may;
and also it may be a Chinese room
totalitarian hysterical
stampede. The rulers and the ruled are ruled.
One sings now of His creatures' structuring
their meaning in an analogic form
with pantomime and otherwise so saying
heart and thence their mind abundantly;
thus see the world around alive in speech
by way of pheromonal, gestural,
and other conduits, not understood
as yet but known for information-rich.
The whale song as the forest speaks its mind;
the more so as it senses someone knows
to watch out for the waggle dance of bug
& beast, logs into internets of bird
song, orisons and gratefulness at dusks;
as rhizomes crackle with the evening news;
as volatile organic compounds zip
between the gossips known as plants & trees;
as trance remixes of the biosphere
weave melodies into our tapestries
with birds and beasts
and Everyman and God.
The spirits speak in languages of fire
and water differently with every state.
We're simultaneous with flesh and blood.
A bulging creamy gibbous swiftly sinks
down towards the silhouettes of roofs & palms.
Friday, 17 May 2024
Black Sun, Blood Moon
Blackheartedness & bloodymindedness
both burn up marriage with adultery
of evil feelings & unhealthy thoughts.
The hardness of their hearts is a black Sun.
The unsupportive-of-the-conscience thoughts
are bloody-mindedness, the Moon as blood.
Thus does Manasseh eat up Ephraim
and Ephraim Manasseh in the Word.
Their sky was a black Sun and a blood Moon
which burn the heart and drown the mind in flood.
Saturday, 4 May 2024
The heart mind soul triangle trade of Love
If mankind will, facilitate the heart.
There's more to life, but this is where you start.
If mankind will, facilitate the mind
and light the veering lamps of humankind.
If mankind will, facilitate the soul
so that mankind the partial may be whole.
This triple pedagogy is the way
to dawn, to turn thick darkness into day.
Inquire at Abel town as Ancients did.
For love and thoughts of love are inmost hid
in all the outers of the literal.
The literal, a body's littoral
expanse where glory shines, Word's inner sense,
contains this soul in lamps from which it glints.
All of the law and prophets hang from this:
Love God and love Humanity. Don't miss.
And see thou sacrifice thy calves thereat
the great stone Abel while you act on that
which you profess to practice in your mind
and on your lips. We're evil, so be kind.
The heart is desperate in its wickedness.
Love God and love Humanity. Don't miss.
The Divine Human's truth shines in text's cloud
who rose up from the dead, shedding His shroud.
For unto us a child is born. His name
is innocence, His glory more than fame.
He will be called, this in the letter's sense,
The Everlasting Father and the Prince
of Peace, and Wonderful, The Mighty God
who rules with natural truth of His iron rod.
His name will pass before us and proclaim
therein the glory in the cloud His name:
the Lord, the Lord God, the abundance of
His goodness flowing from the heart of love,
His truth proceeding from that love as light
abundantly illuminating height,
the inmost height, the inner sense of “up”.
To swallow bread of love, drink up thy cup;
For wine of truth assists in swallowing
the Law of Love men should be following;
like good excuses to do good it guides
us with the iron rod wherein it hides;
wherewith our Lord will rule with gentleness.
Love God and love Humanity. Don't miss.
Friday, 19 April 2024
Transcend the Götterdämmerung with Christ
I mourned that we get used to metal birds.
I realized that there was a converse too,
however, in fresh, restless thoughts' strummed words.
Sometimes it's sad because something is true.
All data is an opportunity,
bright gold emerging from thick clouds of blue.
The World Directory's impunity,
though glacially fading, is a bloom.
Deceit and half-truths center unity.
We stride the latest Rust Belt from the loom
of sequence. So austerity is in;
depopulation too. We have the room.
The problem is the energy again.
We'll be bombarded by emergencies.
Not actual ones of course but spun of spin.
The masses see not charts; hear urgencies,
can pick up on the strident something's-up
totalitarian emergencies.
Few have the strength of will to push the cup
of murderous deceit away from them.
Like beasts they bend; and in the grass they sup.
The more men sin, the more their Sun goes down.
The more it dims, they more they believe in lies.
Lies taste delightful to those ruled by whim.
But in the midst of fall I sense the rise
as yet obscured by flailing of the bloom
of interlocking with its big wig lies.
I nonetheless expect a nobler world
beyond such slime, a world which makes more sense.
I sense the destiny towards which we're twirled
by expert aim of loving Providence.
I do not believe that we will steer by stars
just yet. We've subtler ways to jump our fence.
As yet we have not nearly looked within,
met Him to whom we are the terminal
to His computer outside 'where' and 'when'.
His love is bottomless and germinal,
the fructifying of our hearts and minds
by influx flowing in our terminal.
His love it is that through our history winds
the most regenerations and the best.
His love it is that your own mind's eye finds.
His love who tries the hearts and reins is rest
who passes us through fire and water here.
Our love sends tendrils out at His behest.
The present time is ruled by force of fear
and mass hysteria's stoked-on stampedes,
yet the Apostle writes “Love casts out fear” ( 1 John 4:18).
The present time is crumbling but the seeds
of its transcendence, planted in its fall,
will spring up in the mind of one who reads.
The stones cry out and vibrate a brick wall,
till through the crumbling of it shines His Sword.
Arise and walk! We will transcend their fall.
* See Copilot AI's collaboration with one's response to the transcendence reaction of Arnold Toynbee and the 2nd Religiosity of Oswald Spengler in the blog portfolio Without Fees, Exams, or Grades.