First Impressions
Each person I meet starts out as God,
Then they almost talk me out of it,
But I know God is in there somewhere.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Truth
The truth has always been here, long before it was written about, long before religion.
The wisest among us are interpreters, but the truth is eternal and cannot be changed by the interpretations of people.
~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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God Dog
Once there was a small brown dog who loved God.
He loved God so much
He decided to change his name
To God,
God Dog,
The 1st.
Then,
He began to pee on the furniture
Without restraint.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Skipping
My dead relatives see a future they never imagined.
And here I thought the future was so far ahead
I could scarcely imagine it,
Beyond the usual flying cars,
Electricity from air,
Freedom from disease.
My dead relatives say I’m living in the future.
I don’t have to look too far back to see how right they are,
Or too far forward to see how wrong they are.
But right now, right here,
What is this exactly?
It moves so quickly I don’t have time to focus,
My thoughts are blurred,
My explanations obsolete.
I am skipping across the surface of time,
Watching my hair turn white.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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God's Little Figures
And it was said,
Let us make God in our image,
After our likeness,
And He shall have dominion over all the Earth,
And God we created he Him,
In our image,
From our spirit,
And we so exalted God
We came to believe He created we us,
In His image,
Individual and separate,
God’s little figures,
Made out of clay.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Sight For Sore Eyes
How insignificant we are
Among the minions of space
And time.
Yes, yes,
It’s the profound realization of our age
Among those not generally given
To profound realizations.
I hear it all the time,
Spoken with reverential awe
By some initiate
For whom a certain curtain
Has only recently
Lifted.
But what if we are the only things on two legs
That cerebrate so
In the neighborhood of this particular infinity?
The only coffee shop in sight
On that long and lonely interstellar highway?
Well, that would be something,
Wouldn’t it?
We just might be a real sight for sore eyes
After all,
The whole damn bunch of us.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Heaven And Hell
Sometimes this peaceful suburban landscape
Seems like heaven.
I am momentarily reprieved
And the people in my tiny town glow,
Translucent arcs of light
Moving about their daily tasks.
We stop and talk a while.
Hell returns.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Saints In Waiting
If we were saints
Living the lives of abandoned insects
Under parked cars
With our antennae finely tuned
Into God’s frequency,
We would praise the glories
Of our tiny lives,
The stray fast-food crumbs,
A patch of dew-laden crabgrass.
Behold this mighty river of asphalt,
My children,
And fear not the larger beasts.
We are the chosen,
And through our selfless purity
We shall inherit this earth.
Not long now,
Our time to come.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Saying The Word
It’s easy not to believe,
To scoff at the personification of God,
The majestic bearded man
Who decides everything,
The prayer specific saints,
The miraculous interceding angels,
The signs and symbols.
But alone in the dark,
Surrounded by the suffering of this world
I find myself praying,
Saying the word.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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