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    To One and All...
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    The poems in the following * POEMS17.HTM * file have been arranged
    in the order they have been written.   The depth and nature of the
    poems therefore indicate the changes the author experienced during
    the time they were produced. There are more than 540 poems and the
    quality between the first ones and the last ones is remarkable!

    Many of the poems practically wrote themselves and all I had to do
    was sit still long enough for them to come through.  At the time I
    was totally amazed where they all came from.  Often I thought that
    I had become that good all of a sudden.  This naturally is not so,
    for all I did was function as an instrument or channel of the Soul
    I really am. I hope that many of these poems speak to the Soul you
    are, and if so; they really come from you!

    The poems in all their "simplicity and profoundness" form a course
    in metaphysics just by themselves.  It is possible therefore to go
    through them one by one, and learn more than by reading a stack of
    books.  The poems in these files are aspects of my Higher Self and
    with great pleasure do I hereby dedicate them:
           - To the World of Man and his Infinite Endeavours -

     Only because of the steady performance of my Benefactors have my
     poems been realized.  Humbly I acknowledge the great changes and
     growth that took place within me in the years 1979 to 1984.

                            Sincerely yours,
                                         Gerardus Everardus Tros

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                       WITHIN THE GREATNESS I AM
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

           THAT what is beyond Me
                      I cannot ever call God.

                      For what is beyond Me...
                                      I do not know...
                                To name 'IT' would be silly.

              But THAT what is within ME
                          I can name God anytime.
                   For THAT is what I know.
                             And know to be Me...
                                       the God I know.

           For THAT is what I am.
                             A God.
                 Personified in Individual Form.
                                                ME.

           While THAT what I do not know as yet...
                      is the Greatness of the God I am.
                                   It is my Unconsciousness.

               The Greatness of the Greatness
                                  of the God I am...
                            I will become acquainted with
                                  - by knowing me -
                                       beyond
                                   that what I am.

           And the Time for Me
                          to Know ME
               is of no importance whatsoever.

                              For I am Time itself.
                                  Within THE GREATNESS I AM.

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                              17371-1981






                                  ME
                                  ~~

            The SELF I am...
                     becomes more and more aware
                                   of the SELF I am not yet.

               The SELF I am not yet...
                                   is the Unconscious ME.

                     And to become Conscious
                                of my Unconsciousness
                                                 is my Life.

            My Unconsciousness however
                               is as much ME
                                   as that what I am.

             For if IT was not
                   - and therefore outside of ME -
                           I could never become aware of it.

         The SELF I am then...
                  and the NOT-SELF I am
                                  is ME in Total.

         Eventually...
               the SELF I am
                     will completely join and commune
                                     with the NOT-SELF I am.

                    Then...
                         I will be...
                               The Nameless All.

                                                 ME.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17372-1981






                           OF SPACE AND TIME
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         To touch Someone
                        within
                             the Soul within
                     is feeling light by sensing Light.

                                              Through Knowing.

               For to sense the Sphere of Light
                                            that IS
                                      ONE feels the God
                                               that's growing.

         To vibrate by the Light within
              that's shown through Eyes a shining
                    is knowing that the Touch was right
                                 and in Soulness us combining.

         For in this Universe
                  so Endless Grand in Scheme...
                              there is but ONE in Multi-Theme.

                  Personified in Form Sublime
                                      as Man the God
                                            of Space and Time.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17373-1981






                         EXTENDED IN BUT WORDS
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

       What I create by writing...
                      is not really my Creation.

                 For I only write the Words
                           to convey the Meaning
                               that was revealed to me
                                    from the Planes I do not know.

       Yet the Meaning
                 and its Origin
             are the 'me' that writes.
                       For if it was not me
                                I would not be aware of it.

             So... WHAT am I?

                 I am the Writer
                       in the Plane of Symbols.
                 Conveying Meaning to the Plane of Earth.
                           Into which I extended...
                                    by means of Flesh that writes.

       And what You are reading
                      is read by Flesh of Earth.
                 To make You aware
                                of the Planes
                      on which You and I are present
                                  to feel the Meaning of my Words.

       While 'that' what it is...
                      that makes You understand
                                       is neither Flesh nor Earth.

          But Consciousness we share in Communion
                                        via the Plane of Earth.

               To feel the Plane of Meaning
                                   extended in but Words.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17374-1981






                                 I AM
                                 ~~~~

           There is nothing
                   that I will be in the Future
                                   that I am not already.
                                                          ME.

               And the ME I am
                         is a God that grows.
                     From Greatness to Greatness.

               Yet... WHAT I am NOW...
                                is THAT
                                   what I always will be.
                                                          ME.

           To recognize however... the ME I am
                          will take an Infinity of Nownesses.

               And within the Nownesses of my Godness
                    the Experiences I encounter
                                       will determine
                                            THAT
                                    what is unkown to ME
                                          about ME.

           For like the Earth brings forth its Flowers
                         so will I bring forth my Brilliance.

           Because the unfolding of my Selfhood in Splendor
                   is within the Seed of Godness...
                                                        I AM.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17375-1981






                             FOR I AM BOTH
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

           Sometimes... I feel that the Universe
                                            outside of me
                                                  is perfect.

                  But that the Universe
                                      inside of me
                                            has collapsed.

                      I think...
                           it is called Depression.

           But somehow...
               I sense that all this is needed
                                      in order to grow.
                                  To grow through and beyond.

           And when I grow beyond all this
                I will be able to see the Splendor of it all.
           And find that I am neither...
                                inside nor outside
                                               but all of it.

           But for awhile sometimes...
                     it seems as if the inside...
                                         is too small
                                             for the outside.

           Yet I know...
                   that the inside and the outside...
                                                 are equal.

                   For the Inside I am
                              feels and creates
                         whatever Outside there Is.

                                       For I am BOTH.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17376-1981






                               A MIRACLE
                               ~~~~~~~~~

          LIFE...
              and ALL it is...
                         is a MIRACLE.

                                   And so is everything else.

              It urges me...
                    to look for the Magician...
                                   of all these Miracles.

          My attempts to look for the Magician though
                        - hamper me -
                in finding that what I must.

                           For that...
                                what I am looking for...
                      is doing the Looking.

          Sooner or later however...
                      I will find that I am IT.

               First of all...
                      nobody should be home
                                 in the House I live
                                               and look from.

               For as long as I am there
                          I cannot find myself
                                         for looking.

                     And neither closed...
                                    nor open Eyes
                                         help or hamper
                                    to find that what I must.

          And in the mean time...
                      all I can do... is but be... A MIRACLE.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17377-1981






                        THE PERFECT INSTRUCTOR
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         He who teaches Mankind...
                             or tries to
                                      does so
                                to boost his own Ego.

               For really...
                    what is there to be taught

                             For LIFE...
                                  the Life Man lives
                                            is the Instructor.

         For each Man living
                         contributes
                              to the Teachings
                                    from which ALL will learn.

                 Each in his own Way...
                                 at his own Speed.

         And all Ways are right.
                 While Speed is but a Moment of Time
                                       irrelevant to Infinity.

         So...?
            What is there to be done?
                              And the Answer is...
                                           Absolutely Nothing.

             For each Man...
                  is to live his Life in Freedom.
                             To be taught by Life itself.

                                       The Perfect Instructor.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17378-1981






                           TO LOVE AND PURR
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

             She's a Miracle...
                     in the Physical.
                          Stuff I need to kiss.

                     But she's a Cat...
                                     I cannot purr.
                              For I'm the Love that's miss.

             So I but write...
                      to dim my Light...
                              Inspired right... and Bright.

               About the Cat
                     I love to purr
                           as part of daily slurr.

               But never will...
                           for she feels ill...
                                 and yells for Hubby still.


             So here am I...
                   an Open Sky...
                       while she is his... and shy.

             What can I do...
                  with Cats like this...
                             but take a Drink
                                          and wish
                  that other Cats...
                              in daily slurr
                                           need me
                                       to Love and Purr.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17379-1981






                          JUST LIVE YOUR SONG
                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         Joviality with a Tinge of Daring
                combined with Smiles and plenty Sharing...
            she is a God in Life of Pleasure
                      a Woman in Search for Love and Treasure.

               Treasure that's found...
                     within the Life she's living.

                           For within her Being...
                                        she's Love and Giving.

         Yet in the Evening...
                   of Future's Dawn
               she'll ponder and wonder...
                         whether she's God or Pawn.


               But only by Living
                       and Experience's Clue
                                can she find the Answer
                                                of Who is Who.


         So...
               my Love... my Soul...
                              do never wonder
                                        what's right
                                             what's wrong...
                              just live your Life...
                                          just live your Song.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17380-1981






                              IN SILENCE
                              ~~~~~~~~~~

           When I was a Child...
                     I lived like a Child.

                Believing all the Stories I was told.

           But when I grew up
                          I lost my Naivety.
                   And slowly I conquered my Fear of God.

                And understood...
                        the Greatness of the Universe.
                      By getting to know
                                the Force I am.
                            Finally thus...
                                       I found myself.

           For by growing up
               I put away all the things of the Children
                                             and became a Man.

           A Man searching for the Truth
                            behind all the Stories I was told.

                And doing so...
                       the Universe became my Creation.
                   For I became a God...
                                 awakened to Itself.

                   In full understanding
                                       of 'that'
                                   what I awakened to.

                     A God...
                            within a Man
                                       in Silence.

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                              17381-1981






                            FOR THEY ARE ME
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         When I read... or listen to my Poems...
                                             I cry.

              And the many Tears misting my Eyes
                               are the Sadness of Man...
                                          living in Ignorance.

              And all the writing
                             that is born
                    within the Mirrors of my Soul
                        cannot cure their Pain in Sorrow
                                               of knowing not.

         Knowing not...
              that they are the Ones to grow
                                 from Man to Human
                             and from Human to Godness.

              While all of them
                        are but listening
                              to the Voice of Blindness
                                            leading the Blind.

         Yes... my Tears
              streaming from my Face.
                   If they could wash away
                                    the Darkness of Man...
                   All would be Gods
                        within the Brilliance of Love
                                            and Understanding.

              But Tears are not enough
                          and neither are but Words.
                     Yet I will keep trying...
                                        for they are ME.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17382-1981






                           YOU ARE THE CLUE
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         Now that the Signs are there
                             for trembling
                     now that the Signs are there
                                             for shock
                           you have come to see and listen
                                       to a very wise old Cock.

         And what you hear is new and daring
                          very strange and even weird.
                 It's even MAD and most AMAZING
                                     to a Mind that is afeared.

                    For what you hear
                          is TRUTH ablazing
                                    from a Man
                              that's worn and geared.

         But what he says
                     and what you're hearing
                                   is as old as Time and Space.

               For this Physical Dimension
                            is the Creation of YOUR Race.

               And no God
                     or Mighty Being
                               does exist outside of YOU.

               For YOU are ALL.
                    For Once and Ever.
                               YOU are ALL.
                                        YOU are the CLUE.

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                              17383-1981






                         THE DIVINE EXPRESSOR
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         You keep identifying yourself
                              as a separate...
                                   and independent Being.
                         As if you are...
                                   a Force all by itself.

         You are however...
               only a separate and independent Being
                       as an Expression of the Totality.
                                      The Totality called God.

               But as long as you
                    keep identifying yourself
                         only with the Expression you are
                               you can never be
                                           or feel
                                                 THAT
                                          what you really are.

         For You Are...
                     the Total Force.
                                   God Itself.
                     Which expresses Itself
                                         as YOU.
                                             Being IT.

               To lose the Identity
                         as a Force all by itself
                              is to feel...
                                        THAT
                                 what you really are.

                                         The Divine Expressor.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17384-1981






                         BY LIVING THE FEELING
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         No Poet ever...
                   will catch up
                            to the Beauty of Life.

               And the fact
                    that they keep trying...
                                        proves it.
                    And eventually...
                         they will tell you
                              that the Subtlety of Words
                will never be enough to express
                                   what can't be said anyway.

         For Beauty...
              as well as Life
                        is Immeasurable in Words.
                    While Thoughts do barely touch it.

                    And whoever
                         tries to experience
                         what Beauty or Life is
                         by reading or hearing about it
                                                will miss it.

               For seeing it...
                         or hearing it
                               is done
                               by doing neither.

               For Life is a FEELING.

                      A FEELING to be EXPERIENCED.

                                    By Living the Feeling.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17385-1981






                           FOREVER CHANGING
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         God is... beyond...
                        All That Is.
                   Even beyond Humbleness.
                        For God is perfect Silence.
                                        To never Speak a Word.

         Yet... God is all the Blasted Noise...
                                        in the Universe.
                                                    Screaming.

               For God is... All That Is.
                               Including... Screaming.

               As a matter of fact...
                         God ALONE is.
                            For All That Is... is God.

         God is EVERYTHING.
              For Everything is an Expression of God.
                   And all things... that are Physical
                        are but the Shadows of God's Being.
                                   Visible to Living Darkness.

         While the Light Itself
               forever stays beyond the things that are.
                                                Including Man.

               Yet... this very Man
                      is the very God that is.
                                      Looking at Itself.

               For this very God never shows Itself...
                                              as Itself.

               But always as some Other.
                                   Knowing not...
                                          that IT is IT.

               The very God that is... Forever Changing.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17386-1981






                           OF 'ON' AND 'OFF'
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

           God you know...
                   God never suffers.
                                  For God is...
                                            what We are not.

               While as soon as God becomes Us...
                              We do the Suffering...
                                    by trying to become God.

               God never is in Bliss either.
                                 For God IS Bliss.

               Bliss in Divine Ignorance.
                        In Perfect Understanding.
                                      And beyond all Wisdom.

                                            And ALIVE.

           Alive by means of Us.
                   Yes us... trying to transcend...
                                           what We are...
                                                and are not.

                   God... and therefore We...
                                           are LIGHT.

                   Light... in Eternal Vibration...
                               of Light and Darkness.

                   For the One...
                         cannot be without the Other.

                   Making Us God.
                            In Stages...
                                   of 'ON' and 'OFF'.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17387-1981






                        BEYOND ALL THAT ARISES
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         The Truth is within...
                          and without.
                    It is therefore anywhere.

               Which is nowhere... and everywhere.

                              And so are We.
                                   We are The Truth.
                                        We just don't know it.

         While that...
                what seems to be true to Us
                        in this World... or any other...
                                is but a Dream or an Illusion.

               However factual our Dream may be...
                                             or appears
                                       it is not Truth at all.

         For when we eventually awaken
                              to the Truth or to God
                                    completely
                  it will be like an Awakening
                               as from a Dream while sleeping.

         And however factual...
                     our sleeping Dream was...
                                  we know it was not for real.

               And so is our Life.
                        A Dream... an Illusion.

         A condition of the 'I'.
                 An illusionary State... while living.
                                Something we accept as a Fact.

         But Truth or God...
                      is beyond ALL conditions.
                                       Beyond all that Arises.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17388-1981






                               THEY ARE
                               ~~~~~~~~

               I am not a Man...
                         pretending to be God.

                     But I am God...
                               pretending to be a Man.

          And the more and more
                         I get to know
               the more and more
                    I know this to be so.

                            For into this World
                                  this Plane of Separation
                      into which I entered at Birth
                                       I am 'The Action'
                                                 I am as God.

                      And not the Actor...
                             trying to get to know...
                                                'The Action'.

          But for a long time... I tried.
               Now I know however
                         that my Pretentiousness
                                        of being but a Man
                                   shines forth
                              from 'The Action' I am.

               For the Games in Eternity I play
                               are the Forms of my Nature
                               with Infinite Eyes
                                       looking at each other.

                    Trying to find...
                               'The Action'...
                                          THEY ARE.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17389-1981






                               LEARNING
                               ~~~~~~~~

          In the midst of all Confusion...
                  between all the things gone wrong... I sit.

                        Perfectly happy and smiling.
                               Contemplating on what's right.

          Which means...
                that I'm in Heaven.
                        And completely off this World.

               While to be on this World means
                          finding things gone wrong
                                        baffled by Confusion.

                For these are the things of the World.

          The World is a Place of Learning.
                And in order to learn
                         things have to be wrong.
                                     Things have to be messy.

               If this wasn't so...
                    how could we possibly learn anything?

                         How could we possibly grow?

          We could never become more Perfect...
                                  in a World that already is.

                Don't you want to become more Perfect?

                Don't you want to grow...
                               and become more Mature?

         Well... whatever you do or don't...
                                   you're here anyway...
                                                    LEARNING.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17390-1981






                          DIVINE TOTAL GRACE
                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

         The more I am this Ego...
                     the more I am this Me I know.
               The more I contract myself into this Entity
                              that thinks to be...
                                      independent and separate.

                                 The more I fool myself.

         For I am not an Ego.
                 And neither am I just Me...
                 nor an Entity that's separate and independent.

                            I am Divine Total Grace.

                 The God-Force of the Universe.
                         Manifested in the Being I am...
                                    and do not know completely.

         A Being contracted...
                        in Selfness and Suffering.
                                      Looking for the God I am.

         That's why I try to diffuse myself.
               To absolve myself from myself and expand...
                           to loosen the I-ness in contraction.

         For the Consciousness I think I am in Selfhood
                   is but limited in Smallness...
                                    to the I-ness I think I am.

         But if I could vaporize myself... as myself
              into the Divine Totality of Being
                        the separate I would vanish completely.

         And then...
         the searching and suffering I-ness in contraction
                   would find Peacefulness
                            in the Being of Divine Total Grace.

                     -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                              17391-1981






                              REAL LIFE
                              ~~~~~~~~~

       Life is a Game.
                 And it is played by Gods.
                           But few People know that.

       Most People think that the Universe is split in two...
             and that the two Teams are playing for and with Man.

                     The Teams are supposed to be...
                                           Gods and Devils.

       Many People have admitted to themselves
                        that they are the 'part' or 'item'
                                      the Teams play for or with.

               They consider themselves to be the 'ball'.
                               Yet they struggle to win the Game.

                    Naturally they are the Losers.

               For they are being stepped on continuously
                          by their own Mind.
                                         They call it SIN.

       In actuality...
              things are quite different.
                        Life however is still the Game...
                                   and Gods still do the Playing.

       The Gods that play... are Man themselves.
                           For 'We as God' but pretend to be Man.

       Some Gods are very good Pretenders...
              and have forgotten completely what they really are.

                     Their Forgetfulness...
                           makes Life a Real Game.

       Very... very few People know that they are God.
                                    It's supposed to be that way.

                   It makes Life the Game... it is.

                                               REAL LIFE.

                      -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
                                17392-1981

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