Stanley Hockman

Out of the Silence Stanley Hockman

Haiku illuminate what is happening in this place at this moment. My longer poems are derivatives of the short, concise haiku form. They are direct, imeediate exposures of my loves, fears, insights, and are all expressions of my level of conciousness at the time of writing - a level that continues to evolve.

My poetry is an invitation to share wondrous, palpable encounters I have with Nature, with my nature, and with God.

The book is in four parts. The last two are related - "at odds with God" on p 79 and "as God and I awaken" on p95.

After being "at odds with God" in the deeps of despair - seperate from God - I could only go up! I came to know God by what God was not, and attain, from time to time, places of at-one-ment - the content of "as God and I awaken."