David Sparenberg

David Sparenberg is a world citizen, environmental & peace advocate & activist, actor, poet-playwright, storyteller, teacher and author.


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	John of Patmos: Aleph of Light - Alpha and Omega by David Sparenberg A power came, as if a power coming down from sky above. A power came, as if a power coming up from earth below. Two conjoined as one. Nobody rationally explains the conjunction of opposites. Paradox fertilizes below the
	The Bomber - Terminus ad quem by David Sparenberg The suicide bomber is first to go. In an instant, measured by a fury of fire, he disappears; his body fragmented. No—fragmentation is far too gentle of a term. The bomber’s flesh is ripped and torn, severed, smashe
	Urban Minotaur by David Sparenberg You are literate. But you do not know how to read. Signs are ignored, words elude you, windows blackened. And the writing on the wall does not get inside. You are conscious. But your imagination is either anes

	Tao of Desire by David Sparenberg Some people continue to get it wrong, most especially intellectuals, critics and the social script revisers. With good intentions, they talk to us about the lack of meaning. But because they believe that meaning is a spiritual condi
	Mephistophilis (Beatitudes of Hell) by David Sparenberg Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. *
	This Violence, this Web of Evil by David Sparenberg The poem that follows is not intended to reach only an aesthetic elite. Like a cupid’s arrow it is aimed at the universal human heart. The world is increasingly violent. At the same time we are all and always responsible
	Getting it Right by David Sparenberg Do you think that I am different, so you prefer to shun and through isolation push me into silence? I am not so different. In my everyday I am ordinary; might even be simple. I should even like to believe and accept that everything
	A Television Lesson by David Sparenberg Fox Network’s TV series THE FOLLOWING, what is it? What is it at the base of its storyline? First, America’s cult fascination with the vampire—the creature that blends sex and death, avoids its own death by drainin
	Orphans by David Sparenberg Take another look around. Find your heart and be stricken by what you find and see. Be overwhelmed: give libation from the sea salt of your soul to dust of this traumatized Earth. So many refugees. So many victims—
	Watching Second Graders by David Sparenberg Watching Second Graders from SAINT ALPHONSUS PARISH SCHOOL Look after tomorrow, Lord, tomorrow. While I, for one
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