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  • The Mountain

    The Mountain

    The longest and one of the most complex poems I have written is titled – The Mountain. The mountain is used to help describe my relationship to my self, the world and my superego (inner critic). The poem has three sections – The Day Face, The Night Face and The Crucible of the Heart. Each section has two parts. The first part describes my relationship to the mountain from a certain perspective and the second part describes a journey of revelation and growth that opens up the perspective.

    The Mountain

    always the mountain
    soaring up from earth
    stretching far beyond eagle’s reach
    noble aristocrat, Olympian presence
    empyrean sovereign bows to none
    head high in tempest or tranquility
    inspires, reassures
    prodigious seduction from afar
    and I
    pretender to the throne
    emulate such grandiosity
    rock solid, I stand aloof
    with pretentious dignity
    one cool remove away
    from the world and its ailment
    man – humankind
    me

    Read the entire poem – The Mountain

    Mountain Interests

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  • Tantra and Love and Tantra and Karma

    Love is more a taste or a flavor,

    Making our lives something to savor

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    Devastation – Ruin of the Heart

  • Who Says

    huWho says this love
    Will set you free
    When that love
    Knows the beauty of jail

    Who says this love
    Is a consuming fire
    When that love
    Is a river of bliss

    Who says this love
    Is the light of God
    When that love
    Is dark Mystery

    Who says this love
    The soul hungers for
    When that love
    Devours the false

    Here is the secret
    Of this and that
    HU says…

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  • Visitor

     

    Past midnight

    The moon crept in

    Announcing Your arrival

    Grumbling

    Accompanied my hasty departure

     

    On the bare roof

    Sheer

    Night-sky majesty

    Flooding me

    With gratitude

     

    Poetry Expressing the Heart & Soul

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    Where does poetry come from? Where does poetry go? When you write poetry, is it a struggle, a flow – is it even you? Poetry has as many faces as souls on the planet. Share a bit of yours.

  • The World of Man

    World-of-manDown
    Down
    Down
    Into the depths
    Of the human condition
    Down
    Into the saline depths
    A shower of tears
    A river of tears
    An ocean of tears
    Into the depths
    Of being human
    Pain and suffering
    Beyond the light
    Darkness and despair
    Beyond hope
    And the well of longing
    Beyond the anguish of the soul
    Stripped of its treasure
    Down
    Into the depths

    Intimate knowledge
    Dark waters
    Births a real human being
    Blesses the soul
    Frees the heart

    A radiance
    From the depths
    Down
    Down
    Down
    Into the world
    Of man

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  • Principles Worth Defending

    Global-warWhat is this space we say we need
    and violently refuse to cede
    Our bodies willingly we’ll bleed
    if our words they fail to heed

    Seeking love with heart sincere
    a bloodied child sheds a tear
    Our cause is just, the course won’t veer
    such hypocrites, we have no peer

    From global wars to marriage spats
    righteousness wears white hats
    And just like hissing alley cats
    soon throws itself upon the rats

    They say we live an age of reason
    apparently there has been treason
    But let us wait another season
    before removing ego’s lesion

    Religious leaders take such pride
    in claiming God is on their side
    As human passions they seek to hide
    in fear the flock finds they lied

    If all is fair in love and war
    then our poor world will heal no sore
    And children raised on local lore
    will also rot at the core

     

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