Category: Poetry

  • Principles Worth Defending

    What is this space we say we need

      and to our neighbors 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.

  • Meaning

    Meaning almaas mind

    Meaning is not something we can get to with our minds;
    it is not an answer found in the mind. – A. H. Almaas

    All my life I have been seeking
     Answers, insight, understanding, meaning
    I have never been able to be here
     I haven’t been here for a second
    My mind thinks about being here
     So it’s not, it’s elsewhere

    Poor creature, water runs downhill!
     Here will fill you up
    For a thousand years after
     You can blabber on and on
    And never empty the well

    I tell you
    My heart finally let my mind
    Taste an atom of its sweetness
    Where it went, I do not know
    But it isn’t here

  • Twilight

    Twilight almaas mystery

    There is wonder, there is beauty, there is Majesty, but it is all mystery upon mystery. The peace is stupendous, the certainty is absolute and the beauty is dazzling. – A.H. Almaas

     

    Twilight

                the edge of two worlds

                the dark flame burns bright

                a well of longing fills the soul

                deep water

                still water

                an immensity — moves

                exquisite caress

                the Beloved’s breath

                silky luminosity

                beauty’s grace

                a kiss on the heart

                beckoning brilliant void

                a teeming

                pure crystalline delight

                I am

    Twilight

  • Green Rain

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    Beneath giant conifers
    Deep in the old growth
    The harsh wind stills
    The earth lives and breathes you
                               as the green rain falls

    Pine scent, pitch and resin
    Blend and mingle with rich
    Black dirt and decay
    Alpha & Omega
                               as the green rain falls

    Accepting; allowing; nourishing
    Gentle drizzle; caressing mist
    Air cleansed and freshened
    Amazing awesome space
                               as the green rain falls

    A face; a heart; a soul
    Lifted; turned; bared
    Compassionate ablution
    No need to seek salvation
                              as the green rain falls

  • Have you heard the song from Hell’s Gate Canyon?

    To reach that isolation

    wind rushes across a great thirst

    a dry and arid desertedness

    Mile after endless mile

    wind tempered and purified and tempered

    molecules smashed against barren rock

    Atoms stripped and polished

    by invisible sand

    Pristine, razor sharp

    slicing through space – no resistance

    rushing in great abandon

    Its mate, a canyon carved by eternity

    walls sail heavenward

    sandblasted to transparency

    And there, beyond the moon’s arc

    a solitary crack, an atom’s width

    Lover rushes into, penetrates the beloved

    their love a single piercing note

    strips the spirit from flesh and bone

    frees the soul; slays the heart

    Those wishing to hear

    come as a sacrifice

    bodies left at the gate

    Pure Brilliant Beauty

    One Note

    All Knowing

    not thought

    not feeling

    A SONG

  • ? . !

    Here is something I don’t understand
    Spacer often love carries a brand
    Circle K or rocking bar
    Spacerdefining whose or what we are
    A burn on the hip; a name off the lip
    Spacerpossessiveness and ownership
    Some confine love to the head or the bed
    Spacerand try to improve it with something they’ve read
    Many believe that love can be given
    Spacerto and from it others feel driven
    Do you think we pick and choose
    Spacerthat love is something we can use
    Something earned and often planned
    Spacersubject to payment on demand
    When love’s a commodity traded around
    Spacerit’s no fucking wonder it can’t be found
    It can’t be given or sent to a friend
    Spacerthose thinking this are around the bend
    Our minds will never figure love out
    Spacerthe paradoxes keep it in doubt
    Love is more a taste or a flavor
    Spacermaking our life something to savor
    The seers and sages down through the ages
    Spacerphilosophers, prophets, and even the mages
    Say love is the very fabric of life
    Spacerit can’t be divvied up with a knife
    It’s finer than silk or gossamer wings
    Spacerpenetrating even the densest of things
    This includes you and certainly me
    Spacerand it isn’t subject to any decree
    Love is the Life, blood of the soul
    Spacercomplete in itself, making all things whole
    Swelling the chest, melting the breast
    Spacerthe heart’s beloved wandering guest
    A bee to the flower, a moth to flame
    Spacerblessing all with only one name
    O! that the selfish, lonely and cruel
    Spacerwould come and steal this precious jewel
    The alchemy of this hoarded treasure
    Spacertransforms a man of any measure
    The strong go weak; the powerful meek
    Spacerthe lamb and the lion dance cheek to cheek
    Revelers bathe in liquid moon shine
    Spacerhearts are drunk on rosewater wine
    Drunkards are dancing; children are prancing
    Spacerwounds and hearts the Guest is lancing
    The beat of the drum; the flute and its hum
    Spacersweetens us up like a ripened plum
    Love cascades in a quiet crescendo
    Spaceropens the door and enters the window
    Love is an ester flooding the room
    Spacermaking us all a bride and a groom
    No one is spared; nectar is shared
    Spacermore and more bosoms are being bared
    The heart is birthing; constantly mirthing
    Spacerthe mystery, IT is unearthing
    Flickering light; darkening night
    Spacercuriosity quickens the heart’s delight
    Rose1The night is afire, a joyous choir
    Spaceran ecstatic dance within this pyre
    The fire dies down, we don a green gown
    Spacerdeciding to take this party to town
    Smiles on our face, we spill from this place
    Spacerletting the children set the pace
    We make a great noise, disregard poise
    Spacerand giggle at all our conduct annoys
    The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
    Spacerwill never again be our heartbreaker
    Love is no longer tied to a thought
    Spaceror seen as something that must be sought
    Love is what we’re never without
    Spacerregardless of all we’re bitching about
    So I hope these words in part convey

    Good God! I forgot what I started to say!!!

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