Saturday, April 27, 2013

Garlands of Leaves Conceal Horizons Moon


Garlands of Leaves Conceal Horizons Moon

Blossom snow blows and gathers
Hot and Cold and Wet and Dry mix and mingle and mar and mate
Petty dreams and petty squabbles cobble together lazy duty days
Uncertainties mix with the wonders of the season
I wonder and wish

Old flowering potentials re-emerge
Old forgotten songs return
The changes of life and time away from the haunts of the past makes them fade

Silly hopes and desires keep me up late wondering and wishing
The cool of the day subtly returns
Here when the sun sinks low toward the leaf-hidden horizon
There is a moment of reflection
There is contemplation
And knowledge of the impending dusk

Twilight is the door to the Great Mother of Star-Adorned Space
She wears her jewel ornament moon tonight
And shadows too as she offers a nibble and a milky nipple

Warm rays lie ahead
Spring offers a kind of peace of mind and yet
Strange birdsongs appear

Green will win the day and black the night
Green grows and black shrinks
Programmed emergences are loaded like arrows on the bow of cyclic time
You’re up

Age tires the crickety old bones and we know that this life is just a speck on the vastness
Beauty and awesomeness are just intriguing illusions, nothing more really
Duty and bottomless care are just trained fusions of the vast and profound

Seeds swell, stretch, crack, and dance in the earth and breakthrough to the sky
The hidden below now basks in the sunlit above

I grow old
I wonder and wish
The future chases us as we chase it
And soon enough we are dead
But now we can throw back our weary heads and laugh
Crazy are the ways of life
So let us enjoy them and spread this joy around as we can

Banquets of Love and Will


Banquets of Love and Will

The Art of the Banquet is about hospitality. People are invited. Food and drink are shared

Feast of Love and Feast of Will
Feats of Friendliness and Feats of Enthusiasm

Ideas and plans rise and fall
Time goes by

Windows of opportunity come and go
Flux is the nature of things

Summon them
The clan that never was
Thoughts in minds rise, dwell, and fall

Loyalty and suspicion
Betrayal and camaraderie
Which is which is which
Which is real and which imagined
Who knows?

Diversity and habits
Us and them in a million manifestations
Welcome to our way
Hospitality is the mingling of clans
Rules of abiding appear
Alloys of metals make for stronger swords
Allies in battles make for bigger lands

But just now there are only scattered families and futures uncertain
We can only try to save the earth and forge clan-destinies
Hidden among the tripe of norms we are

I wish I could see the way clearly through the deep mist of confusion
I am tired of wishing and wondering what if
Let there be Banquets of Love and Will
Let us not sour and perish in the deceptive lure of beauty and skill
Let us see far
Let us go far, deep beneath the surficial hovering of distrust

Love is wishing one another well
Will is the wiggling way
Love is the jewel globe
Will is the wings
Let there be Banquets of Love and Will

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, April 19, 2013

Now Words


Now Words

Every thing is a configuration, a recipe, a specific array of parts. There are no things. When delight is dependent upon conditions it is illusory delight.
Sky goers manifest the inseparability of motion and stillness.
Sometimes soaring
Sometimes winging
Our feather dance is a power above the world

Our slithering siblings keep the hordes of food and gold in the body of the mother

We are the primal twins, the original sins, the first division into rival clans

Born is war and also the wiggling impulse toward wisdom and love beyond the nest

Wind, sun, ground, and pool caress us here

Nature is nowhere not to be found

Bird Talk Moon


Bird Talk Moon

I saw the drowsy snow drifting off in the evening sun
Yes the evening sun
Thou shalt not? Pass
This is the apex axis pass and there is no way but down or            sometimes up
Crests and troughs are relative
The crest of thy relatives, part random and part meaning

Hero and man and goddess and Heru and Hoor and heresy and sun and ray and way
Heretofore hierophants humbly hum with harps in hand

The crows showed me a murder dance
Symmetrical swirl of particles in a glass of wind
They fall and offer themselves to the sky
The swirling sediment dance gives way to a graceful wind ride

Creatures call and chant for seed
Conversations appear and screech language abounds
Hawk atop a pole bodes ill for small wanderers
Sharp eyes are stalking the scene below
Death. It’s the future
For them, for us, for all

But now is hope for comfort and warmth
Woodpecker defies gravity in trunkwalk
Holy Sassafras

Metal center and plastic circumference
Power

Tree chatter and sky screech and ground chirp
Danger! Food! Sex!

Longing to sleep under an open sky
Longing to rest in the warm green mother and father sun bath
To work and tidy up and thirst and gaze upon what appears

Aspirations for a man’s safe return, safe journey, safe recovery
Aspirations for a warm and calm starry night with no worries

O ye bearers of souls
O ye squawkers and soarers
May you well adorn the scene and be well

I Wish I Could Fly


I Wish I Could Fly

I am lonely
I feel unloved, unappreciated
But I guess I am not real so this probably does not matter

There is but little peace
No matter what I do there will be hell to pay
Vigilance yields little recompense

The doom of oppression and inadequacy hangs over like a cloud
There is no escape
Resistance is futile
What to do
I know not

I lose and that is that is that
Prison is life is prison
Poison is strife is poison

I wonder what is real compassion
Caring for another, a bother?
Caring for an enemy without enmity?
Seeing beyond emotions and the foul words begotten
Impenetrable fortresses forgotten

What is love and what is union?
What is fair? This?
It does not feel fair nor reasonable
What wrongs have I done?
Perpetual criminality appears my fate
There is no hero here, only this vile villain

Pleasure is deplorably splattered
On all our hopes and desires
Happy not happy, even if it mattered
We would still be partial liars
For we are pinned between word-name-notions and feeling potions
Life long scryers

I am lonely and wandering why and wandering what if and
Wandering if there are worlds beyond this one

And yet I have these promises to keep
And no where to go before I sleep

Synchronous Dancing


Synchronous Dancing

The air is filled with toxic memes
We cannot help but breathe

Do we lend a hand to strangers who define themselves by their enemies?

Is it just a phase, this craze, a dead end along the deathless endless maze?

Palaces within palaces and thrones within thrones
Kings and Kingdoms, the One and the Many

This is all of a rhythm this time touching
It seems a manifestation of longing for order in the chaos and randomness of emotion
And a longing for the many to be one

We seek surprise and signs
We stalk for meaning

Are you there? I am.

All this connecting and disconnecting and infinite chances of union
It’s like navigating a perpetual storm
And just now the lantern is hidden
And perhaps we are just being cautious till dawn when we will see the matrix-illusion
   spread out around us as contrast will find us and the long past will bind us

We appear to grow, to go, and to change, like the cup of the universe in which we dwell
We crawl along the web of our circumstances doing what we do
Occasionally we leap away or fend off momentums but overall we are bound to action

I long to watch and listen
Perhaps I should do just that just now
Join me if you like

 

 

 

 

Another Piece of Momentary Nothing


Another Piece of Momentary Nothing

Norms and forms and worms
Slithering ignorances and well visited temples

Dare ye to explore the ever-present unknowns?
Reservations end in the death that is silence
Nothing is saved
All is lost
Quests unventured
Silence is most interpretable between sounds
Otherwise it seems an impenetrable barrier that lacks any betweeness
Words toxic, thoughts paradoxic

Words are like turds
Liberated by the ego-grasping conceptual mind
We summon waste and with it we paint the world
Or as Buddha said, “with our thoughts we make the world”

We are consumers and excreters in many ways
The way of energy exchange is our way as we are denizens of the world

Like the flowing rivers we are takers and givers
In motion we seek stillness
In stillness we seek motion
We feel the comfort we feel the burn we toss and turn in the agony of change

We are here in the density
Such is the agony of the realm

We are finite and subject to disease and decay
Such is the agony of our fates of pain

We are also infathomable mind and so the fetters can be undone
And the agonies allowed to pass away
May it be so