Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Moon of the Hare in a Sky Full of Wanderers

Moon of the Hare in a Sky Full of Wanderers


Sky lords gather and secret chiefs chatter
Water bird Mother remains ever watchful
Bottles of Wod sing in the wind


Painters of green return a bit at a time
Symphony of birds in bamboo bush at sunset
Symphony of flapping wings there at night disturbance

Fall into the numbing rhythm of motion and duty
Lives begin, lives end, and pledges are kept


Happy aches and tiredness append to the end of days
Crow calls and Jay calls cut the air in dopplering screams
Some suffer in accepted defeat while others fuck the daze away


Noumen emerges, piercing the ground with leaf and bud tips
Pregnant buds clothe eager tree clouds
The kins of hazel, willow, birkin, and alder hang and stretch in their pollen dances
I dream of an arranged lover and wake up for the better
The morning is beckoning louder and louder
Curiosity of speedier change calls the drowsy along


West and East grapple in my mind
Words fail to convey the meanings within that we Seek


Nobody Cares


Sadness comes and goes
Emotional pain falls away from the moment’s awareness
   for there is no room there for feeding it
Loss in duty is an approximation where one can train
To train in awareness and to train in compassion is the work of a noble life
Patience, happy striving, and sincerity are the royal ministers


Pleasures are measly tokens of passing moments
Yet I catch myself coveting
Woman unveiled appears even in pools underground
But for a time is the strip tease climactic
But for the building and propping and contrast it is just simple slowness


What medicine is this that we devour at this hour?
It is the Sun that swells and the Moon that dwells now with the plane kings
The Seven Stars of Ziggurats and the Seven Veils Undone in the Great Below
Big worlds, little worlds, and mirrors
Adepts charm themselves into accepting this or that reality
Ha
Nihil, Annihilate. Nirvana, stop the madness – but only for a while
   for stopping and starting are no different
Maybe tomorrow we will understand these things
Yeah maybe we will
I think we will.












Thursday, March 1, 2012

Shadow of the Eagle

Shadow of the Eagle

Memory rises and falls like day and night
Light comes from below to dwell above
Darkness falls from above to dwell below
Pale Dawn and Murky Dusk are trees of knowledge


The rhythm of life
Stir Thy Might and Stir Thy Brevity
Knots, we’re all girt with knots
A tangled briar patch of life spreads out before us


Resolution trumps revolution
State of mind, what a difference makes
Heaven hides from Hell
For both are illusory

We carry along our karmic handicaps
These are our habitual disabilities
Firmly in the grasp of illusion we wander


Emotional torrents carry us away though we weary of our follies
We long for breakthrough even while we repair our own prison walls

There is a jewel that reveals all illusions
It is near and we all have the capacity to discover it
So say the sages


The eagle-vulture skillfully steals the soma
Denizens of dawn and dusk are two sides of the same face
Night follows day and day follows night
But who chases who?

Dwelling in glory and bliss is trite revelry
The muck of boredom and friendly deeds is ever fresh and ready for us


Emotional perspective changes like weather and seasons
We age
We change
Yesterday’s concerns fall forgotten tomorrow
Yet we can always explore the moment and what appears
We can always feel the sun, hear the night, and watch the clouds
We can always relax in natural mind.