After all, as you lie in my arms knowing all needing nothing but what is, the earth rolling away from the sun Thunder rolling in the distance Can you hear the thunder of death, my dear? Yes, I hear it and more, I hear a sound Not everyone can hear, I feel an energy not everyone […]
Category: Inspiration
A Forest Monk Speaks
If you find yourself in a Buddhist temple You are not in a Buddhist temple. Though you pray and chant for yourself Night and day, you remain in Hell. Living and dying, are the two not one Happening at the same time? A cobra lifts its head in your path. Teach it to hiss, not bite. […]
When One is More than Three
for Fred Longworth The pure energy of choice, the exercise Of wisdom and will between the extremes Of hatred and love, apathy or action, war Or art, the painful year, a joyful moment, Only mind dreaming our future into being: All that is made by man, woman or child Every toy, house, bridge, bullet or […]
Experiment with Time Travel
They led us to sunlight on the grass beside the school Brought an extension cord and phonograph with a box Of long silks of many colors, played Stravinsky’s Firebird Ravel’s La Mer, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and suddenly We began to move like birds, like deer trailing scarves! We began to come alive outside the classroom, […]
The Web
It’s not the known that holds the secrets to knowing more. There is more than what we see and know here and now. Search the far reaches of the future Dark womb of tomorrow Understand the possible Flowers in impossible gardens: If we can link Countless computers One massive mind giving dreams Knowledge, ideas Making […]
Give
To be there, pull back the veil of spring I am a fool to want that, it comes on its own Like the weather, unmindful of urging The thaw in the peaks, the spill of the river. It all happens for the first and last time Azaleas, forsythia from the bowels of earth Lighting the […]
To a Friend Who When I Asked How She Was After The Pulse Massacre Replied, “Just shoot me too.”
Will you smile real pretty when I pull the trigger? Will you let a squadron of dragonflies carry you By your nipples and hair into a green forgetful sky By your toes, your nose, the white fuzz on your ears? You will forget the red and blue years Sailing a […]
Potential
for Will Petty in Blaine or wherever he is . There he is that sassy kid Head full of wit and fire Walking the hills like level ground Hand in a sack full of plums. Cocky, wild, full of himself I wish I were more like him– Take the heat from a flame, The strut from […]
The Pest
If in the vaulted ceiling cold cathedral air Warming itself in sunlight, there is one fly And I am kneeling, I alone in supplication Am l lifting prayer to a higher power, that fly Will surely light on my ear! By heaven I know well the silver winged pest Red eyes refracting light Is God’s own […]
From Where I Stand I See
Decade to decade everything falling apart; everything coming together. if I sit down, stay in one place I still move forward if I move forward and walk on two legs I still stay in one place if I hold on and keep what I have I will lose it if I let go and release […]
