The “stream” is a living symbol. Existence begins innocent In fresh rain and snow, Left on the mountain top forgotten below Left to sustain the continuous flow Virgin water entering again In a new journey in fertilization Of life and manifestation A Wondering of the new story It will bring to what it spoke before … Read more
Which End is UP? Anarchist and zealot enter From “A” to “Z” Somewhere in the center Maybe? It’s not What the zealot got And anarchy Has no destiny So, what must I see? Where are We? Who am I? Pie in the Sky?
So, what does it mean The 4th of July In liberty’s quest? To celebrate in its decline Indebted to the few With so much cash in greed’s heavy chest So many, fighting in need Wars fought in Justice claims Lost in ambiguous reality Dominated in violent White Generating the Blues Of others blood flowing Red … Read more
The Hawk’s Dinner The ambivalence of Death Hidden in meaning’s struggle Stories told of what lay beyond Unproven in foundations unknown A fantasy remaining About Death’s first sighting It’s not the end As the flock continues to sour In the winds of life Challenging the dream’s meaning In Sunlight’s shadows And so comes the time … Read more
Hard to breath this morning I feel overwhelmed, overloaded Isolated from meaning Knowing that humanity is engaged In its last crisis of growing. But I don’t see any new sprouts. I see only those poisons that kill I hear the cries of betrayal, Of those lost in rage And buried in uncertainty. It is difficult … Read more
My lessons are always close at hand. I can feel the shrinking of my reach, my will, my gathering, my remembering, my learning, my doing, my living. And what of those without vision, interest or knowing And standing with me At the gate of death, empty Having never filled themselves with knowing? Is this the … Read more
I think of the Art I don’t see into, Can’t see into, Won’t see into. But then, I see a unique thread Bringing me back from the dead Holding on to life in every days’s asking to survive Within meaning Lost in thinking’s sleep routine Like a blanket that won’t give in To the new … Read more
Life always brings something challenging To explore and explain, To find meaning and purpose Seeking awareness in knowing. But, just when one gets comfortable . . . I wish I knew If I should awaken you Or if it is I who is asleep, Some of both is stirring deep. So open the doors of … Read more
The dream of hope is lost In the self’s desire Going into the emptiness of the future There is nothing there for me Nor for all that dies. To think we are of concern in destiny Is a distortion of nature Easily filled with fantasy And the vulnerability of irrational lies. There was once a … Read more
“Remember where you are, forget where you’re not.” David Jackson Sinking in the Sea of Desires Round and round we go In the random motions of desire What can be said when your dead? Where do the beginning’s end? In manifestation failures? So what is life for? Desires? And where is meaning? What of anger, … Read more