Category: poetry

What Is My Religion You Ask

I seem to hear that more and more these days
And disappoint with my wayward ways

Could I have found the Truth I always sought
You All know how hard I have Always fought

In the end I want you All to know
I have found my peace lost so long ago

I wish you well on your way
And hope to see you another day

All you need to know about my Religion

Is that it came to me from within as a Dove
And that All I Am is Love

Image, “Force of Love” – MD

Blooming Flowers

Now is always here
The future is always on its way
The past has been

In the still moment you can know your place
Fearful and hopeful tomorrows always beyond your grasp
So let them be

Look at how the water moves over the rocks
Listen to the birds singing their song
Smell the sweet new life from the budding flower

Let feelings and signs point the way
You will know what to choose
And your best future will emerge

How can you be in the moment
If you are always looking for it
Wait for it to come to you

The future is just a probability
If your mind lives in the past or future
How can you be here now

Oh the bliss of not Knowing
Oh the bliss of Being
Oh the bliss of Now

Dawn Rises

I feel the calm rising

The crashing waves ebb

I see the essence of us in the moon lite clouds

The old fears and passions slowly fade

They were set on my ending in defeat

I no longer chart this course

I see a bright dawn

Serendipity

We are they

Who achieve

By not doing

Yet things are done

Happy are they

Who know the Sun

– Another’s Dream

Image, Tsuchiya Koitsu -The Sacred Bridge of the Nikko Shrine on a Rainy Autumn Day

The Dancing Blue Girl

I had a blue dream
I saw a flowing blue river
Lapping on the shores of my doubt
I lept into the rushing waters
Leaving all behind
A problem
I never learned to swim
Another came who saw my thrashing
Patiently he reached out a hand
The stranger pulled me into his boat
I looked into his cosmic dark eyes
Ageless wisdom probing deep
Stripped naked
The dark night came and overtook me
I almost lost myself
The stranger spoke a tongue I’d never heard
Slowly I began to understand
He dried me off and began to sing
I seemed to know this song
I felt it rising from deep within
My whole body vibrating
I made a sound
I was singing in our small boat with my new friend
As we shared our hearts in song
In our little boat
I looked to the shore
I saw another dancing there
Familiar, I asked her name
You know me she said
Slowly the realization turned in me
Like a screw into my heart
I began to weep and then I remembered
We met long ago and agreed
To meet on the river’s shore
As I heard the song on my lips
The stranger pushed me out of the boat
I struggled to reach the shore
The beautiful blue glowing girl dove in after me
She came at me fast as I spun in the eddie
We lunged for one another
And down we went
Slowly I found her eyes with mine
We shared our breath under those blue waters
We stopped thrashing
And floated to the surface
We clutched for one another and held tight
The swift river pulling us forward
Slowly we awoke together and found ourselves
On a blue ocean shore
What did you dream my love
I saw you dancing on blue shores

Standing Beside You

I wrote this for a friend in hard times. Be well T!

You are a painted masterpiece
Your splendor shines from you
Be connected to calm things
And places you love
Walk old joyful times past
I met you on the road to destiny
I feel your pain
Let my words wash over you
And I will snatch it from you
Lay it on other’s shoulders who can bare it
I stand beside you and whisper
You are Loved

The Road Within

Be brave

Take risks

Have courage

Go where others fear

Be true to yourself

Give all you have

 

Inspired by The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

 

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself
and that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because
every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
– The Alchemist

Gathering of Lovers

onethroughlove

This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.

– Rumi

Sacred Economics

We are at the end of growth

The end of the age of self

This is the end of possession

The ancients laugh at our blindness

Money consumes all

Greed rules the day

We think
We desire
We covet
We suffer
We hate
We kill

Why should we survive

Our human struggles pollute us

We long to be free from distraction

We need a new currency

We must learn to give and love

Heaven waits

You can only enter at the end of desire and yourself

Embrace the end of this selfish dying world

Measure all knowledge against a giving heart

Who can give more than All

Who can find freedom

Learn to Love

Love yourself
Love the Earth
Love each other
Love the Universe

Live for All

Only the truly intelligent learn to give

The Universe is a gift

To unlock it you must align

What truth do you have that can compare

You have nothing I want

I hold All in my hands and you know not

I am free and perfect in my peace

Myth and the Future

They say all the stories have been told
Whoever controls the myth writes the story
Write your own story
We can access the dimensions through song
We create the future we need

Break from the past
Raise your voice
Agitate
Twist until the bonds shatter

Sing the ancient song

Image, Nicolas Poussin – Apollo And the Muses