Poetry
The Receptive Void
I am here Always Bathing you In my receptive, omnipresent stillness The silent calmness within and all around Your agitation . I am no threat to your existence I am here for you Not against you Calling you this way …
The Scrapheap
‘You don’t want to end up here’ My father said With mournful eyes After years of striving To make his mark Undermined by lack of dare In a world where reckless wins And caution misses out . I took his …
The Signal Failure of Material Science
(Causing all in its train to crash)
Has always been To focus all attention On what can be seen, Heard, touched, smelled, tasted While disregarding What’s immaterial As if it doesn’t exist Within, throughout and all about Us . So that when we see a body Moving …
The Way of the Naturally Inclusive Middle
I don’t hate anybody Everybody hates me Such is the way of the naturally inclusive middle That everybody loves to exclude From the relentless pursuit of what cannot exist I am as perturbed by the Illusion of Completeness, Wholeness As …
The Weariness of Not Being Heard
There is a great weariness Which comes of not being heard From calling up courage To speak the truth you perceive In the hope that it will help others To hear it Only to receive no inkling That it’s found …
This Isn’t What I Wanted
This Isn’t What I Wanted When I started on this quest To find my self and loved ones Excluded from the rest That comes from mellow fruitfulness Before the fall When all’s been said and done . This isn’t what …
To Be a Natural Pilgrim
To be a natural pilgrim Is to be a disciple of natural truth Not a follower of fashion Or adherent of false Authority Laying down the Law of Contradiction That makes a paradox of life As it is lived and …
To Live is to Burn
To live is to burn In the consuming passion of the fire That takes in and gives out Through the transparency of space The light around the dark Within its receptive heart Which calls into itself What it needs to …
Together Makes Three, Altogether Makes Five
With a little imagination Any One can see Two intangible, insubstantial aspects of reality That we could call Tao and Chi Space and Flux Stillness and Motion Darkness and Light Soul and Spirit That together embody a third Tangible, substantial …
Unbroken Movement
So, you want to know The meaning of ‘Flow’ As the meaning of ‘Life’ Transcending all strife Around and between all bodily form As standard deviations from idealized norm . Well, the answer’s quite clear If you don’t hold so …
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