Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Feeding livestock


Feeding livestock

ancient advice
for meal consumption..
tending livestock first
will bid well..
subdue their hunger
that part
of our soul..
food then satiates
tasted by senses
with flavor sublime
in pineal unity...

Soaring


Soaring

when 
ecstasy blooms and
landscape turns to
soaring flight..
these are times
our light within
experiences our
soaring...

Look again


Look again

diversity unnoticed
flattens our days
depresses our rising..
diversity noticed and
temporary emotions
fill our frame..
healthful formula
seems to be:
Unify diversity
and through Unity
look again...

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ninth Duino Elegy (Rilke)


Are we here, perhaps, for saying: house,
bridge, fountain, gate, jug, fruit-tree, window –
at most: column, tower......but for saying, realise,
oh, for a saying such as the things themselves would never
have profoundly said. 

Monday, July 29, 2013

Inception


Inception

of our poem..
intent is first
then a clearing
a sweeping for
quiet space..
now the paradox:
quiet is marked
made darker
finding room
for the verses
to come..
quiet returns
voiding yet joining.. 
female and male
twilight and dawn
and our poem
is conceived...

using Kabbalistic vision
of Creation on a new
level..

Memory (David Whyte)


MEMORY

is not just a then, recalled in a now, the past is never just the past, memory is a pulse passing through all created life, a waveform: a then continual
ly becoming other thens, all the while creating a continual but almost untouchable now. But the guru’s urge to live only in the now misunderstands the multi layered inheritance of existence, where all epochs live and breathe in parallels… memory passes through an individual human life like a building musical waveform, constantly maturing, … often volatile, sometimes overpowering. Every human life holds the power of this immense inherited pulse: holds and then supercharges it, according to the way we inhabit our identities in the untouchable now. Memory is an invitation to the source of life, to a fuller participation in the now, to a future about to happen, but ultimately to a frontier identity that holds them all. Memory makes the now fully inhabitable.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Anniversary


Anniversary

this marking
in time
need be placed
in stark contrast to
 shared communion
of no beginning
no end..

yet this day
and other markings
 stimulate our
remembering..
 lighted candles
bring communion
to our moment...

Happy Anniversary
Don and Becky...!







Friday, July 26, 2013

Candle and Flame



Candle and Flame

Carved in mud
horseshoe tracks..
he asked me
then remembered
she was correct..
literal reality here
now verified..
One track though
symmetry double
only this one
with appearance
holder and candle..
consciousness is
energized by
 coherence
of difference..
nature reflects an
image of flame...

Robin breathes


Robin breathes

her SEEING
is breathing..

Inhale 
her view is
below:
confusion
dysfunction
yes, wounds
path shadows..
at last 
these SEEN and
gathered
for transform
Inhale..

Exhale 
her view is
above:
new colors
illumine..
PRACTICE
LOVING
and NATURE
all glow anew..
yet evening
approaches..
ego's new 
grasping..

Gathering
once more
her Poetry 
breathes free...


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Third Annual Mary Oliver Festival



THIRD ANNUAL MARY OLIVER FESTIVAL

PILLAR Institute for Lifelong Learning

Hosted by: Robin Izer 

    Saturday, Sept. 14th, 2013
        9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  202 E. Cheyenne Mtn. Blvd. , Suite 1,  80906

Because her latest book, A Thousand Mornings, is relatively short, we will complete a circle reading of the entire text; each of us taking sequential turns reading the 36 poems in this book.  We will then ruminate on the poems which call to our hearts & minds.   As always, you are invited to bring other works by Mary which have transformed you, which we will share as time allows.  Please bring a copy of A Thousand Mornings if you can; we will share books if needed.  Note: This is not a poetry writing workshop.  
 HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE !!!    
Please share this announcement with friends, if you please.....

 ($20 for Members; $25 for Non-Members.  Partial scholarships are available.
     633-4991 to Register, after August 20th...... Coffee, Tea & Refreshments will be served.)


Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Beetle



The Beetle

Thus far 400,000
species discovered
a quantity dissonance
ghastly overwhelming..
40% of insect species
30% of all animals..
worthy representatives
of animal kingdom..?

Greek named
Coleoptera
not Cleopatra..!
"sheathed wing"
potential flight..
pheromones 
stimulate and gather..
Vibrations join
with all creation..

Similarities
these big four:
Adephaga
Archostemata
Myxophaga
Polyphaga
land and aquatic..
Air Fire Water Earth
complete with

surprise members:
Ladybugs
Fireflies
Lightening bugs
allusions to 
Fortune and Light....

Thanks to Ava
for this prompt..!

Monday, July 22, 2013

Meditation


Meditation

first the breath
birth to death
pulsation
rising and falling
pattern of
all our days..

inhale is rising
in spine's channel
darkness brightens to
fountain of light..
exhale forms
apple's red skin
 egg's white shell
exhale is creation
 colors luminous 
nature's fine detail..

 now constricting
enter once more
spine's entry door..
in the darkness
rough patches reside..
though from there
appears slowly a
pin of light..
inhale is rising
joy expands 
a fountain bursts..

first the breath
birth to death
pulsation
rising and falling
pattern of
all our days...


Big Bang




 Two Cosmic Microwave Background anomalies hinted at by the Planck observatory's predecessor, NASA's WMAP, are confirmed in new high-precision data revealed on March 21, 2013. In this image, the two anomalous regions have been enhanced with red and blue shading to make them more clearly visible.
Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
View full size image
Editor's Note: In this weekly series, SPACE.com explores how technology drives space exploration and discovery.

While we may never know all the details of our universe's explosive birth, scientists have been able to piece together quite a bit by studying the ancient light that saturates the cosmos.

The universe burst into existence 13.8 billion years ago in a "Big Bang" that blew space up like a giant balloon. For nearly 400,000 years after that, the universe remained a seething-hot, opaque fog of plasma and energy.


- See more at: http://www.space.com/22052-big-bang-technology-universe-history.html?cmpid=529599#sthash.xinj47dp.dpuf

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Forgetting


Forgetting

We live with
much forgetting..
morning in-sight
fades with the
grasping day..
hourly demands
split and cover..
yet is life
 enriched
when we find
re-membering
springing from
dark ground of
forgetting...

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Sit Walk Write


Sit
Walk
Write

she uses this
formula
her silent retreats..
sitting seems upper
writing lower..
walking connects
feet to earth
spine to sky
finding movement..
hand and pen
in motion
word flow
reflecting...


considering
 Natalie Goldberg's
new book
The True Secret of Writing







Friday, July 19, 2013

ants







ants

on patio cement
in morning sun..
disordered travel
direction changes
Randomness
tedious show..


diversion to
airplane engine above
assumed destination
Ordered flight plan..
moment's possibility:
polar interchanges
orderly ants
random flight...?

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Beauty's path


Beauty's path

not what
but how
the artist arrives
at the notes 
we see..
a whole lifetime
birth entry until
 last brushstroke..
struggle and elation
work in progress
until our moment..
path of mystery
the framed photo
the dance twirl
represents...

Timothy's Gift


Timothy's Gift

he writes from
 unhidden despair..
his words find
distress in some
those wishing 
a caring shelter
or raining joy..
is it possible
standing his place
finding within the
evening each owns..
a garden there
dark earthy soil..
no other place
restores morning
rays..
Timothy's Gift...

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Background


Background

and foreground
context with content
both are powerful
each strengthens
and weakens
the other..
Beauty leaps are
relational
sameness and not
photos and more..
perspectives 
daybreak with
evening...

Elegance


Elegance

with a discovery
of symmetrical
elegance..
beauty in pattern
fresh from asymmetry..
Astonishment of simplicity
Why had discovery
not leaped before..?
then in elation
discoverer declares
proof is irrelevant
Elegance is
all sufficient
imperative Truth...


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Self-organizing



Self-organizing

Before discarding
old contract writings
affecting lives yesterday..
spoke of interviewing
employment seekers..
structures prevail
levels of panels
participants gather
level to level..
formal networks 
not newspapers
issued the passports
as entry for all..
order Not chaos
top-down and
external this mind
 ordered pattern..

Today we hear
of airline tragedy
too little speed
landing made midst
smoke and fire..
passengers assembled
in informal hurry..
a self-organizing
masterpiece
order from chaos
lives saved in
miraculous seconds..
chaos gave birth
meeting our future
urgent self iterating
in spots of need...





Monday, July 8, 2013

The AA Secret

The AA Secret

AAA works too..
 ubiquitous battery
teaches much more
reaches far beyond
a trusted flash-light..
this small cylinder
plus on top
minus below
gold over black..
 opposite poles in
lasting conversation
each with the other..

In the conversation
Sage's parables reside..
remember the prodigal..
Buddy left early
took his pouch
a descent to AA's
darkened pit..
but gold above
finally grabbed his
scattered attention.. 
 return to AA's
gold we don't
need to mention..

Lessons profound
from our humble AA:
gold or black
are never alone
 cosmic conversation
neverending..
we name
many poles:
heaven and earth
light and shadow
creator and creation
good and not-so-good..
polarity in Oneness
 the Secret..
at last we
 Awaken...!






Wormholes and Dimensions (Stretch...)


Wormholes and Dimensions

Pillar's Stretch program for July 15th
(MacKenzie Place, 4:00 to 6: PM)
will explore the meaning of
higher dimensions in our lives.
We will utilize the Morgan Freeman
narrated series, "Through the Wormhole"
as background for discussion. 

Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence – What are we made of? What was there before the beginning? Are we really alone? Is there a creator? These questions have been pondered by the most exquisite minds of the human race.
 Through the Wormhole brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science – Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and more – to reveal the extraordinary truth of our Universe.

Facilitator:  Charlie Coon


Imagine that you're a science-fiction writer on a tight schedule. You'd like to play in the vast expanses of the universe, but you have too much scientific integrity to conjure up a warp drive or a DeLorean out of thin air. You're also concerned that your audience would get bored in the thousands of years that it would take for a spaceship to realistically travel the distances between stars. What you really need is a wormhole — a shortcut through time and space. Best of all, unlike most science-fiction tropes, wormholes might very well be real.
Seventy-five years ago today, Albert Einstein and his collaborator, Nathan Rosen, submitted a paper to the Physical Review with the goal of unifying gravity and electromagnetism. Although they failed to discover a theory of everything, they did something arguably more much important: By creating the first theoretical model of a wormhole, Einstein and Rosen allowed science-fiction writers — including Arthur C. Clarke, Madeleine L'Engle and the writers of "Babylon 5" and "Doctor Who" — to explore vast stretches of space and time in the blink of an eye.




Stretch…with discoveries in Consciousness
(July 15th, 2013)

Wormholes

The name wormhole was coined by American theoretical physicist John A. Wheeler in 1957, based on an analogy of how a worm could chew a hole from one end of an apple through the center to the other end, thus creating a "shortcut" through the intervening space. 

The most common concept of a wormhole is an Einstein-Rosen bridge, first formalized by Albert Einstein and his colleague Nathan Rosen in 1935. In 1962, John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller were able to prove that such a wormhole would collapse instantly upon formation, so not even light would make it through. (A similar proposal was later resurrected by Robert Hjellming in 1971, when he presented a model in which a black hole would draw matter in while being connected to a white hole in a distant location, which expels this same matter.)

In a 1988 paper, physicists Kip Thorne and Mike Morris proposed since that such a wormhole could be made stable by containing some form of negative matter or energy (sometimes called exotic matter). Other types of traversible wormholes have also been proposed as valid solutions to the general relativity field equations.

(Please email Charlie Coon if you wish to be on his
emailing list:  charlesrcoon@hotmail.com.)

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Ecstasy


 Ecstasy 

frequency


frequency

our words
of frequency:
energy of life
power of battery
our earth's polarity
shifting pulsations
sound of music..
highest frequencies
find rest..
all as spectrum
of light..

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Swallowtail



Swallowtail

a floating lightness
effortless Waving..
a particle transforming
black to yellow
then to thin air..
lighting on shrub
but not really..
energetic reminder
empty space
is not empty...


Walking

Walking

a motion
clarifying
Step by step
erasing complexities
and fears
elevating Simplicity
exposing hidden links
fractal nature assists..
returning home
walk seen whole
 gifted in-Sight...


Thursday, July 4, 2013

The 4th..!



The 4th..!

Independence
celebrated..
some say outdated
in interconnected world..
yet world is fractal
these tissues joined:
similarity and difference..
Independence unfolds
identity and difference..
at other times
and especially today
similarity we praise
content are we
Similarity is
stimulated strengthened
enclosing our
4th identity...!






Tuesday, July 2, 2013

bicycling


bicycling

We learn once
and never 
again..
never not
restoring from
imbalance..
a Singularity:
left and right
earth and sky
round and straight
movement and still
machine and spirit
bi and cycle..
such Centering
might one day
en-lighten our
struggling 
world...


grains of sand


grains of sand

in William Blake's
hologram of fame..
each grain of sand
 in beaches we know
contains a universe..
and in each
those beaches again
with grains for us
to look once more
and find..
in the poet's frame
holo-science might
new Reality claim...?



To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake

Monday, July 1, 2013

Why bad things


Why bad things

to good people fall..
on this question
faith and trust
hang and fade....
heat and passion
bitter rejection
all gain entrance..
these separators
further separate..
our duality roars
with new strength..
then with fortune
a healing balm
ancient Oneness 
blooms and will
bloom again...