Thursday, October 31, 2013

Trick AND Treat


Trick AND Treat

serving as candyman
this spooky evening
an evening of Treat..
but the Trick
where is it hiding..?
it must be there
in those masks
or those sacks
because the Trick
 is the spice
 the shadows
leaves crunching 
the flashlights
this magic night...!

no place to go or to get to


no place to go or to get to

this message
we most secretly
long to hear..
but we weave
in traffic lanes
beating the light..
destination delayed
is self denied..
and that pause 
once arrived
becomes not then
a destination
but a hesitation
searching our map
for stop is ahead..
these are essentials
to build a life
and we forget
that hidden longing:
no place to get to..
frightening for some
but it seems
a life full and lived
spends time in
that place..
so for practice
the next stoplight
might do...!

Richard Rohr
Immortal Diamond
appreciated...


Wednesday, October 30, 2013

competition


competition

is comparison
of my difference
with your difference..
both differences are
rooted in same..
in daily games
rooted play
might make all
the difference...

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Web



The Web

We are no doubt
each of us
entangled..
entangled in darkness
and in light..

Suffering arrives
with the illusion
that these are
separate entanglements
or that
they are not...

the Wedding


the Wedding

the bride and groom
unseen
prepare to unite
two become one
in joyful celebration..

might we ask
what came before
this place and time..?
an earlier chapter
of everyone's story
is told with wine..

when those barrels
of water transform
one becomes two..
old Adam alone
becomes Adam with Eve
our birthing story
unfolds again..

this split for creation
a delivery dramatic
all with accompanying
complaint and pain..
stands now a
Cana reminder
of our separation 
with some news
of joy's return...

Monday, October 28, 2013

The Saints


The Saints

Named from those
many yesterdays..
A teacher or friend
ancient or recent
near or far away..
A passage we read
way back then..
Tender advice in
a time of hurt..
A homeless man's
most grateful eye..
A science truth
 grasped just now.. 
All remembered
this day..
The many words
spoken or not
built our vessels
 to catch new light..
Creating each
unique identity...



Sunday, October 27, 2013

Earth and Sky



Earth and Sky

Ancient Natives 
of Earth
and others in-lighted
have found linkage
Earth and Sky..
Imagine then know
Earth a new form
of the Sky..
A simple relation
remembered
enriched their days..
A Truth
available always
to penetrate
our longing...

polarityinplay

Morning Sun


Morning Sun

A faithful reminder 
we have
each and every
 morning..
A new chance to
recall the real order
of things..
From this source
breaking the horizon
we see emerging
 from darkness
the new shaping
of our day..
With our reminder
and music's scales
universe to atom
we know then
of a sacred pattern
 repeating..




Saturday, October 26, 2013

Underlining


Underlining

Pausing
 before discarding
an old text book..
All those underlines
momentary importances
marked and forgotten..
Yet wishing to ask
on this sun-filled 
October afternoon:
Are our underlined 
words lost forever or
doing their share
building containers
wineskins for
gathering future
light...?

"It is now how much
we know, or how
little we know,
but how we know
what we know.."

paraphrase of 
Rabbi Joel Bakst


Friday, October 25, 2013

River crossings


  River crossings

A river's lines and patterns
We meet at dawn
Prior to our day's directions..
We claim precious freedom
Our own course we plot
These crossings and confronts..
With faithful imagination
Now we must meld
In new dimension to find
Our birthing direction...

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

"For Solitude" by John O'Donohue



“For Solitude”
by John O'Donohue


May you recognize in your life the presence,
power, and light of your soul.

May you realize that you are never alone,
that your soul in its brightness and belonging
connects you intimately with the rhythm of the
universe.

May you have respect for your individuality and
difference.

May you realize that the shape of your soul is
unique,
that you have a special destiny here,
that behind the facade of your life
there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

May you learn to see your self
with the same delight,
pride, and expectation
with which God sees you in every moment.

(Excerpted from:
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue (Doubleday, 2008)

Monday, October 21, 2013

Catching the wave (by Marge Zimmerman)



Catching the wave
Riding the ripples
Falling like an autumn leaf
Into the breeze of oneness.
Floating into the flow of togetherness
With faith of not knowing where I'm going
But certain it is the right path


Sunday, October 20, 2013

upon reading of concert notes


upon reading of concert notes

forced concessions
to the State..
this constriction 
of content
unleashed his 
creativity..
for us then:
our facing of
constriction
we might grasp
as preferred seed..
confident now
of new expression 
surprise release..
until constricted
unexpected...

Sergei Prokofiev (1897-1953)
Romeo and Juliet

leaves en-route


leaves en-route

separating and falling
these autumn days
colors and death
returning
to blackness
and new burst
of creation

Friday, October 18, 2013

Key making and alterations

 
Key maker and alterations

Bending and kneeling
with discomfort
pinning and marking..
coaxing a key from a
recalcitrant machine..
a later discovery
the key was malformed..
An elderly Chinese couple
communicating with gestures
simple throaty sounds
These representatives of
other older world..
An island of survival
in our ocean of plenty..
An afternoon snapshot
only surface impressions
and mystery of work 
and years...

Thursday, October 17, 2013

biggest known star



The biggest known star in the cosmos is in its death throes and will eventually explode, astronomers said on Wednesday.  Using a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the astronomers said they had spotted telltale signs in a star called W26 Located about 16,000 light years away in the constellation of Ara, or The Altar, the star has a diameter 3,000 times that of the Sun.  W26, first observed in 1998, is a "red supergiant", a term for a star that is as big as it is short-lived. Stars of this kind typically have lifetimes of less than a few million years before they exhaust their nuclear fuel and explode as supernovae. W26 is becoming unstable and shedding its outer layers, a key step in the death process, according to the paper, published in the British journal Monthly Notices of Britain's Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). W26 is "the largest known star in the Universe", the RAS said in a press release.

Departures



Departures

live on our horizon
joining our arrivals..
life to be summed
each moment preparing
for our departure
life and death one..
A mindful doing
completion of task
A measure of beauty
in careful workings
with smiles and tears..
A new horizon
arrival with departure
always becomes...

suggested by
the 2008 film:
Departures

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

autumn coverings


autumn coverings

clouds brisk and fleeting
deciding cover or flow
of warmth of the sun..
a cycle of change for
our instruction on high..
as this evening's moon
fullness is one day away..
or warm sun partiality 
with those cover clouds..
 origin of our longing
must lie elsewhere
there in our depth where
 cycles lives whole...

Monday, October 14, 2013

a teacher



a teacher

A thicket thrives
on opinions
many and varied
which bring many
to sorrowed walk..
A foreboding
as expectations are
darkly dismissed 
for that teacher's 
  momentary crossing
of ones path.. 
Those opinions 
multiple on multiple
each person met
adds one more
a growing collection..
Might we find a
 more ready awareness
Joyful surprise awaits
expecting the teacher's
fleeting appearance
on crossing paths...








Sunday, October 13, 2013

Black Whole



The Pillar Institute
Stretch Program
for Monday
October 21st, 2013

We will view and
discuss the video
"Black Whole"
featuring
Nassim Haremein

Where:  MacKenzie Place
Corner of Union and Filmore 
Colorado Springs

When:  4 PM to 6 PM





"There is a physical place inside your heart that has a singularity. Your heart has a little cavity between the two ventricular, and that little cavity has the highest electromagnetic field of your body, and can be measured up to eight feet away from you; and that's the battery of life that keeps your heart going. When you die, that singularity is no longer present, and I think that is why there is a bunch of weight that goes missing when people die. The weight is the result of that singularity curving space-time, creating a gravitational effect that we call weight."

"In an infinite fractal of rotation, how do you define the center? Every point is the center. You are the center of the universe observing the universe from your very own center. Wherever you pick a point of observation in the fractal, that point becomes the center from which you're observing the universe. That point becomes stillness. Why stillness? Because in that point now, all the spins of the universe cancel out.… You need stillness to have a frame of reference for rotation… And that's how singularity occurs. Singularity is the point at the center of your experience of the universe, that is the point of stillness from which you're observing the universe."

-Nassim Haramein






Yes Yes and No No


Yes Yes
and
No No

We honor
this outward
command..
To be
decisive
consistent
distinctive
clear-cut..
We honor
also
the inward
in-sight..
To see
two sides
one surface..
One Surface
a creation
brand new..
Not Yes
Not No...

See Matthew 5:37





Saturday, October 12, 2013

One Story


One Story

There are many
and it seems
few intersect..
Those which meet
soon dismissed and
enter the mist..
A new duality
my story and yours..
What if there is
only One Story
those in mist
are still joined..
In that mist
The Odyssey and
Cold Mountain
are found joined..
In our reading
from that mist
we retrieve..
Enlarging our story
changing our Name...

 See Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain

heartwood (by Mae, Hello Poetry)



heartwood (by Mae, Hello Poetry)
and when kindling
    will no longer suffice
             those dried fragments
                 so easily sacrificed

   i am called to surrender my heartwood            
             may it burn slow steady and bright
          through the length of freeze and darkness
            until miracle tender brave branching
                     when blessed returns our Sol
               burning Self that we may thrive
                        keeping vision fires alive


heartwood (tangent)

a Singularity
    we imagine
       in the Center
            of her trunk..
                one black hole
                     burns slow
                          steady and bright
                              though still dark..
                                    creating curves
                                         rings of sapwood
                                                 and of bark..
                                                       new warmth
                                                            each morning
                                                                 gift of Sol..
                                                                     new branching
                                                                           keeps vision
                                                                                 fires aglow...
                                                                     



                      

Friday, October 11, 2013

Faces in Silence



Faces in Silence

Out of silence
words are formed
breaking and lining
the silence..
Yet in knowing
the Silence as
Creator
 words created
vibrate in the
energized silence.
And the face
contours and lines
delineate also
the space encasing..
The face a telling
 momentary
immediate
summation
of a being
in the Silence
formed...




Hidden Silences



“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.” 
― John O'DonohueAnam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Genesis Breathes



Genesis Breathes

A misnomer back then
To name as Old
Something as recent
As our breath
Just now..
And there's more
Without this pulse
Which the Old enfolds
It would be as
We never ever
Breathed at all...

"Old" Testament...?

Shaped prayer


Shaped prayer

Prayer
must have a
Feeling Shape..
An artist suggests
our inner shaping..
The dark struggles
of our dimension
in imagination
find a Location..
This lower darkness
We inhale to
Light..
Our own Black Hole
becomes now White..

This White dimension
has no location
time or space..
Just a feeling
of Oneness
an absorbing grace..
But return we must
to our Location
which we find
has changed  face..
One prayer cycle
is now complete
but the cycle
is breathed
again and
again...


See Alex Gray images
on Google




Sun's journal


Sun's journal

This morning
in bright sun
filling a page
in the warmth..
Now with entries
were these joined
under the sun..?
Cat on hunt
slow grasshopper's
narrow escape..
A friends pain
with feeling prayer
finding sun's light
already there..
A silly exchange
emails on net
all from a typo
a humored mistake..
Too hot now
this autumn sun
but the gifts
have already come...

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Emergence



Emergence

By what door
might she emerge
from her fears..
Dark fears with
voices incoherent..
With deeper reach
an energy found
Her blackness
longing for white..
Voices now
coherent..
Simple floating 
Calm Ecstasy
New creation... 


" I was introduced early to water. It was dark - floating... voices came and went. "What's ahead? I'm scared!" An emotional twinge grabbed me. " What is this called?" Fear? Apprehension? There is a ripple running through my body, highly charged like an electrical current plugged into an energy I am receiving from my source.  I suddenly feel a softening, a different something is being transmitted.  "It's okay, everything will turn out fine.  You are not alone.  Just float, float... The rest will just happen."
( My poem prompted by this writing exercise by my friend, Marge Z)


Water Words



Water Words

The evidence is
There for all..
Water crystals
Response to words..
Deformed and spoiled
Awaiting new words..
Imprinted
A mirror image
Our selves displayed
What connects us..

These recordings of
Incarnation..
Who we are
In this our reality..
Maps and measures
Our route to 
Return...

Reflection on
Masaru Emoto
on Water

an afterword:
Crystals and Congress
Our image reflected..
Maps and measures
Our route to 
Return...  :)


Monday, October 7, 2013

FINISTERRE...David Whyte


“FINISTERRE

The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken,
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way
to your future now but the way your shadow could take,
walking before you across water, going where shadows go,
no way to make sense of a world that wouldn't let you pass
except to call an end to the way you had come,
to take out each frayed letter you brought
and light their illumined corners, and to read
them as they drifted through the western light;
to empty your bags; to sort this and to leave that;
to promise what you needed to promise all along,
and to abandon the shoes that had brought you here
right at the water's edge, not because you had given up
but because now, you would find a different way to tread,
and because, through it all, part of you could still walk on,
no matter how, over the waves.”


Anam Cara




Once the Soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfilment. The eternal makes you urgent. ~John O'Donohue♥ Book: Anam Cara

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Resonance


Resonance

That word seems
to be on
the lips of many..
Oft repeated when
meaning is owned..
It's a soulful rendering
gaining high respect
because it reaches
the speaker's depth..
And the connecting
 inside and out
grasps for oneness
and hearer's awe..
Rationality and logic
proofs else demanded
are shifted..
Uniqueness
Self
are bywords
for now...





Saturday, October 5, 2013

Hidden and Revealed



Hidden and Revealed

Sacred texts
many words compose
with  meanings
hidden and revealed..

Partial truths
we must see
and effort apply
for the fuller..

Imagine each word
one dimension
always reaching
high and low..


Our imagination 
thus leaps and
at last reveals
a fuller truth...

Then we pause..
our own discourse
the hidden layers
remaining unsaid..

Might the sacred
lessons provide
a new process
melding of minds...?