Monday, June 30, 2014

What is Vitality..?


What is Vitality..?

Asking myself this question
on a sunny morning..
the word seemed common
in separate readings..
a subtle awareness
enfolds mind and body..
awareness which visits
places pleasant and strange
strange even threatening..
but awareness asserts:
visiting the strange
stimulates my being
meets my need..

and here comes a squirrel
tail twitching
teeth quick in sitting
and eating..
Vitality exclaiming again..!

awareness investigates


awareness investigates

awareness as our oneness
as energetic substance
surrounds and penetrates
really all in all..
yet we are here
 my table
my pen
my paper
my poem
my self..
and what is awareness
doing this morning..?
investigating what it 
makes of itself:
table
pen
paper
poem
self...

Saturday, June 28, 2014

at sunset


at sunset

a lowering bright sun
seeks dark forms for
splashing its light..
OR
day's end bright sunlight 
exploring and discovering
finding its rays
in many dark forms
made of light...

Evolution...

The Blue Heron


The Blue Heron

my Friend follows 
her own Friend
her blue heron
in these weeks
since spring began..
yet on this morning
of sun and warm
her bird of longing
expressed dismay of
a closer encounter..
flapping wings and
croaking voice spoke of
dismissal and rejection..
yet my dear Friend
teaches us all
that deep rejection
names pure grace...

Friday, June 27, 2014

Visions of New Being (Amazon Review)


Amazon Review of:
Visions of New Being
Meditations and Poems
by
Robin Izer

This is a revelatory and potentially revolutionary book of meditation and poetry..!
The book is essentially a guide, which gently, and sometimes not so gently, assists a reader's awakening to their own inner consciousness or awareness..a crucially necessary evolutionary discovery for persons living in our world today.  Robin Izer, in the powerful brevity of her poetry, shares her "Visions.." of who and what we might (must) become (really already are) as awakened spiritual citizens of the world.  She organizes her words into four sections (gateways actually) as entry points for enlightening our lives. These are:  Seeing,  Practice, Loving, and Earth. The four sections both stand alone and are holographically linked.  All of her poems are intimately experiential for her, connecting her (and our) vision and practice, insight and grounding.  And there are awakening shocks:

DEATH

The last person
I touched 
before I died
was my killer--
the knife
ripped my flesh
exploded
my heart--
my eyes pierced his
and with
soft utter surprise
I whispered
I love you
then effortlessly 
fell into his arms.

A most unusual and transformative book..easily a Five-Star recommendation..!!

Still point


Still point

considering our outward flows
these creations of beauty and
the hiding of truth through
sharp turns and cunning separation
claiming attention and fear until
arriving at a point of desperation..
we hear from someone somewhere
of our need to reverse and return
we are shown the power of surrender
and find the joy of converging upon
our Still point... 

Friday, June 20, 2014

Base security


Base security

feelings of cleanliness and discipline
imposed and this morning appreciated..
with my return and memories arising
these impositions on freedom
ingredients of order
through warnings and cautions
seemed as doses of curative 
to pains of excesses
readily re-appearing
 when departing
base security...

(Visit to a military installation
and remembering experiences
and assumptions...)

At home


At home

Waking
as we join
those right now
in their comfort..
and others seeking
the comfort which
is seeking them..
also those who
as comfort unsettles
go seeking outward..
this is creation
with birthing pain
but enfolded still..
As we pause
knowing once more
in new waking
that we are
still at home...

Monday, June 16, 2014

Not a dream this time


Not a dream this time

One of those nights
a context well known
but places seem misplaced
and then a question arose:
this seems a dream and
a wish expressed of a
dream indeed..
But reality seemed such
to then conclude:
Not a dream this time..
so now in daytime
might we wake
from a dream
indeed...?

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Chaos



Chaos

is our not-knowing
many have said..
the random unpredictable
of every-thing out there..
Yet in the chaos
similarities gently assert
and these suggest
an order and unity
somewhere and sometime
or perhaps better
no-where and no-time
from which spring the
plethora and strangeness
all those differences
of 10,000 things..
Our discovery arrives
in new understanding
of deepened union:
similarity and difference
attraction and strangeness
order and Chaos...

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Play happy


Play happy

and see what happens
Johnny Miller's golf advice
which he learned from mentor
Peter Jacobson years ago..
this snippet on the airwaves
is a push to Awareness as
the happiness sought by all..
then the outer flow becomes
made of happiness issuing 
from Awareness to the
ball on the tee or to
the dishes awaiting...

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

You are that


You are that

These three words are in waiting
for all to realize one day
and then it will astonish so many
 this truth has been hidden so long..
the realizing may sense that the
modern tools of spirit and science
assist those who find that these are
new ways to reach real Reality..
others will note that the new tools
are simply new names of ways
which have been in use since
far away ancient of days...

Monday, June 9, 2014

The Gateway


The Gateway

Our perceptions
are found guarding our gateway
 to Oneness to Awareness and to Joy..
the ages have presented a gateway test:
sensations and thoughts are disguises
seeming to declare independence for
all appearing out there..
common sense rushes past the
gateway and fails the test..
yet fortunate are we with teachers
ancient and new to caution silence
then to return us to the gateway which
we had so quickly rushed through..
with only this pause our Oneness
restored and with Joy we know
 and say:  I am Aware...

Sunday, June 8, 2014

the writing path


the writing path

how does this path lead to Awareness
of an experience more full-filling..
words circumscribe an expansive pen
most fall short of enriching expression..
and we note the crippling duality of
our subject and object worded universe..
yet we do not concede and keep writing
now aware of the page blankness which
surrounds and we imagine penetrates
our word limitations and brings forth
a cloud opposition which tolerates and
injects each word with thunder and light..
and then standing back in surprise
we find that those words just now written
have become a teacher and unintended
meaning somehow emerges and shines...



Saturday, June 7, 2014

rumi and hopkins and rilke


SRETCH...Cosmic Christ
June 9th, 2014

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense.

mevlana jelaluddin rumi 


 In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
                Is immortal diamond.
gerard manley hopkins


The Departure of the Prodigal Son

To go forth now
from all the entanglement
that is ours and yet not ours,
that, like the water in an old well,
reflects us in fragments, distorts what we are.

From all that clings 
like burrs and brambles--
to go forth
and see for once, close up, afresh,
what we had ceased to see--
so familiar it had become.
To glimpse how vast and how impersonal
is the suffering that filled your childhood.

Yes, to go forth, 
hand pulling away from hand.
Go forth to what? To uncertainty,
to a country with no connections to us
and indifferent to the dramas of our life.

What drives you to go forth? 
Impatience, instinct, a dark need, 
the incapacity to understand.

To bow to all this.
To let go--
even if you have to die alone.


Is this the start of a new life?

rainer maria rilke

Friday, June 6, 2014

Desires


Desires

for new things fulfilled
brings bursts of happiness..
then to another and
one more burst..
new seeking with
glimpses fading hidden
by new desire rising..
at last on one day
an amazing jolt
knowing now the search
may finally subside
and astoundingly this:
happiness knows the
 seeker is the sought...

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Questions


Questions

Power is leftward
about being correct
about the facts..
often we're told
your opinions yes
but not your own facts..
this leftward power
holding sway with
an occasional reminder:
facts now are
in great abundance
they are ephemeral
and often illusion..
flaws abound in
fact supported life
living off-of-center..
the clamor is calmed
with Questions arising
absorbing all facts
and remaining as
Questions...

Monday, June 2, 2014

Christ Consciousness (STRETCH)


STRETCH..!

Christ Consciousness
(Film and Discussion)

June 9th, 2014, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
MacKenzie Place
(no cost)
Colorado Springs, Colorado
(corner of Fillmore and Union)

The film will feature authors Marianne Williamson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Andrew Harvey, plus Dr. Gladys McGarey, the mother of wholistic medicine, who join Spiritual Cinema director Kell Kearns. The discussion will address the relationship of Christ consciousness to the universal evolution of human consciousness, and to the meanings of  Christ consciousness, both inside and outside of religion.  
Previous Stretch programs have important correspondences with this one..

Facilitator:  Charlie Coon
(charlesrcoon@hotmail.com)

Remembering


Remembering

awakening is our chore
after a birth those years ago
 of sleep and forgetting..
in our many deaths before death
those many unpleasant rehearsals
the waking work need be done..
waking and remembering
walking away from
our birth and veils...



based on Wordsworth Ode
below...