the street

the street

the logic of the street

is the truth we know

as we trod each day anew..

 reliable and safe 

 our footsteps pace and meet..

there are words written

with those street scenes

certainty in street location..

street cultures abound

with loyal street citizens..

religions of the street

attempt to save

out there on the street..

and we dismiss at our loss

the streets we have walked..

yet we now see 

the street with its ends..

how frightening...!

Laniakea

Until now, the Milky Way was believed to be one galaxy in the 2,000 that make up what's known as the Virgo "supercluster." But as the new map shows, the Milky Way's 100 billion stars are actually part of something 100 times bigger: a supercluster of galaxies astronomers have christened Laniakea, meaning "immense heavens" in the Hawaiian language.


Laniakea

this hawaiian dream
of a feathery supercluster
connecting strands of light..
one feather for now
but is this one
of one bird
in one flock..
our minds wander
and weaken
no answer there
Who am I...?

Here and There

Here and There

searching for meaning

here and there..

we seem to assume

meaning not inhabiting

that vast geography

between here and there..

with dissatisfaction rising

a risk is taken

to look with care

in this no man's land..

and startling it is

to find something

as same with a

new birth of difference..

and another shock:

here and there 

are not

here and there

anymore...

Levels

Levels

differences

which we encounter

in this separate world

may be a waking..

as suffering suffices

we ask finally

about our lives

on this our level..

just the asking

may be a tripwire

with a fall and shock

we live on an elevator..

and stuck we are

on bottom level #1..

in bottoming pain

a discovery shines

here and now:

a simplicity switch

labeled..UP...

Just to sit

"Just to sit, without expectation, with someone who is in pain or grief or fear, without trying to fix them in any way, or manipulate their experience to match your idea of how they should be; just to listen, without trying to make things better in the moment, without playing the role of 'expert' or 'enlightened guru' or 'the one who knows best'; just to be totally available to the one in front of you... this is the essence of true healing..." - Jeff Foster

Ignoring

Ignoring

This qualification of the

dark name ignorance

is a path out of our pit..

A simple ignoring

ignoring of the dimension

of no-thing-ness

from which springs

the some-things of

mountain and plain

and pit..

Language of Awareness

Language of Awareness

There is a directness

in our experience of awareness

after the mind surrenders..

Simply a knowing which

shuts out all of the eithers and ors

a language of silence..

A language which requires 

no subject and object

yet it includes all of these..

A unified field it is

which spends our days

awaiting our humble

flash of recognition...