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...

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. 

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 continually 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.

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...!