Saturday, April 30, 2011

THE GOD POEM

The green and shadowed places are the places I call home.
The wide open spaces are the spaces where I roam.
I live in every creature and I fly on every wing
And when the sun arises you can know 'tis I the King.

I am Lord of the Forest, I'm the Leaper in the Corn,
I'm the wild, leafy Greenman, and the sound of Robin's horn.
I'm born in every inhale, every exhale's my last breath.
I'm every point upon the wheel that spins through life and death.

Call to me I'll answer, hear me in the dawn
Feel me in your heartbeat, see me in the dappled fawn.
So play and run and laugh with me, what is there to mourn?
Every time I die, I get to be reborn!

Come take my hand and don't let go -- C'mon this is your chance!
Life is not a battle, life is a great dance!
And if you are not ready, well that is alright too.
I have all eternity and I can wait for you.

But know if you're intent on taking life so seriously
You're only calling out to the trickster side of me!
Your cage I'll surely rattle, I will rage 'round like a storm
Until, in your surrender, your heart begins to warm

And thus abandon hopelessness to embrace utter joy.
After all, I am the God! I don't need to be coy!
And one day you will meet me behind my masked disguise
When you look deeply enough into your own eyes.

~June 27, 2008

A QUESTION OF FRIENDSHIP

An old question haunts me -- it troubles my sleep,
Refusing permission for my peace to keep.
I try to avoid it -- it won't be ignored.
Its taciturn clamor disrupts my accord.
I wake up the zombie that sleeps through my life --
Stand up to face the Truth's double-edged knife.
In this, Logic fails me -- I turn to the light
Of great Odin's mead which be-wings my insight.
So what then is friendship? Who is it decides
The meeting of strangers where-in a spark hides?
The breath of the gods? A gift from the Divine?
So must it be for the plans were not mine.
Yet embers need nurt'ring if flames are to grow --
Have I wrongly encouraged the bellows to blow?
How'd I forget I don't get to have friends? --
My world all tied neatly, there can't be loose ends.
Unfairly did I entice somebody near
On siren-song promises that can not appear?
Unfaithfully did I step out of the nest
Betraying the love with which my life is blessed?
Nay! I say no! That just isn't the way!
In these there is no room for honor to play!
So how to proceed? I haven't a clue.
What in the world would D'Artagnan do?
Forsake me a friend for another one's fears?
Maintain a friendship despite my wife's tears?
Perhaps this dilemma is sign of my growth --
My choice isn't either. My answer is both.
And what of my feelings? What of my thought?
Does the big twist in my gut count for naught?
I am not heartless -- I feel deep the pain
Of each dagger-drip from my wife's teardrop rain.
I'd die for the sake of this woman I love!
To complete me, her love is way more than enough.
So am I then wrong to want friends still beside?
Especially ones with their plumbing inside?
Can a true friend live caged in his friend's groundless fear?
Or truer outside to help all the fog clear?
And what of my new friend? Are feelings for her
Completely platonic -- no romantic purr?
I'd recognize Cupid, the song of his bow,
His arrow that struck half a lifetime ago.
Still in my heart where it pierced doth it lie,
From whence even cold-fingered Death can not pry.
This friendship is different and can not replace
The waking to morning sun lighting the face
Of she who fulfills me -- what more can I say?
Soul mates forever I vow, come what may.
Friendship, it's levels and shapes vary wide
With infinite encompassing expansion inside
With vast spanning tracts from the center to fringe
Without any reason or need to impinge.
Friends are reflections -- they mirror back our self.
What friend would put that back on the shelf?
The flow of my rhyming begins now to fade,
But has it relinquished a kernel of aid?
Through these old ramblings what did I learn?
When I'm in doubt it's to Honor I turn.
Two friends have I got and two friends shall I keep.
My river of friendship runs long and runs deep.
Once it is given, can not be repealed
No matter what hand from the fates we are dealed.
So what it comes down to, in short, in the end:
My answer's not having but being a friend.

~March 18, 2005

to the tune of THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD

I ran out of soap, could I be such a dope
To think that my undies got cleaner?
Don't care what you see if they're covering me
And no one can look at my wiener.

~May 2000

A TATER IN THE BAY OF MAINE

A tater in the bay of Maine
Was floating in his boat
A-wishing he'd a-picked a different
Ship's mate than a goat.

No sooner came the goat aboard
Than all the lines he ate,
And soon the mast and anchor both
He cleaned up off his plate.

It wasn't long, nothing remained,
No single board in place
The tater floated in the bay
A goat before his face.

A tater in the bay of Main
Was floating in his goat
A-thinking for a ship's mate next time
he would pick a stoat
(because they're not vegetarian).

~July 14, 1999

MY SAILING CHIP

I threw a chip into the dip
And found it would not float

I would not cease and found a piece
I made into a boat

Upon a sea, most garlicky,
My ship sailed proud and tall

Til run ashore on mushroom spore
It answered siren's call

It took not long to right this wrong
And send it on it's way

It's final trip, my sailing chip
Rests in my stomach's bay

~November 9, 1998

NOTHING LESS THAN WHOLE

There is something I'd forgotten
On my journey through this life
There's more to me that lies beneath
The worries and the strife
Joy is my inheritance
The essence of my soul
Awaiting me to see I can be
Nothing less than whole

My mind rebels in fear
Threatening that my days are done
But there can be no separation
When my soul is one
It's but a shift of sight
Perspective from my soul
Reminding me to see I can be
Nothing less than whole

I am spirit, I am soul
I am nothing less than whole

~March 18, 1998

FAMILY

My mother is the planet
Grandmother is the moon
Grandfather is the mountain
My cousin is the loon
My brother is the red-tail
My sister is the sun
Together we are family
Together we are one

~April 6, 1997

THE GRAVEYARD OF POTATOES

Through my childhood crystal clear
Comes images of things I'd hear
Of myths and legends far and near
But one alone brought so much cheer
     All others seemed comatose
With in my memories wide and deep
There sits a certain compost heap
That makes my mind and heart to leap
     The Graveyard of Potatoes

And so within my sheltered youth
I caught a glimpse of hidden truth
Thus called my destiny forsooth
Though others may think it uncouth
     To follow where my fate goes
To others it may seem a dream
But I have seen the truth to gleam
And ride a bright silver moonbeam
     To the Graveyard of Potatoes

Thus my path was clearly plain
A walking down the garden lane
Arguably slightly insane
For though my plan involved some pain
     `Twas necessary I s`pose
No time to contemplate my deed
I found a tater, made it bleed
I knew its dying trail would lead
     to the Graveyard of Potatoes

In rising joy I walked behind
This potato won't mind
His life be forfeit for this find
To benefit all human kind
     His sacrifice held purpose
I walked along ecstatically
Until the trail ceased suddenly
And a guardian stood between me
     And the Graveyard of Potatoes

A grand potato ten feet high
Towering there with every eye
A-fixed upon me where I cry
For fear that I would surely die
     Beneath one of his big toes
But he spoke forth his great missives
And called doubtful my objectives
For one arrives and lives
     At the Graveyard of Potatoes

Then a beam shot from his eyes
Transforming me in shape and size
Despite all m mournful cries
I knew it good and only wise
     To atone the path that I chose
So now I serve a full life term
Amongst the compost I must squirm
A slimy little mealy worm
     In  the Graveyard of Potatoes

It must seem bad there from your view
For me though, do not be blue
I've lived my dream and seen it through
Though not how I imagined, true,
     But that's the way life goes
I payback my misled intent
Discovering I'm quite content
To see my final breath be spent
    In the Graveyard of Potatoes

~April 1997

SO BELOW

It's not me who has to do this but the spirit of my soul
All I need is to surrender to the wisdom of the whole
Everything is taken care of and all pieces are in place
And no matter how miraculous there always is a way
So it is, it is so
As above so below

Letting go of all my limits and releasing all my fear
For my purpose is within me and the path before me clear
Easily and effortless the outcome has been sealed
Stretching out my hand before me I know everything is healed
So it is, it is so
As above so below

~June 1996

THERE IS ONLY LOVE

There is only Now
There is only Harmony
There is only Love

Whatever it is my eyes think they see
Nothing else can possibly be
And so I am set eternally free
In this moment forever

The future and past are not mine to see
In their infinite potentiality
And so I am set eternally free
In this moment forever

~1996

LOOKING BACK

Looking back across my life
Thr years I call my own
I wonder if I had to
Could I simplify let them go
To be within this moment
Of eternity with you
Where we are one, and one is all
And everything is true.

~1995

GARDEN BY THE SEA

When I was a young lad
I thought it quite delicious
To eat out with the fishes
In my garden by the sea

Now that i am older
My heart is overspilling
To these friends that I am grilling
My aquatic family

So take my hand in fin now
In great exhuberation
Our oceanic nation
Delves through sweet eternity

Someday time won't hold us
We'll all come home a swimmin'
The fish men and the women
In a joyful revelry

And when we get together
We'll find it most auspicious
To eat out with a fishes
In a garden by the sea

~September 13, 1995

LET ME SEE

It comes to my attention
There's more than meets the eye
For though it's dark around me
Still my heart can fly

And though the world may crumble
Down around my mind
Yet there is a stillness
Deep within I find

Let me see with more than my eyes
And let me see the peace that lies
Beneath all sorrow, beneath all pain
And let it see me home again

The bittersweet surrender
Of a mother's heart
Looking on her first born
When he must depart

Looking through the drama
Though the tears may come
Knowing there is purpose
And thy will be done

Let me see...

Through the darkest hour
There is light to see
And far beyond all reason
There is harmony

Let me see...

~April 5,1995

CIRCLES AND RINGS

Sister Sun smiling down upon the wheat
Spinning her magick to give us bread to eat
Mother Earth and Air and Rain all weaving their own parts
Making up the tapestry that lives within our hearts

Circles and rings
And all creation sings
Through the bread in my hand
Called forth by my command
Hey-hey, a-hey-hey-hey-hey

Fire, Water, Earth and Air invoke the dance divine
Nourishing each tiny plant and fruit upon the vine
Drinking up the swirling light of life to be transformed
Through life and death and life again in me reborn

Circles and rings
And all creation sings
Through the drink in my cup
As we gather to sup
Hey-hey, a-hey-hey-hey-hey

Holy Mother/Father Source I know that we are one
Held together by the golden thread of love we've spun
The planet is my body and my blood the water's flow
Everything outside of me is inside me also

Circles and rings... (drink)

Circles and rings... (bread)

Hey-hey-hey-hey

~April 4, 1995

TELL YOU KINDLY

It takes a single person
A solitary soul
To open up a little
To contemplate the whole
For all the world to tremble
And creation to rush in
And for every mind's
Awakening to begin

It takes a single moment
A twinkle of an eye
For the Child's memory
To turn toward the Light
And in that simple memory
That begins to blaze
Every point upon the web
Of the Universe is upraised

And so I tell you kindly friend
Don't think that you are small
Because within yourself
You contain it all
And with every person
Truly you are one
So I tell you kindly friend
Where you go they all come

It takes a single person
A solitary soul
For the entire Universe
To awaken to the whole

~February 28, 1995

FLOW

I heard the river speak to me
Of timelessness and eternity
And in turn I set it free
And give voice to thee

Flow
Don't mind where the course may go
Every motion is toward the sea
Each movement is toward home
Flow

I heard the river speak to me
Of fearlessness and reality
And in turn I set it free
And give voice to thee

~March 1, 1995

HELLO MINNESOTA

Hello Minnesota
It's been a long, long time
I've thought a lot about you
So I thought I'd write this rhyme.

~1995

ASCENDED MASTER BLUES

It seemed ascension was the answer
So I let me spirit soar
But the brotherhood of masters
Is really quite a bore
      There's no going backwards
      Once you've paid your dues
      I should have seen it coming
      There's just no way to lose
      These Ascended Master Blues

Now that I am omnipresent
There's no where else to go
And since I am all wisdom
What else is there to know?
      I guess I did too well then
      To learn my P's and Q's
      But what good's a Master's
      Degree that you can't use?
      These Ascended Master Blues

There's no point in socializing
When I am everyone
I can hang out with my self
But parties aren't much fun
      Once you are enlightened
      You can't escape with booze
      But you best enjoy it 'cuz it's
      More permanent than tattoos
      These Ascended Master Blues

And I don't have a cool name
Like Mafu or The Ram
Who would want to listen
To the Ascended Master Sam?
      I guess I'm on my own now
      I have no more gurus
      But once you've walked on water
      It's no longer front page news
      These Ascended Master Blues

There is no need to worry
There's no heaven and no hell
But before you try ascending
Better read the fine print well
      'Cuz once you have awakened
      You can no longer snooze
      If I could do it over
      I don't think I'd choose
      These Ascended Master Blues

~February 26, 1995

LOVE IS ALL

Hear the shy little bird
Sing a love song to me
See the bright yellow moon
Shine her light right through me
The Universe awakens
Nestles me inside
With a love embracing
With a love alive

To know the oneness of life
I don't need reminding
'Cuz every where I see
My reflection shining
And so my heart rejoices
Answering the call
Into Love expanding
Into Love I fall

Ascending into the sky
Like the sun arising
I surrender it all
Fin'ly realizing
In the sea of Being
Where is there to fall
When all is Love
And Love is all

~February 3, 1995

ANCIENT RYTHM

Ancient Rythm
Ancient Song
Ancient Voices
Sing Along
Ancient Sisters
Held So Dear
Ancient Brothers
Do You Hear...

~February. 1995

EVERY FOOTSTEP

Here I stand where my heart is free
The Universe arrayed about me
Every possible path laid at my feet

Every time my pathway changes
All the universe rearranges
To bring me back where circles are complete

Every moment is a new beginning
Every heart beat is a new song singing
And I wonder where I thought I might have been
No matter how far I may seem to journey
There's just no way to leave eternity
And every footstep brings me home again

With my heart I realign
In clarity the choice is mine
For what it is I truly wish to find

I choose my path in perfect freedom
Knowing each way finally leads on
To the place we've never left behind

~January 4, 1995

CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE

Child of the Universe come on home
Take my hand, it is your own
Child of the Universe you've wandered long
Now come back where you belong

Child of the Universe dreaming deep
Hear me whisper in your sleep
Child of the Universe You've traveled far
Now come back to where you are

Child of the Universe upon my lap
It's time to rouse you from your nap
Child of the Universe, little star
Now awake to who you are

Child of the Universe the time's at hand
It comes time for you to stand
Take your place amid the starry night
Child of the Universe, Child of Light

~December 17, 1994

THANK YOU

1.  Good morning Holy Mother
     And Angel of the air
     And Angels of the water
     And the sun way up there

2.  Fill me with elation of a
     World that's just begun
     I feel us merge until
     I know that we are one

C. No words express the feelings
     That come into play
     I guess that thank you
     Is the only thing to say

3.  Holy Source, Light Divine
     Mother of All Things
     When you arise within me
     My spirit sings

4.  We are joy and love and oneness
     You and I
     Fill me up to overflowing
     Til I fly

C. No words express the feelings
     That come into play
     I guess the thank you
     Is the only thing to say

     I can express myself
     In no other way
     I guess that thank you
     Is the only thing to say

~November 18, 1994

QUEST FOR THE HOLY TOT

'Twas long ago in the land of Scot,
I came to seek the quest I sought:
The Holy Golden Tater Tot --
The one divine, the one begot
In the Prime Potato's garden plot
Before all space and time was wrought.

So 'cross the globe my feet had trot
Until the trail my senses caught,
And tracked it to a vacant lot
Behind a bar -- "The Captain's Yacht" --
Where on a humble, simple cot
Reclined my sacred tater tot.

Toward me there a glance she shot,
Which made my stomach twist a knot,
Then smiling said, "You silly sot!
My name is Muckletubliot,
But you may simply call me Dot."

At first my fears were prickly hot,
But then she made me worry not
So there I found myself a spot,
And sat upon a flower pot,
To listen to the things she taught --
The lessons of a cosmic plot
Where she, an ancient cosmonaut --
An asteroid, a star pilot --
Had flown the cosmos like a shot;
A wondrous path, a journey fraught
With many dangers she had fought.
Then one day she grew distraught,
And so from that day on she sought
A place of peace -- a Camelot --
And so to Earth came Tater Dot.

"And so my friend, my Lancelot,
These things to you I've gladly brought
'Cuz all I am and all I've got
Cannot be borrowed, sold or bought
For in me lies each trace of thought
Of unknown worlds and worlds forgot."

She turned away, a tear to blot,
(I think a glimpse of pride I caught)
As she continued her onslaught --

"I know I've said more than I ought,
But in this life this is my lot --
To be a tater ne'er to rot --
The Universal Life's mascot."

At that I stood from where I'd squat
Embracing Muckletubliot,
For I had found the quest I'd sought:
This wise and ancient as-spud-naut --
The Holy Golden Tater Dot!

~July 11, 1994

Friday, April 15, 2011

HEALING SONG

C. Mother/Father God come forth in me this hour
     Bring forth in me the power
     To heal myself again

     Mother/Father God make clear the road ahead
     That I know where to tread
     This journey I begin

1.  I call forth the light I be
     To permeate me totally (physically)
     With all the power of Heaven and Earth
     I sing this song of my rebirth
     So be it
     So be it

2.  I call forth the Christ I am
     Come forward now, release the dam
     Let Love divine and healing flow
     Back into wholeness make it so
     So be it
     So be it

3.  Living Spirit of my being
     I call you forth here as I sing
     'Tis you who does this work through me
     Make true these things that I decree
     So be it
     So be it

4.  Balance is restored to me
     In perfect health and vitality (peace and tranquility)
     I and my Mother are one
     In this moment it is done
     So be it
     So be it

     So be it
     So be it
     It is done!

~April, 1994

THE BALLAD OF ALOYSIUS FRY

As I look what do I spy?
A single golden french fry.
He stood tall and whispered, "Hi,
Aloysius Spun am I."
Then with an impish smile, wry,
He said, "I think that I can fly,
At least I know that I must try."
Then came silence -- but a sigh --
And with a curdling banshee cry
Aloysius Spud French Fry,
My little friend so young and spry,
From the table lept he high
And for a moment did defy
Gravity's operandi.
But when that moment passed on by
My special little tater guy
On the kitchen floor did lie
A broken little hash-brown pie.

How could I but help to cry
And wipe a tear drop from my eye
With a tissue -- double ply --
Asking, asking, "Why? Oh Why?
Why'd my french fry have to die?"
From the floor he I did pry
Then I stopped and gasped, "Oh my!"
For with my inner, mental eye
I saw Aloysius Fry
Swooping, swirling, soaring high
Through a mashed potato sky
Happy now that he could fly.
And with a laugh and wink so sly,
As he waved his last good-bye,
mentally projected nigh.
The moral of this story, wry --
"With naught but taters 'hind the eye,
Best think twice before you fly."

~February, 1994

WHAT IF

What if there is no one
In the Universe but me
What if I am every one
And every thing I see

And what if there is but one mind
And one heart and one soul
And as the whole contains each part
I contain the whole

And wouldn't it be wonderful
If all the world were one
And all that reigned was harmony
And peace and communion
And from every set of eyes
The light of love would shine
Cause everyone would know themselves
To be the child divine

What if all the Universe
Is nothing but a dream
What if there is something more
Than what at first may seem

What if everything is of
One substance and one source
Arising in expression of
A single loving force

~April, 1994

Thursday, April 14, 2011

THE DANCE

Nothing needs to change for the world
To be a better place
It's just our old perceptions
That we need replace

The time has come to raise perspectives
To a different point of view
And put a ray of love instead of
Fear in all we do

Can you see the light before us
Can you see the earth divine
Can you see the threads of Heaven
Lovingly entwine
Won't you come and join the laughter
And the freedom, it's your chance
You can live in love forever
If you just come and join the dance

If you have the eyes to see it
Heaven's already here
And if you listen to your heart
There's nothing left to fear

Take a peek behind the curtain
See the love in every face
Cuz nothing needs to change for the world
To be a better place

~1994

I AM THE SKY

1.  The present is your point of power
     Breathe in deep and seize the hour
     The future is a thought, just let it go
     Nothing in the past that you need to know

C. My love is riding on the wind
     Swirling round and coming back again
     Blowing the thought clouds from my mind
     Cuz I'm not the clouds, I am The sky

2.  Everything you need is here within
     Now's the only moment to begin
     Cuz every moment holds eternity
     You're the center of reality

     Now you know just where the answers lie
     See before you the clear blue open sky
     Because you know that you can fly

~1993

Thursday, April 7, 2011

INDIANA LOVE SONG (to the theme from "Raiders of the Lost Ark")

When I'm with you
Oh my love
I'm with ev'ry-
Thing that I dream of

Oh my darlin'
What's to say
But I love you
      I love you
      I love you
I love you ole!

~October 1, 1993

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COMES MORNING

Comes morning I awake
As reality I make
By opening my eyes upon the world
Gently I unwind
Sweep the cobwebs from my  mind
Where dreams and clouds of things unreal have swirled

I walk with the sun in my heart
And dance in its rays
Expressing the light I am inside
Where Harmony plays

I turn myself within
Touch the source of life again
And become the joy and love from which I spring
Wings of laughter rise
To awaken inner skies
To the merging into one-ness of all being

~September 30, 1993

LOVE WILL BRING ME HOME

As I dream this journey
Into space and time
Sometimes Life don't seem to have
A reason nor a rhyme
That's when I hear the voice
Seeming not my own
Whispering to me
Love will bring me home

When I seem so far away
From where I've come
Fear and separation
Beat me til I'm numb
Then the thought occurs to me
That I'm not alone
It's Fear that got me here and
Love will bring me home

Slowly as morning breaks
Through the dream I find
I've never traveled anywhere
'Cept in my mind
I'm right where I belong
Where could I roam?
I've never left my source 'cuz
Love will bring me home

~August 13, 1993

I AM LIGHT

1.  I sit here in my box of illusion
     Watching people in states of confusion
     Like rainbow spectrums washing over me

2.  It's all just patterns in mind
     I let all the veils unwind
     Then spread my wings and I am free

C.  I am the Holy Son divine
      Ah yes! The Universe is mine!
      I am love, with the fires of truth I burn
      I am light and to light I shall return

3.  When the Self is truly revealed
     Silently the dream is repealed
     The lion lies down with the lamb

4.  And in the light of realization
     There is need of no explanation
     For All-That-Is I am

~June 17, 1993

DREAMERS

When I awake
Who falls asleep
And gathering from
My life reap
Answers to his
Questions where
My dreaming steps
Go walking there?

Then I sleep
But who awakes
And wandering through
My mind takes
Me into his world
Where it seems
To me to be just
Silly dreams?

~January 28, 1993
Love
Is a silver-blue dolphin
Smiling knowingly
Into the face of Forever.

~1993

IN THE MOMENT

In the moment lie the future
And the present and the past.
Any other time than now
Is but a shadow cast.

~January 27, 1993

JUST ME

When I can
Allow it to be,
Love just is,
And it's just me.

~November 13, 1992

I TIE A STRING UPON A STAR

I tie a string upon a star
Way up in the sky
Then slide down it to the Earth
To get some pizza pie
But I slip and fall into
My mother's pregnant womb
So I start to weave another
Life upon my loom.

~October 20, 1992

SWIM

Sometimes
I
slip out of
my
name
and swim
naked
through my
soul

~June 1992

CURIOUS

Curious,
Goddess looks out
through my eyes
to see
what's so serious
about this
"life" business
anyway,
then,
laughing uproariously,
recedes back to
my subconscious
again
to let me
play my
games.

~June 21,1992

AS I SLEEP

As I sleep
the God inside me
awakens and,
rising,
shakes from itself
the illusions of
mortality and fear
before lying back down
upon a pillow
of stars
and dreaming me
again.

~June 6, 1992

WHY ARE WE AFRAID OF LOVE?

Why are we afraid of love,
What's to fear from peace?
You know we have the power now
To make the fires cease.

Fear and hatred hold us back
When we must move ahead,
Open up our minds and hearts
And turn toward love instead.

~January 1991

WHEN MY MIND FORGETS TO SING

When my mind forgets to sing
It seems the end of everything
And all is deafened by the sound
of darkness gath'ring all around
In its silence as it draws
The day to close on ginger paws

Yet in the darkness, day is born
And from the silence hear the horn
Of all the world in revelry
Which brings with it the eyes to see
The cycles spinning round about
And working from the inside out

My mind learns how to sing once more
By list'ning to the inner roar
That breaks like waves upon the beach
Implementing self to teach
That I AM all there is to be
For all exists in sovereignty

~November 20, 1991

SIX AND TWENTY

Six and twenty half-pence
A croc-a-gator wine
Black and seven fly birds
Walking in a line

1991ish

POETRY

I let my mind go wander thru
The words and syllables onto
The meanings hinted at by rhyme
Whose essences are free of time
Where there another mirror I see
Once more looking back at me

~November 20, 1991

I AM SACRED GROUND

The Earth
reaches up
and
wrapping herself
around
my mind
forms my body
that
I may walk
through her.

~August 25, 1991


WHEN MY SOUL DREAMS

I saw myself before my days
Through a misty, yellow haze
And from there I looked back at me
Wondering what I could see
From where I stood, my point of view
And thus his dream -- his life -- came true.

And then I saw after its done,
When all my days in time had run,
There stands the same self as before
Only now there's something more To him and me or so it seems
And so it goes when my soul dreams

~August 2, 1991

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

KINDRED SPIRIT

I felt the breath of a kindred spirit
Blowing 'cross my mind
Gentle winds, refreshing breezes
Pushing on to find
The answers to the questions of
The meanings I have sought
Of worlds and souls unlimited
Yet held within a thought
The thought I hold now in my mind
Has gathered strength to stand
Reminding me of one I'd known
In some other timeless land

~1990

LANDS INSIDE

I like to walk through lands inside
Where all my dreams and poems ride
On wings of light and waves of time
Where All-That-Is is all that I'm
Suppose to be creating nigh
Abundant lands, the dappled sky
And all the beings far and wide
Who peopling myself reside
In worlds of strange and wondrous birth
Below, above, and in the Earth
Where all are one for all are me
Yet infinitely they are free
To create world's beyond their own
For I am not a god alone

~July 18, 1991

A NOTE

I send a note into the past
Through time it flies because
I wish to build a bridge of light
Back to a me I was

My note received I feel a change
He is a different me
Our bridge of light has altered his
And my reality

As he grows and learns along
Another different line
He becomes a different self
Than the one that's mine

Into the future flies my note
A self I wish to be
Developed from the other with the
Different past than me

Realities swing in and out
Between my mind and his
Til we join our consciousness
And I am what he is

Across the bridge of light and time
I traverse boundless seas
With all the notes and messages
Between the different me's

I can be the one I want
Without the butchered lamb
Because the choice is up to me
To be the me I am

~July 15, 1991

GOLDEN THREAD

I raise my head above the sky
And spread my wings that I may fly
And through the clouds my lofty view
I see a thread of golden hue
That stretches out beyond my death
Yet reaches back past my first breath

I knew my life to be this line
Though more time ran than what was mine
Or so I thought before I flew
There more to me than what I knew
And instantly my mind was free
I saw no one in charge but me

With every breath my life does change
The golden thread will  rearrange
Through cycle after cycled birth
And deaths of and beyond the earth
And on into infinity
My consciousness an endless sea

In peace I rest from where I spring
The eternalness of my own being

~July 12, 1991

WHAT BE I?

I am a thought, I am emotion
I am the light behind the mask of my eyes

I am a god, I am a planet
I am the rainbow stretching thru my skies

I am a man, I am a mountain
I am a lake whose waters silently lie

I am the Earth, I am the heavens
I am divinely All -- That's what be I

~July 5, 1991

LITTLE CHILD

Oh little child lost in snow
I will guide you where to go
Feel the chill, allow the cold
For though your body's not too old
The light that burns within you deep
Shall in your soul forever keep
You safe from harm as it has done
For eons since it's all begun
Cuz life is but a game you see
For you will live eternally
And each adventure you endure
Adds more awareness til you're sure
Of who you are and whence you've come
That you may go back where you're from
So love yourself and know your worth
The Universe that gave you birth
Is manifested for your sake
The choice is really yours to make
To open up or close it down
Yet love will blossom all around
Whether you have eyes to see
Or not -- so please trust me
For when you've made your way thru fear
You will awake to find me here
Where you no longer need to roam
Because you've never left your home
So listen to me, I'm the rain
That's come to wash away your pain
I am all -- there is no line
So you can see you're not alone
And that I am not made of stone
And we have never been a part
For I am you, I am your heart
My little child you are free
To be what e'er you wish to be
Without the need to travel far
Just simply be right where you are

~May 10, 1991

YES MOTHER

Yes Mother I'm going to heaven
Fact is I'm already there
What else would you call this life
And Universe that we share

Everything that you believe
Manifests here before your eyes
When you ask you shall receive
And Mother that's paradise

Yes Mother I love my neighbor
Because I first love me
In loving self I love all others
All are one and all are free

Letting others make mistakes
Allowing them to rise or fall
Down the path that they have chosen
Is the greatest love of all

Yes Mother I still love Jesus
But you know he isn't me
And I know I'm the only one
That he wants me to be

For me to try to be like Jesus
Would start the circle again
Cuz imitation is living a lie
And Mother lying's a sin

~March 18, 1991

Monday, April 4, 2011

IMMERSED

I've been immersed for so long now
I can't remember why
Whatever happened in my mind
Had made me want to cry
Last night I felt it climax
When I whispered my goodbye
But with my mind now cleared I turn
My wings back toward the sky

~February 22, 1990

I SAIL

I sail my ship of love upon a sea
The ever flowing ribbons of my mind
A whaling serpent cuts my moorings free
And leaves my passions for thee intertwined
Before my eyes the sea becomes the sky
An ever dawning morning burning bright
And there my thoughts meander where they fly
Upon their soft and silken wings of light

~1990

ANGEL RAIN

1.  An idea was conceived
     In the womb of the night
     All-That-Is gathered round as
     The darkness gave birth to the light

2.  And in that flash of contemplation
     We became the light of the morn
     All together one and one together all
     We were born

3.  Life was still a dream and we the dreamers
     Created worlds for all we were worth
     Then we dreamt about a shining emerald
     And it became our Mother Earth

C.  We showered down like angel rain
      To rise from within
      It's time to find ourselves once more
      It's time to rise again

4.  When we know who we are
     Then we are free
     And there's no such thing as 'they'
     Because there is only 'we'

~December 10, 1990

WHEN I CLIMB A TOP THE WORLD

When I climb a top the world
And sit upon a cloud
I hear the darkness all around
Screaming far too loud

But when I look and see the whole
Picture all complete
I see more light than darkness spreading
Silent 'neath my feet

~November 29, 1990

A TAPESTRY

You must love yourself before you love another
We must heal ourselves that we may heal our mother

The tapestry we wish to weave
Is ours to have if we believe
That all are woven from the loom
Of Mother Earth's bountiful womb
So each thread adds to the design
By its own unique align-
Ment with the total scheme of things
Connected with all other strings

Innately we all know the quest
By knowing self we raise the rest
So trust yourself to get you thru
The healing process starts with you
And when your life begins to mend
You'll find the living Earth to bend
Her loving self to mirror our ways
That we may happ'ly live our days
Individuals in the All --
A tapestry upon the wall

~November 7, 1990

THY BODY

Thy body tho' beautiful to mine eyes
Holds there a secret which my heart belies
Love can't be held within mere walls of flesh
'Tis of the Spirit which transcends this mesh
Thus fears unfounded have past seen their day
How can an essence be taken away
When it dwells neither in time nor in space
But lives within itself at its own pace
Stretching forever on into my soul
There ever changing and yet always whole
And forming an integral part of my being
Of which nothing could possibly severe
'Tis of myself so I fear not its fleeing
Already I have loved you forever

~November 19, 1990

ILLUSIONS WE WEAVE

The illusions we weave
By what we believe
Can sometimes get me down

It feels like a trap
All the sorrow and crap
Weighing me to the ground

But the air that I breathe
Holds a truth just beneath
My conscious waking mind

As hope I increase
I feel my release
The illusions begin to unwind

~October 20, 1990

CIRCLES OF LOVE

How can I out into words
The circles of love spinning round in my brain
But if language fails
How else on earth am I going to explain

The things I want to say
Would take up more space than the world could contain
Yet they'd drip away
Right thru the web of my words just like rain

So hear my circles of love
Like rings on a pond
Hear my circles of love
expand ever on

A lifetime of love
Maybe the only hope I've got to show
The feelings I hold
So deeply inside me that it's hard to know

Just what to say
The words fly about me like great flocks of birds
I must live what I feel
And hopefully actions will speak more than words

So hear my circles of love
Like rings on a pond
Hear my circles of love
Expand ever on

~October 11, 1990

WATERS

I watch my mind reflecting off
The waters of the sky
Playfully I splash the moon
With love as she drifts by
I skip a thought across the stars
And make the currents roll
Then feel the waves return to me
To gently nudge my soul

~October 5, 1990

DREAM A WORLD

Dream a world and you will find
That what you hold there in your mind
Someday will be brought to be
If we learn that we are free
To build our world from things we've thought
For we together choose our lot
Know that something can be done
That's how the battle will be won
Break thru the layers of disbelief
Let go of all the fear and grief
For though we set ourselves a part
We all make up the beating heart
Of Mother Earth alive and well
With peace and harmony we dwell
Where consciousness has rising swirled
Because we dared to dream a world

~September 26, 1990

PROPHETS OF DOOM

Prophets of doom be still with your fire
Setting the powers of Fate as your sire
I shan't take part in your fear or your sorrow
For I can clearly see our tomorrow
With the transforming and healing all done
All of the people and Earth live as one
With no Armageddon's last fiery ball
So prophets of doom be gone with you all

~September 12, 1990

I FIND THE WORLD A JOYFUL PLACE

I find the world a joyful place
Here in my niche of time and space
And like the rings upon a pond
This joy expands forever on
'Til all the world's engulfed in love
And all below is as above

~September 14, 1990

DAWN

Breaking thru the stormy night
I hear a mournful cry
The rain upon my cheeks I take
For teardrops from the sky

Our Mother Earth is crying
And it causes me to fear
All we've done here in the past
Has brought her death so near

But then I hear another sound
Beneath the pounding rain
Realization dawns now as
The sun comes out again

For this is not the sound of death
'Tis not the sound of fear
I listen to her laughter knowing
It was always here

Those other feelings were my own
Projected on the earth
It was my mind and attitudes
That gave these things their birth

Since they're mine then I can change
And dry my tearful eyes
Now I know for certain that
My Mother never cries

~September 21, 1990

LOVE YOUR MOTHER

Love your mother, Planet Earth
Love yourself and find your worth
The outside world springs from within
So that's the place you must begin
Let the light inside you rise
To brighten up your mental skies
And you'll see a different world
Before your wond'ring eyes unfurled

~September, 1990

WHEN MY MIND

When my mind becomes
too narrow
I walk outside and throw
my consciousness
to the sky
and find the sky
is not big enough
to hold it.

~May 10, 1990

I AWOKE WITHIN A DREAM

I awoke within a dream
While other people slept
And found that there despite it all
My sanctity had kept

So with the beacons I have known
I gladly add my light
I burn the candle of myself
But do not curse the night

Softly still I walk between
The shadowed cracks of time
So only those who wish to wake
Will hear the flowered rhyme

The dream goes on but where I look
Illusions part for me
I know the meaning of my life
My purpose is to Be

~July 24, 1990

THE STONE

I look upon a tiny stone
And wonder at its size
And think about the countless worlds
Borrowing this guise

Realms of life and consciousness
Upon these atom spheres
Where a moment in our time
Would take a million years

As I look I swear I see
A boy pick up a stone
To think about the worlds within
Some quite like his own

Another thought comes to my mind
I look up thru the skies
There amongst the whirling stars
Another pair of eyes

Looking down upon the stone
Resting in his hands
Wondering if there within
Lie other worlds and lands

~July 12, 1990

I SAW A BIRD

I saw a bird up in a tree
It whispered oh so silently
"Would you come and fly with me
So that you may fin'ly see
The whole of life -- That which you be?"

Though I knew I couldn't fly
I found myself aloft there high
Where time flows not as life goes by
No difference 'tween the earth and sky
And both of them becoming I.

Then spoke true my little friend
A promissory rainbow send
Of life ongoing without end
Weaving thru the river bend
The source for love and thought to blend.

~June 12, 1990

FROM WHERE I LOOK UPON THE WORLD

From where I look upon the world
I see no evil there unfurled
For right and wrong illusions be
For those whose mind is truly free
And always when I look I find
There's no one else here in my mind
That is alone except for me
So must be I who holds the key
Where freedom, time, and life have swirled
Is where I look upon the world

~June 5, 1990

THE FROG

I was born into a world
A vast and stagnant bog
And I was told from that day forth
I was a sinful frog

So I began to suffer fate
I lived a life enslaved
For someday some great deity
Would come and I'd be saved

It wasn't long, there came a time
I wondered of my youth
I saw the cold and emptiness
Of their One Great Truth

So cautiously I wandered out
Lest someone call me fool
And came at last where none had gone
The edge of that dark pool

It was there, a wondrous light
I viewed a different earth
There I found a fullness -- There I
Found my own self-worth

I stepped a foot out of the swamp
A shoe there came to be
The rest of me soon followed suit
A prince became from me

I needed not a princess' kiss
To break an evil spell
I only need believe in me
And know that I am swell

I wasted not my time on rage
But quickly took my way
I let them wallow in the past
While I seized the day

I love them still as they remain
Happy in their sorrow
But nothing now can hold me back
Living my tomorrow

~June 5, 1990

IN FOREVER

1.  From my brain onto my tongue
     I find a song that must be sung
     A stream of thought, I watch it flow
     'Cause I wanted you to know

C.  The wheels of life continue on
      Into the elusive dawn
      Discov'rin' what I knew

      In forever I will find
      Not a moment passes thru my mind
      That I don't love you

2.  The Moon enchantress waxes high
     Spreading love across the sky
     With the stars she dances long
     Thru the colors of my song

C.  When the circle has been run
      I place a thought upon the sun
      Eternally true

      Existence moves into its prime
      Never knowing of a time
      That I don't love you

~March 15, 1990

THERE COMES A TIME

There comes a time when things must end
And you must be your own best friend,
But aren't these ends beginnings too
The old transforming into new
So do you really feel a change
Or rather do you think it strange
That when the old ways fall apart
That's when the good things fin'ly start
And everything remains the same
Except that it's a different game
Played between the mind and thought
In control of all that's wrought
Ascending up the lighted stair
In ecstasy that's free from care
You learn to love the spiral dance
Discovering you've got the chance
To make each word create the rhyme
To every life there comes a time

~February 17, 1990

THE COW SONG

I'm gonna play this ol' guitar until the cows come home
a-moo a-moo
I don't know why they had to go to Gnome
a-moo a-moo

They wanted to see a real live Eskimo
But all that happened was their milk had turned to snow
a-moo a-moo a-moo

I'm gonna play this ol' guitar until the cows come home
a-moo a-moo
It's the e-pit-o-me, or is that epi-tome?
a-moo a-moo

I guess water is thicker than blood
That is of course if you've got to chew your cud
a-moo a-moo a-moo

I'm gonna play this ol guitar until the cows come home
a-moo a-moo
I don't know why they had to go to Rome
a-moo a-moo

They have an appointment with the pope right about now
Some silly business about a holy cow
a-moo a-moo a-moo

I'm gonna play this ol' guitar until the cows come home
a-moo a-moo
They've got a idol, a cow made out of chrome
a-moo a-moo

They kneel in worship, it brings them good luck
They got it of some cowboy's pickup truck
a-moo a-moo a-moo

~June 6, 1989