Haloed Leaves
A noonday sun
A canopy of trees
A million haloed leaves
A passing autumn breeze...
A rhyme and rhythm
Of starlight and motion,
The glorious dance of Creation.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
Stones
Stones
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I sat for awhile
Beside the wilderness stones,
Listening to the silence,
The human absence.
I watched a squirrel
Rummage in a golden grass
Gathering its morning harvest;
Felt the late Autumn breeze
Rippling the cold mountain waters,
Felt the late Autumn breeze
Rippling the cold mountain waters,
Warning of winter snows;
Saw starlight beams
Casting life upon the evergreen...
A substance pervaded,
A sense of related meanings
Gravitating together,
Pulling me from human separation
Into a great gathering of elements...
Pieces perfectly composed,
A cosmic symphony
Played to my witness...
Inviting my return.
Peacefulness veiled everything,
Embracing the moment of Eden,
The moment of mergence.
Soon the visitor will leave,
Return to the disassociated fragments
Of human separation.
Evening will settle darkness on his moment of light,
Time will tumble his temple of stones,
No murmur will remind of his passing...
But his homage has come home
The moment of mergence.
Soon the visitor will leave,
Return to the disassociated fragments
Of human separation.
Evening will settle darkness on his moment of light,
Time will tumble his temple of stones,
No murmur will remind of his passing...
But his homage has come home
To the place of his belonging.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Everland
Everland
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I never lived in Everland
Where hearts are seldom sad;
I only lived in Neverland
Where dreams are only dreams...
And hearts are seldom glad.
And hearts are seldom glad.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
True Friends
True Friends
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There are true friends
I will never meet,
A few I've met but never see...
Once near sails now adrift
Upon the endless sea,
A few I've met but never see...
Once near sails now adrift
Upon the endless sea,
Souls of likeness unseen
Beyond a poet's plea.
In harmony our chorus'd songs
Of praised wonders unheard,
Yet bonded our solitary hearts
By Truth and passion shared
In that fond and knowing place
Apart the realm of words expressed,
Where kindred hearts and unseen friends
In that fond and knowing place
Apart the realm of words expressed,
Where kindred hearts and unseen friends
At last embrace.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Surfaces
Surfaces
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I see surfaces,
Sunbeam reflections
On soundless pools,
The spark'ling light
In the endless night;
The spark'ling light
In the endless night;
Frowns and smiles,
Gowns and styles,
The dance of gesture--
The endless parade of pretense,
The zealous
Orchestration of invented meanings...
Unreality escaping reality,
The endless parade of pretense,
The zealous
Orchestration of invented meanings...
Unreality escaping reality,
Never do I see
The underneath,
The Being beneath,
The abiding Truth withheld--
The inaccessible wavelength,
Cosmic secrets
The eye is not meant to see...
Is it nothingness to which we venture?
A pointless path of made up meanings?
The abiding Truth withheld--
The inaccessible wavelength,
Cosmic secrets
The eye is not meant to see...
Is it nothingness to which we venture?
A pointless path of made up meanings?
Bits of sensation we construct
Into imagined realities?
Or a veiled Wonder
That waits the eye that sees?
Or a veiled Wonder
That waits the eye that sees?
A mind that understands?
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Brevity
Brevity
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I do not mourn my brevity
Among these lasting things--
The sea and ocean shore,
The inland mountain's crest,
The river canyons
Where rushing waters pursue their primal quest,
The ancient forests and desert sands,
The meadow valleys and desolate lands,
The lights and shadows of revolving worlds aglow,
The meadow valleys and desolate lands,
The lights and shadows of revolving worlds aglow,
All in their cosmic dress.
Surrounded by eternal forms
My littleness abounds;
My wondering witness the grant they give,
My brief stay Creation's gift,
My fading print upon the ageless clay.
Before these cherish'd scenes I pray...
Before these cherish'd scenes I pray...
This mortal me
On a windswept day
By the ocean sea...
Beheld Eternity.
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
No Moorage
No Moorage
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No home do I remember
To mark a place embarked.
I know no purpose for my passage,
Nor where my course is bound;
Only a rolling swell of moments
On a sea of endless time;
The lash of sudden gales,
A seldom sun-filled sky
And ever turning tides...
The lash of sudden gales,
A seldom sun-filled sky
And ever turning tides...
With no moorage to be found
On the boundless boundless brine.
On the boundless boundless brine.
