Select writing from: nowness
THE NAVIGATION WITHIN
Life is a maze, a maze of illusion and delusion. The illusion is how life appears to be and the delusion is our belief in the illusion. The maze is everything that exists and all that we experience and all that we must navigate through. All of the physical and psychological realities we perceive is the substance or stuff of the maze. Being a part of the maze is not an option – it just is. Everything must play it’s part. Of foremost importance is to acknowledge that you have a choice in determining where you are going within the maze and with what attitude you will uphold at each moment of your journey. The concepts you perceive are self created, outward influences may sway your attitude but you are solely responsible for you own thoughts, your thoughts create non permanent moments of reality passing from one to the other in a continuous cycle like the waves never ending on the surface of the sea.
Select poems from:
San Francisco Morning Fog Horns Make Me Happy, vol. 1 & 2
I AM THE SEA
I am the sea
I am the valley
I am the mountains
I am the vast open sky
We are not separate
We breathe
We drink
We eat
We rise and fall
Changing with the tides
Together
HEMISPHERES
Split in half
Like day and night
Land and water
Severed from the whole
Balancing
Two pieces
Awake and asleep
Conscious and subconscious
Joy and sorrow
Reflecting what we know
In effort to reconnect
BLISSFUL ABYSS
Regardless
Pathogens follow like conquistadors
Exploiting new ground
As triumphant saints
Declaring
Life is life
Non-judging honesty vibrates
And seams together the continuity fabric
Apparently
Ultimately
One must align themselves
With something
An anchor point to ride the swells
Or be swept away
Washed upon some hostile shore
Consumed by multitudes
Faceted
Then
Settled sounds hum
Textural woven sleeves
Surrender into the slip
Of what is
The blissful abyss beyond