Thursday, October 24, 2013

Autumn

Autumn

A solitary leaf

Clinging

Pondering

To let go

Fly

Drift

Lose

Fall

Or to hang on

Safe

Connected

Waning

Lifeless

Remembrances fly past

Growth

Lushness

Purpose

Color

Now at the end

Deciding

If she falls with the others

Will she re-capture?

Lost community

But they lie there

Dead

She hangs


Alone

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Breath

Creating
Forming meaning
Are we
                                                                                               Isolated 
                                                    Independent 
Solitude
Within the process
Going within
Deep
Unexplored place
Twisting 
Grappling and wrestling
                       Searching and exploring
No assistance can tell 
In the end
The path
The words
The sounds
Yet…
Transformation occurs
We let go
Suddenly
It is ours no longer
                        A floating balloon
                                       Far beyond our grasp
Do intentions count?
In some hidden space
Is there a record kept
Or are the rights signed over?
The deed                           transferred
                                                     Is it both
A conversation
                                                 A dance
When done with skill
Balance
Life
Equilibrium within ebb and flow
Creation 

                      Ruach over the waters

Reserved

There is a string

A cord that binds

There is a land

Just a corner

That is reserved,

Protected

A piece of soul

There is a part of self

Sectioned off

In this land,

This place

Gentle terrain

Protective hedges

Warm springs that burst to overflowing

No markers

No maps

No lines

One tug


And I’m undone.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

A Gift

I have something to give

But it is

Uncontainable

But able to be housed

In many dwellings simultaneously

Yet given to one

Unable to be seen

But able to be shown

Indescribable and layered

Yet basic

Even a child can grasp it

Although many an adult fails to

Easier to give

Than to receive

I stretch out my hands

Open

Full

Come and receive

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Lost

Lost my heart

A little at a time

Line by line

Bit by bit

Soul touched soul

Pulling me further and further

One timid step after another

Until I was flooded

Overwhelmed as it hit me

Taking me aback

Leaving me breathless

The constant startling surprise

That when my hand reached out

There would be something there

Something new starting to push out

Up from the ground

Still hesitant and shy

But feeling the warmth

Letting myself uncurl


Learning to enjoy basking in the glow.

Of Leaves and Water

Of Leaves and Water

Walking down a path

Watching

The turning leaves

Caught in a fresh breeze

Go down to the river

Immerse

Scrub

Is it enough?

Can it be enough?

Clinging remnants

Plunge again and again

Till your bones ache

You are certain

“Good fences” is the creed.

But the trespasser comes

Particles

Dirt

Ash

The cycle has to begin again.


The new leaves.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Exodus

Exodus


Confusion

Looking for truth

Is there right?

Groping blindly

The ground shifts

Shadows multiply

Running

Trees gnarled and broken

Jagged path

Hard to keep foothold

Destination unknown

The pale lunar glow

Fades in and out with the clouds

Fleeing in the night

An exodus

No time to leave thoughts to rise


New lands

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Hunted

The Hunted

Paint and feather

Put it together

Bit by bit

Dress it up

Take it out

Turn it up

The lights

The music

The noise


The Other

Dance

Twirl- faster and faster

Leap- higher and higher

                                                                                         The Other

fasterandfasterandfasterandfaster
higherandfasterandlighterANDLOUDERANDLOUDERANDFASTERAND HIGHER
                                                                                                            The Other
The Other

The Other

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Back to Center

Back to Center

You walked down a path.
Took a turn
R
O
O
M
S
P
U
N

Walls                                                   shifted

Foundations                s    o      k
                                      h    o
          
                                                
Pushing           you      to         the                                                                   edge

Leviathan

Everything                                             alien

Vaguely familiar


Finally


After Jacobean struggle
Feet on path
Reality returns
Stability
Calm
Order

However
Center has shifted

Never to return

Connected

Connected

Similar
Familiar
Family


Realities
Related


Core
Heart
Foundation

What is the distance between?

Can we see?


Do we know?

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Making Meaning: CoHrOdAeSred

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Streams and Paths


Streams and Paths: Where Consciousness & Change Meet


Strange situation

Caught in mid-air

Waiting for…

The shoe to drop

The door to close

A window to open

A light to show the way

Dark & secretive

Cocooning

Digging

Burying

Hide the dark away

So that no one sees

No one knows


What is the “right” road?

Does it exist?

Standing at that fork

Looking down those two roads

Their way veiled by the golden woods

Did Frost know?

How could he?

Both were hidden

And if you start out going one way

Can you make another choice after that?

Is it like Sartre said- we can choose

We have the option to be, think,  feel

Try a different path every new day?

Or are we fixed and the further we tread

The heavier our steps

The more entrenched we become

Maybe we walk in free

And we become entangled

Forced onto a path

Until it splits

Divides

Branches out

And we choose anew

Until we come to the end

The destination

The place where we can see everything

The whole map

All the paths

All the ways, blocked or free

And decide if it made all the difference


Link to song by inspired by this piece

Thoughts


Thoughts

 

 

Wondering

                        Pondering

                                                Contemplating

                                                                        Ideas drift by

                                                                                                Like dandelion puffs

Carried here                                                    and there

                        No purpose

                                                No destination

                                                                                    But sometimes…

 

Sometimes they are rapids

Swirling,Rushing,Impossible to catch

 

Or trying to catch a firefly

 

                                    Running after the light

 

                                                                                                            Just out of reach

Like a forbidden cookie jar

S     t     r     e     t     c      h     i     n     g

 

                                                A     l     m     o     s     t

                                                            Not                               Q     u     i      t      e

 

And then…

 

SUCCESS!

Reach the reward                                Grab the light                          touch the idea

 

Or…

 

Failure

You

         F

             A

                  L

                      L                                          r          a        s

                                                The jar B         e         k            Pride is BRUISED

 

Will there be others?

 

Trains                                      Lights                                     Truths

 

 

Look

There                                       one                                          went

Composition


Composition

 

Pen

Fingers

Words into Worlds

Onto the page

Into the World

Can finite contain Infinite?

Crude materials

Strive to mould

Platonic Ideals

                                                Push

                                                Pull

S   t   r   e   t   c   h

Empty hands

Yet…

Residue

of the journey

INSPIRATION

 

 

 

Thank you for the inspiration.

Your gift amazes me.

In the end there are no words.