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Tag Archives: awareness
Sometimes It Matters
Sometimes the past parades itself
before the sun makes its appearance
in the tiny shrinking shadows of dawn
when the world is not yet awake.
In these times, the memories flood my mind
and overwhelm my sense of self.
Sometimes a thing explains itself:
each of us is somewhat self-contained,
our sense of purpose lost in pointless lyrics,
we seek out more than mere melody.
In these times, the songs we learn to sing
can be enough to get by. Continue reading
Sing a Morning Song
On the east edge of now, the sun rises
against a somber dawn of fading grays.
In that new light of morning, awaken,
and shake the sleep of apathy away.
What time exists is in this moment, here.
It cannot be extended or exchanged
in some transaction seeming more auspicious
or played to some advantage yet unseen. Continue reading
Time Enough
If there is time enough for this and that, for endless hours to deconstruct ennui and countless minutes lost in might have been, then surely there is room for something more.? Continue reading
No More Martyrs
I don’t want to be your obsession.
I don’t want to be your life lesson.
I don’t want to be your physician.
I can’t be your last condition.
I don’t want to be your sole reason.
I don’t want to be your best season.
I don’t want to be your solution.
I won’t be your whole revolution. Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, conditions, expectations, relationship, revolution
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Salt Dolls in the Sea
Like Sri Ramakrishna quipped (or maybe “quipped” isn’t quite the right word), we’re all just salt dolls sent out to measure the depth of the ocean. And you don’t need to drink more than a spoonful to figure out the whole thing is salty. Good thing, too, since our little buckets don’t hold all that much water. No matter where we kneel on the shore and dip our bucket, no matter what we call it out there and then when it’s in our bucket, no matter what the shrines we build there look like and who we think is right enough to get in, we’re all drinking the same Kool-Aid, ultimately. When we drink from the source, that is. Continue reading
The Time Not Now: villanelle
The time not now will never come to pass.
What is born here today, this day will die.
All this that is was never built to last.
The past does not go slow, nor future fast,
yet both what is and was confuse the eye.
The time not now will never come to pass. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, French verse forms, impermanence, poetic forms, presence, time, villanelle
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What You See: triolet
What you see is what you get.
Be careful since the eyes can lie –
a simple truth we often can forget:
what you see is what you get,
and once you’ve got it, you’re in debt
to those who’ve shown you what to buy.
What you see is what you get.
Be careful, since the eyes can lie. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, destiny, fate, French verse forms, impermanence, poetic forms, time, triolet
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