round the eclipsed moon

I could not win the competition of brilliants,
so I strove toward a different point of view.
I had no mark to make with greater knowledge --
but I could perceive a less common scene,
a focal skew.
Silent in the cacophony of what everybody knows
-- why bother to be part of that din?
Here I so clearly see what the crowd seems
not to get, and thus feel compelled to speak,
give voice to a broader context.


History spirals and rhymes
Same DNA, different times
How can we learn to survive as rational actors,
our direction round beyond round?
What is there to find we’ve not already found
and sold?


I am so sick of this rash waste of energy
blaring blame on particular thems for our sins.


Freedom is never free.
There is always a cost – or where’s the value?


7/29/18





going live


live
look for answers when that feels like free entertainment
look for questions when those answers fail to thrill
look for special secret sparkling rays of mystery
or study history
or learn the ways of wizardry
dance, sing, get into the swing of days and nights,
human rights, and the lessons of mistakes,
or just embrace each moment, then let go
It's not about what you know, but what you feel;
nothing's real -- enjoy the show


7/26/18



The conflict implied in competition


7/19


Pervasive negativity
Mewling, screaming, nattering, complaining
Chaos of clutter and mess
noxious scent
cringe of continuous expectation
of ever greater disrespect
Demands so sweet, but cruel
from one who won’t deign to do
effort of self-responsibility

7/22


Why do I need someone else
to tell that it hurts,
or that it is wonderful?
Why does it matter to me to share
these small everyday profundities
of subjective experience?


7/27

Moon wane

Reality has no natural kindness for humanity.
Yes, we survive
some even thrive
for a time
But look at all this destruction, unnecessary terrors
flung upon each other and all the rest that Earth provides.
Vicious activity to resist fetid memories
layers of misery repeat, rhyme, become unrelenting din
of damaged children and their kin.


7/9/18


We need to know our friends
and our enemies
how to make more friends
and no more enemies


7/12/18



Can't afford lying veils
down here in the real man-made world
shocking scenes too everyday
for surprise


7/13/18



I feel quite certain in my calm,
grace of acceptance, untangled
moving free through my silk-washed dreams
while the puppets play their roles below, so droll
(until, we know, as always pain works through; I turn
as if to say:  "No more" while falling beyond control or
desire for control, or desire at all)
(no Buddhist smile; unbalanced, just tired)


7/11/18

sifting water ways

promoting divisionary hate

is not the province of the heart,

or the mind, or of the skin,

but of the asshole

 

 

All these lonely people,

dying of suffocation in empty space --

why do we not connect,

create the vital oxygen of interplay?

why cry within and strike outward to defend,

excluding friendship by category or default?

Admit!  We want to be alone

(left to our own devices)

not required to compromise or deal with

their annoying tics, or mellow mine.

Everybody knows that love, touch, commitment

to community is our primal responsibility,

to promise health, wealth, social vitality.

Better to blame – Oh, I’m so lonely,

so bereft of soulful understanding I sit here crying

for all eternity ...

What do you do?

 

 

 

It’s not tribal – it’s brainwashed in propaganda from

elites with an agenda to control.

Real tribes arise naturally

constellations of family, close community based on

familiarity, commonalities called roles, relationships,

dance rhythms of daily life.

 

 

Take your hate

turn it around into

love for you

no need to waste

that emotive energy

stomping others down

for you to rise

into your own

highest place of view

 

 

You need a plan:

Where you want to be and where you are

now standing

imagine

small, incremental, beautifully illustrated steps

easy enough to reach and celebrate each success,

then on to the next;

flexible enough to accommodate shifting conditions,

focused and strong enough to carry you along.

 

 

7/2-3/18 

mid-June-July 1, 2018

beauty, in all its delicious and deep-

probing manifestations
expressions of true friendship, soul-deep

smiles and strong encouraging arms, and

little gifts of shared amazement
aha over-arching understandings!
trance dancing into ecstatic visions
those tingly, invigorating, special surprise

eternal moments of serendipity
your engaging mind as you express with

me




Those magical times
we take a break from
our oh so important war
(of all against all)
to invest in humanities,
philosophy, worship of beauty,
practical caring for the poor,
for future prosperity,
for awesome imagining


7/1/18




spoils


plenty good money to be made
selling migrant children
(lost in "the system")
 to be sex slaves
pre-speech babies worth even more
can't complain or
explain who they were

and America/Christianity/humanity
slips further into shame
and murder of what was believed
to be our soul



6/28/18


Be a noun
a being, not a doing
the world's too loud
to hear what silence sings


6/22/18


no blame, no shame
it's just a game
like gold and fame
for real wealth
enjoy your self


6/18/18


The evil people cheat --
of course they cheat, they're evil!

they feed on outrage
what are you really ready to do?




I don't want to be a monster
(and believe few really do)
I want to be a master, an artist with a view
that marvels and delights, to the streets

we
dance with glee
happy, sharing goods and rights and their
responsibilities 


I seem to have gone sane
a lifelong process but the change came
after I realized that common rules don't
work for me, and started to figure out
what does.


6/15/18



my strength is impenetrable because I'm

self assured