Humanizing look
sees underneath every skin
Life searching for growth.

Beyond distension
its registers expansive,
Growing Liberty.

Spirit soar unlike
One's body, like one's ego
To dust it returns.

In what kindom
cruelty and violence reign?
Of giant egos.

Identification -
No, not proof of birth
Nor a name one is given
Rather of beauty in the eyes
Of the beholder, and ugliness, too.

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from within - without,
a fusion divides toward
infinite union.

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in each breath a gift
in each sigh, shadows retreat
in darkness till dawn.

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mindfully does one
recognize an absent mind
mirrored in blank eyes.

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rekindling embers
lulled to sleep in darkness
is earth turning east.

Supplication

Would that when tears fall,
Is seen our vision clearing
Revealing the eternal unity
Behind illusory divisions;

Would that the yes and no
Are in our hearts embracing
In a glorious dance to the tunes
From the melody they make;

Would that In rhythm and rhyme
Shall our world goes on growing when crystalline
Tunes rise at Dawn then at Sunset,
In them we lay cuddled in a lullaby;

And when shadows rise, as they always will --
Would that their darkness nurtures light
Like the moon whose glow appears
In an evening of star studded skies.

Words and Autumn Leaves

words are more than
like the leaves dancing
their way to the ground in Autumn,

they don't crumble nor fall;
they spread like the clouds
and in stillness they move;

not deciduous at all,
words when born
even in bubbles they find a home.

more colorful than autumn
leaves, words travel to and fro
in hues beyond a rainbow's arc.

Yet, like autumn leaves that
nourish the earth, words, too
enrich the worlds from which they grow.

DETERMINISM

questioning,
responding...

remembering
dreaming ...

sensing,
needing...

paving
opening ...

minding
not minding

existing
living

moving
advancing

perpetuating
everlasting.

recognition...

For whom stillness dances
for those who taste sound
who hear smell
who, day and night see
shadow and light
as one.

not surprisingly...

A way to emptiness-
Buying and selling
Of, by, from and for
oneself- oblivious
otherwise

fruition

Palms in the desert,
Corals under the sea,
Wheat above ground-
When seeds grow.

placement

When Present is here
Not there or somewhere
Life gains a footing.

sweet dreams

Imagine Life when
illusions are confined
In the circus' tent.

breaking up

Attachment, let go
Cry if you wish but
Identification
must leave.

An Asking

Attention, please stay
Without you present, Life grows
Unmindful of me.

gratitude

Bless the Registers
Of unholy Trinity-
There is room for Change

a conductor

Orchestrating life,
Purpose creates harmony
Amidst dissimilar tunes.

apostrophe

HOW TIMES FLY!
LIFE, TOO UNMINDFUL OF SUCH.

essentially....

A party among many
This masquerade ball -
Humankind with
Different masks,
Put on, not born with

eternity

Events care not
If it is Day or Night
The Movement continues.
Morning dew from chilly night
Awaits a tender bud.

about living...

But for lessons gleaned
Mounting To-do List
Can bring Anxiety.
A growing seed breaks ground
To Follow the Sun.

wrong company

Violence welcomes
Chaos to a party where
Incoherence lives.

false models/false hopes

shards from broken dreams
puncture that satin skin
masking false models

illusory "I"

from illusory acts
emerge illusory things
illusory serving
illusory needs
of illusory "I".