can you feel the earth move?
such is prayer - that profound
asking responding
to profound needs.

compassion, like
true kindness
glow brightest
in the dark

dust, too tends
to settle on
mountain tops.

stillness
unemploys words

bye and bye
in scorching heat
a soft breeze soothes
a petal's burning cheek.

Who am I...?

One who rebels against
All types of subjugation;

One who with every breath refutes
Death's fear-mongering;

One who in joy and sorrow
Believes in Life, everlasting.

Among Others...

In Life's
Ups' and downs'
Compassion
Showed Up when
I was absent.

a point of view

while eastward
dawn, arms
wide open

welcomes day
bright and
light, and

westward
dusk spreads
mat welcoming night....

shadows lurking
no more
appear


animating
sleep-walkers
with make-believes.

representative...

retribution
vengeance
punishment;

remembering
integrating
reconciling;

repetition
opportunity
adventure;

horizontal
vertical
diagonal;

circling
networking
spiralling

are notions
are motions.
Ah, HUMAN...

When Silence replaces
Noise - out goes emptiness, too.

enriching is the diversity
that rises and grows in our world
when intimately and publicly
we address one another by our
common name, HUMAN.

Meaning is revealed
To those who make it.

a smoke regardless
of origin, character and the like
is indicative of past, present or
future occurences.