FRACTURED REFLECTIONS

Yesterday
my son and grandsons
(Colin, Dillon, and Talon)
came by
the moment struck me deep
Dillon said, "Grandpa, don't cry"

But in a moment
all the lost moments came as one
and my soul stumbled, tumbled
I couldn't hold my ground

Life hit me hard
and I fell away
I couldn't hold all thoz lost moments
moment to moment, fractured reflections
cut me deep
as they drove away
I bled out standing in the street

WOMB OF LOVE

From Primal Depths
unconsciouus, uncontrolable
Love erupts

my passion is for your welfare
I care not for personal gain
oh yes, I would have and hold you
but what is unthought, unsought
is the Innocent but terrible
love and concern for your good and protection
that you may alway be
unharmed safe, secure

it shakes me to my very foundations
unnerves, unhinges
but strengthens
sets me on a course

     that i may care for you
     as my own born
     issuing forth from my own body
     my love a womb
     surrounding protecting nourishing
     your every step

i don't know whether
it is horror or tragedy
to love you as i do

only that it is unsought
issuing forth from the depths
of my soul

FREE FALLING

I don't know whether
to live or die
I can' find the reasons why
thoz things I long for
are long and gone
I believe I must be
movin on

there's a greater life
somewhere wiaitin for me
holdin on is just fear of the unknown

I believe I'll let go
free-fallin into momentless being
free of the tyranny of time
I cease to exist
as a collection of moments
and enter Pure Being
with the amazement of a child

THE SPIRITUAL PATH

On the Spiritual Path
there is no "I"
there is only the moment
and moment to moment
the Truth is revealed

No long drawn-out arguments
or conclusions
only Clarity
Neither rigid, age old doctrines
but Duty
as revealed in the moment

Truth evolves, is not staid and unchanging
as human consciousness reaches for perfection
Truth's clarity comes into focus
(Jesus spared his disciples Ultimate Truth
saying sufficient are the problems of the day)

Ultimately, Truth is a matter of understanding

SHRINE

She clutches to Primal Innocence
in a corner of her heart
in a corner of her room
a special shrine of things past
but
may her Innocence be fully restored
Unbounded

THE ETERNAL VIRGIN

Virginity is not
a one time thing
to be lost in Passion's Pursuit
rather
it is honored and re-affirmed
in Love's eternal quest

"To spread white rushes underneath"

In every moment of Love-making
the Woman is refreshed, renewed
never losing what cannot be lost
what precedes and accompanies the act of Love-making
determines Virginity, not its consummation
Such Love enthrones the couple in Eternal Innocence

RETURN to INNOCENCE

I beheld in your eyes
a desire to Return
to that time before birth
When you dwelled in Innocence
unshadowded by reflection
Safe, Secure

Share with me the Joy
of a blameless existence
a Return to Innocence

High above the turmoil of daily life
beyond the pull of conflicting emotions
exists a Peace, unknown
but accessible

     In the quiet security of Heart
     I rest my cares, ambitions and sorrows
     the fullness of this moment
     leaves no time nor space
     for yesterdays or tomorrows

EARTH-MOTHER II

From beneath the depths of sand and rocks
buried by time and convention
awakens, the Earth-Mother
Mistress of forgotten ways
having retreated from emergent technology/civilization
not just its artifacts and ways of life
but from its effects upon Heart and Soul

Awaken
Sleeping Princess of the Dawn
The time is now upon us
come forth from your subterranean wanderings
the Right Man has arrived
and is awaiting you
anticipating your very presence

This is the New Beginning
You who are to give birth to a New World
a New Order
Nourish that which is ripe
awaiting...

EARTH-MOTHER

"Fire breaks out of the secret depths of the Earth
hers is a lucid beauty, tranquil

When desire is silenced
and the will comes to rest
the world as idea, becomes manifest
the world is beautiful and removed
from the struggle of existence

This is the world of Art

[Ah!] but the will awakens again
and the beauty of form
[Earth-Mother]
will have been but
a brief moment of exaltation"
                   I CHING

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