Lava Lamp
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffLava Lamp I feel mySelf. not my skin, but my true self, my life within me. Tangible, like a jet in a jacuzzi, or the gel in a lava lamp, life rises, and falls. Thoughts bubble and vanish. And energy rises and falls. And night comes, and goes, As day comes, and goes. and the body peaks, declines, and passes. What ...
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Friday, June 10th, 2005 Posted in Humor, Poetry | Comments Offby John G. Saxe It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At ...
To see a little farther
Saturday, April 30th, 2005 Posted in Poetry | Comments OffTo see a little farther, Just want to. Only give the vision room. Make space in your mind. That's how to see. But what to do? How do you hold on to the wind? I don't even try. Still, you want an answer. I open my mouth to speak, But ...
This This-ing
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 Posted in Poetry, Spirituality | Comments Offpen scratching paper, making pretty marks marks stand for sounds, sounds stand for thoughts, thoughts stand for the jokes, the jokes we call our selves. pen scratching pager, making pretty marks why? the ...
St. Patrick of Ireland
Thursday, March 17th, 2005 Posted in Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffToday is the feast of Patrick of Ireland, the father of Celtic Christianity. I've long drawn inspiration from Patrick, whose strength and courage have inspired me, and whose panentheistic faith helped shape my own. Besides being an apostle, Patrick ...
Poems without words
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffMy teacher told me to enter meditation as though writing a poem without words. That delighted me, because I've often sensed that what I write is not the actual poem, the words are just markers for the indescribable feeling ...
Thinkingfeeling
Monday, February 7th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffSometimes I wonder if I'm on the *jnana* path or the *bhakti* path--the way of knowledge or of devotion, the mind or the heart. On the enneagram, I'm almost an even split between the rational, analytical **five** and the ...
Presence and Absence
Thursday, January 27th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffI'm sure that most of my blog's regular readers know what I mean by feeling "the Presence of God." Yet I wonder how many people in the general population know it. Is it something that most sense a few times ...