The Chapel of My Mind

 

Rest in the nature of mind

The yogi coaxes

Voice of the ages

Delivered via screen and wit

In the vast chapel of my mind.

Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in plain sight

Long-coupled mourning doves returning home to nest

Tiny cactus flowers in magnificent magenta bloom

Lizards fast as lightning traversing the stone terrace

Clear vision awakens my sleeping heart.

Progression

Hot dry air, scorching sun

Sucking silver water from living cells

A drought wrought by the hubris of humans

Invokes the wrath of the Mother

We pray for salvation

And disappear into screens.

Deep Space Peace

 

Resting in the dark womb of transgalactic space

Where silence reigns beyond sound

A shooting star pierces the veil

Signaling birth and death.

Watching Over

Overseeing our planet behind gossamer veils

They stretch into the infinity of space

Goodness is the brand

Kindness the fuel of their intention 

We scurry like our insect brethren

Unaware of the well of healing

That encircles our universe and beyond.

Nothing is Real

Nothing is real
So say the sages
Then where did this
Belly fat come from?


In Dreams

We danced together in one body
Showering in a vortex of golden particles
Love a forcefield of delight
He wanted them to see
How we were blended
Shadows of the dreamtime
Linger in the morning light.

In God's Hands

He was cool

A man of the world

Shrouded in the gold of hip

Until his spine gave way

A universe colliding

An identity collapsing

 

Who will want me now

He cried 

Limp and helpless

 

He died last week

God will have him now.

 

My Garden

 

Thriving in an alternate time-space dimension

The plant beings of my hidden garden

Boogie to the beat of the celestials

Roots entwined, lovers and friends alike

A community of breath givers who

Lovingly display quivering filaments

While the wind gives voice to their effulgence.

Ode to the Noble Warthog

Beware the warthogs

Those savage siblings of bacon bearers

Who confer not sanctity upon humans

But rouse their independence with feral jaws

Partisans in nature's war against the two-leggeds

They flaunt white tusks with deferential defiance.

 

 A distant fire in the night

Unexpected illumination

 

Beware of Fear

"Beware of fear," fear exhorts.

I will tear you to shreds

Take your sanity

Bleed your limbs

Kill your children

 

He smiles with gregarious malice

As the multitudes take flight.

 

"Beware of love," fear whispers

It will extinguish my identity

Melt my presence

Turn me to vapor

And the world will sing.

 

 

Same Earth Same Sky

 An indigo bird ruffles her plumes
Sunshine and rain grace the glistening body
Embraced by the generosity of nature
A cornucopia of seeds and berries
Singing a cascade of melodies
As she lifts from branch to sky.

A bird drab brown, eyes darting
Feathers parched by fractured soil
No green leaves grace this tree
Where predators stalk the ground
Same earth same sky same tree.