Silence
What is silence? The absence of sound? The absence of words? The absence of thoughts? The absence of self? The absence of movement? Where does silence begin and the words […]
Tag Archives: contemplative poetry
Presence
Presence What is Presence? Is Presence a what, where, when, who, why, or how? Is Presence separate from us, me, we, you, or they? Interbeing Attention with Intention without invention […]
Songs of the Mother
Songs of sadness, songs of woe. Songs that bleed and songs that know. Songs of life and songs of death Songs that take away your breath. Songs of silence and […]
Sins of the Father
Sins of the Father Sins of the father. Who missed the target? Was it my father, his father or his father or his…? Patriarchal penetration, perpetration and perpetuation in perpetuity? […]
Into the Breach
In my heart and mind, I see suffering. Not just the ubiquitous world and everyone else’s torment and a disconnected me,hiding in the corner. The greatest suffering of all, is […]
The Mudhill
Today I realized that I was living inside the mudhill*. Wet, gooey, thick viscous mud sucks at my feet and mires me in a bog. The mudhill lies at the […]
Crystals and Contradictions
Clear as crystal Dense as stone Liquid, fluid, sometimes molten, sometimes fixed Each state an ephemeral subtlety like a wisp of smoke that gently rises to equanimity Not bound with […]
Wounded Child
Wounded child Hide and seek Crouched behind the bushes Afraid to peek Wounded child Where do you go? I called you and called you Do you know? Wounded child Where’d […]
Living the Paradox
living the paradoxnot black or whiteall smushed together not wrong not rightcatching the wave feeling the scenei open my eyes and start to dreamwhere’s the exitwhere’s the tunethat leads to […]
Reflection on the Delusion
This post is a personal reflection, an inner conversation with myself. When I use the pronoun ‘you’ I am addressing myself. It is not directed to anyone other than my […]
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