The Love of Pastures

Now following behind with one almighty breath
Breathed and whispered into a silence met alone in pastures,
Silence before unfound in any conspiracy of
Night or day to overwhelm the time.

I would, it were, challenge all of silence
With the one almighty breath I did not breathe.

Tapering wisdom lead not to the pasture of an unfound silence,
But left me on a path, unwise,
Unknowing.

Conspiring with time to defeat time, with breath to
Defeat breath, and with life to defeat life,
I was lead and I did follow.

To defeat time and breath and life was to defeat . . .
No, but I love the pastures.

It was wrong, I know, but I love the pastures.

Following behind again and behind again
There were many steps taken
Into the . . .

Things I Do

Every word I speak is answered for again;
Every move I make is made again;
Every thought I think is thought for me;
Every breath I breathe is breathed again by me.

In every thing I do and am is prayer.
In every thing I am, I am a prayer.
In every thing I pray, I am a god.

In every thing is god, so
Every thing is prayer.

Lifted

As a sun’s light first appears,
Through the grey of night’s quiescence
And whatever fleecy clouds there are
Burst forth in luminescence;

And the morn’s own colored rainbow
Goes from Grey to Gold to Blue
Before these, the earthly eyes of man
As the skies do change their hue.

Lit buy a new light’s radiance
A new wonderous day unfurls,
Arousing dream-ridden sleepy heads
From their safe little dream worlds.

There is a morning feeling
When in morning skies we’re lifted
To where we’ve looked out far and wide
Across the earth with which we’re gifted.

Always it should be morning
No matter what time of day,
Or what of life’s repercussions
That morning feeling should stay.

Always it is the morning,
Somewhere on this spinning globe,
So always should the morning feeling
Fill our days with hope.

There is a morning feeling
When in morning skies we’re lifted –
A feeling of our satisfaction
With the life with which we’re gifted.

Vitality

I see false vitality
Here in this –
A place where lost angels
Scurry from the unreasonability of
Their own existence.

Flurried, they pant and rave and
Protest and act,
Wander and accuse,
Wail and torment
Their tormented selves.

I don’t see life –
I see struggle.
I don’t see harmony –
I see opposites separate
And disappear into some other tomorrow’s
Yesterday.

I see
False vitality in the deathbed
Throes of a languished people,
An anguished people,
Sanguinary beings,
Not sanguine people.

False vitality
From a people forged
Of their own
Unreasonability.

Rolling

In constant revolution the world still turns as
It revolves around and around,

The world does not turn around, but constantly rolls over,
And over and over,
The world rolls,
And we roll with the punches too.

We’re all rolling with punches and with a world
And rolling as only we know how.

Limerick

I thought up the name of a limerick one day
But never could find quite the right way
To express such humour
(I’m a late bloomer)
In a way to bring laughs into such dull days.

I never quite seemed to get the rhyming right
And the rhythm – well a black man I know I ain’t
But what saved the day
So my friends say
Are these two silly stupid little rhyming lines that always seem
so tacky and corny and contrived in little ridiculous limericks that half
the time aren’t even funny but just plain stupid anyway.

Midnight Moment

In a quietly shattered
Midnight moment
The hum and drone
Of the humdrum city
Is momentarily
Drowned by the noise
Of the stars.

I muse on life’s little
Pleasantries,
Such as listening
To the song
Of the stars.

The noise of the
Stars and the
Wail of the moon
Clenched in
Imaginary pleasantries
Of mind,

Where a mind is a
Haven of pleasantries,
As well as a den of despair.

Suddenly stopped the song of the stars.

Temporary

My screams are loud as melting snow,
My thoughts, as silent as thunder.
My sight is as clear as the mist and fog,
My vision, as clouded as space.
My touch extends as far as my fingertips,
My feeling, as close as the sun.
My life is as permanent as sandcastles,
And I am as ephemeral as the rock.

I See Movement

Waves are only waves
until they break;
yet waves are always waves.

I sense
a ceaseless movement:
a constancy of change.

I am only me,
until no more I walk;
yet I am always I.

I see movement in
shifting sands and waves.
I feel life’s impermanence,
death’s omnipotence.
I know my own
evanescence and the
permanence of my Self.

Buildings fade and crumble,
shores washed away.

I see time, I see life,

I see movement.

I see people

I see people
Herded like molecules,
Gathered like cells of
A cancerous mass.

I see people
Growing
Inconcertedly,
Expanding uncontrolled.

I see people,
Replacing:
Trees animals forests woods rivers valleys oceans.

I see people
An insidious mass
Lacking in concern
Overwhelmed by desires,
But with desires
Overwhelmed by
Lack of concern.

I see people.
I see death and dying
Disease and decay
Struggle and suffering
Imposed and subsumed.

I see people.

I close my eyes.

I still see people.