Tag: Poets
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Webs of Creativity
I thought I published this yesterday, but word press put it in Wednesday’s reader queue, not Thursday’s. This has happened to me several times … Grrr! Threaded symmetryUnconscious patternsCoded by genesThe molecularBecomes the visibleCode becomes instinctSpinning a storySilken wordsWoven by consciousnessWe humans are gracedWith the task of seeingCelebrating our world
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Webs of Life
Threaded symmetryUnconscious patternsCoded by genesThe molecularBecomes the visibleCode becomes instinctSpinning a storySilken wordsWoven by consciousnessWe humans are gracedWith the task of seeingCelebrating our world
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Flower or Fruit?
Which blossoms will become fruit?But for the busyness of a bird or a beeWhich will fall silentlyInto death’s obscurityWe enter this life of uncertaintyWith no guaranteesNature offers us so many mirrorsOf our instincts and frailtiesIn nature I can find my spirituality If you look closely, there is a bee in the photo!
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The Dyslexic Writing Life
Unconscious upwellingsDisparate fragments of ideasSearching for cohesionSuddenly, a coalescenceWords flow into sentences,Sentences into paragraphsA story is bornLuminous, numinous wordsGifts from the psycheDeep, spiritual contentmentBut then … The transcriptionFrom brain to pageSwimming letters, wordsSmall bits, slow speedThe tough egg to crackFatigue, frustrationSome help from dictationOne halting, awkward step at a timeUntil I reach my destinationThen ……
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Ruby Crowns
Such a furtive, nervous creature, like meSo tiny, not an easy bird to seeIt felt like such a happy coupThe day I could identify youNow I know you easilyBy glance and soundI know I cause anxietyWhen you flash your ruby crown.If only humans communicatedSo effectivelyIf only we could see and listenReflectively, with sympathyEven when we…
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Winter Solstice
Born on the equinox Earth’s time of greatest flux Hastening, racing One solstice to the next Back and forth, back and forth Swinging, swaying, flailing We are trapped within this tensionOf infinite oppositesTimes passage, year upon yearThe one true constantDo the opposites coalesce and dissolve in death?Do we take the best parts of ourselves forwardAnd leave the ugliness behind?Or are we…
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Another meditation on Good and Evil. Nature Psyche #19.
Does one of humanity’s darkest evilsGrant perpetual license to the state of IsraelTo treat innocent others as though they are disposable?Can we fairly draw gradations of collective evil?This we can accept, that is intolerableThis is defensible, that is despicableOr is it all simply evil?And what of our assaults upon the Earth,Our crimes environmental?Mother Nature will…
Haumanu Speaks/PoetiCalli 