Here are five poems.
Wake Up reminds us of the power to meet events of the new day.
Who do you think you are reminds of liberation from definition
The Power of Love brings the transcendent to the everyday.
Impels Anew is the outcome of deep change
What will happen to this world if we remain out of touch with it?
WAKE UP
I wake this special morning. Life is now
e’er fresh, with rest at home, with none around,
I am awake, this realm alone to bow
I’m life! I’m here! This Earth endures surround,
adventure, find new leads today, all day
angel abroad, a small town dweller’s course,
I wake up! Rainfall adds. Delight to say.
This sky! This world! This marvel tour de force!
Allow eyelids to flicker, sights arrive,
A new day! Dress, brush teeth, plus tea and toast.
while Brahma creates light, abundance thrive,
as daylight travels, time unbound, foremost.
A call engaged; fresh explorations near
I have been born anew, the timeless seat,
I can’t explain what my perceptions hear,
a doorbell rings and I take steps to greet.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
You do not have to search for the sublime.
or go on hunt around department stores
hang weary clothes on the old washing line,
place your dishes in a sink full of chores
or find the cat, or pour out a cuppa tea.
Encounter thoughts on who is truly free.
You are not what you think you can define,
your thoughts become a tap to turn to pour,
you are not thoughts, nor stuck in sink confined
you join the anthem of the dawn’s chorus,
abandon your beliefs without delay,
you have nowhere to hang your hat and stay.
You are not the light, nor dust on altar
nor one who then can take up what falters,
do not define yourself in any form,
to set your limit will provoke the storm
abide beyond the grasping mind so near,
and walk the streets of heaven’s face so clear.
THE POWER OF LOVE
A love not held in time and space,
a treasure with a fleet of aces
a transcendent force not upheld
and found in the most alien places.
A breakup lends itself to grief
and terror clashes, fate is set,
the strain thus met in wild oceans
a dolphin skips the dragging net.
A love cannot know pain itself,
nor thirst even attention more,
a love is such, can’t care for self,
so wise approach is just love’s core.
A love reveals the tangible
and states the way of the beyond
and dramas fall under its sway,
a limitless, true form of bond.
IMPELS ANEW
A murky day, intense, a fear, a fever,
a soul astray, so blind to life as healer,
we know we have a curse, a rant, and fought
upon ourselves as many troubles brought.
A certain change impacts upon this feeling
and changed our way, our view of perceiving.
until the calm soaks burning cells all through,
and truth awaits, reveals, impels anew.
A sudden view then dawns and sets us free
all names and forms reveal eternity
unhitched, unstuck, plus a joy filled immense,
this realm displays, a truth remains unfenced.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THIS WORLD?
We weigh even more than the earth,
we sink more than a stone in water
we pollute, a mark of fat girth,
the gods have messages to fill,
the fate of earth, of species seen,
our fluctuating mood belies
and warnings then pile on warnings.
black gold oils our minds and blood ties,
our heart lingers in greasy spoons
and calm and peace now does flicker
as our desire blows and balloons,
we clear the forests; dusts thicker,
we grow our corn for cars liquor.
That’s all over now, baby blue,
the false imposes such a cost
a dying laugh at beauty’s due
as snowdrops sink and become lost,
the wings of birds have stripped feathers,
fish swim into arctic waters,
a planet whirls round its weather,
deception milks as earth altars,
snow fields melt, life is poles apart
and waves crash on sensitive heart
impact against our fragile chart
while weight of thought, its burdens sear
And buries deep in graveyards close.
We long for wild strawberry most.