Posts made in March, 2010
A Song for the Search
Reading at Waimea Practice 03/20/2010 And the song rang out ‘midst the silence of the lodge I have sat in the pews of hundreds of churches Praised your name-Praised your name I have greeted Mecca more times than I can remember I have sat in the Zen-do with Buddha And you came you came So many sutras I’ve sung And posed ten thousand asana You were there Before I channeled the...
Read MoreWOW
Reading at Waimea practice 03/12/2010 Where does the real poetry Come from? From the amorous sighs In this moist dark when making love With form or Spirit. Where does poetry live? In the eye that says, “Wow wee,” In the overpowering felt splendor Every sane mind knows When it realizes-our life dance Is only for a few magic Seconds, From the heart saying, Shouting, “I am so...
Read MoreThe Chaturanga Blues
Reading at Koloa practice – 3/12/2010 I just got ‘em And I’m feelin’ kinda loose, Been stretching to the maximum And pumpin’ out that juice. Tadasana, virasana I nearly blew a fuse Oh let me tell you baby I got the chaturanga blues. My back is flat these days, When I go into a pose I open up my pelvis I even lift my toes. My downward dog is dirty And my knees can...
Read MoreWe Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners
Reading at Koloa practice 03/12/2010 We have not come here to take prisoners, But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. We have not come into this exquisite world To hold ourselves hostage from love. Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, From anyone likely To put a sharp knife Into the sacred, tender vision Of your...
Read MoreLet Go
Reading at Anara SPA 03/08/2010 Let go of that which is gone. Let go of that which is lost. Let go of that which is not yet happening. What has happened in the past and what will happen in the future exist only in your mind. What is happening now is the infinite caress of the universe. To touch the eternal now and let it enfold you in its infinite Love is the essence of being in love. What is...
Read MoreWe ARE Waking Up…
Reading from Waimea practice 03/06/2010 We are waking up. As heaven and earth come together, as the dream-time and daytime merge, we register the shockingly exhilarating fact that we are in charge of creating a New Earth. Not in some distant time or faraway place, but right here and right now.. …. overthrowing the living dead is not enough. Protesting the well-dressed monsters is not...
Read MoreThe Time Will Come…
Breathe by Linaji The time will come When, With elation, You will greet yourself arriving At your own door, in your own mirror, And each will smile at the other’s welcome, And say, sit here, Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart To itself, to the stranger who has loved you All your life, whom you ignored for another Who knows you...
Read MoreSleeping Beauty
Reading at Waimea practice 03/02/2010 I look forward to the moment beauty is my own conceived easily like yellow dipped trees, a lazy dog the afternoon pillow of a lover’s chest when beauty is memorized and not a plea taken at the face value of Hollywood What is beauty anyway, but a shoulder to count on when others can’t see me in visual context it is perfect complexity, me entirely rather...
Read MoreI Want Both of Us
Reading at Koloa practice March 1, 2010 I Want Both of Us To start talking about this great love As if you, I and the Sun were all married And living in a tiny room, Helping each other to cook, Do the wash, Weave and sew Care for our beautiful Animals. We all leave each morning To labor on the earth’s field. No one does not lift a great pack. I want both of us to start singing like...
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