Open Honesty

/tear open your chest

show me

what makes you breath

"        "         "     beat

Don't give me wind

"        "       "   words

Give me something more

More substance

More immortality

More permanence

in this t e m p o  r  e  a  l  i t y 

Burning Bright

Sooner or later
the Truth
is always revealed

Burning bright
alongside
the mid-day Sun

It overwhelms
and brightens

everything
it touches

Of Body

Don't be afraid
Of truth
Of words
Of describing
Grimy reality
The body
Our functions
Not for shock
Truth and only that
To illuminate
The edges
Of what is known
To illuminate
The beating
Of the heart

Morning 9/27/17

sunrise in my heart
dawn is birthed behind my eyes
alive once again


Before day is done
what truth do you wish to know
In your heart you seek answers
you've already been given

Pray for a good life
Make your life a good life
Pray for health
Pray for healing
Live well

Emerge from the shadows of delusion
Step into the light which reveals truth

These sounds bring peace and stillness
to the beating heart of the waking day

What is remembered

always lives on

Late Night Thoughts, Page 2 5/5//17

Memory filters back at it's own pace. How it surfaces
faces and times from the past. What lesson must be
taken and learned? Those answers are at hand  if one
is willing to delve just beyond the surface of image and
memory. Joy and failure, the twin poles of life.

What is the truth of life I have been seeking? It had no
single answer. Many answers for the same question,
each fitting for a time and place. There is truth and
wisdom in this world if we are willing to seek and
accept it. This burning desire to understand the unknown
of the world and of ourselves. A thirsty spirit is always
seeking. Let us drink of this world.

Words are given more freely than wind. Action is a diamond
to be desired. The value of thought and contemplation.

Am I searching for God? Am I searching for enlightenment?
Am I searching for a better way to be human? Must the
answer be yes? Of course, it must. I am searching within
and in this world. I have to seek. I must seek. Suddenly
I remember staying at my grandparents home, watching
the sun set over the town of my fathers. Colors swirling
and melting until black streaks across the canvas.

Morning Thoughts 5/6/17

Need and desire to transcend

Drifting along on ocean currents
Shore comes into view
Swim to land or keep riding the tides

You wake and wonder
if it is the same dream over and over
Waking in a small town
Home of your parents and grandparents
Rising from a hammock into
the warmth of morning
Birds greet you from the trees
as the bell in the town square tolls the hour
These images comfort you
Home or a place like it
You are still yourself no matter where

It is the errand of a fool to believe
that ignoring the world,
ignoring the self
is any way to live well.
It is not. It cannot be the way.
Too many fall into this trap
of false security.
The self is always there
no matter what.
We must face ourselves
with open honesty.

Do you wish to live in beauty?

We are but living dust. 

Home is where I find you.

Rising once again
In morning we find the truth
How do we grow now

Don't ever believe your youth 

to be everlasting. 

"I've got to keep control." - Worker Bee, 'Cold Rats'

The purpose to life, if there can be said to be one,
is to become more fully yourself as the years go by.

Quote Me

Pain is a crucible through which 
all must pass. 

The sound of a crying child is 
proof of order in the universe.

Everything changes.
Everything must change. 

The Axis of this World Turns 
Towards Uncertainty.

Failure is always possible but so is success. 

Advice for You

Do not grow discouraged with yourself. 
Do not let negativity consume you.
Do not let self-consciousness and self-
doubt swallow you.
You are the strength you seek.

If one cannot sleep one must wake.
If one wakes one must create.

Fear is a Thing that is Hunting Me.