Tag: poetry
Jude
In front of me is a giant white gum tree, it’s boughs reminds of nakedness, flesh, eroticism of nature hardly recognised. Looking at the gum I think of the last time we made love on your old milk crate bed wearing a pork pie hat quoting Patti Smith while I told you about the light […]
100 breaths
There is no silence while breathing early morning sounds of frog somewhere, incense dying along the light, one hundred breaths take so long . Then why does life seem short. Heart Sutra chanted softly , frog sound nothing but leaking tap.
Owl
Outside my hut I saw old man owl Looking at me Seeing me You are you I cried !
Don’t try
The only time I ever Discovered peace Or lost myself or More to the point Found myself was When I gave up trying Though in the finding I wasn’t there That’s the best part Because the you Becomes the We No words can describe That boundless Frontier
The first
All of us Are modes of dust Riding that sunbeam Regardless of who or what we think We are. We are dust particles In sunlight To the dust I say Keep moving To the Sun I say Stay .
Forest walk
There was something about his face A strange sort of sexuality not man , not woman Integrated into something profound A flower has no gender nor does chocolate Yet the perfume of both sends you into rapture Peace be with you , I kissed the priest full on the lips Sorry I mumbled, not a […]
One for my baby, one for the road .
Whata drink said the barman Well, I want a tall glass , A touch of misery and madness, A dash of ecstasy, throw in a night mare , A travelogue of journey Some Coltrane train Some Davis blue Heavy on the Pollock Heavy on the Gogh Give me some Debbie Harry mixed with Dalai lama […]
I never said Goodbye
The small boat Is being pushed away from the shore I feel like a child learning About the way Saicho old monk living on Mount Hiei The samurai Of marathon walks and fire Suddenly I found you Or you found me They say when the disciple is readyThe Guru appears And there you were Bright […]
Gone, Gone, Gone beyond
Don’t let life drive you into some souless cave Without light or hope don’t lose the rage to live Don’t play the victim because we are all victims on the turning of the wheel Don’t go to your death knowing I could have done this or been that If you can’t swim then that’s the […]
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