To experience
That which made saying goodbye
So difficult -- blessed

A crest with no trough?!
You can not break the silence
Its in your bones...

Great adversity
One perspective away from
Bountiful blessings

Oh we were so high
Poor place to build a kingdom
Branches can't sway roots

Picking apart nests
Does the cactus wren make friends
Some success you have

Only from nothing
Comes sound; The noiseless wonder
Is one hand clapping

Reciprocation
Is not asked; The sun's love is
Unconditional

Withered rose -- framed, shelved;
Her supple scent forgotten
Figure long remains

Cast in my shadow
Walk toward the fleeting light that
Sparkles in my eye

What good’s being right?
I’m never farther from truth
Than in a judgement

There’s one thing I know
That I’ve never been told, ‘cuz
It’s nothing to say

Unclench grasping fists
Open hands are better poised
To catch mysteries

Karma is a friend
Not a judge or a jury --
More like a suchness...

Joy
Does not come in to you
It comes out of you

Inherit..h e a v e n
Where a mass of our mistakes
Met the biomass

Pieces of oneness?
Apart is what we make it
Glue is what divides

Did it to myself
But I did it to you too
Glad you like "new you"

The ink impregnated in time
Woe is me;  For there I am trapped
That moment is different to me now
That [name] should be dead
Yet there I am doomed to live
It was staring into the ink that winter
That I learned how to die
I practiced killing that picture

Despite your thinking
Uncalculated life is
What you've always done

Maybe its the loneliness that paints this moment black
Or maybe its the long shadows as the sun does set
Maybe its the sorrow from the stress of all of that
Perhaps its just the crossroads that my life is at

I'm not asking for an answer,
Or even acknowledgement in fact

Just know that you've been on my mind

This is the one time
For you to know you're a you
That can be the it

That which lily pads
Do not do -- Oh fantastic!
The water shimmers ~

And she's dead now

And when my moment came in the procession of faces all I could muster was, "I'm sorry it is under these circumstances that I am finally seeing you again"

And you managed, "Better now than never again"

And my eyes are dry but my heart is in a twisted knot of emotion

And I can't decide whether you have played yourself the fool or have spoken the profound wisdom

And I let one tear drop and decide you've done both

As sunbeams trickle
So too do the moments here
Spent in my suchness

Geese flock over lake
No reflection intended
Lake no mind to cling

Oftentimes passion
Is what gives weight to empty
Then you may feel full

There, the air does quake
But it becomes the nothing
As the fly passes

What do you do with
Thoughts that won’t leave about loves
That already have

Distinguishing crest
And crashing into focus
Turbulence is mind

Don’t miss your cold love
Miss the warmth you let me feel
About myself —

A rooted figure.
Though too soon the pattern slips,
...Life lasts a lifetime

The toad does notice
Most the river runs by it
But the whirlpool sings

Only life lasts a lifetime

Mother Earth inhaling to life
Life exhaling to humanity
Humanity inhaling to me
Me exhaling to the mystery
The mystery -- the eternal breath

Tie my shoes up tight
Taking my time
I'm in for a long night

Warm up on sidelines
Scoping it out
A fresh ball in my hip pocket
I be feeling stout

Drill it to **** it bout 3000 times
Never stepping outside the black painted lines
Of the lane
I was inside
Perfecting the stroke
The release
Is
Everything

But I'm in the waiting room
The lobby that is Court Two
Court 1 is where the men boom
And bang bodies and shoot
Lights
Out
Daggers

And if a man is there for long enough
And the ten go down a few
A few of the crew
Over on Court Two
Get called on to fill and finish the game up

My wind isn't great
My footwork is dodgy
My stroke is quite streaky
Go to the bank?
I'm wishy-washy

Can't box out for ****
My handles are average
But my defense is good
So I have some leverage

And on this particular evening
My shot felt real good
And I got a nod over
And played how I should

A pester on defense
I was covering two
To free up a big man in post
In the zoo

A transition pit stop on fast break
I pushed the ball up the court
The seven footer hits me in the corner
Shooting 100% from the floor

Then the men started to heat up
'250 bulldozer' in the lane
'Lights out on the arc'er outsider

I didn't touch the ball much
I'd basically given up
They played there often with chemistry
And I, just a pup

Got one pass at the end
That I wasn't expecting
I fumbled the friend
The rock had been misdirecting

But
All
Things
Said:
3/3 ~ 7 pts ~ 3 rbd ~ 1 blk ~ 2 stl ~ 2 ast ~ 2 to

And we take those

The consumed hollows
Of the oak tree in the field
Feeds its fall to grace

Feeling good feels just as bad

I skipped my first alarm this morning
I wasn't ready to open my eyes to a blank phone
Less ready to admit I cling to it
Can't fathom I cling to you

Now its time for work
And I only have time
To worry about my eggs

I did it to you
I paid the price in your mistakes
I did it to me too

The rose bud needs not
An audience adorning
Alone — it wins hearts

Wake eat work play sleep

Non-duality
Complements duality
What's beyond beyond?

One sided affair
The smile you then gave it
Said have a nice life

Born a reflection
I see a light in your eyes
Primordial burn

Just imagine if
There was no government
Goodness gracious
There'd be a lot to fear, wouldn't it?

Evil acting agents incognito and anonymous
Despondency'd be common all because of all the seedy peeps
Beady-eyed greedy-acting low power-hungry leniency
Inefficient industry, unreliable currency
Questionable access to guns
Leaving you feelin' unsafe in the city
Unjust evils everywhere
No one with the will to care
Probably cuz they can't get food and lack proper nutrition
Imagine what's left of school's a mess
No community build a fence
Overpay or hard to trade
Can't get rest
Unclean water, can't afford a home
You'll drink to both or smoke to dome
Jobs would be hard to come by but you could finally grow your own
Who not what you knew would matter
More than ever
No one would save us from nuclear fallout weather
No plumbing means the rivers'd fill with feces
People'd cut the trees in greed and leave invasive species
Death to all large native fauna
Replaced with vacant blacktop saunas
And half-cooked concepts that a goverment'd be better

Here all the choice that lay beforith

To eat thereof the tree of life an **** it as thy bask fatted in the glory of a newborn star

Or to abstain there frometh an look inside eternal black thusly with knowledge that your stomach's redeeming feast is but a headturn away

Once they have control
The many will celebrate
They'll call it world peace

As the traffic screams
As demands call violently
The stillness deepens

Bells, procedures; and
Students learn to break a heart
Before tie a shoe

Looking for the void
Constitutes your very bones
Still you labor on