When she arrives
in a city
where she is
altogether unknown..
a delicious treat
her light lightens
a joyful while..
but soon a
connection
her light thickens
rebirth...

those daily excursions
travels so necessary
point A to point B
are there grooves
long before emplaced..?
then finding ourselves
in pleasant surprise
driver as passenger
awaking in dream..
finding new vision
this more en-lightened
Transport...

The crumbling
remembered..
death and terror
so much in
our lives changed
that day..
A foundation moment
Now in place
of the crumbling
Twin Lights rise..
the crumbling in
alchemical transform
Our crumbling potential
Light and Life...

A morning philosophical conversation
approached the hard euthanasia question..
A saddened room as several with tears
recounted their special tragedies..
their own close life endings..
Other reflections revolved around
considerations of laws and rights..
troubled preferences for dark
decisions made now...

An afternoon wildfire with exploding fury
a sudden jump of canyon walls
raged into a city surprised..
Mass evacuations.. decisions right now..
demands of how to choose life..
Still many transfixed by the terrible beauty..
orange..billowing.. burning.. chaos...

Assessments reach both forward and back..
questions of rehearsals for future nows..
inadequacies of many decisions past..
Somehow in our heat today.. a continuing
blaze not yet contained..
new  awareness..an urgent plea..
to experience life's beauty and
constricting pain.. already enclosed
in an expectant now...

canals and containers
vital constrictions to flow
these common constraints
we find widespread..
at start of each day
a humble cup we see
holding our morning tea..

those outward vessels
mirror many inside..
these carry surprise
in acquaintance..
not knowing 'til just now
their containment of
everflowing light..

our task..
with urgency now..
to focus awareness
on those vessels which
are ours alone..
we need a simple
introduction to those
avoided constrictions
each of us owns..
often painfully seated
in solitary places..

a dear friend's illness
with diagnosis fleeting..
in desperation at last
filtering years of
bedridden strife..
new awareness uncovered
a new container for her
illumined voice..
with gifts for many
journeys unfolding..

my own discoveries
from life's late
diggings
found vessels quietly
buried and residing in
military formations of
gold and gray and black..
these are holders now
of lights of new
scope and scale..

the vessels we own
are lined and defined
awaiting discovery
sooner or late..
illumined..
with healing in-sight
and we are enriched
in knowing
our vessels..our lights
are one...

Vibrating Words

In our
speaking and hearing
words akin to solid things
oftentimes standing alone..
the weight of many nouns
fills our logic and comfort
our progress and pain
until now..?

new times demand
enjoined conversations..
resonances which reach
to levels obscure..
processes and verbs
waking sleeping nouns..
each word an experience
simple vibration
or nothing at all...?

many are those
walking their dogs
fixing clinging chores
upon morning rising..
favoring this path
for cleansing of soul
early preparing for
post noontime creation..
many others find
clarity and vigor
with gifted sleep
leashes are pegged
creation stands first
filling those hours
ere afternoon dawns..
perhaps those dogs
hold a secret
our increase to learn:
those different paths
uniquely nourishing  
really are one...

hearing the birds chirping
their seeming awareness of coming change..
waiting for the rain in time sequence
which did not come to my surprise
were the birds surprised..?
surprise seems related to quantum reality
linear thinking is increasingly humbled
cause and effect interrupted..
our culture gives its primary attention
to thought which fathers our time..
surprises may be messengers to show
primary attention needs to be shifted
to quantum consciousness
a reality reversal
with surprise enshrined..!

Creating a new path which is entirely
Your own..there was curiosity and perhaps
Some fear..you claim this path has never
Been tread before..then you are startled:
You have forever been walking New paths..