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CharlesC Mar 2020
This is our Chance
To face those dark clouds
Of evening..
We must not flee..not now
Not this evening..
Not look for distractions..
Can we just allow
Those clouds to be for a
While..and when ready
With courage..enter their
Darkness..and find what
We have found before
In forgotten times: a sprig
Of spring Light...
CharlesC Jan 2020
Darkness approaches
Settling a blackness
As light fades..
Forms melt away
In pervasive darkness..

Darkness in midpassage..

Darkness is turning
On an inward path
On which darkness melts
Dropping disguises which
Conceal the light...
CharlesC Feb 2013
to the light
we are the names..
may we find
awareness today of
our special name..
inception and art
in higher flow
may we soon
know here below..
we wait for
morning light
and long to return
without further delay..
this new reality
two in one
one in two
each glorious day....
CharlesC Mar 2017
They had their reasons
an energy savings perhaps
or daylight appearance shift
an improvement of time..
But alas a darker view
has veiled the daylight..
Strokes and depression
shade our manipulations..
And perhaps more:
time stands revealed
as a thought impermanent
arriving and departing
veiling our lives
with its seeming
independence...
CharlesC Oct 2015
The wish for power
unfolding in this
arena of words..
A search for phrases
these democratic mirrors
reflections of who we are
or think we are
coloring now this stage..
Separate selves
arrayed in conflict
firing flames of ego..
Egos of persuasion
desperate to persuade
that on wider stages
we will prevail...
CharlesC Dec 2012
we wake
each day
to decorate..
she saw the
moment
the brief flare..
decorations lit
two candles
one flame..
there and gone
returning to
the day
lingering glow
and the rose...
thanks to victoria..!
CharlesC Feb 2019
working hard
fishing not catching..
tired and downcast..
yields this morning to
a journey inward

experiencing
deeper waters:
our real identity
beyond old beliefs
at last recognized..

before recognition
we find burdens of
beliefs of separation (sin)
fishing not catching
searching not finding..
experiencing now
the peace and joy  
and the abundance
of our own
deeper waters..

the journey inward
now becomes outward
carrying new identity:
I am every-thing..
journeying forth now
finding deeper waters
in all the world...
Namaste..!
See:  Luke 5: 1-11
CharlesC Mar 2021
The pavement and the bicycles

Skateboards and feet falling..seeming to very briefly

Deform the pavement gathering a sensing of the

Excitement of children looking for thrills of more

Risky routes..and of adults sensing the rolling of their

Soles on the sinking pavement..scenes of completion and

Perfection in the gratitude of no-thing deforming...
CharlesC Mar 2018
you might note
the following blank lines
in which several words
are now deleted..
perhaps..


or words
in this space
were never written
perhaps..
nevertheless
the space
expresses the only
surety we can know..
it indefinitely flows
and enlarges into
wide margins we notice..
the space has retained
the secret of words
which did or did
not play..
and the words
if they played
day or night  
played as space
eternally white...
CharlesC Aug 2020
Democracy

Is the Recognition

Of the Equality of what seems separate..

Until that Recognition

The struggle ensues..but there are

Voices exceeding other voices:

Sounds of brutal historical suffering

Identifying the suffering we all hold..

Equality in suffering..and perhaps

The Recognition of the Equality of

Democracy...
See:
NYT: 1619 Podcasts..

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1619/id1476928106



Nikole Hannah-Jones

So we are raised to think about 1776 as the beginning of our democracy, but when that ship arrives on the horizon at Point Comfort in 1619, that decision made by the colonists to purchase that group of 20 to 30 human beings, that was a beginning too. And it would actually be those very people who were denied citizenship in their own country, who were denied the protections of our founding documents, who would fight the hardest and most successfully to make those ideals real, not just for themselves but for all Americans. It is black people who have been the perfectors of this democracy.
CharlesC Nov 2020
Democracy..

This hidden diamond

In our culture..is

Buried by layers of

Distrustful hedging..

Constitutions and governments

Are molded with trappings to

Protect from a fearful notion..

History gains glimpses..yet

The diamond hides

Until one day

(Right Now for some..)

The diamond's gift is

Freedom exposed...!
CharlesC Sep 2013
the cat
quite elegant with
tuxedo no tail
home alone..!
Dan went traveling
across the divide..
I served as
  treat bearer with
anticipated arrival..
After dining on
flesh of the tuna
Deo in lengthy
hair care coiffure..
Interrupted only by
neighborhood noises
of night..
Imagining those
memories of fright
in this feline's
youthful stray life..
Eyes fearsome wide
Ears shifting alert..
But no harm
returning to now..
Tongue's last stroke
bath and bed
Monday is over...
cat sitting over weekend.... :)
CharlesC Mar 2013
keeping company
Dan's found cat..
Dan to spend
Easter day away..
some soft food
a treat he awaits
then lengthy bath at
self-rendered pace..
retreat then to
a back bedroom
house quiet now..
a tick then tock..
recalling his story
Deo found Dan
not Dan this cat
chance encounter on
fated library step..
time now to depart
a bedroom glance:
Deo now enclouded
his white pad
floats...!
Deo photo @
polarityinplay.blogspot.com
:):)
CharlesC Jan 2019
is a serious veiling of our true nature
and a sensitive subject when portrayed
within a metaphoric perspective..
truth reveals that depression simply is
the inability to see that we are not
the one we believe we are..we believe our
story..more..we are our story and our
story blankets any new identification..
we can only hope that there is a glimpse
of a blue sky midst the cloud cover
which when approached reveals the
immensity of who we are..and disperses
the temporary cloud of depression...
CharlesC Jun 2014
for new things fulfilled
brings bursts of happiness..
then to another and
one more burst..
new seeking with
glimpses fading hidden
by new desire rising..
at last on one day
an amazing jolt
knowing now the search
may finally subside
and astoundingly this:
happiness knows the
seeker is the sought...
CharlesC Oct 2012
Much in doing..
all the trip planning
detailed itineraries
of course, maps
without which
we are surely lost..
distances and times
contingency insurance..

What of all this
preparation..?
much effort dedicated
to here and there..
if we could
locate ourselves
on the roads between..
there we find
no places and times..
freedom arrives
ourselves the
destinations...
CharlesC Dec 2019
Getting someplace..
Here seems distant from there..
There appeals so we prepare
To go there..
Perhaps there is not geography
But a wish for something more
Again we prepare a journey to
Where our light may be brighter..

Consider:
Here and there are not distant
If we dwell only in Now..
Here and there then show up
As passerbys..dressed in garb
Of here and there..inside
A stable and joyful Now...
CharlesC Feb 2020
Beneath
The assumption we are free
Is a map which guides the
Comings and goings of our day..
The assumption is a message
Relaying the truth that indeed
We are free..with newly directed
Attention to ourself as Freedom..
We are startled to find we are
Always identified by that Freedom..
And..of that map..we recognize
It appears in Freedom and
Will  apparently continue to
Map our dream..now known
As a dream...
CharlesC Feb 2013
is about WE..
promising new identity
for 2013..
WE brings peace as
Me serves conflict..
yet each Me serves
unique Self identity..
we might then say:
Some fondly wish for
blessed peace with
Self well preserved..
then this Question:
is it possible
when becoming WE
Self becomes Great..?
simple mirror reflections
among WEs of a group
brightens uniqueness of
each member Self..
this consciousness leap
a dialogue possibility
for 2013...
CharlesC Nov 2013
A community gathering
with a calm surface
erupted of a sudden
to an external
stimulation..
a visiting speaker
uncovered it seemed
sharp hidden dualities..
these dualities flared
left brains fired
and a fragile dialogue
was disturbed..
Also fragile were
searches for identity
self searching for Self
awakening on hold..
A microcosm of life
in our time…?
CharlesC Jun 2016
Her question to which I answered
no, not yet..
Late spring rains with waterpower
forming as hail to cut and slash
then to surround and seep
scaling trickles to rivers
uprooting and re-routing
with fractal consequences..
The smooth wholeness of water
iterating with breakage and re-forming..
Creation's waterway...
walking prompt...
CharlesC Apr 2016
The rectangular screen
I see on my iPhone
is the screen upon which
multitudes of images appear
two dimensions on display
pretending as three..
Three dimensions
assumed for decades
as reality out there
perceived from within..
But now in our time
dimensions diminish
and we discover
our true Nature
abides in joy
when we recognize
dimensionless I am..!
CharlesC Jun 2013
Science
has searched for
those extra dimensions..
Fiction
imagines spaceship travel
wormholes as tunnels
to other worlds..
Perhaps your search
and mine should
turn around toward
vast innerspace..
Locate our center
as the place
all dimensions meet..
and our growth
frequent recognition of
a relational whole
lower and upper
edges and spirit...
CharlesC Jul 2019
here is a message
that will reply to
your shortage of time~~
if you are looking
for fulfillment via
a step-by-step road
and find temporary
uplifts along your way
but your wish is for
a permanent arrival~~
there is a road by
which you can go
and find you have
already arrived~~!
just stop!  and recognize
how all of your roads
have many destinations
named: Nowhere~~~!
CharlesC Sep 2012
as we write..
first the whiteness
of blank paper
imagining a fullness
of joy and distress..

the white exudes
a nothingness
brimming with energy
awaiting a word
the word emplaced
seeks direction..

to join with others
to rise and return
or to decompose
to fall and spread
colored differences of
new creation..

the path of this
lone word
seems quite beyond
a writer's choice
who in surprise
learns the chosen direction
by discovery...
images @ polarityinplay.blogspot.com
CharlesC Aug 2013
as writing poetry..
of surprise
of beauty
of pattern
of symmetry
of unity..
these may be
the true Joy...

CharlesC*

*"I wouldn't bother to start a poem if I already knew the ending.
The pen is not just a recording device; it can also be an
instrument of discovery."

—Billy Collins
seems important for HP
participants...!
CharlesC Nov 2012
we each
have our own
dispositions..
leaning we say
mostly one way..
one relishes variety
another finds home
in sparser places..
in those
high thin clouds
afar and away..

evolution now
seems to demand
that one and another
plan for travel..
recognizing at last
that one and another
are found deep within..
hastening then
to become the other
then with joy
return again...
CharlesC Aug 2013
A friend's kitchen
disturbed and
my mouse entries
must be sealed..
This day dawns
planned disruptions
What is disrupted..?
is our experience
one of

Disrupted disruption..?
what then if
Mindfulness blooms:
surrounding wholeness
welcomes disruption
with expectations of
delicacies looming
mice denied entrance
filtered colors ablaze...
CharlesC Apr 2015
In a day
in which the hour
has passed noon..
Afternoon constrictions
arise as conflicts
with time
as all conflicts
arise with time..
So the evening
awareness arrives
a graceful coming
which bathes the
constrictions with
growing recognition
of the seeming
power of time
illusion now and
dissolved...
CharlesC Oct 2018
we apparently need
to notice once more
and once more
the impermanence of it all..
coming and going
in and out
appear..disappear..

and an apparent need
to identify with
that which is not fickle
that in which all of the
temporary disturbances
have their time and say..

that is not something
but seems there anyway..
undisturbed..
yes..notice...
CharlesC Sep 2020
Disturbances..
There are these
We know..and they present
Opportunities for separation
To assert once more..to
Claim our self..
Yet..on second glance..
These might Lighten our
Attention toward That
In which they swim..
Springing gratitude
For a discovery again
Of infinite worth...
CharlesC Aug 2012
we each have
our place to stand
a place always present
an aligned awareness
and sacred connection
joining dark to light..

discovery comes first
then remembering..
forgetting is easy
each place is hidden
alignment broken..

sensing ones place
intent brings focus
a movement we notice
shapes in motion..
surfaces rising
then returning to
rise again..
a torus in motion..

watch the jellyfsh
its pulsing survival..
the web also instructs
animations in
splendid variety
this sacred movement..
become the motion
discover your own..

experience then
a gentle rocking
inhale
centered and upward
to brilliant light..
exhale
light now filtered
shadow and pain
breathing
unending..

a docking station
now introduced..
awaits remembering
intention for use..
check the circuits
the cellular lights..
a new identity
now fully alive
ready connected and
now to fly...
this poem is about a meditation technique using torus imagery...there are many animated torus
examples on the web...also see polarityinplay.blogspot.com...
CharlesC Sep 2016
These denizens of creation
fall short in our bifurcated minds..
We render ourselves
as the conscious ones
find disfavor on those below..
Yet now with a quantum question
we ask who is conscious
and consulting our experience
which is always at ready
an answer returns:
not dogs, not cats, not plants or rocks
and amazingly not our divided selves..
The quantum question receives its answer:
only consciousness is conscious..
This fearful response
settles into freedom
for all those dogs and cats and all...
CharlesC Nov 2014
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Used in many movies as a theme...most recently in the new
"Interstellar" movie...Any interpretation..?
CharlesC Dec 2019
doodling
emerging from a
cloud of Freedom..
allowing the finite sketcher
to sit this one out..
allowing a Recognition
of our Freedom to guide a
free pencil to proclaim
the reality of our Freedom..
as lines and colors
shine in a unity
Recognized...
CharlesC Jan 2019
doors of perception
when cleansed will reveal
our true nature..
this is the sage advice
of a statured voice..

the cleansing
clears away beliefs
which have imprisoned
for so very long..
beliefs of locations
and of timespans
which have locked
the doors of access to
our infinite blue sky..

freedom awaits
as in hasty fashion
we release the hold
of stifling beliefs
and sink into the blue..
then from the viewpoint
of an infinite self
we understand that
the doors were never
closed...
"If  the doors of perception were
cleansed everything wold appear
to man as it is: infinite."
~~William Blake
CharlesC Feb 2012
Doors
slightly ajar
providing a glimmer
but then
darkness again
Casting differently now
the glimmer is ours
patience wears thickly
a dark joy
glimmers,
Off to work...
CharlesC Apr 2013
when connected
a story forms..
in the connecting
a certain glimpse
a spark divine..
illusive it is and
without notice the
dots grow dark
becoming shells..
we are wrapped
once more..
we hunger then
for new connecting
another glimpse..
with discoveries of
new dots and stories
hopefully we know
the life of a dot
is sweet and short..
but the connecting
is always sweet...
responding to Mae's
excellent poem,
"cocooned"
CharlesC Aug 2020
Doubt

Thrives when the

Assumption of separation

Is live and well..

Belief and doubt

Are twins of deception..

One does not appear

Without the other..

So..how to proceed..?

Knowing these twins

Shade our Truth...
CharlesC Oct 2020
A suspicion arises

Perhaps from a book

Or a voice..or a review

Of a lifetime..Or none

Of these..perhaps

A quiet time with

Everything shelved for

A delicious moment..

Allowing Nothing to

Dawn..with a glance

At the shelf..recognizing

Nothing as Dreaming...
CharlesC Jan 2020
How do we know..?
Our waking life convinces
Dreams are nighttimes..
Daytimes show what
Really counts as we fill
Our notches in daytime
Expectation..

Agreement here brings on
The waves
Of nicety and nastiness
Which we know so well..
Nighttime escapes bring
Temporary relief..until
Morning's waves resume..

Is there a break..?
Something new..?
Temporary..?
Permanence..?
An exchange..?
Some say so...
CharlesC Apr 2013
Reflecting this moment
on what we call
our waking world..
from rising sun
to setting of dark..
some are asking:
is this a dream..?
some of scientists
are also asking:
observer and observed
are these contained like
dreamer and dream..?
then we are asking:
if all is dreamer and dream
what would waking
reveal...?
CharlesC Jun 2018
this dream repeats:
finding my way to a
place desired and finding
confusion and
pathways indistinct..
glimpses of the destination
and worries over delays
modify the dreamscape..
how to explain..?
perhaps the dream dimension
lacks the peculiarity of
the waking state and
non-locality is introduced..
a teaching may be there:
to welcome the undefined
the softened edges
discarding the map
finding satisfaction and joy
where I am...
CharlesC Feb 2018
dust is the ocean
the common ground
the luminous field
which is never born
and never dies..
we are the particles
the whirlpools
the rivulets
the waves
which for now
declare ourselves
as somehow different
forgetting
what we are..
until we are
reminded...
CharlesC Nov 2019
We all do it
Until we recognize
Illusion..

Our conditioning
Imprisons us until
We recognize that
Conditioning is illusion
Hiding the Self
Which we really Are..

Conditioning's costumes
Are beliefs which deceive
Rooted in the separation
We seemingly experience..
Hiding the Freedom
Available Now...
CharlesC Jan 2016
This word we find is pointing to a reality
quite unpleasant
applied to many stories in books and film
with imagination darkened..
Such alternate worlds are so portrayed as a
reality alien
but may we not say it is a reality all our own
right here and right now
a reality born of the widespread belief in
a separate self..
CharlesC Oct 2013
Ancient Natives
of Earth
and others in-lighted
have found linkage
Earth and Sky..
Imagine then know
Earth a new form
of the Sky..
A simple relation
remembered
enriched their days..
A Truth
available always
to penetrate
our longing...*

*polarityinplay
CharlesC Apr 2019
yesterday
reminded of our
often feared
consideration of
life and death..

this year
may be the time
to more fully
Recognize
the seed of the
creation:
inseparable
life/death..

let us cede
that there is what
seems temporary
and permanent..
yesterday's reminder:
our permanent Self
clouds itself and
reveals creation:
confined in time
living with death..

this temporary fixture
clouds and obscures
yet reminds us of
a joyful new
Recognition...
CharlesC Aug 2017
On Monday
the Event..
The sun teaches
a lesson on veiling..
Absence asserts
but on the edges
(wear appropriate glasses..!)
the sunlight is recognized..
The light of consciousness
asserts and promises..
The moon veil
poses as our dark patches
in life in this moment
but the patches dissolve
in bright sunlight
which was missing
only from our
eclipsed perspective...
ego
CharlesC Jun 2018
ego
is creation itself
a rising in and of
consciousness..
a simultaneous birth of
a 2-sided coin:
subject/object
as thought and perception..
the birth is convincing
in its colors and boundaries
appearing as both
savory and unsavory..
along with its birth
comes ego's desire for
the happiness
which once it knew..
questions are a threat
and its defenses
often most militant..
fears and desires
conceal real happiness
retaining that most
convincing coin...
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