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Dan Hess Jan 2021
grasping at the past, heavy of heart
and shocked; paralyzed
wishing for wings,
to fly in my dreams,
find that castle in the sky


travel through the vortices
of interconnected minds
there, you, I’d find,
my world divine

my love, accosted
ever lost

my muse
who’s left behind


and
forever shifting is the heart
ever yet never drawn apart
so bound are we
o, me to thee
such (pressed in pressure)
encounters brief



like lightning in my mind’s eye
to see the air electrified
whenever your eyes meet mine
hovering; swimming in ethereal fluid
surging with infinity’s energies



yet
arching in my back
a miasma of light
erupting from the heart

out of the eyes

stranded, abandoned
drifting in the void
crippled
by the weight of indiscretion

longing
for such loves forever lost
such levity intrinsically bestowed upon me

whence coalescence splits bereft
by weight of evanescent fate
and there is nothing left
not love nor hate
am I too late?
am I too late?
Dan Hess Dec 2020
Hast, yet, thee found on toilsome, trembling ground
a path thy moving feet may walk in earn’st
(whereinsofar thy nature circleth round
by brash and blindly pathing, here, thou durn’st)

would’st thence, by hearken unto chiming bell
of holiest incumbent owner’s place,
thine acrimony in thy bespoke hell
of handed, wrought creation be erased

Could’st, in transcending evanescent sight
to see the world erode in passing tides,
the soul bestowed but lost in darkest night,
there come again to sit where mind resides

When heart resounds in union with the eyes,
and salubrious joy might be restored,
there dissipate egoic source’s lies;
by life, may life again become adored

Subsist in thine existence, whose intake
should evermore sustain thy thirsting heart
Forever curiosity be slaked
by mindful making of the soulful art
Flow state, yo.
Dan Hess Dec 2020
Billowing,
in ethereal winds,
untethered from my earthly coil.
I am cloud bursts
in concentric separation:
gossamer pulsation.

Suspended
in heaven’s piercing light,
dissipating as I capitulate,
unfurling in my flight;
to coalesce and integrate
with this splendiferous bright.

Heave, I, immense a zephyr,
pressing mine unto the grand expanse;
entranced by all that’s shifting
on the likeness of all, being,
wherein heartstrings resonate
with the vibrations of creation.
Dan Hess Dec 2020
One hundred million cups of water
floating in an endless ocean

One hundred billion drops of rain
which linger in the air


One hundred clouds
now filled to swollen;
oceans all the same


One hundred years
of transience,
four hundred cycled
seasons, changed

Liquid sunlight
drips into

a sea of blue
from parts

which hover
out of view

Condensed is sodden air
containing memories
within its bounty

Cyclical are storms of sadness

Starsheen parts the clouded skies

Eternal is the endless ocean

Fading are the tides

A drop of light in aether

unto thee, collective breadth,

sends ripples to the edges

of the vessel

From what source is metaphysical water;
and how steamy spirits linger in the aer;

what is One - the godhead all-becoming;
whence does dense disparity compare?



Who am I who melts to never being?

What exists in transience, renamed?

Ever is the Ohm in om’nous humming
thru transpiring ripples in the waves.
Dan Hess Dec 2020
The universe speaks
and so inlaid is my awe
it feels mundane

The universe loves with unrelenting fire
such wisdom is its light
so delicately, intricately interwoven
is the force, the immensity of everything as one

and I
am but an iota
a speck on a speck
in some unknown place
in the vastness and transit
of outer space

whose voice is allocated to the insignificance of the imminence
of what slaps me in the face

and yet I'm being bombarded with divinity's infinities, subduing me
placating my aggravations and intimidations and fears and anxieties

every mirror image shown
returns me to my heart and home
reminds me who I am
that I am chosen to be me

I am shaken
my foundation breaking
tears escaping
from this love that seeks me

but I am born to be rebuilt
and I am thankful
Dan Hess Dec 2020
Spiraling

a vacuum in my sternum

drinking in the void
gasping for air in the emptiness



I reminisce of distances
leapt
in instances
kept
in memories
forever, lingering

How heavy can emptiness be?
Who am I who sees
not me?

Who are they

who could not stay
and did they ever know
my disarray?



I am

an erratic notion
of emotion
in motionless

vastness



I am spastic
jerking and tumultuous

in the openness 

of this
cosmic
loneliness

the endless
hindrance
of the intimate
i n f i n i t e
Dan Hess Dec 2020
Grasping at open air

ether slipping through
fingers
like rigid wind

out the passenger side window

on the road to freedom


I

thought I was headed somewhere

predestined, and I’d 

find God waiting for me
in a hotel room
booked, with a beachfront view
and two swimming pools, but

our car broke down

in a small town
near a railroad

where my one track mind
resides in a switching station
by a motel 6(66)
betwixt the path to everywhere
and nowhere
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