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BB Tyler Jan 2016
When beauty is no longer a goal
every step of the journey
is blooming with
flowers.
BB Tyler Jan 2016
in all my crying
i've found tears

in all my speaking
i've found words

in all my violence
i've found blood

in all my eating
i've found ****

in all my loving
i've found people

in all my silence
i've found truth

in all my finding
i've known nothing
BB Tyler Jan 2016
Act as you will,
the Buddha doesn't mind.
BB Tyler Dec 2015
On this limited page
I can make no wide sweep of brush stroke
no blush of color
to show my heart.

No swing of my arm can influence your understanding of this poem.

Where, in a painting, you may see may
anger pouring red with movement
or joyous bubbles blue and yellow
floating here and        there
(from a physical reality manifest)
((the great symbolscape))
in these words are only
logic
and what you have learned
puzzle-pieced and put in this box
for your own construction.

Still,
in these words is all I may ever feel,
and though you may not have the faculty of
direct exploration
into my body-mind thru them,
their depth reaches beyond the containment
of any canvas.
BB Tyler Dec 2015
Attempting to understand the universe
thru a glass of whiskey.

Falling asleep.

Trying to know God
in a cup of coffee.

Falling asleep.
BB Tyler Dec 2015
Looking out over the forest.
  No mention of God here,
but the trees speak
   so well of themselves
           that I can touch
             and taste them.

In a darkened room
     with my solitude.
                            No talk of spirits,
   but I can almost hear
        my breath
        passing thru the walls.

I am a creature of seeking,
    but no matter how far I go,
     and no matter how well I
      understand the hills around my home,
when I lay down to sleep
    I am forever the dweller
        of a land unknown.
June 14th, 2015
BB Tyler Dec 2015
He stood on an ocean cliff misted by brine in the breeze.

He stood
poised,
unblinking
even as his tears met the sea spray,
eyes flushed rosy in the grey.

No words or sound of any kind
left his pursed lips,
clenched as they were around the
thought of his own
undoing.

Only the crash of waves far below, only the wind licking up the stone face broke the lengthening silence between the gulls, the clouds and the crying man,
all of them suspended.
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