I want an app
That will slide some silence
Into the gap
Between songs.
Each song has an emotional echo
Before another emerges.
I want an app
That will slide some silence
Into the gap
Between songs.
Each song has an emotional echo
Before another emerges.
I hear about these ocean planets
Where water may be kilometres deep
Where don’t exist the coastlines of continents
No shoreline at all, no waves gently lapping on beaches.
No shirr and tumble on soft sand
No suck and tidal tug of broken shells
No constant fingering at the edges of estuary
Just the sphere of shimmering and surging and still sea.
I hear about the primordial forest
Where the air is unbroken by birdsong
No sudden liquid eruption or casual chirruping
Where the movement is only of beetles and dragonflies.
The flit and rustle and stir of wing
Humming and droning and murmuring
The swarm and coruscation of chitinous flight
But no cool cadence of evening song by a bird on a limb.
I hear of some meditations within
Attention drops below covering clouds
In the rare atmosphere the silent mind dwells
And extends all around until circumnavigation complete.
I hear from some forest far below
The walk and stirring of the Lord of life
When by a pool ripples up the one clear note
On resplendent wings I now fly to draw near the source.
2-9-2013
You – did you know me when
I fell into the ageless well within?
And you – did you watch me while
I lingered before the flame
Of my Beloved’s smile?
Perhaps you – you saw me dance.
Did you taste the kiss of who
I touched in trance?
Maybe you – in your eyes I recall
A fleeting light:
A moon between clouds
On a stillborn night.
1997
The rock that sits
that waits in the corner
Behind the door
should it be needed
As a doorstop.
The picture of my guru
arms upraised in blessing
That never tire;
the fullness of that moment
As a constant reminder.
The tan underside
of the guitar strap
Turned to view.
No shoulder needs
To stretch its weight.
The droop of the lily
over the horizon of the pot.
My mind resting enough
to note its want of me
With a little water to revive.