Dancing Dialectic

I wonder what revelation is hiding

In the stream of consciousness

Which we are riding; between

The opinions we together are siding and

What the Spirit in the silence is guiding?

 

I bet it is a dialectic of sorts,

Thesis, antithesis and synthesis, of course

Of the sacred’s and the profanes’s long and shorts

As we listen for the notes and the chords

While we dance.

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Twisted Light

Oh, what will I do without you?

I think, then I come to my sense;

It is only G-od

Who in the end I will require

In the appreciation of

The present tense.

 

So who is that you,

Of which I am speaking,

Without whom I cannot exist?

 

It is the light and the darkness

About you and about me

In a confusing

But curious

Twist.

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Eternal Zen

I would rather the thought of

Nothing

Than the pain and the non-sense

That clutters

My memory:

Nothing

Goes a long way

In quieting

The noise of the world

Which I have permitted

To invade my soul:

Nothing

Does not add to the problem:

Nothing

Frees me now and

Later and

Forever:

Would that I could find

Nothing and

Be satisfied with

Nothing

Always!

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Choral Faith

To relax in the moment,

What a challenge!

To leave everything up to the Source;

To give up my voice

To the harmony and

To be a part of the people,

The chorus:

Not to be afraid of anything,

All miscues will fade

In the strength

Of the note that flows best

In the ear of the beholder

That from the choice of the Maestro

Was meant.

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Threshold

          Life is more alive

          On the edge;

          Like riding a bicycle,

          Always moving and

          Always searching for

          Balance:

          Living on

          Some edge

          Some axis,

          Some plane,

          Some interface;

          Always needing balance,

          Never able to close the eyes

          To anything.

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Beside the Point

How can I fail this moment?

How can I fail to live this moment?

How can I fail to acknowledge that eternity exists right now?

Yet, I do;

Hundreds of times a day

When I just don’t see it

That way.

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Lifelines

Life is soon to blossom

With an intention all its own

Despite, and without regard

For, any actions which I may have

Shown to my liking;

I must have its same sap within me;

I must be a part of its root or its vine;

I must choose to move

With the way the wind blows; and

I must lose

All the inclinations of mine

That do not give birth

To the tomorrow

That the Eternal, the Creator,

The Spirit has within

The intimate confines of its mind.

Wind me up!

Set me on my way!

Do not give me reason

To see the light of another day

If I do not fit

Within the docile lines,

That It would draw

About Itself.

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