Monday, December 14, 2015

Have Patience Please

Please, please
Have patience
With each other

The common person
Wants common things
All over the world

The dogs and cats and
Chipmunks
Want the same things

Enough to eat
A place to sleep
Some warmth in winter
Some cool - in summer

God grant us all this peace 

Friday, December 11, 2015

The Events of Recent Times

Waiting in line 
At Christmas time 
This time so tainted by 
Killings
In the name of God 

Hoping all will be well

Knowing that God 
Does have an odd 
Sense of humor 
Ebola and plague 
And taxes 
What 

We must discover within 
The place of peaceful reckonings
It's really all we seem to have 
That saves us from 
The events of 
Recent times 

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Again

The end of the cold 
Means 
The beginning of life -
Again 
Now 
That I can breath again 
I must
Make plans 
Again 

There are things 
     To do 
Again 
The wheel starts 
Turning again 

I have been spared 
This time -
I have a few more years 
To try some more 
To live the perfect life 
Be 
The perfect person
Who -
Am I kidding ?

Hey I'm not kidding !
I do try 
     And get it right 
And I do get up and 
     Try again 
And again 

It's something I pride myself 
     Upon 
My tenacious ability 
     To never give up -
Trying to find the 
     Solution 
The simple way 
     Of being 
Which the great pundits 
     Speak of
And the answers to 
The burning questions 
All the big ones -

Who 
Exactly 
Are we ?

Why 
Specifically 
Are we ?

Where from? 
 Where to? 
And 
What to do?

Next -



Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Unicorns and Others

Waiting out
This cold
And re-evaluating
This life
My direction 
And how 
I could have gotten 
     So many things 
     So wrong 

You see 
I believed
     In most of what 
They 
Told me  
And 
I've been patiently 
      Awaiting -
Waiting for 
The unicorns 
     To arrive 
 The parents were so sick 
Of war, I'm sure, 
That they too believed that 
Unicorns were 
     Right around 
          The corner 

And when they didn't appear 
(They never appeared)

Well, some of us are 
Still waiting patiently 
We can't believe that people 
Don't leave out 
Food and water 
For them 

We are forever amazed that 
The news never mentions their absence 
That places are not kept sacrosanct  
     And magical 
Natural
Undisturbed
     To provide cover
     And fodder
     And shelter 
For the human spirit-soul 
And also for our Unicorn
Brethren 

Monday, November 23, 2015

Sad

Sad 
So sad 
The people are starting 
     To fight again 
To call each other names 
And 
Fight
In the name of God 
     For God's sake!

Don't they know 
God is love ? 
Don't they go within and 
     See 
Don't they feel the separation between 
     Ego 
And soul
Don't they feel it 
Don't they know 
     How? 

Simplicity itself 
Sitting, breathing
Being 
The complexity of life 
Becomes still
Becomes bliss 
And we become one 
With it 
With bliss 
And the energy of love 
At the core of us 

Simple 
So simple 

Please don't 
Fight 
Anymore 


Friday, November 13, 2015

Last Night

Last night 
There was the decision. 
Go postal 
Or 
Dance Tango! 
Destroy all the things and 
Stuff 
Or dance till the 
     feet hurt 

To get outta my head
Get into the music 
      Instead 
When songs were played 
Which were not 
     Nuevo
It took great effort 
To say 
Very little 
To not push the buttons 
     And turn the knobs 
On our gracious hosts 
     Set up 

And when Pandora said 
There had been too many 
Skips 
Too many choices 
I thought to myself 
     That's no way to do 
     Business 
See if I ever sign up 
For you!!!

Oh I was so needing 
To look at the stars
With you, dear
When 
They were playing 
Unfortunate songs 
And I needed a little rest 
Out onto the patio 
     We stepped 
To breath in the cool 
     Night air 
Thank goodness you 
     Were there 

You let me dance 
Like no other 
Not insisting upon 
Nothing but 
Patterns and 
Steps 
Please 
Never learn so much 
That I cannot move
The way I want to 
When I need to 
Like 
     Last night 



Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The Actor and the Dream

Facebook contact 
With the acquaintance who 
Done me wrong. 
So 
So 
     Very wrong 
So 
So 
     Many years 
     Ago 

What to do ?
     Carefully liking -
     Not commenting -
     Realizing there has been 
          No change 
In 
Ridiculous and 
     Nonsensical
Attitudes
And opinions 

Live and let 
Live 
And 
See what happens with
This newly unblocked 
Line of communication 

It has been ten years 
- A long time to be 
     Unfriended
A long time to be 
Blamed 
And 
Despised
:-)

I have learned so much 
About 
Evil people -
People acting out 
Their own 
Stuff -

Expecting someone else 
To receive their 
Unwarranted 
Anger 

Oh thank God I know better 
Now 
Than to believe in -
     To be affected by 
Some silliness  
Of
Some other 

Some temper tantrum 
Behind some imagined 
Slight 

Thank the Angels 
I can see now 
That behavior belongs to 
     The actor 
     On their own stage 
     In their own drama 
     Of their own creation 

My own stage becoming 
Much more like 
A Zen Garden 
     With a few 
     Well chosen rocks 
     A pine tree 
     A bench 
- For contemplation 
And the seeing 
Of 
The difference between 
The actor and 
The dream