Poems, gathered by the month.
It's the normal moments The groggy good morning mumbles And the good nights slipping from lips as heavy as the eye lids Where we get to…
The tenderness Of pain The depths at which we go to continue it To deepen it Not wanting to and yet Carving away, deepening, strengthening,…
A good trigger A triggered moment Lays bare attachment and aversion An unveiling so to speak A buffet Of shit I don't wanna eat That I…
First lesson This body won't be as it is forever To move slow To learn slowness To allow for slowness Now No need to wait Had the first…
A sweetness To bear the unbearable To bare To the unbarable How do we do it She asked I don't know But we do
Life just isn't so separate Addressing one thing Feels like it addresses all others And not tending to another Feels like not tending to…
A good trigger A triggered moment Lays bare attachment and aversion An unveiling so to speak A buffet Of shit I don't wanna eat That I don't want to deal with And grumble about it A prime opportunity to practice
Expressions that can only be heard When the head is tilted to the skies A dark sky New moon The mighty giants whisper Shine radiantly Be so giving Spare none For as long as you can Until it's time to stop And you become the blackness of night
Seeking A slit in the pitch black sky The late night new moon Nowhere to be found The sky is covered by a thin sheet with no gaps The sun sits below Beaming radiantly, unseen by us up here I embrace the fact that it left a single trace The warmth of spring
The wounded warrior The primitive warrior The survival warrior I know you, I feel you We live together Brothers in arms Sword and shield Fists like iron Battered and bruised Scars that last too long … Mighty, brave, honest Protector I know you Thank you for your service, your protection, your honor Thank you strong one It's time for an evolution These scars can heal And we need to stop making more In our kin, in our lineages, in our hearts Men We need our time horizon to grow We need our web of protection to expand Beyond the village We can no longer be short sighted in time or near sighted in what needs protecting dear one We need you We need ferocity, we need strength, we need to stand for what is good and right But no longer in this familiar way, this millennium old way For it is hurting us And those whom we are protecting We are propelling a cycle where there are others who need protecting from us and we protect from them If only this compassion could grow Beyond the village We'd see that armament Falls short For it only takes an arm A single limb From a sick tree With deep roots That lives in a forest That is too complex The sickness is spreading We've been spreading it We can stop And still be a warrior Mightier than ever I don't know what this looks like But I vow to live it Because oh how I wish That this lay grey robe Is large enough to fit the whole burning world Regardless of size I start here, it ends here Something new begins, here I vow to protect Without violence I lay down my arms There are other ways to protect That which is dear May my heart of compassion grow To provide water for the whole burning world May the world burn no longer May I contribute to being a salve A cooling May I lay down my arms, not as surrender but as a stepping into the new role in which I am needed Where there is no field for battle But instead resolve For the fight is no longer to win For I see That there are no sides And with no sides, a fight in which arm and limb are severed Is defeat For we are not separate We are one living body May we care for it As our own kin As our own arm and limb And know that when one is sick We are all sick