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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

humanness as unceasing 10/31/18


so give me seamy conflicts,
I can’t see my way through
ponderous mountains covered with dusk,
for the rise –up of light to come over
daily barefoot days of sorted gravels
covering up footholds for the climb 
meeting up with stone faces 
that avoid listening’s summons 
the way that bleak wayward topics 
express the full spectrum of the surround
still, with gems of tonal gold
that in my blind-sight hear you
while your sound expressed 
gives me shivers reverberated 
to know of my unmoved hidden core
yes, your language strides on me
yet, I am listening
but for distance and out for depth
for that which makes me
instantaneously inwardly grow
I feel you in me passing
as you vacantly call me out 
from my unknown
you gift me with lessons to absorb
just by your presence
your spiritual acoustics 
are for me, 
outside the norm
I am the tatteredness of tear tracks
well worn from the gravity 
of self as storylines
but for right now
I can still hum your being
am blessed with the inner space, 
for your humanness as unceasing . . .

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

our heavenly consternation 10/30/18


heaven has no location
yet my prayer is asking for a map.
I make mountains out of my murmurs.
for my smallness of self
is founded on my beliefs 
in apprehensions from being besiege.
I have a religion 
based on these past thoughts.
time pays me off  
with an addiction to my pondering.
for without dialogue with others, 
my concept of connection is soulless.
touch, to me is real
as the next choir page I turn to,
as all relationships are seamlessly 
this sing-along.
and if this choir around me
is robe-less yet profound,
than the audience, if there is any,
doesn’t have to pay.
and so why am I telling you?
because I also believe 
in our heavenly consternation . . .

Monday, October 29, 2018

like you as yours 10/29/18


dry my eyes with your dignity 
face-surfacing before me
you rise up miraculously 
from deep within
I am the refocus 
in praise of your presence
that way coming forth
before me
why am I so confined 
before you show me
your magic of being
did I forget
from where we come?
you are vistas in service
I see through you
as you reflect for me
that which would have been denied
but now
my tuning forks alive
in harmonies off of you
surely I will have tears again
but may they reflect
as a wisdom surfacing
gracious with caring
a vastness coming into expression
not just as a bloom
but a declaration
of ever-presence
brought from within 
to share like you
as you are yours . . .



Sunday, October 28, 2018

Tesla meant (haiku) 10/28/18


so what Tesla meant,
principles that you live by?
none of the above?

Saturday, October 27, 2018

the universe as our song 10/27/18


in the world that can’t be named
meeting all is without identification
feelings come without claims as capture
no one and no thing is wearing certitude
it is a free-fall without orientation or terms
relatedness seems so much a foreign means
in having to be something to something else
yes, it’s hard to be flow without boundaries 
can’t get directions as definite clues
skill-sets of determination seem to be on mute
although the sound current is symphony strong
yet recognition is only a safety-net existence
in this realm madness, nothing is silent
what discourse was, is now all of space
collaborative denotes having no separate parts
who is seeing and saying this to you
is next to me as me 
pretending to be separate by this say so
similars celebrate sameness in so called silence
but out there, in a world predisposed to separates
mass has so many choirs singing choruses in quiet
the acoustics are beyond what our hearing offers 
as spectators from where we are of separates
sure, maybe there is noticeable ringing in my ears
I left that awareness in its presence as stillness
there is hearing beyond what audible implores
mass makes so much sound unto itself yet unheard
even clouds are radically loud way before thunder
water is all tonal chatter inside of viscosity’s keep
land has been storytelling as if ongoing as existence
but we have minds that make up words
once removed from the sound current
as our natural home.
we have story, testament, understanding as make-do
we are the sound of lower case 
in a surround of upper case vibrational choir
no page turning there, no meaning is implied
sound is made without the need for retention
no in-time service performed by listening
as if a separate, in an audience fashion
if you join in, you are part of the all of it
and you can’t be more expansive than that 
for there is a loss of smallness 
but no gain of the whole
no more self-conscious as if self registers
once you become the sound of you
no you of you separately exists
you just channel that which flows through
as wholeness whelms your existence
oneness has no objectification possibilities
sensory aware is now only second hand
reverence is self possessed
while sacred goes on without notice or fallout
for we are only then 
then the instruments of stardust
that play the universe as our song . . .

Friday, October 26, 2018

get a grip 10/26/18


the presenting of nostril-spreads with your eyes
in that searing down into an unflinching stare
branding me with your judgment delivered
is for me to put on a uniform 
in receivership of guilt?
what do you expect to come forth from me?
I do not live in your kingdom come.
you are your own religion unto yourself.
you praying in your world
does not make it rain in mine.
the interface we share 
has grades of sandpaper to it.
some are gross
and some are very fine.
get a grip on yourself in that way
and resurface your deliverance.

Thursday, October 25, 2018

rhythm (haiku) 10/25/18


been in the dull-drums
it’s rhythm kept me alive
speaking secret code

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

as if we just met 10/24/18


I am not seen 
but observed from a distance.
I am not engaged
but spoken to 
as if appropriately.
I am not a bystander
but I am from the deck of cards 
not yet life-played.
I am not art
but the beauty of animation
before you.
your logic does not define me
for I am the irrational truth
standing here 
in the face of your muse.
I am what makes time smile
in my absence 
yet remembered.
you are ponderous
as I explore your being,
both as the noun and the verb.
I take up
some of the space 
of your presence.
your heartbeat is
but richly drumming to my ears.
if I am lost,
lifetimes of perspective
will find me.
if your spirit is sacred to me
my spirit will honor yours.
go ahead,
and pass through me,
as if we just met . . .

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

contradiction (haiku) 10/23/18


contradiction’s surface
is harmony in disguise
the feast of famine

Monday, October 22, 2018

the resolute of oneness 10/22/18


help me, if you can.
I want to take a journey
beyond what words can say.
yes, I will say words, many words
but leap off of them as best you can.
for it is not the implied meaning,
maybe not even the images,
but, more so, 
whatever thought that comes
leave it, leave it for nothing,
an empty-fill, but vibrational
forged from beyond where meaning 
would take you.
so go where sensate does not approach
with experiential possibilities,
where immersion is as endearment 
without the introduction or foreplay of intimacies,
where there is no assault of thoughts
from the privacy of self in isolation.
boundless fills as if dimensions are still not needed.
for there should be no conclusionary grip coming 
from any single thought.
this symphony is all notes simultaneously embraced.
this composition is senselessly self orchestrated. 
sight gives away to the overwhelm of feel,
which is imploding but directionless 
this embodiment is then dwelling at source.
there is a gravity, but as fragrance.
no parts have any surface.
the whole is all participatory.
a sense for audience is nonexistent. 
all of one’s cellular is, was, always,
has been this faint singing.
all is energetics, a summation of flow.
if this is river, it has no source, all stream
but imponderably directionless.
and take no experience from immersion in it.
drink all verbs, swim the now of it
and relinquish all sense for meaning.
your last breath of knowing pronounces ‘isness’.
meaning ‘now’ has no stance
or possibility of assessment to view.
time was a cohesive of restraint.
now all your individual thoughts
murmur towards the collective truth.
experience of this is just a labored aside.
this journey is more dimensions
than the possibility of proving worth.
sound is this sea of constancy
where to drown is to breath in the whole.
leaving species as a wardrobe behind
the riddle of now as ever dissolved. 
all of time is a mountain of crutches.
all of space is now the one breath in.
and all of experience is measurements 
left behind as absentmindedly forsaken.
ecstatic was the last attempt at clear thought.
any registered account has become artful vanishing.
monotony has transitioned into seamless bliss.
joyless-joy does not seek to cogitate of itself.
when you had a ‘you’,
this was all impossibly existing and true.
but you can’t take the carry-ons of separateness
and journey-on into this.
it is a one note blend
as the hum of the all.
sure, there is the allness of participation
but no audience for observation.
self-consciousness is and was
only the backstory to what was undisclosed
yet irrationally told to oneself in mesmerizing fashion.
‘nothing’ is ever-featured 
yet existence is without frame.
as buoyancy and boundless
are now beyond experience’s capacity to frame.
this is where experience is invited to strip down to ‘nothing’
and go on, as if to leap into the beyond
without the handicapping of experience as assistance. beyond the passage itself and yet into low-key mutedness.
sensory-attunement is beyond the registers of awareness.
take no baggage, go no place, 
beyond where you already are,
as if the surrender is to beyond where tender exists.
on to the land beyond itness.
to the voiceless choir singing beyond loud from within.
where distance gets you no where gained
and the usage of speed 
is just a diminutive measure of itness 
caught in the slowage of self in pursuit.
for you have to be somewhere definite
to have a need for the speed of experience 
and a thirst for the all, experienced as zoom.
but that was then, 
so in this now,
as if to start
find yourself solidly grounded, 
more focused, more centered,
more present, more empty, 
more surrendered, more penetrative,
more immersive, more radiant,
and more exemplary, 
as if to be, 
in this resolute of oneness . . .








Sunday, October 21, 2018

conceptual love (haiku) 10/21/18


how do I rank love,
when love outranks who thought this?
a concept called love . . .

Saturday, October 20, 2018

freedom’s koan 10/20/18


you cannot look at freedom
and have a context as framing it
otherwise this freedom 
is only an experience of escape
as much as familiarity 
is a slow form of suicide
so slow as if to not see it coming
or fear for its approach
freedom has to have no meaning
otherwise it is a tourist activity
you go there with expectations
pro or con
and comparative truth is your guide
can’t live there
as if totally unqualified
as if a spoof of the absolute
and if forced to live there
substantive attempts are only made 
to recreate the past
as if to escape 
from the free-fall of freedom
since orientation has no backup
and nothing definite can impinge
motivation is strictly nostalgia revisited
memory is vivid longings reoccurring
now keeps having no transit as means
respect has no lifespan to endow
the brain is only giddy with impulse
one is tongue-tied 
with presumptions’ false concerns
cause and effect seem to have no audience
eventfulness perceived is a bother
since only action-packed ‘nothing’ happens like that
and we can’t catch an edge to perceive
freedom is only a concept designed for venting
its only language is originated 
from steeps of definitional confines
freedom is the angst response 
from reality’s restraining-order ongoing
the only freedom to claim
is to discover multidimensional diversity 
as the manifest of oneness through you 
as freedom’s koan 
yet to be resolved . . .

Friday, October 19, 2018

boredom as my guide 10/19/18


boredom is my looking glass.
it is a mirror for introspection’s view.
I ask boredom in
for some words exchanged,
maybe for an opinion 
or a quick conclusion or two.
not for the laboring, as a drone existence,
just for a spoon-full of a taste remark 
about the ongoing soup, pool, slop of the day.
of course, languid, as a first response, can be
but not as a lament,
more as a sarcastic venting 
with mocking reverence.
yes, that is what I want, 
in a full view.
I want to see
who of me is doing being bored
and who of me for whom
using topic is as the dialogue-lure, 
but seriously looking to swim the tone
back to source,
to where in my mind
this conclusion became so grand
as to impress me with a dispositional mood.
standing confessional, face to face ,
with the great teacher from within.
asking for what has bought and sold me
into the confines of boredom.
is it the addiction to observation
yet trapped again by familiarity’s ploy?
is it the wrath of conclusions
strung together so sequentially taut, 
so tight as if to strangle?
is it the dodge-ball struggle
with self-identity’s constancy of slippage?
is it a quick mind in a retention world,
where all you can think 
amounts to a moment’s pause?
yes, I love the dialogue with boredom’s source.
it is a sense of self 
in inward mirror fashion,
like who of me is doing being bored
and how is that impressing me to boot.
there is some much going on 
behind the reality curtain of the mind.
boredom, as my guide,
seems to always take me there.
and eventually to ask, 
why is reality so billboard-in-passing rude? . . .


Thursday, October 18, 2018

poof (haiku) 10/18/18


it’s no easy read
think, with an attention span
can run out of words

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

existence’s insistence 10/17/18


knowledge is neither the water 
we essentially need to drink
or the oxygen
we breath in order to live on.
knowing is but the sand
we acknowledge 
as we stand on it in passing.
the mountain of unknown truth
passes beneath us 
as grand yet granular.
we almost unknowingly 
stand on that truth,
feature the riddle of existence,
ponder it about,
as if being here 
and then there,
as knowing never becomes,
but only comes to understand.
so how does understanding
ever become the mountain,
as existence ever posses the question?
and does the truth of a mind
ever become the living of isness (?) . . .

Monday, October 15, 2018

lament (haiku) 10/15/18


the language of lament
often speaks in tonal say
blaze-source still hidden

Sunday, October 14, 2018

the worth of unsaidness 10/14/18


we all wear the wardrobe of life circumstances
meticulously fashioned by every myopic means
in front of the mirror of self-reflection
now and then
but nonetheless the signage in the protest of form 
itself exists
we, as those placards, are animated 
and yet subdued into reason
even if that only means a lighter grip and less waving
yes, there are the carving tools 
of understanding and reason at work
the chainsaw of prejudice is in waiting
the unresolved is on the comeback trail within
and forever the chase continues
as if the next moment’s fill needs adjusting
yet empathy invented the sponge and the soothe
we are yet to discover
that the syntactics of reasoning are clearly at fault
so what is the fall-back system
that still allows for separatism to be the home rule?
is it that we search for likeness 
by noticing the differences?
if we get a match, 
are we still not plagued 
by our methods of confirmation?
if someone completes us,
is that not a strain of false dependency
and our minds are ever ordering from their menu?
is unsaidness ever its worth 
if its meaning is unexplored? . . .




Saturday, October 13, 2018

red light, camera on 10/13/18


mass is, in what appears to be, 
a stoic standstill monologue to us.
for us humans,
experience is a limited squint 
of a spectral view.
we, as participatory audience, 
are grandly skilled at ignoring all that soliloquy.
but we have become 
the mirror to the mirror of ourselves,
that’s how deeply species self-involved we are.
we live on with and in the stage of this mass
where the stage seems to have no end.
and the audience of nature, as the planet,
is passive participatory,
primarily used as ongoing props.
everyone has lines 
they unwittingly say,
or not!
everyone seems to be looking
for the red light, camera on,
as if there is such a thing as audience appeal.
any recognition is warm milk on a cold day,
where dreams are presented from the purring kind.
and the mother of that whimsical mind
eventually abandons all those dreamers 
that live within.
so they, the dream-seekers within, 
forage and search for nurturance
secretly, on their own,
between the practicals and the pragmatics of living
where audience represents the bowl to them.
hopefully filled with some version
of that warm listeners’ milk,
I spoke about earlier.
that is why dreams exposed 
feature a fresh face
coming towards.
it’s kind of a human thing
yet nature seems unimpressed . . .

Friday, October 12, 2018

breast-feed (haiku) 10/12/18


who would have thought this?
breast-milk to body-builders
building muscle mass

Thursday, October 11, 2018

the four horsemen of a closed mind 10/11/18


irksome, in the hidden diary of a critical mind
peevish, a medicine cabinet full of conclusions taken
spiteful, petty as a way of life forwarded
vindictive, the act-outs that get other peoples’ attention

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

look into gaze 10/10/18


when I look into your eyes
I am lost at the cliff of see
my depth of feel is free-falling
I am going back in time
looking for a grasp-sense to land me
either no images come
or they are all moving too fast to recognize
there is either a stillness moving rapidly
or a rush so swift 
that it is liquid glisten-facing me
in a constant shimmering stare
there is more dimension 
then your head could hold yet presenting
it is a time travel 
through my looking glass
but still, we are eye to eye.
reality is but this candle wax burning away
as I stare into the wick of your being
parts of me from deep within
come up to meet you
they bring unknown tears
a rib-cage of embrace
a soothing bed of heart
a pre, a during and a thereafter
a kiss of spirit 
from before there was ever language to share
all my imminent moments from the past
come to drink with a thirst for this now
time can’t line up these thoughts that follow
they rush on to you and through you
I experience a flash-flood of joy
not knowing where for when
to fall back into my being
but still will never be self-possessed of the same 
for I am now a chisel of expandedness
each view that comes is laughter
intimacy is primarily composed of grand
all recognitions are moments of embrace
eventfulness may pass as idle chatter
bloom outdoes all seasons as now is this fragrance
I am humbled by the insistence of view 
as my means
as I now surrender from sightedness,
to be . . .

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

verb-be-age 10/9/18


all nouns are only posers
time appears, as either their alibi 
or riding shotgun, as their motive
look, see them as faux pawns 
in liquid spun-up swirling eddies
on this fluid chessboard river flowing
nouns appear 
as bacon 
revived after the death of squeal
as glaciers posing 
to substitute for live-action means
nouns are mountainous backdrop landscapes 
as if cognitive billboards, 
are the signage of lies
and the deceptive animation 
by these pictorial means.
nouns are the squeeze 
of slowed down solids
as if to hear ethereal’s shriek,             
pundits of a reality 
as if make it real
by wearing the cognitions of pretend,
as still-shot excerpts 
re-sequenced and philosophized. 
belief becomes the service dogs 
for species blindness
and tallies up
as the building blocks that justify.
noun-laden lyrics 
as the frontier-land, to then supersize
are always creating culture 
by a fathering of the questions
yet living in the morass 
of dead-end perspectives. 
all nouns lobby 
for this lucidness of lies
yet livingness is heartfelt luminosity.
but mindfulness, as the curator, 
is laden with a junkyard of nouns.
go ahead and conjugate your day.
don’t let the adverbials slow you down.
know that nouns will be the death of me
and my kind.
but in my heart, 
I will continue to live
as pronounceable verbs,
outside of time . . .





Monday, October 8, 2018

what do you mean? 10/8/18


the what appears to be
chasing after a something 
so completely abstract-concrete
with one paradoxical thought after another
dissolving this one thought into the next
yet no fabric gained brought home to rest
the swim in an ocean of creation
that only replenishes itself 
as if time is the liquid 
and self is the dissolve
it is a viscosity without substantive means
a cohesive without moderation or restraint
that ordains by its pull
yielding to nothing of evidence
but the draw avoids evidential proof
there is no command performance forthcoming
humbly, if there is a we of us
we are advancing towards 
what we would call the all of it
without the possibility of proof
witness, consensual agreement 
or an objectifiable context
we lamely can throw concepts at it
make it an itness for our convenience to remark
we have substantial muttering
but no dialogue, no agreement yet assigned
the tie-downs of details do not exist
the slop of logic or deductions are without menu
the basic first-person case
appears to be babbling
a cell phone conversation with the unimaginable
yet without props and apparently one-sided
as if the appearance of dialogue
what could I mean?
so just forget I said anything 
and carry on . . .

Sunday, October 7, 2018

zest (haiku) 10/7/18


a zest for being
originates deep inside
the notion of self

Saturday, October 6, 2018

money 10/6/18


money is, 
my method 
of false loyalty,
as if, 
I duty-free 
chase my dreams . . .

Friday, October 5, 2018

perspective 10/5/18


found a bottle 
in the ocean of my brain. 
or is it, 
found an ocean 
in the bottle of my brain?
perspective is always the tease.