River of Life river of life you swim in consciousness still in the womb breathing buddha's quiet spirit knocking on the door of creation divine purpose...
Sometimes Some Times (2005) Sometimes you get the breath just right caught between open-mouth stammers and sounds that relinquish words spewed on blank ...
Pavarotti died today. The tenor of his voice is forever gone. I hear him in my memories I hear him in the arias of my mother's songs, A cloud breaks open to...
this wind i cannot place my fingers on it is the wind that crushes small animals to the floor of the forest that blows down silos across the highway it is nine...
VITAL TO LOVE Walking out of a yard 35 years ago Sheila takes me by the hand to show me the creek The dogs eager for some action walk along with us looking to...
PASSING OF A LOVED ONE Oh no you’re shedding your body like a badly worn overcoat in spring time & leaving us in our clouds of dust as human as ever I...
Until Until we make peace with ourselves we can not make peace with a world that we see "outside of ourselves". Then and only then will the outside be inside...
Arrived In Two Places i. I am here in my arrival my existence spills out Words of praise and lunar eclipses of my Heart I beg to differ, Loved One, Life is...
Poem for Marion Helz When our hands are alone, they open, like faces. There is no shore to their opening. ~~Saint Gerard (Bill Knotts) pg. 22, The Naomi Poems:...
When The Morning's Sunrise When the morning's sunrise and the eventide's sunset glow in the most perfect shade of amber and the valley flows the green back...
From the Book of Runes, by Ralph H. Blum A Warrior's Creed I have no parents...I make the heavens and earth my parents. I have no home...I make awareness my...
Oh, To Be That Young Again Oh, to be that young again to smile that unassumingly that assuredly, to wear that fleshy dew-filled face of tomorrow like the...
Black Swan i. Sweet the grass kissed by morning mist sky so low touch the earth rock is cloud melancholy sun, autumn breeze. ii. Harvest Moon so full I, ...
Isis And The Prophet Didn't you see me coming my Dear? Didn't I tell you I play for keeps and I'm no-man's Woman? Didn't I tell you I'll break every one of...
Lady's Slipper In A Glass Coffin Rejection is a pink Lady's Slipper left on a decadent ballroom floor the clock strikes One and Sleeping Beauty makes a mad...
For Sarlito Behind the eight-ball curving for the line drive, or ahead of my own head, moderate me, follow my ritual list to list and act upon my every...
Beloved (4) My Beloved You roll me off your tongue into the morning vespers like a Prayer of Light I am filled with Your Desire, My pores ooze with the Love of...
Opening Seven Doors To the House of Seven Doors They come by land Carried on coach and foot They walk across the wind And they traverse the sea Some finding...
Paranoid Chickens They say chickens are sick and getting more and more paranoid once they're on "enhancement steroids". who knows what folks are eating and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKEJSk0J8jE It's one of those days today, yes, those days, when everything is motionless still as the sultry night in the Dance...
Evening Prayer by James Richardson _http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Evening_Prayer.html_ (http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Evening_Prayer.html) Shanti, Sharon 444...
DIE OFF Once I worked with a young man who'd never cuss you out If he was upset with you he'd call you a sidewinder If he was very upset with you he'd call you...
Just want to say "WELCOME" to those new to the group and tell new and old alike how much I appreciate the poetry and interaction...so much fun. Looking forward...
((((((Robert)))))) I just adore this. I think I'll write a screenplay: being John Malkovich...er? what? Charlie already did? surely you joke and ..... if...
Onions Anna Ruiz Deftly, the onions remove their skins one word at a time understanding the promise of fire and how they will curl and sizzle and sometimes...
