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Notes from the Abyss
It's been said that poetry is a history of the human soul.
What stories will our souls share?
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The fall
I am beginning to brown, my time has come. All used up, I’ve served well. But I fear the fall, I’m not ready to go. So I cling hard to...


Infinite impermanence
We travel— Through vast outer space. Within time, But out of place. Stuck in between, We know the cost, To live boldly In the face of...


Who am I?
I am the space from whence the world came, Here but for a moment till mind and delusion tame. The hole in the flute, the pen of the Lord,...


Leave the Boat
There comes a time in every life, When what once served now fosters strife. The traits and tools that pulled us through Become dead...


Degrees of separation
The mass of man lead lives of deafening desperation, And it stems from one error: our degrees of separation. We live divorced from the...


Mycorrh-I see
Beneath the forest floor, beyond the reach of roots and reason, wisdom moves, trading secrets in silence. A web without center, spun by...


Paradise
You have placed me amidst paradise, Yet I ignore it For my mind sees not When it is determined to be elsewhere. I rush through, Not with...


The Circle- 7: The Kingdom
The Circle’s story is now complete The smoky fire, turned to heat. Burned up the roots, exposed the seed, The selfless Self can now be...


The Circle- 6: Return
Now all I want is to go home, Not to walls of brick or stone But to the vast veranda of silence— The limitless expanse of eternity. To...


The Circle- 5: Satori
All of life is suffering, True, but is it noble? And no matter what I do My life turns to rubble. I cannot live with myself. But wait— ...


The Circle- 4: Burden of Adulthood
The weight of the world is crushing my chest, Stealing life from each step and wind from my breath. I try to do right, but the road...


The Circle- 3: Adolescence
Growing, gains are a pain, and my bones hold the weight As my fears and my dreams fight to proliferate. The conflicts are plenty, and...


The Circle- 2: Fall from grace
To be young and free from worry, till we ate from the tree whence came duality. I long to remember my Father’s throne In a home my...


The Circle- 1: Birth
Into light, mine eyes open wide From the belly to the beast I can’t remember From whence I came. They give me a name And take me from my...


The Circle- 0. Conception
Two single cells The culmination of centuries Of trials and of triumphs Of love and of loss Two single cells Join as One Two single...


Kindness
Kindness Evil’s shadow looms To fight back rebounds, instead Kill them with kindness


W.M.D.- Words of Mass Destruction
W.M.D.- words of mass destruction Metal, gunpowder Not the only tools we use We kill with words too


Killing
Killing Life disconnected To kill means that I believe My life is worth more


Atomic
Atomic Building block of life Minute, opens great power Like present moment


The gap
The gap Life moves in a blur Mind maintains a hurried pace Mind the gap instead
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