INTENTIONS

INTENTIONS

Will I

Listen to

Large loaded magazine

Impulse thought repeaters?

My choice to impulse

Forgetting who I may be

Perceives nothing

Forgets all

The intentional

Annihilated by the inadvertent

One generation inviting another

To forget

My generation and decade and instant of

Justice

Depends on momentous physical choices

Only flesh can prove

Stopping at Stop

Stopping at Perhaps

Going only with Go

Now I may accept all consequence

My deepest physical echoing cavern

Will speak next

Nothing but Truths

Will I listen self-honestly

Hearing

Agonies, rages, tendernesses

Abandoned for an age

No longer

Only

Intending?

To Sip You Once Again? (For Constance)

The old person

Looking at you

From across the way

I see in your garden

The last honeysuckle

Behind your youthful ear

As you were 20

Unable to see nearly

Five decades gone

Stretched by hearts

So great

Time’s sheet folded

Upon itself

Have I rolled

Closer to you

Along a field stretched

Quantum thin tight

To touch

The fine hair on your neck

Near the honeyed blossom

To sip

You once again?

Life Before And After (For Constance)

Life before and after

Is all unknown

My time is now

My power is here

Fearful guesses

Cloud the sun

My time is now

My power is here

Holiness is higher

The holy agree

My time is now

My power is here

When I’m high

I’m all alone

My time is now

My power is here

When I choose faith in

Moon, sun and sea

My time is now

My power is here

Night turns to dawn

And shore is nigh

My time is now

My power is here

I use my ears to

Find my voice

My time is now

My power is here

I find my eyes

And see your face

HAD I ON A HAT

Here is a little "Happy Birthday" to all you out there having a birthday.

This is Fred Rogers long before there was a "Mister Rogers".

Used by permission.

Undisturbed By Marauding Hackers

Thinking generates fears

As it covers old

Injuries 

Skin does not hide from itself

Skin contains more than injuries

The un-dramatized consequences of time

Live there too

Years of light

Leave the sun

Traveling as far as it can

Stretching vision second by second

Swooping and slingshotting and lensing

As it passes masses

Meanwhile

     On earth in it's eddying orbit

          A coin on a sheet

          Rolling round

          The silly old sun

Years of light bounce off me

Reflecting me into time

To be seen by some being

Ere the fabric stretches completely away?

But 

When time passes here without drama

When love is settled

When self care goes well

When our protected spot is undisturbed

By marauding hackers

Not much happens

But age

IN FORGETTING TO

There is meaning in
Planting the garden

There is meaning in
Harvesting the garden

There I meaning
In forgetting to plant the garden again

There is meaning
In having the child

There is meaning
In hurting the child

There is meaning
In forgetting to heal the child again

There is meaning
In being a person

There is meaning
In being defined by others

There is meaning
In forgetting to define myself again

There is meaning
In employing the person

There is meaning
In destroying the job

There is meaning
In forgetting to employ the people again

There is meaning
In building the family

There is meaning
In destroying the family

There is meaning in
Forgetting to build the family again

There is meaning
In building the building

There is meaning
In destroying the building

There is meaning
In forgetting to build the building again

There is meaning
In creating the language

There is meaning
In destroying the language

There is meaning
In forgetting to build the language again

There is meaning
In finding Paradise

There is meaning
In destroying Paradise

There is meaning
In forgetting to

MAGIC BOSON MASS

Magic Boson Mass

(Upon reading in Wikipedia about Higgs Bosons)

(In honor of the people of Libya, 08-21-2011)

You are not clay for my hands
I am not clay for yours

I can not write a constitution to make you clay for me
I can not make a law to make you clay for me
I can not incorporate to make you clay for me
I can not create a clever strategy to make you clay for me but

If you are willing
I can pretend you are clay for me long enough
To convince you long enough
To hurt you

If you are willing
I can hurt you long enough
To convince you long enough
To give up

Despots rise from us
We create them
From the power we use
To create heroes

Whatever is done and said
You are not clay
I am not clay

The Maker who made us
The Dervish galaxy spinner
The Boson magic mass maker who

Made foolish clay manipulators
Made clever clay to manipulate clay manipulators
Even made more clever clay to refuse to be clay

There will always be
Fools
Heroes
Despots
Despot financers
Fools paying attention to despots
Fools fighting despots

Lots of fighting fools

Good ideas bleeding in to clay
In India wearing homespun
In Memphis on the mountaintop
Good clay just trying to learn from the children
Good clay just trying to lead the children

Who will rise again from the clay some day
With magic boson mass some day
To become the power
We already have