January 17, 2012

six weeks history
no more blood or progeny
beginning? or end?

January 18, 2012

clearance delivered
post weeks of inhibition
free movement beckons

January 19, 2012

delivers daily
vital, trivial, wanted
departs, cloud in wake

January 20, 2012

loving though distant
challenges traditions, roles
builds strengths, foreign, new

January 21, 2012

water, over time
gentle, cool, power sublime
to softly smooth flaws

January 22, 2012

ordinary acts
bedrock, infrastructure, frame
love’s longevity

January 23, 2012

creeping up through soles
winter ices sinews, bones
shoulder turns, rejects

January 24, 2012

boy who’s lived three years
locks in with eyes, limpid, dark
ventana to God

January 25, 2012

hour with mat, OM, breath
balance, resilience, strength
return with passion

 

Looking through my photos from Rome, I considered the fable of the Oracle at the Temple of Apollo.
My pic was a mess, but this un-cited google image features the remaining columns on the right.
 

Choose you this day
whom you will follow
This command
has been made before

Divine and compelling
not idle or hollow
Words that drew
fishermen ashore

Conversely

Choose you to seek
The Temple of Apollo
Enticed by a priestess
to soar

Refined and alluring,
fecund, ripe, not near fallow
Her words drew good men
through arched door

Seeking a future
improved o’er their own
They fall prey
to her charms and allure

Forgetting that choosing
to follow the oracle
Denies them
things promised before

Choose

Dec 282011
 

Anew…

By setting you free

I liberate me

To begin anew

Surpass the few

Who realize

Don’t idealize

Existence on this plane

Grow from the pain

Learn to sustain

Faith

And hope

Ability to cope

An awareness, firm grasp

On the value

In this milieu

Of each soul

Not one

Will

Be lost

 

How is it that I thought I could

Outdo God, the creator?

Who fathered Jesus, yes, it’s true

But Satan, too, the traitor

 

What gave me the idea

I could raise a family

Foster pure perfection

Overcome man’s destiny?

 

I AM but a child of God

Divine-in-Training, really

To think I could avoid the pain

The failure, loss, was silly

 

Keep it in perspective

Realize the goal

Each of us returns to God

Each a valued soul

 

Despite it all…

 

 

 

the sermon, the emotions

the story known to all

of newborn babe in manger

with livestock in a stall

 

the love this scene could conjure

good will and peace on earth

is all completely possible

if we embrace its worth

 

the agonies that men inflict

the suffering endured

would fall into perspective

would no longer be inured

 

And the light would shine…

Ecstasy.

 

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