Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Paper Crane




let us meet again
in this secret world
that our minds will never know

we can open the windows
and let silence in,
bird calls and wind in the grass

let us align ourselves with this
it has been patiently waiting
while we were dreaming





the autumn wind caresses the lake,
making little ripples of tenderness
birds swoop down, shouting with joy,
reeds and trees are swaying

wind, lake, birds, reeds
are all in love with you
and dance to remind you
to drop your imaginary baggage

and end your imaginary travels!
you have been home all the time
please be here with us
and dance with us again!





a dark pond in the woods -
over the years I've found out how to
still its ripples until
I can see the moon's reflection:
by not doing anything.

Today I find myself
about to jump right in,
knowing I will dissolve
in the depth
where all knowing ends






tonight I dreamed
I was in love with a beautiful lion.
I knew I should be very afraid
but I decided to trust.

We lied in the dark and held each other very close.
In the morning she ran and turned
into a beautiful and dangerous creature again





jump into the endless glistening blue
sink beyond the multitudes of sunlit
movements and colors and forms.
In an ordinary ocean you'd now disappear
in a cold dark mostly lifeless abyss,

But in this kind of depth,
the deeper you sink, the more wonderful it gets -
it will be beyond your wildest dreams,
because this abyss is lit up by
something brighter than all suns





step aside and become quiet,
let this cat's purr fill the universe
like each of these dew drops mirrors all creation

afterwards, you are free to resume your dream of self.
you are sitting in God's lap and all is well,
even if you walk away from it,
but then it might be difficult to notice






 

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Heart Mathematics

(Today's field recording of spring birds and geese slowed down to 150% length and pitch)





Spring comes like a huge wave, nothing can stop it
as if there is an invincible force wanting it to come.
That force is in the air, in the grass, in the trees.
Geese flying back to the north,
magpies building elaborate nests, working hard on it for weeks.
There is nobody wanting winter back.
The force of spring
is everywhere, it is in everything.

He keeps wondering as he slowly
walks through the world that is busy waking up.
An inexplicable preciousness all around!
And what is this thing that
is burning so brightly in his heart,
in the center of things?
A flame of joy that is almost
too much to handle.

Good to have loving companions who can share
the flames, throwing the fuel of their own love
on them as a wonderful gift, multiplying them -
shared love doesn't add but multiply!
These are God's wonderful
mathematical laws for the heart
too immense to speak about
no understanding necessary