Enjoy a lively walk among stinging nettles in spring.
Skip along and listen to your heart sing.
Dash through fields of dandelions in summer,
Feel the vibrant energy of the finest gossamer.
Get comfy with Tulsi in the fall,
Boost your immune system before flu season calls.
Bunker down with burdock in winter,
Grow stronger as you weather 'Ole Man Jack's' splinter.
Partner with nature to cultivate radiant health.
Abandon artificial things that stunt the growth of your wealth.
Rise with the sun each day,
Walk with purpose, confidently finding your way.
Categories:
centering, autumn, growth, health, nature,
Form: Carpe Diem
There is no need to run outside
for better seeing,
nor to peer from a window.
rather abide at the center of your being,
for the more you leave it, the less you learn.
LAO-TZE
..................
Bacon slowly frying on a skillet,
its reality is real,
the way I perceive it is not,
Nevertheless, a center drools.
A red bus full of pretty girls,
going somewhere
some I knew,
their bodies are cold in the ground now.
That 'somewhere' was real once,
the way I see it now
is not.
A 'center' does not exist on its own,
it's not yours,
that thought is a mirage,
Chopping logs in the backwoods,
legs and arms ache,
sweat and effort, no thoughts,
just the work,
that is real,
that is the Center.
Categories:
centering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
All breathing
hearted
living sacred creations
are born of white light
and red power,
Of empowering transparent ecstasy
and vulnerably impassioned fire,
Of triumphant wind
radiantly communing spring tease
and slow burning
Earth-rooted
desire
To restore life-giving powers
of just-right lust for co-passions,
and to illuminate life/death
impassioned powers,
healthy white light polypathic
wealthy red powers co-empathic,
Born of illuminating sacred light
reborn of Taoist
NonZero Sum soul
empowering transparent ecstasy
and co-passioned fire
Yang white light
and Yintegral non-violent red fertile powers
ecofeminist conductive
inductive
seductive fired passions.
Categories:
centering, fire, health, integrity, red,
Form: Political Verse
All we have is this awesome moment now.
Regrets of the past are really useless
to consider, and worries about how,
or what if, are really utter nonsense.
Just focus on your own deep breathe
with relentless zeal, or on the music
with an intensity that serves to sift
out the extraneous and hear basic
drum or melodic line is all that matters,
and all the pain is suddenly gone and
the tension that tightens fists and batters
brain and vein with outrageous demand,
commanded to disperse in the universe,
from which poetry flows easy and diverse.
Categories:
centering, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
I mean to breathe-
without effort,
peacefully,
naturally,
like a child-
in a strange,
dim, touching way-
to become clearer.
Categories:
centering, philosophy,
Form: Free verse