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Darkest Light

Here at the heart of the darkest day 
Darkest light at noonday and midnight 
The shadows show the holes to a different realm 

A different reality, negative images of creation 
The opposite of light, the reverse of night, positive to negative 
Light from the other side of life, seeing the unseen, revelation

What lurks between the now and then
The in-between what is known and unknown
In the heart of the darkest brilliant day 

The witching hour deep in darkest night 
The 13th-hour chimes, echos die in the coming doom 
Hollow and sacred, full of light well past midnight 

Another world of a different sight 
The flip of noon darkest light an errant
Night nether white or darkest night 

A day of an odd unnamable delight, a color out of time
Outer space, the inner realm of the deepest dream
A dream within a dream in a world

Of darkest light, in dooms dead light
Souls are frozen in movement, each an action
Of a normal life, now only echos in doom light

Faded mysteries of a time past
Each wraith, a shadow or shade of a different life
All lost in the darkest of noons brightest night

All wasting away in dooms light 
The coming end of echos and reflections
Casting far, far from the deepest darkest night 

All blind in the doom darkest light
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member A Great Unknown

(“The Search For Unnamable Things Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil)

A Great Unknown

I figure there are just a handful or two
Of friends and family who really know me
But last night in a dream a roommate told me 
He didn’t know me well
And it made me wonder,
If this aspect of myself can say that,
Who really does?

I’d think my wife of nearly 18 years does
And daughter of almost 30 would
As I don’t hold much back from them,
But realize they have their own selves 
To worry about and to know
And anyway, see it all, as we all do, 
Through their own shifting filters.

Same for everyone from immediate family
To close friends and acquaintances 
Everyone forming ideas based on perceptions 
Building a notion of each other
Which really only ever hints at the truth.

And this ambiguity is how it is for all of us 
Each of us a work in progress learning on the fly
Who we are, who each other are
As we discover its truth in flashes and layers 
A great unknown becoming known.

A volcano spreading its magma and ash
An ocean bringing itself up to the beach in pieces 
A night sky revealing its depths with the seasons

Until enough is known for us to function
Form opinions and biases and concepts
But enough remains hidden
To give us something to live for
Each day and each night
Another way to discover a little more
Of what is and will remain
An inconceivable mystery.

(12/13/24)
Form: Narrative

Premium Member EASTER CHICKS, 1962

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We carried them home in shoeboxes  
poked with air holes,  
our fingers trembling  
against pastel fluff~  
yellow as buttercups,  
blue like faded denim,  
pink like bubblegum  
stuck under our beds.  

They cheeped in chorus,  
a sound so small  
it could drown in a rain puddle.  
We named them  
after cartoon characters,  
after dead grandmothers,  
after whatever sweetness  
we could scrape from our imaginations.  

By Monday, the dye ran in their water dish,  
streaking their feathers into something  
less magical, more real.  
We didn’t know  
they’d outgrow the colors,  
that their feet would twist  
from walking on newspaper,  
that no one’s mother  
would let them stay.  

The grocery store manager  
just shrugged,  
his apron smeared  
with something unnamable.  
Take ‘em, he said.  
They’re free. 

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For Dorathy

A lady is missing.
She does not answer her voice mail,
distant friends look for signs
indications of further steps.

It can be presumed, assumed
that the end of her brilliant earth existence
faltered somewhere between night and day
where she wrote her poems.

Such poems!
She had come through,
she lived in the heart of Rumi.

Perhaps even now a Sufi wedding
between her and her unnamable Beloved
radiates across ten thousand heavens.

Let the sweet scent of ten thousand lovers
be her virginal wedding shift.

Let her be robed with light.
Long may her love poems
forever feed the hungry.

Live on forever Dorothy.

Premium Member Inner Visions

Upon a time not so long ago
I saw these things, and locked them away,
Treasures in memory's secret stores:

A sunrise of Apocalyptic brilliance,
Clouds of opal strewn
Above a sapphire sea.

White ruins of an ancient city,
Once home to a great people,
Now settled to silence, the only footprints in its dust my own.

JUst behind these things
I felt another something
Immense, unnamable
That lies beneath our normal perceiving
Like water below thin ice.

The awareness of this presence
Felt only in fragile moments
When images too beautiful for words or speech
Burn their way to the depth of our souls
Gave me a sound I sometimes hear in rare times 
Of perfect stillness:
A clear bell that sounds a tone unmade by any instrument,
A sound that stills the frantic revolutions of my reasonings,
Brings me the pure light
Filling the mind of a child.

In fleeting impressions
Falling past the tempest of experience
Through the cycles that so often grey our lives,
I sense the other side of the world,
The part that lies forever in the In-Between,
The calm and steady eye in the center of the cyclonic round
Of creation and dissolution; the drive-train of the Universe,
The unmoving hub of the Infinite Wheel.

Sometimes I feel this other place, both faraway
Yet nearer than my latest exhalation,
Playing counterpoint to my heartbeat, firm beyond all confusion,
An isle of strength that sits solid without substance,
A haven in the surging sea of doubt.

I touch it with my mind, sometimes, in flashing moments
This is enough - enough to bring some peace
Between my warring emotions, enough to steady my hands
As I guide my life towards its uncertain end.
I suppose it is enough to have this gossamer understanding,
Some insight without the whole story.

It is enough to make me shoulder my burden,
To soldier on.


Divination

Weave together twine, yarn, and natural hemp ropes. 
Tie 9 knots after you've braided and blasphemated 9 popes. 
Do this accordingly to restrain all within this bind. 
All while chanting hypnotic vibrations formed in the mind. 
Soon you will discover that this works and it is so severe. 
But do this in solitude as so no one else will here. 
Let me mask over the master with a mental debilitating ailment. 
Ask where was the conscience forethought conceived within its own development. 
Nothing but connoting with these words after, during and before. 
Confinement concealed within the symbol engraved upon his door. 
The sign of the merciless is here on the knocker. 
A Merciless Butcher is sanity off its own rocker. 
Do not turn away, receive a slap in the face. 
Fortunate reminder that all is in its place. 
Reach inside the satchel and grab 3 into the hand . 
Drop them on the anointed cloth leaving them lay where they land. 
Past, present and future that's the path of Odin's 3 runes. 
Wait for the signal from Prometheus the fifth of all Saturn's 62 moons. Discombobulated their intention with massive vibrations of tension. 
Realign the transmission from that unnamable I forgot to mention.
Form: Concrete

Premium Member I Am

I Am as am, in being-ness complete
Self luminous, with vibrant bliss replete
Here and now present, in the joy current
Centred in void, to each pulse cognisant 
Swaying to the rhythm of loves heartbeat 

I Am both the static and dynamic
Self-existent aliveness ecstatic
Here on Mother Earth, flowing like the breeze
Fragrance divine, thus imbibe and release
Unified head and heart, view holistic

I Am! That I Am! The unnamable!
Beyond mind body, truth of parables
Living in this reflected universe
Swan-song love throb, in melodious verse
I Am the symbol of Gods miracle

18-March-2021
Form: Rhyme

Loveless Are the Romantics

If I took my heart out of its cage
you would think: "ah offal, just meat,
fresh blood if I eat it quickly."
.
Crazily, you call 'need' love,
you're crazed, heartless,
a cannibal, a crippled dog
baying at a savage moon.

Limp tongues turn to syrup eventually.
Clearly these bodies are ravaged temples,
apes howl about its holy alter.

And yet, cherries are flesh,
their sweetness is in the hunger.
I drink and remember your face,
it is a landslip,
pushed by one iron gray hair.

We are mad, madly unhitched,
we hang from a mirage of love,
dangle from its limp sinews,
lips puckered,
ever willing to name
the unnamable, what it is not.

Premium Member Marco and Laura Coming Together

It could be seen in the rough surf 
Marco and Laura traveling towards French style turf 
Touring the gulf 
Showing the teeth of an angry wolf 
Winds swirling 
Waves curling 
Water hurling 
Like a southern gent 
Dealing with egotistical celebrity resent 
Putting up a TNT hospitality tent 
Programming things on TV 
Watching it with a cable fee 
Keeping certain names alive 
Buzzing in their sacred bee hive 
Presenting giving it more visibility try 
Enjoying ongoing stories emotional ride 
Mindful amusement park fury 
A situation that stated evacuate in a hurry
Or natural forces will bury 
No caring or worry 
These two names never had news worthy mention 
Now got National network’s attention 
Coming together creating tension 
Claiming to be a hurricane 
Category level no longer tame 
Special effects warning checks 
Screaming stating show respect 
An angry tone 
Entertaining spectacle viewed alone 
Hoping there is a working phone 
Drowning in the watery foam 
Death could come by scripted dialogue 
Being read by studio anchor reporting information in a fog 
Did Marco write this page? 
Preparing students living in a pandemic cage 
Or is it Laura having rage 
Loving a craft different from a road house stage 
An unnamable part 
Only miles the two are part 
When Laura and Marco bring back the loving sun 
Knowing the tides are crashing scaring some 
Needing to know ‘Are we having fun?’
Form: Rhyme

Lassitude

Avoiding the girl-scouts
I hasten out of the store
trying hard not to see the people
huddled in their thin coats
as they wait for an infrequent bus.

This ice-chilled evening
with its stark revelations
is like the nag of an irregular heartbeat
sheathed like a thorn in my shoe.

Later, by a warm fire
sitting in an upholstered armchair,
a despondency chews at my breastbone,
it is a reaction hard to pin down,
to objectify,
a lingering presence.

My mind shifts through a symbolic iconography
effigies depicting:
a lost and hungry dog,
an ill-treated child,
a stranger I refuse to call brother,
places long deserted,
places found far too late.
A love unpicked from a now withering vine.

That same presence
sets a table and chair before me
that I may write, try to explain
this tumbleweed of unnamable sorrows,
a phantom, that even in happier times,
I recognize it as a coarse impression
akin to a grating scar
beneath a tender tongue.

Tomorrow may emerge as a frail old lady,
struggling with full shopping bags,
head bent to a cold uncaring wind.

Many might offer her a lift
but in my present brittle mood
I probably would frighten her,
so,
I don’t.

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