January Snake Poems

brainwashed we float
aimlessly adrift 
in a sinking boat
wasting life’s gift

conditioned belief
in bondage to ritual
how’ll we turn a new leaf
living a life virtual

10-January-2023...

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in my meditation I found my
    mystical guardian and protector ... a slithering snake
      around me is...

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What a Charmer
She was a snake charmer’s daughter
Mother did all the same things before her
Her mom did it best
For she was well blessed 
Her daughter...

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As the blind-man holds out his bowl
the twisted form of beggar child
shouts out, shouts out, "please, SIR, please SIR."

"Come closer, come and hear my words;
I...

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As is said, we are He, who we seek
Today, let’s find out together
Love beckons, we try to take a sneak peek
But fears and desires tether
Veiled...

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I met him often, when he was young, like a pride palm tree,
He charmed and hypnotized his cobra, and made him wave, free;
His puffed flute...

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He dresses in robes, carefully coiffed 
He enters the nave, mitre is doffed
He preaches a tale, to eager sheep
He fleeces their wool, his tithe to...

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I wonder ...

Could this be mine -
this shadowed heart, a-thrum?
It begs me stop, for its cold intent ...
your words, those phrases I have ached for,
(stolen...

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