SEA OF FEELINGS

Blue skies; the water flowing!

Fleeting feelings floating!

Figuring, fighting!

Fielding, fending!

In foamy fits of frenzy!

Formless  forces failing!

Futile fusion in a frothy fugue!   

Flowing feelings; now finally fleeting! 

FISH ASHORE

The time has come and the tide has receded

The baren rocks are all exposed

A fish caught between rocks and sand

Where can I swim today?

My gills are dry and muddy

My heart is clogged with purple blood

My my scales are peeling

 And my fins flutter in the cold empty air

How long will this agnoy last

How long will the celestial fisherman play?

TAINTED GLASS SHATTERED

Through tainted glass I view the world

A tainted heart I see

Through tainted glass I see the sun

Let tainted colors be!

Through tainted glass I raise the wall 

A tainted life to be?

Though tainted glass may clear away

But can a shattered ever glass be?  

BANQUET FOR THE SOUL

Begging at a banquet

Daily bread, can you choose?

A madman in heaven!

To insanity you lose?

Sailing on drift wood

A free will  cruise?

A Soul for the lifeless

Oh what good, is its use! 

PICTURE FRAMES AND MEMORIES

Picture frames and memories

Hopes, smiles and miseries

Of love, loss and emptiness

The eternal pursuit of happiness

Of dreams and visions that only shatter!

Life and meaning; that don’t really matter!

With bonded chains of attachment

A life free of detachment

Can  selfless frames without memory

Be free from life, and its misery? 

MUZZY FOG

Soul shopping in a morgue

Misty clouds lost in a fog

Solace sought in vanity

Of hidden smoke and insanity

Flames of truth that do not  encumber

Reality’s dark drunken slumber

Of  hate, lust and violence

Sorrow, love, and silence

Soul hopping in a morgue

What is life, but a muzzy fog ! 

CLOUD IN MY COFFEE

The cloud in my coffee

Can you feel it ; can you see ? 

Tricking rain drops in the milky cream

Sweetened taste of the flowing stream

The silent sorrow in the crushed beans

Of powdered dreams, and living means

The sadness told in every cup

Of trees that cannot, speak up

The warmth and taste; the chocolate foam

The darker shadows, and a burning home

Dark clouds in my coffee

How do I sip it , after all I see?

COBWEBS AND DEW

Dew drops dripping on a lotus leaf

Flowing thoughts on life and belief

Cobwebs caught in a rolling stone

Spinning webs of life in flesh and bone

Shattered glass in a mirrored frame

Reflecting images of the mind’s game

 Creeping pythons on a rotten tree

Swallow truth but are never free  

Clouds and oceans, and nascent reality

Aren’t they all just, steaming cups of non-duality?

THE GATE-LESS GATE

Knock twice, at the gateless gate

Just eat now, and wash your plate

Chop wood now, and chop wood after

A man who knows this, is his own master

The musical clap, of the single hand

The still flowing water, in a thoughtless land

The formless Face, before its very formation

The empty pot before, the final transformation

Dried up dung, and a searching soul

Three pounds of flax, and a begging bowl

 Fleeting clouds, and mental states

Silence is yonder, the gateless gate

So eat now, and wash your plate

And step beyond the gateless gate

SINKING SANDS

Can vice and virtue be held in hand 

Can salt and pepper be so bland 

As Love and passion and visions grand 

Aren't they castles, made of sand ?

And into skin,bone and marrow, must we peel 

For, is reality really,  worth the feel ?

And deep beneath the formless fruit 

clusters of the seedless truth

Lie scattered in the pathless route 

As actions urged by reeking glands 

Cant be more than sinking sands 

Tell me dear Life  

must we still go, hand in hand ?