Wednesday, March 16, 2011

bearing water for Brigid

Bearing Water for Brigid

Sketches for a water vessel --
bottle and message elide on waves.
Voice of Brigid calls. 
All who hear: Imagine.
Exposed to wind, to grit, to rain
and hail,
rock faces erode.

Vessel
Designated fixed space
Sacrosanct container 
Conveyor through fluid
separates
Fluidity
Creates place, surface to paint.
Amusement;
diffusement of emotion,
beatitude, foment of dueling farce.

Harsh edges polished,
pure colors
blend in the dark.
Brief infusion 
of giddy illusion
glows 
just enough to guilefully entice.
Sparkling Neural net 
smiles,
a secret
clue revealing
purpose, meaning,
engages
wild eternal child,
ages' flamboyant fool,
Glorious
Muse

(Voice rains from within)

A wound is a sacred vessel.
Pain carves into flesh
sense memory;
carries the seed
of its own demise.
Sentience
engulfed in life
learns anew to be whole.


Wounded with the potential for wisdom
when eyes are are pried 
from seeping, sucking, suffering
aching to censure what future we admire.
Redefine the schizm.
This wound is our project.
To heal, discover the vision;
realign the seam to fit 
self-framed landscape.

Let loose that genie of desire.
Ride rushing blood streams. 
Build a roaring pyre of grief,
insane belief in wrathfilled deities.
Revile that old refrain: "life is pain" or a game
to be lost.
No Faustian bargain.
Just a  
rambling adventure
daring
to explore
essence of ecstasy.
Don't wait for the rest to see
and demur.
Stretch your sail.
Take sight of your guiding star.
The only failure is self-denial
in favor of the vile lie
that pain is destiny
instead of faithful friend
lending energy
for change.

Slice vivid memories. 
Exult in the tastes, the textures.
Enliven your way.

In the end
the vessel breaks.
There the Goddess stirs

2011 Aquarius

under covers

Cloud cover of gabble
Too much heat
Not enough light
for intelligent life
to thrive

Sing another chorus?
Clear the cover before us
with voices like sirens
reversed
Uncover, dispell the curse
if you will
or be part of the kill

Here, in this still place,
prior to awakening,
which dream takes hold?
Dream whatever dream you see.
Reveal your potent imagery.
Rlease your awesome wings
-- it's okay; it's just a dream ...

tasty bits

short and pithy tasty bits
exorbitant flavor with a subtle backbite
exquisitely rendered
to entice and bring in


exorbitant flavor with subtle bite
exquisitely rendered
tasty bits
to entice and bring in

for celebration, inauguartion, ceremony, praise a cronie, explain a gaffe, contain a laugh, decry oppression, make a suggestion



threading the needle to curtain the stage 
singing cherubs bounce and curtsy 
orating sage twinkle-eyed flirts, 
he touches his nose, wrinkles his toes 
calls to his wand's to and fro sewing 
all recite into song 
weaving their music along



Silver bracelet of Moonlight
shines in night's prism of serene
delight
casting breath, luminescent desire
emboldened in reflection



There is nothingness enough in all of negation 
Be a thing, many things, all things, some things 
Be a source of action 
Be the essence of dissatisfaction 
Be the smiling taste of flies 
upon the tongue of lotus-wise old toad 
Be bliss in amazement 
of egoic reflection on all this 
Nothing is never ALL



Revolution comes when it is ready 
The spark that lights the fire can be seen oh so many times 
Only when the tinder is sufficiently arranged will the fire take hold 
It burns with clear fidelity to dramatic interlude, to the cry of an erupted moment 
After images, ash sparks in the twilight, take flight, swirl within echoed breeze 
Readiness, relative to the free winds of chaos 
Revolution is but a shared anthem, parts of anger and revenge, 
parts of reaching toward a new religion 
In the aftermath of chaos, 
what bright vision will sustain?



sing another chorus

Sing Another Chorus

Life is a beautiful carousel
Flaming ponies made in Hell
Just when you think:
"It's going swell."
the haunts overtake and destroy
where you dwell.
So sing and play me bonny boy
Hoist yer ale; inhale yer joint
Keep it light in the pale, dank night
and work through the blazing day
till you've given it all away

Jan. 10, 2011

plutocracy

Plutocracy

We are Enlightened
We rule by Math, not Myth
We create wealth scientifically
In quest of our largesse
the rest come on their knees,
not in piety, but abject fealty
to this reality
we so expertly
sell

it's all about the fun!

It's all about the after party
Drinking to the reviews
The critics speak, and we choose
Popping champagne in celebration
Teary beer mugs of commiseration

After all the unceasing pressure
grief and pleasure in overload measure
holding in that sea of emotion
to assure that the all holy show goes on
after it's all been and gone
after the crowd's gone home, no longer
our lords and masters
after all the disasters we feared
and worked to avert
have appeared or agreed to desert,
it must be clear we deserve this sweet release!

Up in the clouds where, finally we're allowed,
lose or win,
to please ourselves, abandon reason for
this brief season of illusive dreaming,
to refind that childlike mirthful grin
where it all begins

March 4, 2011

acts of magick

Acts of Magick

If it is to be done,
We must go out and do it
Action, once begun, 
Has beauty and power to it
Aiming true to course
Needs thought and reflection
Feed movement from the source
Of our yearn toward perfection

The play is never done
Each and every one
Performing through their part
Reinvents our start

So join the song, and sing your tune
Dance strong beneathe a rousing Moon
Another day, another seed
Bursts out into the Sun

January 20, 2011