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Yearly Archives: 2016
Happy Now Years… The History of Now.
O’, such romance, this fickle affair with time. But imagine if every day were New Years Eve; were we to dutifully absorb a moment of wistful reflection at morning awoken or before closing our eyes at night. Think about it. … Continue reading
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Precisely Enough
When I do not have You I endure, Yet, I’d break were You only mine Without You I depart When I’m with You, I arrive. If I am kissing You, I cannot hear Your words. When we are done kissing, … Continue reading
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Long Sweet Solitude
O’ long sweet solitude beside You and if not with You, then surrounding the thought of, If not the thought, then within the vast lingering emptiness that only Your limitless essence could leave. I melt and pour myself into Your … Continue reading
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Shebi-Arus: Rumi’s Wedding Night (Khamosh)
Khamush (Silence) (Jelal-a-din Rumi) “Carry your baggage toward silence: when you seek the signs of the Way, don’t make yourself the focus of attention. The Prophet said, “Know that amid the sea of cares my Companions are like guiding stars.” … Continue reading
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Mysterious Depths
There are page-empty days that I do not wish to draw you, in charcoal or yellow or write of you, or kiss you, or make love to you; or to sing beside you about lost treasure, or to hear you, … Continue reading
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Waiting for the Spider to Return
Planet earth is a garden forest skyline. I stick my face in its bosom often. It is a sea of foaming white caps, and a buzzing hive of fuzzy bodied bees; a pile of empty paint cans and half buried … Continue reading
A lion will never eat me because it hates me
I wonder what else have we bred out of the domestic house cat over all these centuries? I look at my cat Tiger and see the ancestry of vicious animals, vicious not out of malice, but nature. We sifted this from … Continue reading
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-ness
Sometimes we are only organisms among organisms – we respond through both willful and involuntary action to primal instincts and desires, triggered by external causes. We covet and protect and hunt and gather. Other times, we are more complex than … Continue reading
I Came to Draw You
trim-7a789ed5-d6b3-4427-9377-50668f2e562d I came to draw You, and with my own eyes, You painted all the cosmos between us, and then You opened my eyes, and with the illusion of vision, I imagined myself, imagining You. You, Who we cannot see, … Continue reading
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The Words I Hold Silent
Fleeting failures along Escher’s steps. Tender steps of whispered hope Ascending toward a timeless state Returning home, returning home, Where the awaited wait. God has blessed the words I hold silent Those whose truth is betrayed by a breath Those … Continue reading
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