Poetry

Poetry

Know Don’t Know

what lives in silence and storms, in the absence of desire and devotion to form? Know don't know. what beckons in the heart of questions, in the movement of breath and resolved expression? Know don't know. what shines on open arms and open face, in budding romance and...

When Searching Ends

When searching ends, evaporating a relentless fog, releasing its dogged grip on the senses, the heart and mind are redolent with curiosity and a desire to touch all things… ah, breathe in the simplicity of being here! In this quietude can be heard the roars of this...

No Awakening

No before or after awakening, just this, neverending, with no resting point... …life is an enigmatic mystery cast upon my heart, never for me to fully know... God has become my shadow, God has become my light, Earth is taking me as her walking stick, Heaven and Hell...

Beyond the Unknown

what happens when enlightenment is no longer enough? reapers like to sing "I don't know" below my bed. death is easy, dying, a looped crucible. I thought I would find you in the middle, somewhere between two extremes, but you're outside of them entirely, aren't you?...

Rest Easy

i have unshakable conviction in the force of your ascent, burning within you, seeking daylight through your fluid movement ~ rest easy, it needs nothing save your willingness and fortitude. and their proof, dear one, their proof has long been smoldering beneath your...

Listen to the Calling of Your Resurrection

you search for a home cycling between the death of perspective and the murder of emotion rapt and crying, lying on the mirror of hope endless grasping for what would bring it all down, release you into something more, so you seek this: the chimera of stability spray...

Hanging with God

I'm hanging myself and every time I talk to God the rope gets a little tighter burning only when I resist... jumping up and down on this chair, waiting for it to crack, we share a good laugh, at just how wobbly it all is. If done right, I'll bleed out from my heart...

The Pregnant Unknown

The Pregnant Unknown trails softly behind us: Love's secret voice whispering, even begging us to surrender hesitancy, that precarious net new lovers hold while wading barefoot in shallow waters... ...this tide gently pulls us further, Love offers us the gift of...

No More Fighting

I was fighting a battle not even God could conquer when I heard a whisper: "No more fighting"... I dropped my sword and found myself suddenly staring at a kiss print in a mirror, Hallelujah! All the blood I've shed from self-inflicted wounds came rushing back and...

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