Images for Change

photos by the author
The muse gave me a message to you,
the muse rise and poetry.
I’ll see it in the garbage can, won’t I?
I don’t know how to negotiate this landmine
in outer things.
Every world has rejected me.
I’m a nation to nobody,
dear reader except you.
This is across the board.
It’s unhand me.
It’s blue and it’s red and it’s gold.
It’s unbelievably tight.

What do you say to no,
we don’t want to have anything to do with you,
and this is the entire of the yoga you follow,
the city on earth
that’s to realize the human dream
and be alright with each other?
I get kicked out of there too
and in the hearts of every man and every woman
who could make it possible to see my boy again
right out in the open
his daddy again,
and that anomaly is solved:
why the divine in-look on me
carries his name,
and it is a phantom make.

I stand here confused.
Even the halls of poetrydom have spit me out.
I have no place in society.
I live in some little island of bright,
and Douglas and our dogs
hold the world together.
Our visitors only want something,
all they can get,
and they only come here for that.
We have no friends here.
We have no one looking out for us.
We are here alone and that’s it.
This squeezes you, you know?
You don’t understand
when humanity and the world
mean so much to you.

I’ve painted this isolation for myself.
Douglas has friends and family
who care for him and provide,
else we wouldn’t make it.
He lives in his room and I live in mine,
but our best-friendship has reached the stars,
but can I tell you about Paul?
A friend for all the years,
who is in the world at large
giving me e-blasts
I’m your friend.
When the world rejects you,
you get compensation,
friends for all the world,
if you’re holdin’ hands with the world,
if the world means as much to you as yourself.

I can’t bear this,
spit on by everyone,
and I’m just diggin’ my hole deeper with these poems.
They cost me so much.
They tear me apart
I am so real with you.
I don’t know how to begin
to really say it,
the be there of the human being.

Oh my God I want to describe it to you,
so we can join there.
I want you to see my humanity.
I don’t want to be an outcast no more.
Oh I wish you could feel that.
God does,
and he’s here with me all day
in bright thoughts and muse
on the edge of time.
Would that you could feel that.

A meaningful life,
that’s established.
Come to terms with myself
and terms deeper.
This is all in the sky.
I’m a blockchain.
I matter to mankind.
I’m significant
to your notions of self.
I’m good
to all you haven’t seen yet.
I love people
and feel their oneness.
I am not about the snake.
I touch you
with deep meaning.
I am really there.

The world blows up inside me
it has eyes.
I commune with the Unknown.
I’m about your rocket ship.
I ease on you these things:
the starling oneness inside us,
the jumprope to God,
everything we have to do with each other
in our ballpark with children
and the animals in the room.
You hear me there
petting my dogs in wonder
and taking children to the sky.

I cook meals for you
and attend to your business all day.
I am not just a selfish wound.
I have lifted up the race
everywhere I look.
I am dawn on you
the understanding of poet,
and here I am,
in my most serious mood,
standing up and be counted,
because you’ve shunned my face,
a rocket-man
that knows we share meaning together,
that knows my part in the world,
that knows I can’t live without you.

You’ve kicked me out of your homes,
you’ve kicked me out of your hearts
long enough.
I’m not a beggar at your gates.
I’m the poet at high noon.
It’s time we fly.
It’s time we fly.

The Thoughts at the Wrong End of Time

photo by the author
Everyone feels themselves the maker of things.
Alone in our body’s cells,
we do a branded work.
We have the secret knowledge
inside,
and we know the meanings of things.
We just can’t express itself to men.
We live in our longings
a perpetual keeper
unable to handle stuff,
but ours is the mooring
to the base of life.
We know no one above us
in this,
and even ones that we worship,
they’ve just validated ourselves.
We can keep them.
No one else can.

I am the secret front of time.
The world calls my name
human.
I am a draft everyone wears
in their rise to fame.
I can’t control fate,
and the talent show,
I can’t grate my time against it,
but I am bigger than lost rooms,
or, if I am famous,
for your information,
I’ve been put there
by all eyes on me,
and the knife I am to everyone
I don’t have to please,
it’s sought within,
and I believe
mine eyes hold all true.
I’m good to everyone
even if I’m not good to some.
I am the eyes of life and time
in my living room.

Surprise, surprise, surprise,
you are not the march of the universe,
or anything tall and big.
You are a worm’s crawl to our Sublime,
and you would spit on the Sublime now,
if you saw it.
You would not hold it right.
You would not even know it’s there
in your tangible real.

I fight this battle every day,
sometimes on a horse,
sometimes in the slime
of morose doubt.
I can count my sins all day long.
I can sit and bash myself upon the head
for being such an eager worm.
Here’s the kitten:
I sit in the arms of the divine all day.
My doubt is not to its existence.
I have knowledge firmly there.
I see the Larger like I take breaths,
but is this a whirlpool,
a jolly roger’s madness ride,
that has no issue for a starstruck human being?

I see the Larger like I count my face,
and it’s suspicious to me.
It doesn’t count humans.
Oh my goodness the proxies’ wear.
Everything’s for the larger good,
the whole.
Individuals get trampled in the stampede,
and we have to stand this,
because it’s all a dream,
even our suffering,
and we are nothing more than sinless souls
putting on masks of flesh for lifetime wears.
The flesh doesn’t count.
The soul does.

Great Department Green,
is my soul in my beating heart,
the exclamation point of tears in my eyes
I fight back left and right?
How heavy is this pain
a moral wear,
how real, fresh, and alive,
and yet it’s cut asunder by ideas,
by momentary experiences I’ve won and lost,
by a look there a breath there
on God’s heights,
like you throw bones to dogs?

Feel me I’m real,
the character, the mask, You’ve donned.
I cannot last like this,
a plaything upon Your pittance.
I need Your honest answer
to my living pain,
or crush me now and don’t look down at me again (uh-gayn).
The pittance,
the role and show,
how do we handle it?

Time
is larger than our showroom.
More power to yah God.
What’s man doing there with his head blown off?
It inspired
an amazing journey.
It manufactured
an attempt
to find another rule than suffering,
point out joy as my hunting rifle.
It’s my must now.
It’s where I lay my head,
oh time machine,
I go.
It’s important
that’s a carpet,
not a bed of nails.

Do you hear me breathe?
I’m countin’
the breaths of all of us,
and I am sin, hold me down?

The Witness

Share to Her Wonder
Yes sir those beasts are mine.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
I’m a mustache fan,
Johnny B. Goode.
Don’t put out the secret to the universe.
Move seeds,
the intersection of whoever we are.

A bird from the passing by of the ships,
cosmic order,
it’s got esoteric wings,
and you’re mesmerized.
This locks you in the sky.
It holds your hand.
It laughs with children
in the moments of their cats and dogs.
It belly rubs
and takes you on a journey to the stars,
where it’s made.

It don’t just turn you on.
We go to the transformation of society,
another name for Supermind.
You see its location on earth,
right above you,
where the heart meets the sky.
On somebody’s shoulders
this love.
He is your friend in infinity,
with a special clarity seeing
that you know he’s witnessed,
and he carries you there
in the sweet hands of children,
and let’s make it clear:
never bleed a child
or give them suffering to wear.
They change the world
into how they’ve been handled.

We have no idea
how hands on this is,
how intimate and caring,
and how it makes or breaks our world.
It’s the entranceway to spiritual change
and the transformation of our world.
It’s big stuff.

You hear it at noon.
Wait a minute,
and it will be all over the skies.
It’s the role we need to see.
We’ll be there tomorrow,
when we use the internet for great things,
examine the formation of society and not just complain about it,
make its engines reformat the world
and to better even for fishes
and a safety net for trees,
into loving homes
and spiritual change,
holding our cats and dogs dearly,
what we week today.

Do you like the sound of that?
It’s comin’ on your muffler now.
Share this piece of music
if you want the times to wear it
on the holiday of our ideas,
the special occasion we need to see them with.
Share these thoughts
to your largest room,
and that’s where we find tomorrow
if you want a better world
healing papa
and beautiful with her children momma.
Share this video
on the way to our ship.

How I believe in you,
and I’m not stupid aren’t I?
Getting results,
it’s in your hands now.
The best days are yet to come.

I’m cookie honest with yah.
We ride children to our goal.
We’ll figure it out.

The Comfort of Soul

photo by the author
This poem began where Death went off his office,
and it revealed.
It’s beginning to baby us,
political allies.
About exit,
what does it reveal today?
We’re not safe in our own shoes.
Death is the beginning of misery.

I kill myself from the beginning I bet.
It’s a written,
a written piece of paper.
Now I left coins of me, shekels,
splashes of time,
in your jukebox.
They’re horrible.
It didn’t work.
I could not write my name in the sky.

Just how do you do?
I’m small pittens for small fare,
smaller than that.
I just do your head in, don’t I?
Come talk to me I’m worth?
And you don’t.
[The sound of laughter here]
You’re the wrong people.
You’re not wearin’ soul shoes.

This is message for the times today.
We did love.
We’ve lost some trying to get it in there now.
What in the hell’s a matter?
It’s the go car looking for enlightenment
brown.
Make alright boy that’s it cut the track.
Just need to think your love can speak. [sing line]
Freedom caring,
just need to think.
Some of it has been miracles in the room. [sing line]
One at a shot have a world education. [sing line]
He’s called a creature of a dying world
job,
little until tea tomorrow.
You’re getting good at it.
Leadership is worship.
Bake down,
ask about your soul technology.
Become immortal.

Before my life was over,
I want to find what my life was in.
I’m normally ask that,
if I haven’t given up on life.
Would you lay with me [sing line to tune of song of that name]
all over this answer?
It’s not a field of stone.
It holds us all in tight keeping,
but it’s not the angel in the room.
This is pre-God ladies and gentlemen.
Can you hacksaw that?

I’m getting deep into society’s ways.
I’ve just found Spirit,
the first covering of the Unknown.
It’s how we have being.
It’s where we come from.
A great big Spirit wears everything.
It fashions God.
We’re getting into preexistence ladies and gentlemen,
when only the Formless arise.
Can you imagine nothing as its sailboat?

What’s the rule of this ship?
Don’t fashion nothing.
Expand into global waters.
Make existence be
to pronounce Itself.
Spirit is the first form it wear,
that makes for us souls.
It’s aligned with God,
but it’s not God.
It’s the soul,
the basic who we are.

You can touch that ship
in intimate contact,
feel it ride the wherewithal of your day.
It can take over
and rubs your belly with sweetness,
and you are charged for awhile
with everything’s honey.
You see the soul in things.

How can you do this in a concentration camp,
in the worst hell on earth?
That’s the soul of the ages
in bare bones reality
giving you eyes to see.
Overcoming physical pain is one thing.
Watching cruelty mark the Earth,
devour babies,
and we’ve gotten down to the purpose of soul:
don’t let it in,
the despair.

The soul can get you out of this,
even in the midst of it's bear.
We are a sublime soul range,
God gave us Savitri reads,
and this is down on earth.
We tarry there.
The soul is completely out of this picture,
the whole fortnight
of evil takes our ship.
The soul is not responsible for sin.
It loads up our day
with the honor we give one another
for being the Itself to Itself,
and we feel sweetness everywhere
and principles of joy.

This can break in on us
in the hell we have made of our lives,
or what others have made us suffer.
It can even break the dull routine of the days.
It can be in ordinary
and lift on you extraordinary in every mode you wear.
There’s no end to the soul’s keeping.
It’s the basic ground of everything.
It’s goodness rides the high seas.
It has so much feeling for everyone.
A plant is to it existence
and little dogs so lovingly looked upon.
It can hold matter in its hand,
and you don’t want to bruise that ship either.
You’re careful with everything.
You have respect for the Earth.
You are never out of love,
even when you see society’s nigger,
the people we are allowed to hate.

I can’t fashion this for you.
The soul is a mystery you know,
but I can tell you how to do it,
reach for soul,
let it in.
You grasp it all the time
in bridges you wear.
It’s the most common thing in life,
coming upon your feelings,
and you feel so alive with everything,
and you want no harm done
to the aliveness in front of you.
You feel the pain of the Earth,
the sorrow,
disguised as your own or your close neighbor’s,
and you grasp your loved ones to yourself
and be good to them.
You feel ranges of Spirit
right there in your baked pie.

A moment of eternity has looked in on you,
and you feel sublime with the Earth.
You hold them with your children,
these feelings,
or your best friend’s face,
and you love to pet your dog with them
like you’re petting moon time.
You want to protect everything don’t you?
And you put down your enmity for a minute.

Can we range there,
take those feelings to the sky?
We can sure get along there,
if we try.
There’s more to soul science you know,
but I’m trying to get you started on thin ice.
We don’t know how to handle the world.
It ruins our day,
even when we’re drinkin’ with it,
but we are not left out of soul.
It envelopes everything,
and when existence can be anything,
the soul is there first a witness,
then a power
to bring the soul round to things,
and you just have to grasp it
in what I’m saying now.

Is everything okay?
Is everything alright?
I wear society like a sleeve,
and they do not worth me in it,
not even my own kin.
I am left apart by everybody.
Few call my name.
I’m treated well by Douglas
and a few others.
My child cannot call my name,
and though he is living I cannot see him.
I live in isolation,
bearing pain.
I look at the specter of death.
I’m in danger of society’s wrath.
It sneezes on me.

Have you ever seen the sun
and the mysteries of existence?
I’ve pulled them out of my pocket.
I’m a crash course in reality.
I write this to you now
in poetry that has never been seen before,
and I’m a black bag.
Society won’t read me.
It spits my name out,
never calls it.
I want you to recognize
this pavilion.
I want my boy back
and safe,
and I want all of you to be safe.

How can one man’s love change the world?
If it opens up the eyes of God it can.
It can bring us to soul.
I rabbit there
and show you soul moments,
a day or an hour,
I can see because I wear.
It’s close to enlightenment’s springs,
and I refuse this honesty just as much,
feeling my pain,
my isolation
and the loss of my boy,
who tells me he’s walking in a void,
in secret messages,
and he’s lost on himself
no light he can see.

I bear these days
not as a guerrilla.
I return again and again to the house of soul,
what I’m lifting up for you to see
in a certain light
that give us release from pain,
and I love you there,
even though you give me the cold shoulder,
again.

Rushing through a path of ambulance,
I participate.
I don’t promote my own story.
I hand it to you
because it’s how I found out things.
I’d rather not tell it
as honestly as I do.
This does not do me good.
It gets me ignored,
not a poet in good standing,
and no one will promote my work,
except a fellow poet in Israel
I can count on to call my name.

Just at the home of mankind,
I’ll have the day at some point,
and I’m in your picture
of what everything means.
For now I want to pass ships.
I’m on a mission
to get past my own boat.
Come get me please.
You’ll like what you see.

Not Written to Where They Sell My Muse

photo by Lydia, Dylan’s mother, ban image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
I tried to find people of substance to testify with me.
I just heard my bottom line turn not which but for my soul.
“Yeah I’ll be right there.”
He was to make
“me, I don’t care.”
He is at this stage the little boy.
He’ll bring him in in another place,
and that boy cares about his room.
It’s been set up for baby.
Ohhhhhh,
as in
that’s an amazing
fieldwork with the little in the house.
God cares.
He snuck in the lunch.
Yes that was weird:
a sudden host of angels lined the room.

Angels,
when you are in a film,
they see what you’re doin’.
I’m happy about that.
I’m not wrapped in golden chains.
I love the highway.
I love the freeway.
I’m not mindin’ my own business.
I do a lot of lookin’
in the inner chambers of people,
all who’s connected with my room
as they star in their own show—
breakin’ bread together,
and it’s just the outfield in my room.
I put on my clothes.

Now I’m a witness of tomorrow,
and I don’t think you’ve seen that yet.
Look with Dylan.
He’s about to turn two.
I spend the day with him a time or two a week,
really in soft with his mother how to do that.
You walk on tippy toes around that kid.
You let him lead.
You follow,
and you just see him all together soon.
You focus, concentrate, on that kid,
right where he’s developin’,
and the voice come out
“I am so glad you’re seeing me.”

You give him everything he wants
that doesn’t hurt him
or make him mean.
You know you have to
balance this with society’s rules.
It’s what we make them for:
we need a functioning society.
Now what happens when he’s off base,
a naked kid in a mud hole?
Clean dirt don’t mind,
well water,
and there are no snakes and spiders around,
biting insects.
You let him enjoy himself,
makin’ mud pies,
smearin’ mud all over himself,
splashin’ and a splashin’ and a splashin’.

The Rottweiler near him smiles.
She understands mud.
I am making sure he has the freedom to do it.
Money from Heaven,
I love to see him play.
It’s a stadium room.
We are bound by so many witnesses.
I can feel them in my sleeves.
I wanna get at the new creation,
and I see with children we do that.
I study them,
hopin’ to find tomorrow.
I am bound and limited in my time,
and someone else owns that kid.
I can only do so much.

I gave Nithish a brand new room,
for a day,
a kid now 13
I lost last year.
It all crumbled.

The new creation fell apart.
He was reamed
viciously by his parents,
until he lost all his Heaven.
They punished him for his spirituality,
and he lost all sense of it.
He’s told me he has no feelings now
and would like to kill people if he could.
That’s very far from grace,
and I accuse God about it all the time,
the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

What we did
cannot be repeated in a laboratory.
It’s too much
where we put spiritual influence.
Laboratory conditions can’t copy that.
Because I’m not there,
on the ground,
the kid is just in a black straight jacket,
and I can’t get near ‘im.
I can’t get this across to anyone.
There is no need of me they see.
I’m a foreigner in India,
and that’s all they see.
This is a racial country
I just sit and bleed.
Even if someone would turn him towards me,
I’m a police major.
Write it down
hey I like kids,
and I’ve stepped on their shoes in the past,
and now I know what they need?

It’s a honey table,
and the most skeptical person
would find me right with kids
if they followed me around with one.
I know what I’m doin’.
But I would not like the interference to tell you the truth,
and we wouldn’t be focused on child development.
It would be watching me.
How do I show you this honey dog?
You can’t blame me for tryin’.
I want my boy back
so he can grow up
as tall as his destiny calls for,
and I want Dylan
to be assured I’m there,
and no one will take me away.
These are troubled times.

So we play eggs,
these hot air balloons
I sudden you with
so’s you can see
I’m not red in my room.
It’s a feelin’ test.
I’m givin’ you the means to look in there
wide open feelin’.
A seer would see a honey perch,
laughter and commodity for the child.
I arm there.
It’s not a black bag.

Now what’s the commodity in my room?
It’s soul change.
I’m learnin’ the soul take over,
and that’s the honey for the child
I want them in contact with
so with their souls they stay in touch;
they don’t lose that sweet easiness
that makes them joys at life,
and that’s our leadership with children,
the soul ever takes presence.
Can you find that?

It’s too abstract to you,
or most of you,
or it’s some made-up notion
we force in life’s cupboard.
It’s the contact with life
at its most basic.
It’s what we deal with
as children
that never forgets childhood,
and we love bein’ a child.
It’s what we lose when we grow up
that we call innocence and candor
and silliness and so on.
We lose that touch with our souls,
the sweetness that can forgive everyone,
even if they’ve just whipped your butt.
You remember that?

I’m all about it,
and I meet the souls of children
with my own.
Funny how you do that.
You just be kind with them
and ever present,
as the big dog sittin’ there
that just wants them safe.
That’s what you do with children,
open up their hearts with love
and make them feel safe and special.

Dylan doesn’t respond yet
to anyone
to get out of his own mood,
but he comes when I call,
and that’s what we spent the day doin’.
Self-Absorption do you see that dog sittin’ there?
Luna baby loves you.
And Self-Absorption looks up at me in play
and gives me a smile full of eye contact,
grinnin’ from ear to ear,
and it lights up the sun
and gives me the joy of the world.
And he comes and takes my hand
and leads me to what he wants to do,
and he’s developin’ friendship
and social contact.
We have fun together.

Listen,
you can’t fool an angel.
What’s on with you
when a child is under your care,
when you play with kittens?

And the Vehicles of Discernment

Where autism rides,
nobody believes in it,
and the vehicles crash.
Madness in America gave us this lay:
autism comes from television
and screen time.
I laugh at every little thing. [sing line]
This is the public mind.
Where do we go with it?
We can’t take it anywhere
in the fundamentals of ourselves
where we’ve encountered the unknown.

I’m dancin’ on thin ice.
I think this is the public construction of our ego today,
or whatever you call that we are now,
how it’s made,
where it comes from.
Everybody’s ignorant here.
Nobody knows what’s goin’ on,
and nobody cares.
Too many other concerns crowd the show.

How do I introduce you to you?
Let’s take your dream last night
the closer you are from waking up,
when you’re patterning on dreamless sleep.
You’ve gotten down that far.
This is really weird.
The forms bite you.
They do not contain waking life
in anything recognizable
except maybe a sandwich you’re a part of,
that you’re being eaten by.
They are larger than machine.
They swallow you whole.
You were merged with that odd substance, weren’t you?
The separate self was hanging in thin air.
You didn’t recognize it yet.
You were the forms you saw,
and you are all mixed up.
You couldn’t tell yourself,
but you were there.

Have you ever woken up from this
merged dream content?
It’s oddly familiar.
You feel basic with it,
like you’re on a slab of reality
you’ve know before,
when you first woke up from sleep,
somewhere in womb-time,
but I think after we’re born the show begins,
when we hold the world tight
indistinguishable from it.
We are merged in our identity
with all around us,
but the body localizes us
in our surroundings,
and we are so bodily there.
Mommy and springtime,
that’s the season we wear.
Her face, her touch,
her smell,
we know those are safety measures,
and we don’t know much else.
It depends upon the daddy.
Some are right there,
and it doesn’t have to be a parent.
I can’t give you the lists
without breakin’ ‘em up.
We’ve got to talk about the thing.

I think slowly we wake to the blows of life,
its insistence on its kin,
and we separate ourselves from our environment
slowly,
little by little.
You can see this happenin’
if your look’s engaged.
That sense of separate self is precious
a wee one becomes a person in.
Are you three
when you’ve balanced life
and can give a wink to other people
here I am, here I am, how do you do? [sing line, popular nursery rhyme]

I’ve just studied your rabbit.
You think you’re localized in space
a separate consciousness in time.
No, that’s learned.
Now put all this in a TV show,
some stupid video,
and you see what you got.
I can’t distinguish myself from time and space
to begin with.
Now add another layer,
the absurd,
the inane,
the chocolate freeze cake,
and some children don’t make the match.
They can’t distinguish themselves in time,
and spectrum autism
makes them their relationship with the world.

One in 36 is it?
Anyway it’s huge.
I can babysit
a two-year-old,
and I don’t have consciousness breathin’ down my neck.
I make contact with the kid
casually.
I understand his price.
I see him there
pullin’ himself out of the world,
tryin’ to make himself work in it.
I dream about him,
have him in vision.
We have open lines of communication,
and I don’t wanna mess it up,
that delicate balance he has with the world
as he’s findin’ himself in it.

No extra touches when I wash his penis,
no emotions in my hand,
and I’m careful with that anus.
(I have no sexual desire for the child.)
I think these are where he is localized now
as the body reaches the sky,
right there at the birth of thought.
No they are not the majors in the room
that determine his life.
There’s just so much feeling there,
and feeling’s what it’s all about
when you’re two.

I’m crowdin’ in on your crash course in reality.
I’m tellin’ yah how it’s made,
our sexual preference,
our sexual alliance with the world.
We can become gay or straight,
pedophile or necrophiliac,
and the list goes on,
and we can this and that
or just someone who harass women,
touch them somewhere
they don’t know where it’s at,
respect,
and if you wanna rapist touch them more momma.
An old movie,
don’t worry;
I’m taking it to see daylight.
It won’t take long.

We need good parental hands
with everybody who handles them,
our genitals.
The equations will reach the sky
with anybody who touches them,
or squeezes them against ourself
in diaper rub.
Add some kissin’ on top of that,
real romantic feelings
with some male role model,
and if you’re boy you’re gay.
Watch and see.
I just let the cat out of the bag.
Can you see it?

Autism spectrum disorder,
it’s not the only thing that comes out of our threes.
Every touch counts.
Every moment’s involved with us.
A screaming parent,
two fighting parents,
and that’s joined in our identity don’t you see?
You got it all wrong.
Those years count the most,
and they’re the hardest to bear,
aren’t they?
Hit that child and see
you’ve got a child there
the world has slapped by,
and they’ve been betrayed by everybody.
Can’t you see it on their face?
Don’t you know it’s in their pain?

I love you Dylan.
I really do.
Anyway,
there, I’ve done it,
showed you reality.
Can you get my dig?
Cryin’ all the time, [sing line, from the song “Hound Dog”]
no.
We wipe their tears with our love,
always addin’ to the world
their place in it,
and the roles are clear,
and that’s heavy, ain’t it?

I can bring understanding
to many roles in your life
and to horrible times.
I can do that.
When you even begin to walk,
we’re gettin’ some stuff done.
We’re gettin’ some stuff done put well on you.
Like what can you do
if nobody wants to be well?
Kid you know
travel love,
and make that the aim of life
the immediacy of this moment.

May all your memories and all your steps,
may they be easy.
Okay,
I’ve tuned you to the ages.
That explains it,
what went wrong.
Daddy, daddy! [vision of Dylan standing and turning to look at me and saying this]
Come there
even for your own purpose.
You know as well as I know
the movies,
trauma is almost illegal I’m carrying
to bring Dylan through this touch and screen of madness,
someone
experiencing the world
his play bubba,
his romance,
his mastery,
and we all look for spiritual change,
don’t we?
Evolution,
it’s what’s you do with a kid.
It be like
huggin’
sha-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la tee-da [sing line, song “Brown Eyed Girl”]
and never gettin’ caught in it.
You’re free.
Why would you want to take a child anywhere else?

A Crown Road

Real life forum for the discussion of school peace,
a brick,
that brick has something to do with you.
We don’t wanna do it,
continue,
and we face certain destruction.
Death is ever on our knee,
and the world fail is in the picture now.
A sudden storm could kill us.
We are never safe,
and we just explode all the time,
come to hope and then crash,
come to bay and then sink.

If you are left out of this loop,
eventually your cross will come.
We are not safe from crisis,
and we are manipulated to star’s end
over the avoidance of such.
Some have good fingers,
some no.
Just look out
for what’s right.
You have it all the time,
in some speaker in your room.

The avoidance of death is not possible,
but we can make peace with our time that comes.
We can ground ourselves in reality,
and we can even see what’s ahead,
and if there’s disaster ahead,
well this is the crux of the matter ain’t it?
We don’t want the suffering to kill us.
We have to find a solution,
or chaos reigns.

And what of prolonged disaster?
I have been rejected by society
like men on death row,
and there is no way to climb out of this hole.
It’s pleasant enough.
I live in a bright home,
and no one will see me there.
I’m not value to anyone
except whom I can count on one hand.
This is deliberate and mean.
It’s not the normal social isolation.
So shoot me for it and let’s move on.

I’ve measured humanity in my bare hands.
I have been to the top and the bottom of this old world.
I commune with spirits
and the impossible.
I have seen things you don’t want to see,
and I’m not talkin’ murder and mayhem.
I’m talking about the fresh expression of the universe
ploughin’ us down to make its see,
how the Gods sit in their homes
and use us as dice in their gambles on the world,
and we get crushed,
and how God watches too big to help.
We are at a certain level of universe
that pay the price.
We sit on Heaven’s back
the sustenance it needs to survive.

I have found a way out of this.
I have found the truth of who we are,
and it’s a slow movement’s crawl
to the goal,
when this is time on earth.
I’m not filling you with hope I’m filling you with seeing.
We are bigger than all that.
We are outfielders from another universe
that encompasses this one.
We abide there now
on our tops.

I’m speaking from there
in the knowledge I give.
It’s clear and certain knowledge,
and it will open up the whole world to you
one step at a time.
It will mitigate disaster,
break in on it and help you rise above it.
It will sit with you at night
and hold your hand.
We are a dream weaver’s store
lost in our dream,
and it’s a collective dream
that we share together,
and we will wake up together
when the time comes.
That’s the certainty of dream.

Now can I honest myself here?
I’m a pauper when it comes to Earth’s stuff,
but I’m rich in meaning’s worth.
I’m a brink in the wall that is us,
but you can take me out and see time,
remove me and see beyond the universe.
I crumble in my own hands,
and even in my tears,
if I cannot feel the joy on my tops,
I know it’s there.

I have given formulas for world change,
and they go by unnoticed.
I have laid practicality at philosophy’s door,
given psychology wings,
and taken the big questions
and answered them right in front of your nose,
and the mind meets understanding,
and I’m just this existence worth
that has no place among you.
You think so?

I’m gonna dictate
mission impossible.
With all due respects,
can we land society here,
I’m conducting a sense of sacrifice where I meet the world?
I’m writing this with a déjà vu.
Even if you have not had your lives torn asunder,
do not find yourself in hell on earth,
or smell that awful stench near,
can you make ends meet,
support yourself and your family
and not have to struggle all the time?

I’m talking to the great majority of mankind.
Oh my God,
poor people gonna rise up,
get their share. [sing this and above line, tune “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution”]
Can I sing to you another song?
It’s the only way to be human on this planet,
whatever your religion or creed
or nationality.
We temper our hearts with a sense of sacrifice.
I’m talkin’ to the captains of business
and all who make a profit sting.

You can tax the rich all day,
and you haven’t met them in their homes,
where they need to see their lives
are propped up on so much suffering.
Cynical people don’t need me I know,
and people that run over other people
to make them pay
are not interested in changin’,
but do we have to back them up in society
and pretend it’s not happening,
the great rape of mankind?

Yep there is.
It’s everywhere apparent,
and politicians take off our shoes
and show us other stuff.
Can any responsible journalist hear me,
concerned teacher in school,
professor?
Preacher from your pulpit look at this,
temple master.
Can we talk about sacrifice in business as a way to heal humanity, /
discuss this every day where politicians get our vote,
where the rich see TV
and governments listen?

Why is world fail?
No matter who you blame it on it always comes down to this:
somebody’s getting rich at the expense of others,
at the expense of the environment,
at the expense of us.
It’s not a hole in one each time,
and there are other factors,
but tell me this one has no bearing on today’s world.
Tell me it’s a trivial matter.
Why aren’t we talking about it
where we rise up
and make social change?

I’ve put this in your hands
right alongside the transcendent,
how we get by in this place.
I’ve put it right alongside social justice,
without mentioning punishment or the price of beer,
I mean sex roles and how you spend them.
I’m givin’ yah things to talk about
in a voice that matters.
I’m showin’ you what’s up.
Thank God I’m lost on social media.
Just think if word got out.
Mainstream do you hear me?
I’m lettin’ the cows out.
I’m lettin’ the rich hear me.
I’m taking social justice by the wings.

What is the formula for world change?
C-o-m-e t-o t-h-e t-y-p-e r-o-o-m.
Your typewriter
to write it.
Eternity is a crossing reference
for the that’s how the book of love. [sing line from the word that’s]
So much more beyond our horizons.
I’ve been up there you know,
on our tops,
and I’ve failed you.
I just kept goin’
in an old movie
and racked up my isolation today,
again and again.
Bless you I’m sorry.

Sacrifice is the only way to meet these things:
you have to have it,
and it hurts other people.
Nothin’ you could do but give that up:
boy I hurt you.
This lasts a long time,
where you find others lookin’ at yah funny
and suspicious of your every move.
You will not be rewarded for sacrifice.

Get that through your thick head
if you’re making a profit on people’s pain.
Turn philanthropist I’m sorry,
and you’re givin’ till it hurts
because you love them so,
well that’s tough idn’t it,
no one believes you.
You’re still around money.

But you’ve come a long ways,
and you’re not doin’ this for the praise of the crowd.
That’s hypocrisy.
You sacrifice your Wall Street for love.
I can’t tell you how to do that,
fall in love with everybody,
and with some people it will never work,
but you at least learn to identify with them.
It does start with empathy,
and then it goes through spiritual change.
You see the oneness
danglin’ everywhere,
and you want to make it right with all there is.
I guess that’s the stoppin’ point
for this poem:
let’s begin that shall we?

The Center of Closeness

All since childhood
I went busy with it,
the message I’m supposed to give of another.
It makes for short poetry.
Where are my feelings for me?
It’s been the subject of my lifetime.
Self-centered rides there,
but so does a vantage point to study life,
the name of existence on my lips.
I can only see me
as the protagonist of this drama,
only imagining what it’s like to be another.
That’s not self-centered fact.

I live here:
watching the world go by the center of myself.
You do too,
and I’ve found this out myself:
our integers are the same.
What makes a person a person
fills both our bottles
and crashes them at the same time.

The social hierarchy will not let me poet to you
the discovery we are the One.
I cannot wear a poet label
because I have not yet been given it by the crowd,
and I bleed to tell you things.

I’ve been all over this place,
climbed the mountaintop,
sojourned in hell.
I have been on broad rivers of mankind,
and I have suffocated in stinking swamps.
I have entered duality
to wear them both till kingdom come,
and then I get saved by the bell.
Reach inside me and see
I’m writing the papers of existence,
and I help existence be.

I’m fighting for my room.
You cannot harbor the truth,
the truth of anything
in its bare-bones reality.
They will get you for it,
the powers that be.
Reality is being fed to us on a silver platter
with cyanide,
and we all believe the lies.

I’m easy to take down.
I’m the most hated scapegoat of the day,
but that opens up truth in a man,
having to face himself to society’s mirror,
and you are sincere to the test.
It can open up worlds of seeing.
It can make you love humanity
when your self-love has joined the same.

We stand on great big tests today
that eat our lunch.
Never a lie’s been told,
the dinjins will tell you
and mothers and fathers all over this land
and governments and snake pit operators.
Oh my little child you are safe
in how we rule things.
You must dog eat dog
and get out there and compete
for bread.
It’s greatness of your kind.
The devil dance on a great mankind,
and we will go to war to prove it.

Now let me tell you somethin’.
It’s all subterfuge.
We are avoidin’ what makes Tommy safe,
Wendy grand.
We have to flower in our room to humanity my dear,
find the Self in everyone,
and let that be our guiding light
to discovering God
lookin’ at the world through our eyes
in the fullness of his vision
here on earth.
I just told you the truth,
what’s happenin’
in the evolution of time on earth,
in the world play
we’re all a part of.
That’s the secret that all existence hides.
Can’t you see it yet?

So You’re Headin’ Out?

photo by the author
80’s little horror war,
what threw away?
The administration of Auroville.
It was surrendered to the government without even a care,
and we lost our autonomy that way,
at the toss of a dice,
and the government rolled in.

Are you countin’ India
to allow human unity to take over?
What was the village thinkin’
in removin’ The Sri Aurobindo Society from the scene?
Can we grasp Sri Aurobindo?
The Society doesn’t,
and it will block you to this day
if you disagree with them.
What was the Mother thinkin’
givin’ the township to this obviously irreverent crowd
to love and compassion on earth
and human unity.

Stupid me, stupid you,
we excuse her for it,
but this is the mistake that baked the day
and ruined Auroville.
Can anybody look at this?
If ever a mistake was made here was one,
and now we’re supposed to take her every word as gospel,
as if she made no mistakes?

Where has she been all these years
watchin’ it fall apart?
Is she comin’?
Yoga
relies on inner seeing,
if it’s got the content of its worth.
I’m not talking about intuition,
your intuition says this,
your intuition says that,
in a gut feeling,
no matter how you describe it
as the opening of the day.

Inner seeing’s a gut worth’s no.
It’s concrete formulas laid out in time,
spoken word, revealing vision,
or the dream maker
putting together the house for you
so you can see it.
That tells you where it’s at.
When I entered the yoga
I picked up the Mother right away
in dream and vision,
her signal loud and clear.
That was in Auroville the first time.

She was not proclaimin’ to me her gospel,
her avatarhood.
She was puttin’ sadhana together for me
it’s a sunny day.
What made it so difficult,
I just knew hell had entered my birth
and would not let me go.
What difference
she made when she came on board.
You couldn’t tell it from the outside
for so long I’m ashamed to say.
Look at that to Auroville.
Can you gauge her time?

I’ll tell yah the Indian government can’t.
Nor can it see spiritual vision
or uses it to make decisions,
spiritual vision as in seership,
not a quote you pull out to prove your point.
We are left with the Indian government in charge of Auroville,
refueling the Mother’s words with their agenda,
purposefully pulling her out of the picture
by putting her in it
the mouthpiece they wore.

You can see it happening.
You just think the Mother’s responsible for it,
but she did not ordain this,
nor the government taking over
when the Auroville Act was signed.
How do I know this?
I’m an inner seer,
and we always live on the outcasts of time.
Way out there,
we question everything
is this the divine?

I sit on your bench, okay?
I’m a hologram holocaust survivor,
and I can say my own name.
I love the Mother because she saved my life
and protected me all these years.
I know the strength of her word,
her teachings.
They have held my hand for so long,
but what she taught me you can’t find in a book,
not even hers.
Deities make mistakes,
and avatars ruin,
and in order to change ourselves we must see that
to understand what we’re up against.

The whole paradox of creation comes down upon our head
when the actual change comes about,
to keep it from coming about,
and you can hightail it and run back to Houston,
or you can bear the impossible.
A stallion of waves stampede,
and you’re just everybody,
and no wave can block your tide.
My deep thought Auroville,
can yah folla me here?

The Anthem Plus the Burning Grass

photos by the author
Spoken word poetry,
till I get it,
I leave it alone.
Wow, it’s left alone.
In case of good poetry break this glass.
I just sit here and discover,
letting the word explain itself
in the giving of lines
and in the hurtin’ of the world.

If I show you the pain will you stop it?
Will you even know it’s there
where you feel your pain?
Oh no another Holocaust movie
all about bein’ numb.
I can’t give you this star-glow
to ride the world on its tongue
feelin’ people.
I’m not a robot I’m free,
but the price of my freedom is your pain,
your wellbeing I feel like my own.

It’s shoots me all the time,
or it gives me stars.
I’m there with you
in the delivery room
of another bucket of world today, huh?

I see through all these sleeves
of world maker’s art,
a world upon world
in the moments with mine,
a conglomerate of worlds
of this group of people and that,
of this person alone,
of all the mini worlds that make up this world
that we call Earth.
Can you see that
simultaneously with your own?
I taste you there.
I know you’re there.

How do I communicate this to you
so you feel it too
like you have your children’s hands in your own,
like your best friend’s smile,
like your mother’s love?
I don’t die there,
but I question God all the time
and Sri Aurobindo.

These are terrible times,
and they get ready for tomorrow
terrible too,
with a past just as terrible
starin’ us in the face.
Let the good times roll,
and my God they do.
How sweet life can be
in its gathered moments,
how manageable,
but why does it always add up to this:
life is not a bundle of joy;
life gets us in corners
and does bad things to us.
Can you understand that?

Why does the world go on like nothin’s happenin’,
like it’s free and easy and clean,
so standardized?
They scream on the news bad news
to an audience of normal,
of tie your shoe,
of everything’s alright here, ain’t it?
Not in every bubble.
So much quiet desperation it has been said.

Do you know the rovin’ hellhole?
Somewhere on Earth
at any given time
they’re eating each other alive.
It’s the worst place on the planet
for a moment.
Hell swallows them whole,
unbelievable cruelty,
and nothin’ to redeem them.
Goddamn that stinks.

Alight I’m blessed.
I live in a little pocket of warmth
and forgiveness.
I have opened the doors to humanity
in the stadium of my room.
I ride there all day
figurin’ you out.
I take great thoughts to the skies,
but I must remember I’m a low man on the totem pole
in your eyes.
I do nothin’ here
that grants you my room,
that shows what I’m doin’
larger than life.

A poet of world standing
I am not.
I’m a poet among many thousands
in the availability of today,
and no poetry comes along and wallops your head
or smites your heart
from my pen.
I just spit in the breeze.
That’s the trash dumpster,
and here let me give it another poem.
I put my dogs to sleep,
and I wish you goodnight.

All united and happy
they think.
Come here Luna.
Get your head… [vision of Luna Rottweiler putting her head in a hole in the ground]
One doggy at a time.
Oh fuck I’m on Candid Camera.
He’s just gonna go for it.
Well then the surprises and bad secrets,
heart is ruined on the same thing:
waging war on the Fourth of July.
What’s the significance of your dog
growing?
Into a likeness of you.
What I didn’t have:
put every slept of it
complete.
My God,
they should be spilled.

What is it this time?
Dr. Milk Powder—
I haven’t called you;
I’ve had enough,
is that the plan?
You know he’s lost his boy.
They’re travel uneasiness
way to stutter.
Don’t you see?
Alongside with it it’s real.
You know his boy’s called
not in awhile.
Suffer this,
and it just last of people’s hittin’.

Do you like people?
Is this fruit juice?
Why is it we always hate somebody,
run there all the time?
You really enjoy this life don’t you?
It seems all fair winds.
Need to pull her pregnant
with the grenade.
It will get you every time.
Just look around the world.
Just look at your neighbor.

Do you know how we get along?
Do you know how we get through this?
We don’t be monsters to each other.
We don’t be mean.
We try to be kind and giving
in our painful moments.
This is overcoming the world
and getting better at yourself.
It’s a love angle,
and we need more love.
That house definitely,
where you put your hat off,
where you sit around.
Love those people,
the people you’re life-in’ with.
You don’t know how much this counts.

It’s all an effort I know.
We have to overcome ourselves to do it sometimes,
but we have to give this baseball
to all the standin’s in the world,
so we can have a world that works.
Is that so hard to believe?

You know the world is full of holes.
Even the divine is negligent
and will crush you to make the world,
will just stand by and watch.
These are not pleasant times,
but we have to endure them,
tryin’ to find joy inside,
tryin’ to give our children a good time.

What else is there?
Spirituality’s a pole we lean on.
There are surprises in consciousness if we let them.
There’s a world maker’s art you can see.
These are deep down inside,
past the underwear,
past all that gets in the way.
There is strong inside,
even after you’re shattered.

This world’s a dream maker’s art,
so much more than show,
but this is a common dream we are having
that the significance of dream shows.
We’re living out a representation
telling a story,
and all our lives add to that
One involved,
and all our lives keep going.
We’re where time loops around itself
a great big mechanism of being
that has definite boundaries
that we can cross and get out of here
after the whole has been complete.
We’re goin’ somewhere together,
and yes some escape before time,
but they’ll end up on another world soon.

This great big ship
has a destination you know,
something worth time,
something bigger than ourselves
and is ourselves at the same time.
I’ve gone out of the universe you see
and been myself on high.

Stupid me,
I describe experience like you’ll believe it,
but you can kill me and it’ll still be there.
It can’t be erased from time.
I’m a nobody because of it,
liftin’ up my room
for you to see.
It’s got crosses on it
and monkey bars,
because I’m just like you,
but I’ve been given a breath of supernal air,
and I need to tell you about it.
It’s affected my vision.
I see the world.

I’m just like everybody,
but I don’t live like you inside.
I live with you and inner vision.
I get rocked by joys
that fill my noon
the outside world doesn’t bring me.
I feel oceans of sadness
I’m not in the world about.
I feel existence pain,
and when I walk outside,
drive my bike through the town,
the countryside,
it’s a wonder-weft of miracle,
and I feel every person I come across.
I see the One inside,
and all the many representations surround me.
I can’t get over it.

Now I’m here
with another poem.
Let it ride the day
if you read it,
because it puts us together
if you escape,
because it’s here
we learn to live again
after your world has been taken away.
Can you see me now?
Can you hear?