Wednesday, 13 April 2022

the serious mind

the serious mind tends to be blind

to the things in life that are nonsense but kind

It can be so much a pious old bore

Say far too much and then add a lot more

the serious mind should switch off and stop

and just enjoy a wop bop aloo bop

bal lom bam boom


... and no more doom


Oh too serious

oh too serious

give it a rest for fuxache

bores with chores of poetic scores

just give the rest of us headache. 

Tuesday, 12 April 2022

Simplicity

nothing is as difficult

as simplicity

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Unreal

this is unreal

give me a tool

and a place

and I'll make it real

Private Inner

some seek acclaim outside themselves

others

seek understanding inside

neither is better than the other

as ultimately we die at the end 

but one nurtures, while the other depletes

There is a Sadness Within

we are separated by experience

bound by experience


confused by life

made clear by life


lost and found

there is a sadness within

The Vase

the vase looked dynamic on the table

half cast in shadow

its pattern seemed like waves on the sea

or the raked sand in a Zen garden


I felt I could step in

and paddle in its waters 


Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Spiraling

spiraling out of control

the robin hits branches, one, two, three

lands on a soft mound of yellowed tufty grass

hides till the hawk stops circling

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Grateful for Grace

A heart repaired

glowing clean and fresh

grace becomes you

and you have become grace

Monday, 4 April 2022

Fate

the worm wriggles up from the soil

the blackbird is on the prowl

Fate sits on his indifferent cloud

and awaits the result

Zen and...

the psychology of the people

crazy travelling monk

the present doesn't hang about


pass forth into the unknown

into intuition of Reality

a profession of peace


the solitary anger

desires to make a choice

to pass the stringless crisis


and no fish do sing