Rain Prayer
Rain massages and leaves sigh with relief relaxing now from the burden of all that open space. No where to go but everywhere curtailed and corralled by sky’s downpouring direction…” Be laden, be wet,...
View ArticleKoan: Effect
We cannot fathom all the connections. As you sit there in silence, confusion and loss, your life splits a watery surface that everyone floats upon ceaselessly. Water bows and pearls off the sides. A...
View ArticleHope
I have very little to say. And saying it takes me away, from the direct experience, which is all I really want to share. I can talk, quite a lot. But all I actually want to say, is said without...
View ArticlePoem: The Only Words That Matter
The less I speak, the more I have to say and the more that wants to be said, must find another way. Words do not have to be spoken. Meaning expands when we say but deepen when we endeavor to keep...
View ArticleChop Wood, Carry Water
Chop Wood, Carry Water. A Zen Buddhism saying goes “before enlightenment chop wood, carry water…after enlightenment chop wood, carry water.” This is a poem inspired by this saying. What will you say...
View ArticleDialogue
Recently I had an email exchange with someone who had asked me about becoming energetically sensitive to others…to the point of feeling in one’s body what was happening in the other’s body. Also of...
View ArticleSaying Yes to Love
And the thing with love is that you have to be willing to not know what the hell you are going to do about it…. You just need to be willing to say yes. And what scares people away from true...
View ArticleRelationship with Relationship
I have been in a relationship for a few months now. They always said that they would be leaving. This person, is the kind of person who stays on the move. Here I am at the end of it, looking out my...
View ArticleTake Heart
May 31st. 2013. I have been here now for 41 and 1/2 years. I have two children. One of them is sleeping next to me, bundled up in her sleeping bag. The black and yellow surface reflecting the...
View ArticlePoetry: The Language of Birds-Soar
The Language of Birds: Soar (Photo by Me) When we face the Sky in the direction it is facing when it exhales it comes towards us invisible and pressing against trees unstoppable, even if only a breeze...
View ArticleLoving through Love and Fear
Identity is constructed of things that are real. Think of them as building materials. Materials such as: This is my spouse These are my children This is my house That is my car I have this much money...
View ArticlePoem: Love You
When the poet invites you in, it will be just you and he, in the open spaces looking into one another’s faces… Those are not just words, they are methods of travel, conveyance of sight language that...
View ArticleNew Ways
my mala bead string broken open. I end up right in the heated heart of things that are ready to expand and burst. This lands me on the suddenly far afield side of what I was once close to. For the...
View ArticlePoetry: Even God
You don’t need to but you will. To keep it from getting into your veins you’d rather die, and become somebody. Because nobody here really knows what to do with a nobody. And when you get to the end...
View ArticleBeing a recluse
If you join an order to be a monk, you will not be known as a recluse, because you are in a place that gives you a social excuse to pray, meditate and devote yourself to things that are not easily...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Love, Truth and Trust-and Responsibility
Today I went in search of a writing I composed some time ago. It has been referenced by nearly all of the recent partners I have found myself attempting relationship with. They have quoted it as a...
View Article2 Week Wrap Up
How does one not quite thrive but still survive? Well we here at the Morris house are rather experts at this art form. As long as we are dwelling here in tightly clustered homes in a city and cannot...
View ArticleMeet Francis Schlatter
I recently reard about a healer named Francis Schlatter. I came across him from a random posting on a blog I follow. Francis followed the guidance of a higher power he referred to as “The Father”....
View ArticlePoetry: Somewhere
Somewhere Somewhere a piano played. God was listening through an open window. My expression contracted and wrinkled. For every time the carving knife was put to the maple block plastic ribbons...
View ArticleVibrational Frequency and The Threshold of the Spiritual World
Think of Vibrational Frequency (VF) as a range of proximity to the spiritual world. As VF increases, one becomes open to a very different kind of reality, one that is always there, but can only be...
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