Strange Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke as a child

Just one of Rilke’s poems and I am hooked.

The name “Maria” and the way his poems engage me,

I unconsciously thought he was female – not a woman – female.

Maybe that is why I am not surprised he was a man

and his mother dressed him up as a little girl.

When my idols don’t look half mad, I feel frustrated.

A Doll’s Song

“Woman Playing Accordion” by Guy Pène du Bois

Secretly I play a rambunctious tune

Graceful ditty of strange inclinations

Whimsy whimsy fantasys

Geckos At Play

The geckos in my home are like tiny dinosaurs

Roaming a land of ceramic tiles and windowpanes

They hide behind curtains waiting for their prey

(Moths and other insects)

But mostly they just scavenge for food

(Scrambled eggs and such)

My mother left uncovered and unprotected

The common house lizard!

Locked Out Of Heaven

Toss a coin into an unorthodox jukebox

It’s a hot hot day and she’s in her racerback tank

A sheen of sweat over worked up body, moving

Moving to the crazy tune that is her soul

Lazy Shanghai

“Love Is A Tango” by Catrin Welz-Stein

Passion is in the restraint

Regretting nothing

Moving sensuously in a cheongsam

Swaying, spinning, dizzy

The Reader

“She Reads” by Brian T. Kershisnik

Reading is an act of grace

She transcends, faces move and dance

The mirror, still, as if nobody is there

What Is Enlightenment

Wunderzeichenbuch (1531)

Do I think there is a divide between light and darkness?

There is not, just as the conscious and unconscious are one.

This is my mind. Brilliant but largely hidden.

This is my soul. Illuminating but largely submerged.

I have always been whole. It just depends on how much I see myself.

Poetry

Reblogged from Rethinking Life:

poetry

is

simply

the

act

of 

putting

our

words

together

with

the

music

of

our

souls

and

then 

setting

them

free

to

fly

 

 

We Are Taking Sugar Water

The Velocity Of Time Turns Her Voice Into Sugar Water

“Beloved empath, rest in the heart of the Divine Mother. Though she is loving and deeply compassionate (Kwan Yin), she can also be fierce in her love (Kali Ma). All of these aspects are also within you, in both feminine and masculine forms. It is time to no longer be hurt or victimized by your gifts and sensitivity but to be blessed and empowered by them. As you do this, you bless and empower your every step and the world with you. This is your time.”

Celestina, 4.28.13 (Excerpt from “The Aquarian Empath” by Irma Kaye Sawyer to be released on 6.6.13 by Starfield Press.)

“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”

David Bottoms

“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you are.”

Eckhart Tolle

“When the whales at SeaWorld were played a sound recording of a group of whales made at sea, they all stopped moving in their tanks. Then one of them, Corky, began shaking violently. The tape was playing sounds of her family. I have no idea if this creature shares any feelings that we know as humans but her reaction reminded me of the times I heard messages from my own family when I was a hostage in Lebanon. I would feel great relief at knowing they were well but also much sorrow and a sharpened longing to be reunited with them. What is clear is that Corky could recognize her family’s sounds after years of separation… Knowing only this much I believe it is pointless and cruel to keep these animals apart for commercial reasons – to exploit them for commercial entertainment.”

John McCarthy

“If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. We are selfish, that’s natural, but we need to be wisely selfish, not foolishly selfish. We have to concern ourselves more with others’ well-being, that’s the way to be wisely selfish. We have the ability to take the long-term benefit into account. I think it is possible to make real change in this century.”

Dalai Lama

Vintage Fortuna

“Fortuna” by Marius Michael George

Re-discovering the divine feminine within

is like stumbling across a grainy picture of our past

and crying in nostalgia – relief – over renewed present

and our most promising vision of the future.

The Nature Of Existence

“Trilogy Of Light” by Toni Carmine Salerno

On the sea of consciousness, orbs of light bob up and down.

First it is there, then it is not.