My crystal goblet

Chipped and cracked

No spit or polish can bring it back

It cracked and broke

Years ago

I love my precious goblet so

It held such warmth, such peace and contentment

Now it has turned to bitter resentment

The toxic bile that tarnished my cup

Has made me bitter and I’ve given up

But carrying cracked crystal cups

Can’t conceivably offer anything but cuts

Cuts that cut straight to the quick

Leave me whining and bitching in my own shit

Yet in the midst of my fits

I find the divine

A collector of cups, yours and mine

A collector of cups and caps and

Baggage and woes

One who ditches holy men

For drunks and hoes

Lets you fall in the gutter

Then lifts you up

Tells you to throw the god-damn cup

Takes it and gives it whenever you please

And knows you’ll be back, always on your knees

Wants nothing from you but love and grace

Fill up that cup and throw it in his face!

But my cracked crystal goblet is now filled with love

I’ve traded in wine glasses for coffee mugs.

~~Posted by Nic grateful son of Ric.  Thanks to you Dad for all your support and encouraging me to write no matter what.~~

rain over me
i am dry of wet
parched even
angry for lush
hungry for pain
of loving
too much

~~~~~~~

shadowed one
hallowed one
speaking in whispers
to weeping souls
who listen with
desperate want

~~~~~~~~~

in the deep fern wood
among the fragrant high hemlocks
where i left my heart
~~~~~~

Midnight by the lake
sipping tea
quietly
seducing
the back of her right hand
with the back
of my left

<~~~~~~~>

That mindless move of his hand
meeting hers in that same secret space
during the love scenes

~~~{}~~~

one way.

change is gonna come,

you know it, cause you fear it...

so it must be good.

osi 'rest'

plays hard till she drops
belly down on cool slate floor
dog day afternoon

osi: "rest"

No time for sabbath,
If one child cries out for food,
there is a mission

Harry Chapin, World Hunger Year

i am born today the sun burns it's promise in my eyes,
momma strikes me and i draw a breath and cry
above me a cloud slowly tumble through the sky,
i am glad to be alive...

it's seven days today, i taste the hunger and i cry
my brother and sister cling to momma's side
she squeezes her breast but has nothing to provide
someone weeps....i fall asleep

it's twenty days today, momma does not hold me anymore
i open my mouth, but i am to week to cry
above me a cloud slowly crawls across the sky
why is there nothing
left to do
but die?

Myth

The planet is flat,

Weapons of mass destruction,
All men are equal.

freedom at a price
universe on the inside
monastery life

Doorway, osi

holding hands we go

sheding flesh to luscious light

through forever's door

_________________

And at that moment

When I can smile at you, laughing hysterically,

We,

Having shed our weighted flesh for luscious lightness...

Then,

in that eternal nowness

I will be loving you...

loving me,

As apparantly I always am...

'melody'

infinite humming
countless stars and galaxies
creator's love song

Sung into being...the cosmic shout of the creator
Forth, and back...
Out...and in...A dust spec compared to everything...and nothing.
Singing the organic universe...the life opera...
And me....just trying to remember my lines.

racing heart

in a jasmine breeze
the evening lacks just one thing
your heart racing mine