The Poetry of Thom World Poet

SPIRIT ROCKS

2012-01-30T12:16:00.001-08:00

She is rich in spirit.She is rich in rocks
Spirit rocks-gathered from beaches,wells,Caves,coves-
Sacred Spaces embedded in an Art Of Rock
Where Gaia(Our Great Rock Sculptor
made Anew each time a rock dropped
in to our attention span.See them striped by the side of waves
Find them on the floor of Merlin's Cave
Reach out and take (so they can be saved-
from Glastonbury,Cornwall,Australia,Yorkshire
Deposited with She Who Sings Through Spirit Stones
For now they lay like penitents outside her door
Her Spirit is moving soon-so her hands
carefully wash the stones clean and clear
as she remembers each story of giving,sharing,laughing
where each stone came from(from which friend
for she will ask(when her spirit departs-that each deposit both her ashes
and their chosen stone in some Space Sacred To Them
so she might be with friends,family,Gaia,among Mother Earth
as each stone once was.So we all will be.

CALLISTA GINGRICH ,OPRA WINFREY ,MICHELE OBAMA

2012-01-27T15:46:00.001-08:00

Heteriae were equals in slave Greece-
those who slept with power woke up with more
With every tragic Hamlet we get a Lady MacBeth
Every Cherie Blair a Margaret Thatcher
Even now,Indira Ghandi ,Imelda Marcos
Few in their own right hold the atom bomb red button
Hilary is resigning.Bachman backed down.
Madame Mao made of sterner stuff.
LadyBird tolerating LBJ's infidelities
Anita covering for Perry's powderpuffs
Adulterers and affairs dictate Washington's bedroom politics
That blue dress with semen stains."I did not have sex with that woman"
Gingrich's open marriage with his Contract On America
Mormons family businesses.Cain's pizza multiple deliveries.
Perhaps media influence as commentators is all women gain
as journalists,TV hosts ,wives,lovers,parents and grandmothers
Multiple roles as secondary sources.Witnesses @the assassinations.
With more character than their tragic Caesarean figureheads blown off in CIA Dallas streets

O Rings

2012-01-27T15:44:00.000-08:00

when,for a moon base,we resurrect space
shuttles and seek outer orbits with manned craft
we will need to know how reliable our hardware is
and our probabilities of failure.Zero tolerance for booster shots
of rhetoric and public relations confidence.Tests within atmospheres
are not projections for zero gravity,and we become obsolete
the more we project false optimism for future failures
CHALLENGER was a manned example of hubris.
Many unmanned rockets before had failed-yet we
believed more than tested every part for wear and tearing.
This will happen again.The fault is optimism over examination.
Any war needs both the confidence of leaders
and the professionalism of engineers.Flight data is not political.
Success may not mean you are free from defects
It just means they have not killed you yet

A response to Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html

KABIR 2012

2012-01-27T15:42:00.000-08:00

You are watching.Our world seems fresh
To your eyes,every day is new.There are flowers,gardens,dust,death
Spans of people pointing to significance.Clay pots carrying water
Temples for worshiping.Streets for observing.You are in this world(not of it
Now those lines of praise and song of heightened understanding start to flow
You seize upon epiphanies like Ganges water flow
trusting in the steps of those who walked these paths before you
aware that all life opens like a map when your eyes are open
closes like a flower when Light has gone.All paths migration
All steps a song.Kabir is here best when your life is his
choices made in voices singing in flesh/of praise for life
is more than Ganges and immersion in mysteries-
a garden you pass through,perfumed or dust boned
Everywhere (to Kabir)is home.

CAT ON THE MOON

2012-01-27T14:36:00.000-08:00

There is a cat on the moon-if you look up ! tonight you can see her
She has been there since before the dawn of time-few actually see her
Some see Selene,some a rabbit,some a man on the moon
Some say a flag was planted in a Houston TV studio
But you can still hear that cat miaow some nights
when the stars are cold as ice and the moon is otherwise silent
Her call sends signals to the once Speaker of our House
to send a rescue mission to the moon-to set up a moon base
so all the lost and lonely moon cats may be saved
That is why he wants to spend billions of your taxes today
So little pussies might be able to play.

"and so it glows"

2012-01-27T14:35:00.000-08:00

my life was born inside a book
my spine a paperback /flexible
my taste /emancipated/populist

my father's world was World War 2
My grand father World War One
My adolescence Vietnam(writing begun

to speak to ears and eyes was prime
to hear the Zeitgeist of my times-
Beatles,Who,Rolling Stones

poem became lyric beget song
adolescence beget friendships beget love
combinations random individual

the books i ate became my diet
books i made food for others
buffet,banquet,fast food,feast

now time has gone for some i knew
their books forgotten/my new view
is to treat every last line as my first

before us(indigenous

2012-01-27T14:26:00.001-08:00

no virgin earth(nor water,dream,idea
more a song remembered from another language
filtered languages,metaphors-a moon base
speaking Chinese.Kashmiri Bollywood
Borders guarded.Flag on the moon
One man cuts/another throws bones into space
Arks on Mt Ararat.Spanish Armadas.Dunkirk
Flotillas of Ferries on Australia Day.
Seas will sink each /all/every in drowning time
same as air downs all planes /earth all bodies
We are prisoners like dogs invisible fences
prohibit us from menial murders/massed,we master!
Armies of fear will boot moon rocks into submission
Orbits of flags tossed like bullets and bombs
If you have one original idea-speak now!
Before the repeats clog all retro
and the past rises tidal
silence over speech

the sea in 2012

2012-01-27T14:25:00.001-08:00

is not a 19th century pirate sea-no sailing ships
apart from privitized yachts
Historic as harbors and calligraphy
telegrams,Morse Code and Titanic steamships
the sea we know is Sargasso Plastic

the earth we walk in 2012
is not the Crusades,nor jihad
more random explosions in emergent countries
civilians flower bombs in Public Squares
Our earth is mass graveyards

the air we breathe in 2012
car exhausted,jet engines,factory smoke
toxic chemical cancers creating art attacks
you can paint with the air your lungs
Recycled,retired,restless hurricanes

the fire Chenobyl,Fukoshima,Siberia,Dresden
Muroroa,Tokyo,Hiroshima,Nagasaki,Nevada
Billion times brighter than decaying suns
Split atoms like families /burn bones radiation
The fire next time is tomorrow

WE ARE 99%(though sometimes it seems like 1%

2012-01-26T20:14:00.000-08:00

Volunteers,poets,musicians,artists-
the glue that holds all communities together
like invisible Akashic Records libraruans,we record
the counting of dewdrops in deserts/spark lightning skies
slashed by storms .Floods that carry pasts away
Drought hearts in emotional barrenness.Seasonal,we gather
to share each daily story.Our lives embedded in every line
Her feet,his back,her hip replacement.Her husband's operation,his humor-
each night a chat and chew to affirm that which links us
to each other and ourselves.This is a little mirror for you to hold
It catches sunlight by day ,moon via night.Sometimes stars and satellites.
Light that enters becomes lines of songs /poems,pilgrimages,journeys,sojourns
When you leave here,you carry others' lives with you
They ride on your back/in your mind and heart
Hitch hikers of happiness.Hold them close.They are all that unites us tonight
They cannot divide us.We are indivisible.Atoms in sway
Structures of our uni/verse .Angels dancing on Damoclean swordplay

ROCK BUNS(there is a story in every one

2012-01-26T20:13:00.001-08:00

Every Saturday night,we have poetry and music
@Full English Cafe 6-9pm in deep South Austin
They also make astonishing rock buns-
fresh as life,tasty as happiness.So i go
on a pilgrimage for my belly shakra-
for did not Buddha get a belly from ingestion of comestibles?
Alas!Hassan the Jordanian rock bun cooking genius
is leaving-he has ceased production.No rock buns!
So i petition him-he who is on a deadline
to Jordanian medical treatment for cancer
Interrogate him as to his rockbun activities
offer to buy his stock.He relents.Goes to the bank
and then makes a perfect set of rock buns.His last in Austin.
His cancer may be cured in Jordan by the time you hear this poem
It may not.His art of cooking English food may be his only memorial.
This adds a certain spice-a fragrance-a zest-a poignancy
"We do not know the day ,nor the hour.."Make your best buns now!

CASSO/WARY

2012-01-26T03:41:00.000-08:00

Daintree Rainforest (Far North Queensland)
i had left the Youth Hostel for a walk on a thin trail
Canopy of tall trees covering me.Birdcalls slicing green air.
Chills on the back of my neck.I am being watched!
I say to myself how few animals are human sized-
few kangaroos,pythons,predators.My species rules!
Yet still this feeling..I turn my head ..slowly..gently
See the colored topknot of a six foot tall cassowary behind me
Get that electric feeling of red light danger-their Stone Age beak
can splice a spine to pieces,especially when defending their nests
I retreat from Iraq/Afghanistan,knowing this is not my habitat
Slowly retrace my steps pre-invasion.Seek peace
and a cup of tea,having gained a true story,with no lives lost in the telling..

WENDELL BERRY&ROBIN DUNBAR

2012-01-26T03:39:00.000-08:00

We are already connected via being human and being here (alive,now)
The level of connections vary according to desire,opportunity and access
No one can sustain huge numbers of deep intimate friendships
Nor do we wish endless shallow acquaintanceships
Robin Dunbar posits 150 as the optimum relationship number-
in order to adequately meet the needs of more than "Facebook friends"
Brian Uzzi researched Broadway shows to see why so many flopped-
the truth was in association-a mixture of relationships is most productive
Tithing for an"interesting person "fund allows effective expansion of friendships-
supporting with "small gifts"those with whom you feel affinity
Billions of us have yet to meet each other.We probably never will.
Whether "Looking for Mr Goodbar"or seeking Angel Funding for a startup-
virtual links mean less than introduced third parties.Data sharing means less
than friendship sharing-common interests are best.And you have yet to meet the rest
of our human family...

KUNG HEI FAT CHOI

2012-01-26T03:37:00.001-08:00

This meditation was not MADE IN CHINA
It is imported-Western ideas(Shanghai/Boxer Rebellion)
Individualism,State Capitalism,corruption
entering our food chain /seized @entry ports.
Lenovo knockoffs,code theft and hacking
Burning counterfeit Gucci DVDs like St Joan
Still Communist(in one Party rule)-with worker revolts
slave labor factories,natural disasters(floods,earthquakes)
artists and writers imprisoned for seeking freedom.
Ask Tibet and Nepal about this Year of The Dragon!
Ask students about Tiennaman Square
Ask about overpopulation and the "One Child "Policy
Learn Mandarin.The Dragons are -hear?

red bird outside my window

2012-01-26T03:36:00.001-08:00

her thin branch a pecking space
where she might see green worlds
from winged heights,and dive
upon breakfast growing in our grass

she returns with no guarantee
interpretation a mystery
ascribing meaning to what repeats
gives unknown dimensions

enough to open the gift of joy
that birds imply and employ
we were winged once,now we see
red birds on a thin green tree

all sky defined by one such
makes more out of much

PILGRIM

2012-01-26T03:34:00.001-08:00

To Kathryn

You went to India by choice-or were you called?
You stood in the steps of Kabir and other poets passed
( a poet in this choice/poetry calling you-two paths
first that which once was-the other what is now)
Both call to you as if your meal is only half way through
A feast of meditations compressed in time/you digest
and wish for more/yet you return to your other pilgrimage-
this world of skyscrapers and jet planes,speed and shallowness
This is also a path.Your feet walk in the steps of poets
You become India.You become poetry.People ask you-
why ?and how?You smile over distances and merge into silence
That which has touched you here claims you
That which you touched and returned returns to you
You become two paths.Both true

You have chosen to celebrate.You have chosen a circle

2012-01-26T03:33:00.000-08:00

Twenty cycles round one sun have expanded your orbit
even as fragility and humanity define your tendril vines
that reach out and welcome each,every and all
to join to the extent of their personal dance.
A circle is eternal.We are mortal
Celebration requires a reason.We are intrinsic bliss
It is in the defining of choices that we grow best
Spiritual discrimination self-selects comm/unity
Each time we gather-a new WE is reborn
with a smiling joy intrinsic to our choices.
This is why we return-our orbits link
with every sentient who loves,feels and thinks
that celebration is intrinsic,and circles last
as long as reason,purpose and clear intention link!

work in progress

2012-01-24T15:11:00.001-08:00

last night,i went to OCCUPY AUSTIN
it was to meet with OCCUPY SXSW
to ask if we could collaborate and co-operate
with the MILLION MUSICIANS MARCH FOR PEACE
Saturday March 17,2012 at noon will see poets ,musicians and speakers
addressing those who publically wish peace
before dancing through the SXSW streets
to City Hall where more musicians will sing
ringing in peace in the area and for that time
Iraq may be over but Afghanistan rages
Explosions are failed conversations
Melodies and harmonies petition peaceful consciousness
So we asked,and OCCUPY agreed
to join together March 17.This is vital/as the steps of City Hall
are largely filled with homeless(some came to the meeting/some slept)
Marches and demonstrations issue forth daily from this spot
Involvement is high and hopes rise like kites.Each moment of peace
is stolen from war machines.We cannot afford more wars.
More peace,please!

Plotinus 2012

2012-01-23T13:04:00.000-08:00

The Empire Receptor-can we clip that out?
Red Anger Switch-inflames blood pressure-that can go
Chills on the neck when danger looms?(we don't need that!
And who needs an appendix,a third eye,philogiston or a pineal gland?
Nazi experimentation on human skin lampshades
and grafting of organs can now be applied
Once the capacity is there,the need will be found
Remember when microchips were only for lost cats and stray dogs?
Now they trace migration patterns in herds of humans!
Alzheimers patients families appreciate such applications
and cloning can now produce a controlled work force.
China(and India's) one child policy produces male children
Instead of killing off the females,we can genetically treat women
so the planet can survive over-population.All is possible!
As for medical ethics,religion,moral issues-
what would you say to the starving?The poor?
Those volunteering for experimentation right now?

Breughal's Icarus

2012-01-22T04:24:00.001-08:00

ignored by ploughman,shepherd,mariner
falls into a wider sea than his fame
Framed,his flight meant more in failure than in Light
Our wings are metal.We have power thrust
We would leave both Wright Brothers and Icarus in the dust
Our skies are full of triumph,buses,wings and vapor trails
Our carbon emissions threaten our Great Whales
Yet who among us dare say that we have failed?
Only those who drink our kerosine pollution tales..
Poetry once had power to clear the air.
We could trust its declarations.Antidotes to Despair
No word is new now,and abuse professional
sees advertising used by priests and politicians
Speechwriters steal the cadence of Churchill's Cicero song
Lulled into country and western -we sing along
Then realize we are on our own.Sans words.Sans poem.

free agencies

2012-01-22T04:23:00.001-08:00

by will and temporarily aligned
all domination/possession/chains/shackles of time
slip off like clothes in a consenting bed
Energies aligned make beauty more than body/mind
Twin snakes DNA sing dolphin waves
Sport and play/create ways round wrecks
make new where experience fails to impress
There is a path in innocence-trust allows us
to shine lights in darkness/animate others' eyes
so we might see more than caves and pools,waves and tides
River sea ocean deepening-mutual /evolving/involving
More than one in this bliss.Be.Free.Opening.

scito se

2012-01-22T04:22:00.002-08:00

Modes of inquiry may seem Socratic
Faith resides in random data
religions exist with/out evidence
persist by faith alone/lists of unanswered
fill philosophies/theologies/mythologies
Aristotle and the Stoics persist in suffering
Modernists Dawkins/Hitchens still seek Enlightenment values
Thomas Hobbes calls our lives"nasty,brutish,short"
Immanuel Kant Critiques Pure Reason as fallible
Tolstoy,Conrad,Proust,Hardy cede Fate over Will
Nietzsche posits Will as Superman(Hitler/Wagner)
Marcus Aurelius Meditates on Self as Cosmos
Sabrina Spielrein saw World as Will and Idea
Underneath Rational,Eros and Thanatos Battle
Underneath Freud and Jung ,we persist
rejecting responsibility for our human condition
making Chaos a Theory,seeking Harmonic Convergence
It is less our image than who we really are
that makes two Great Wars and endless little arguments

progress in process/process in progress

2012-01-22T04:22:00.000-08:00

ideas elemental evolve and adapt
to circumstances like suits of clothes we wear out
until their colors are no longer fashionable
and angels dancing on the heads of pins
or trees falling in a foreign forest
become poetic metaphors and analogies
rather than theories and hypotheses
you can build your house upon
Even the foundations are suspect-
time and space do more than curve
they change according to where you are right now
Gravity inverts in space,black holes are reversible
and every visual clue as to atomic theory is cartoon
Evidence accrues and negates every building block
Demolition orders are out upon the lot!

Hopi,Incan,Aztec,Mayan pre-calendars

2012-01-22T04:20:00.001-08:00

before extrapolation of numbers,sequence
long before Julian and Augustan
pre Hopi,Incan,Aztec,Mayan
fire,cave,spear hunt,river fish
harvest rises with accidental seed
astrologers link to patterns they see in stars
same patterns ,same names=ours
projection is belief .Throwing stones into glass futures
To end a series may be metaphor
Continuance is DNA sequence(growth,decline,repeat)
Before and after our "three score years and ten"
there will be cycles,seasons,harvests,orbits
Sun and moon will still reflect on larger maps
Our little lights may dim in Ice Age (repeats
or poles reversed).All is mapped.

space

2012-01-22T04:14:00.001-08:00

i am not empty
i am dynamic
much in me-comets,meteors,asteroids
stars,planets-whole galaxies&constellations
there are even black holes
with immense gravity
white holes without edges
laughing with levity
rainbow spectra seen in Hubble's Telescope
all moving in relationship.you are in me
as i am part of you-elemental
illusion of astronomical observatories-
spaces,silence,stillness
Rush of orbits and crunched timeslips
dimensional warp woofs webs
Connections before and after us
rush fast past us to catch up
we have to start painting.Fill in the dots.
You cannot..

winnowing

2012-01-21T13:23:00.000-08:00

Ben Jonson would suggest public publishing(as he did for W.S)
Christopher Marlow /Thomas Kyd/Phillip Massinger =create a tragic theater
When you are one actor among so many poets and playwrights
Fame's fickle flicker flashes fast past effulgence
until another age can edit ,bowlderise ,select
that which will constitute our literary canon.Know this-
much will go unpublished,more will be collaborations,unfinished
Fashion will select the slight as solid and dark matters avoid
Issues of the age may resonate beyond both page and stage
Quotable lines assist(as they did as couplets @the end of scenes
Variety-from history,tragedy,comedy to bawdy /all assists
an audience of eyes from future coupled to your laughing pits.
Why has there never been another?What makes one unique?
Is it that to all ages ,issues,times s/he speaks?Poetry alone
"makes nothing happen"-yet when iambic pentameters strut and puff
through characters recognizable to all of us-delights!(and fat box office
Adaptations assist rebirth of wonder.Our age less tragic than all others
It is the play in which we will capture "the conscience of a king"...

(See review of new biography of Jonson.)

i go out to find my face(CAMPBELL)

2012-01-20T14:15:00.001-08:00

you have my ears/yet on the lip of grave
countenance/ask me if i would countenance
what is happening to both of us.OSCAR WILDE?
My mirror lies.An arbitrary age confines/
as (in decline)GIBBONS-we devolve like DANTE
Whether there were many ARTHURS or HOMERS
Jose and George and Ray and Milton were blind
the rest are metaphors/flash fiction.Our task
means more than survival/revival.Our daily MINOTAUR
hides in LABYRINTH.Folk tales and songs
are on the track and trace /but they are PLATO's CAVE.
Light flickers campfire-eye ear radio(community
There is uncertainty.All our heroes have holes.
Banning cameras and recorders is as old
as banning texting/talking in empty cinemas
When i awaken,it will be to re-assemble
whatever forensics will piecemeal Paradise
It was here in your reflections AUGUSTINE
or was that THOMAS AQUINAS?

sublinguals

2012-01-20T14:14:00.001-08:00

My dreams are Gaelic/Celtic
yet when i return to Ireland-it is country/western
My old country had 300 Aboriginal (pre-us)-now barely 65
Pure blood tongue so hard to find-stories lost in the stream
I wake up sweating in American-Guanatanamo,Bagram ,waterboarding
Acronyms haunt -TSA,CIA,FBI,APD,AISD,FCC
I know there are alphabets i will never know
stories ancestors repeated long ago
so we would never forget Odysseys ,Great Wars,Armistice
Circles resurrect as in water with a haiku stone dropped
(Japanese printed occupation money/tortured my fathers)
(Turks machinegunned my grand fathers @Gallipoli)
(when i speak Vietnamese,it means restaurants,not conscription)
Tongues rattle dialects impelling flames and Buddha
Tibet chants(never in Chinese).Voices still calling-
to learn i must re-learn-ask questions of my dreaming
This is why i go to Libraries,sit with elders
ask them what this means!

FISHING

2012-01-19T11:35:00.000-08:00

i cut a hole in the past
dip a line in to catch a truth
silver or gold/it will feed me
so long as my hook eye holds
and my arms can embrace

first fish is fact-several witnesses
all saw Rashomon with The Usual Suspects
Comic heroes paper over our failures
Finding evil in others(but not your self!

junk fish come-carp,quarreling,anger,fear
(conflict means they are not good food)
i throw them back with Bukowski and Poe
Await vitalities like Villon /Mallarme

Confused fish suicide on my beaches
Whale Ginsberg(regret)wanting to be
Rimbaud,Baudelaire,Verlaine?history

records those few sacrificial fish who smiled-
Rumi,Kabir,Lalla-fish of Light
whose sliced lines gave us all freedom
expanding the hole we all fish within

Now an ocean-many species extinct-
Raw prawns,detritus-we become history.

time in the river

2012-01-19T11:31:00.000-08:00

Styx damned for Ferrymen
(free for ladies on Tuesdays!
shrimp gentlemen(stake on plates
for skimpy dancers to stay fattened
Shadows make Light a color
she is brown and barely legal
(half our world pays to watch the other half-
she has a child.Absinthe father
Cry in your bear,boys
Breasts of young mothers
Thick muscle warder bouncers
supply the walls that money can buy
Car park of despairing second hand owners
Stretch debt limos Saturday nights
Here is where the man becomes a boy
Dilute the water/inflate the prices
He will not remember if she drank
his empty wallet morning hangs over..

un dress code

2012-01-19T10:37:00.000-08:00

logical tygers burn brightest
when corresponding emotions
shake the superflux to them
compass souls dictate directions
only via alignment with True North
Southerners,casual as sex,piece rate work
@ a hospitality slavery Civil War Antebellum rapprochement
(you pay @nudist colonies-you get paid to dress as models..
In Pigalle,she emerged naked/took 5 minutes to dress
In Amsterdam,the afternoon revue drooped/laughed
(absurdity of work/like Bangkok dancers
paid for undress-and Manila(same process
Fairer sex wears power dress red
Alarms go off when divergence in play
enters the outworkers..

"First the execution-then the sentence"(said the Red Queen

2012-01-19T02:18:00.001-08:00

Adaptation of antiquated philosophies to new data fails
Preserving illusions of "democracy"in the Security State fails
Universal surveillance and universal data management are the New Facts
If knowledge is power,it might explain why KGB's Andropov &Putin ruled
and a Bush dynasty started with Elder Bush's CIA career
and why Wikileaks and Bradley Manning pose serious threats to the status quo
Classical Marxism no longer exists-Russia &China corrupted via crony capitalism
State Socialism subsidies diluted by budget austerities
New World Order priorities link minority elites internationally
leaving the 99% on the streets to ineffectively protest
Middle classes are passe-certain skills are valued differentially
while old occupations become the new impoverished "working" poor class
Startups and venture capital fund enterprises for a few entrepreneurs-
the rest trade skills for survival.Meet McDonalds managers(in every continent!)
Our conundrum remains inequality.Confiscation fails.Revolutions fail.
Gated communities hide wealth creators and storers guarded and armed.
Unless and until new marketable commodities and skills are shared at large
we will still be looking at the gap between
obselete political philosophies and current economic realities.

LIVE AID BAND AID

2012-01-19T02:17:00.001-08:00

When that Irish singer of the Boomtown Rats
organized the first LIVE AID-i watched the entire broadcast
It was based upon the good intentions of the CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH
with 60's luminaries collaborating for a worthy cause.Update to BAND AID
with 80s stars imitating 60s stars recycling ancient hits for a good cause
and elephant graveyards start to look like dinosaurs dancing in the streets
Mick Jagger failed in his solo career,and his Glimmer Twin likewise
Only the residual Rolling Stones bones could flesh out live shows
that folk would actually pay for.(i saw him solo /live-he was short in more ways than one)
Good intentions are never matched by honest accountants
and benefit concerts resurrect careers of rotted rock gods
more than feed the hungry,or house the homeless.
None the less,celebrity stars will still stage "Benefits"
as self -promotion,and it becomes mock legendary as mini-Woodstocks.
You can plot your age by what generation of rock you still follow
Cartoon heroes look good in videos.Recycle every one!
Mick Jagger from the 60s in his 60s now will still throw Stones
into the world's glass ceiling.Transparent as Narcissus-reflect upon this!

SABER RATTLING DEFENCE CUTS AS DAMOCLES SWORDS

2012-01-19T02:14:00.001-08:00

Who shall we fight next?
'Poor will always be with us"
(unless conscripted)

Where shall we get oil?
Let us take it from others
(who cannot defend..

Our economy?
Weapons manufacturing!
Find a new market!

War is our business
We have lost the last few ones
Time to lose again!

bANKSTER CRONYISMS

2012-01-18T02:28:00.001-08:00

SAVE WALL STREET!(Too Big To Fail)
Meanwhile,Main Street fills with unemployed and underemployed
Every street has homeless,dispossessed,hopeless
Offshored jobs create Chinese /Indian middle classes
while our middle class becomes the hole in the donut
Taxes used to bolster bank profiteers/who will not loan nor lend
but store liquidity to deal with lawsuits against their cronyisms
Do not blame leaders for the actions of their pressure groups!
Titular Monarchs are butterflies buzzing round the mound of detritus
that accumulates when CHANGE becomes a slogan rather than a plan.
Pessimism and cynicism settle in when hope is false as promises
And who wants a CEO who bankrupts his own businesses?
Choice might call for a Ron Paul to bust the Fed and withdraw from wars
Media will not allow such vigilante individualism.Vote for their selection-or...

our time beyond heroes

2012-01-17T19:21:00.001-08:00

Joseph Campbell dead.Even rock cracks.
No poets/philosophers/politicians heroic
just dull dross haircuts spouting rightwing cliches
No thought original(no original sins)
just dull repetition.Even Beckett laughs
with David Mamet/Phillip Glass
Leonard Cohen imitating Leonard Cohen
Armageddon sleeps with Rapture.
Testament me,King James!

there are no /safety nets (for emotions

2012-01-17T19:20:00.001-08:00

red blood drives fire as well as heat
what we do to each other
we do to ourselves
(all our selves/every multiple/singular..
no neutrality in bed wars
take or be taken
give or be given
all tragedy is domestic

we are more

2012-01-17T19:19:00.001-08:00

than this space we fill/with holes/held together w/flesh/hair /visual apprehension of who we appear to be(identity!
IS ANIMATED less via inventory of thoughts/emotions/his tories /projections-than by a pump
the WHY of creation meets HOW here-not head/heART!Coins and Descartes posit Caesars head as center
all your thoughts will not keep you alive.Plato is dead.Buddha is dead Caves everywhere.Eye will not make mystery-
animation 3D hologram humans distinct from androids/robots less via philosophy
more fact of the act of BEING /BECOMING.Here is where St Valentine and February come in-LOVE!
Your heart 's motions propel us more than thought-love more than an idea.Definition less than action.
To Be.Alive.is all.Breathe!The rest is words.Hallmark.

SKIN ART

2012-01-17T19:18:00.002-08:00

Revived as a recent Renaissance of styling
embodying all Chinese /Japanese/anime coloring
Sailors used to have an anchor-or a mythical blonde
or the name of someone you once loved
Johnny Depp changed his tattoo from WINONA FOREVER
to WINO FOREVER!Laser removal now a growth industry
as the markings of drunken adolescence cede to corporate careers
Parlors persist in mushrooming gallery design rooms
Films are made,artists become rock stars
Every band has a visual emblem or name
to be inscribed on hidden parts of anatomies
What happens when you run out of skin?
Alter/add on/make more coloring/erase-like a canvas
Art is a temporary tattoo..

BUDDHA BEGGAR

2012-01-17T19:18:00.000-08:00

All he wants is change!
Small/yet sustaining
Gratuitous/entertaining
If he is not happy/snappy
he will not get to eat.
One-legged he,pregnant she
traveling young,war veteran
Buddha takes many forms
having to trust these hungry streets
simply for the right to be.

17 days and Dragons await

2012-01-17T19:17:00.001-08:00

thom woodruff ✆ worldpoet@rocketmail.com
17 Jan (1 day ago)

to windy_gale
23 January will be Chinese New Year
End of Mayan,Hopi,Aztec,Incan calendars
Collapse of Euro,fall of the dollar
Saber rattling Iran for a war we do not want
Weather weirder than before
Weirder Republicans with weirdest agendas
Leaders leaving,leaving politicians only
Arab Springs halted by military dictatorships
OCCUPY augmented by jobless/homeless in distress
Strange planets with weirder astrologies
The good news is-we are here
We made it so far
What happens next
is extra

SUSAN BRIGHT & SUSAN POST

2012-01-17T19:16:00.000-08:00

Independent publisher.Independent bookstore.Independence
relies upon every person activating .Write your own world.
Publish your own clouds.Print your own passports to adventures.
Give yourself permission.You are as free as your poetry.
Each day a night awakens new and bright as sun to dream.
Each page a fingerprint.A gold key.Barton Springs will flow
only when you flow with and for its freedoms.Same for trees.
Bulldozer reads no poems.Once gone,our elders.
Striplings,saplings need wisdom .Books.Bookstores.Persistence
Water is committed to being water.Same for their tree wedding.
Susan Bright(now Pam Knight)and Susan Post .Life lives
only as long as it responds to its environment.Respond to this!

CRAZY CALICO

2012-01-17T18:42:00.001-08:00

She was the last one to be adopted at the cat shelter
No one wanted her and she was angry at every body
She glared like guns at us as we came close
We knew she would be the one(a challenge!
So we took her home/as she struggled
against her cardboard box all the way
She was and remains wild-prone to rushed runs
towards or away from the moon or fence or anyone
or anything that attracts or distracts her attention span
She has none.She ,shocked,did not know she was a cat
She did not know how to purr,nor relax.
Food and friendship provisionally covered her angry fears
She is still prone to scratch her way in or out of here
and climbs the fence and runs wild and free indoors or out
but now she feels secure with us.She sleeps on our clothes
She has even begun to purr.Her claws still scratch
Sharp warnings for anyone who comes too close
Her full food bowl does not stop her hunting birds
She brought a rat for inspection home -we thanked her
and she smiled away.TOOTS-our crazed calico
Moon owns her-she only stays with us today

GOLD FLAKES

2012-01-17T18:41:00.001-08:00

Celebrities at a recent Awards night
were served edible gold flakes
while people outside
got snow flakes
Snow joke!

haiku 2012

2012-01-17T18:40:00.001-08:00

Currency chaos!
Euro is dissolving now
Budget deficits

Customer Service
Your call being monitored
Outsourced India

Close down Black Budgets
Weapons dealing to all sides
Peace.Prosperity.

TSA bandits
Confiscating my cupcakes
Arrest yourselves,please!

APD murders
MLK please remember
Our deaths in Austin

Real or virtual?
Laptop dancers are wired
into the Matrix

OCCUPY movement
Democracy now worldwide
Still work in progress

Austerity fails
Peace and prosperity works
All we need are jobs!

This freedom of speech
Freedom of Assembly
Our new Bill of Rights

Are you listening?
Community radio
Your voice on the air!

We need new cliches
Demonstrations with placards
Google,Facebook,Tweet!

725 opponents of the Chilean dictatorship died

2012-01-17T18:22:00.001-08:00

Yet we have energy only for Neruda-our Pablo
who died @69 after receiving"medical treatment"
Thanks to Isabel Allende("House of the Spirits)
documentary film makers (Costas-Gavras)
and investigative journalists/all these tortured
and murdered are remembered.But not brought back to life
We read and re-read Neruda-for beauty,lyric and truth
725 others have only a name and a shortened life
We know of Victor Jara thanks to his wife
who toured the world to tell about the Junta torturing him
his saying-"as long as these hands can play this guitar
i shall sing for freedom".So they cut off his hands.
They tortured and raped students in the football stadium
They tracked down and jailed or killed all dissidents
At least 725 souls await justice.It will not come.
Forgiveness /compassion for their official murderers?
or an eased forgetfulness,knowing this will happen again..

THREE BUDDHAS

2012-01-17T18:21:00.000-08:00

Right action
Right intention
Right occupation
Seems simple enough-Buddha was rich .He played @being poor.
He would not allow his wife to become illumined.
His life an example of limits.Death is one.Pain another
Life alone -breath,chi,ka,-allows philosophy
Contradict me!

THESE LAST DAYS

2012-01-17T18:20:00.000-08:00

Patients need advise their doctors
about their body's true needs-
Sick heal themselves(with their own wisdoms)
Needy supply their own needs
as well as care for others
Lovers need compassion empathy forgiveness
more than passion and arguing
Children need to role model for lost parents
Angry need to preach peace
Old not pretend to be young
Middle aged care for all ages
and the world -hungry,needy,broken,bleeding
must wait until we have healed ourselves
and our need to need others
rather than to give
and to honestly love

SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER

2012-01-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

To Alex

so i bundled up some sunshine
'sent it air mail
when it arrives
(due to a postal strike)
it will be Spring in England
and you will see
your garden sparkling
with imported happiness

METROPLEXES &MAGNETRONS

2012-01-17T18:17:00.001-08:00

Microwaves came via a serendipitous popping of corn next to a magnetron
Metroplexes evolve as our dominant social urban design erratically /universally
Serendipity is facilitated via diversity and awareness of links between random data
Regimentation,control,assumptions and authority dilute spontaneity
Our adventure begins now-when this world is new and wondrous(or seen to be as such!
Every moment an epiphany/every evening a series of new dreams
Alexander Fleming in 1928 discovered penicillin via rainforest mould
Replication of rainforests in the EDEN project failed to produce such linkages
Replication of forests by pine plantation monospecies does not fool the birds
who neither nest nor sing within uniform rows of future matches/newspapers
We are not alike.Alertness/awareness of divergencies allows more original philosophies
Art,music,poetry,dance-they are all accomplices to rebirthing creativities
We are always @the beginning of a new script-improvise this into your conceptual apparatus..
and see what happens next...

CARNIVAL CRUISES

2012-01-17T18:16:00.001-08:00

Every aged retiree dreams of a cruise-Caribbean,Italy
Films show both dark and light sides of such modes of travel-
POSEIDON ADVENTURE,TITANIC(soon to be re-released in 3D)
No one expects cruise ships to gash their sides in Mediterranean waters
No one expects fatalities,incompetence,injuries or suffering
Welcome to 2012-where engineering must cede to the human condition
Was it error and upon him proved/that all will blame a Captain alone?
Why were the crew telling folk to go back to their cabins
reassuring that "all was well?".We do not know
Flying has become traumatic,bus travel primitive
now the Carnival is over,as we lean into a disastrous New Year

SIRI SOFTWARE(Suicides @Shenzhen)

2012-01-17T18:15:00.001-08:00

You with an Iphone in your hand
(there are no Ipads in China)
It was probably made in Shenzhen(Guangdong Province)
in a human sweatshop with underage workers on 16 hour shifts
They stand all day,cameras trained upon them,being barked @by supervisors
Unions are banned-if they join,they are imprisoned for lengthy periods.
Foxconn is one such factory complex,with 430,000 workers
They live in cement dormitories -12x12 ft-stacked like coffins
The turnover is ten percent a month.Injuries are common.RSI/tenosynovitis
N-Hexane(a neurotoxin)is used to clean the iPhone screens.It poisons workers.
34 suicides in 2010 at this location alone meant management made nets
to catch those workers throwing themselves off buildings to certain death
Whether you buy Apple,or Dell,Nokia,Panasonic,HP,Samsung or Sony-
all come from Economic Zones with these conditions.
Check these facts-the suicides,sweatshop conditions,banning of unions.
What will you do with your bright new toy
now you know some other human slaved to make it?

BOOK OF 5 EMOTIONS

2012-01-17T18:14:00.001-08:00

1.Happiness
Innate?or borrowed robes?
always relational/relative/dynamic
never static nor presumed upon
"One man's happiness is another persons poison"
Some think it is a journey that never ends
Some feel it is an emotion that is always here
Some know it as a state of being and/or becoming
Some may never know their full depth/height/texture or experience of
And that makes me happy!

2.Gratitude
Without this,we do not experience
Always after (rarely pre-emptive)-gratitude reacts
and by so positively responding,changes everything

3.Kindness
Softness between consenting-unilateral/universal
To give without wanting /limiting/defining /denying

4.Forgiveness.
I forgive you.I forgive myself
I forgive all of us -every scar/wound/hurt/pain
Healed.

5.Adventure
Begins with curiosity,add courage ,and individual initiative
Resources facilitate more.All begins now! Open your door!

PATRICK BRIAN COX(World's Greatest Living Love Poet)

2012-01-15T02:24:00.001-08:00

When we were fire and young,he dressed in grey suits and read his love poems
to "Genevieve"(all sonnets).He had medals and ribbons from International Poetry Festivals.
One day i asked him"i know you were in the Japanese Changi prison camp.
Why do you not write about those experiences?"He replied-
"the only way i can cope with that experience is to write love poetry"
One day,a woman arrived .She introduced herself as "Genevieve"
She asked me to ask him to stop writing love poems to her.

FONDA ZENAPHON (Brunswick Poetry Workshop)

2012-01-15T02:22:00.001-08:00

Greek(not Macedonian)and bi-lingual
with a love of poetry and music/he started Brunswick Poetry Workshop
and we all came and read to each other.Years passed
Some people said his poetry was poor."Second language syndrome"
Others could not abide his style of performing
Fonda was fond of love poetry -all his poems were of love
Is it not strange when you go one way-it brings out the reverse?

WORK CANNOT CLAIM YOUR SOUL

2012-01-15T02:21:00.001-08:00

Each day/they say "you are different /and may never fit in"
Who wants to?This cage is thin as time.Render unto Caesar
then escape after hours/your imagination calls and you have powers
to evoke and create that defy authority and controls.
Smile during hours/honor all obligations.Be a dervish dancer with magickal powers
once you walk out of the cage,let your smile guide the way
you know you cannot stay where inertia rules the day.
seek fellow company/companions on the way/so myths of aloneness and anomie
will not limit nor control ye.There is always more to say
Seek more spaces where you can play-so pleasant dreams can color your scene
and you can continue to create.This world is yours long before work-
and afterwards as well.Reclaim all those stories/legends/songs and poems you can tell
and when they look at you and ask-"why are you so happy?"
Just smile-dream your way through every daily labyrinth
Avoid all Minotaurs after hours-you liberate yourself!

CROCKETT HIGH SCHOOL

2012-01-15T02:20:00.001-08:00

i am supply teaching-assigned to ISS
where the culturals and the criminals mix
in a portable detention room/warning them of cells to come
I am to assign them useless work to waste their time
they are curious and seek to distract me-
"what sort of music do i like""who are my fave rap artists?"
i learn just how out of touch i am when they snort and snigger
at my lack of familiarity with their peer group musicians
Some wish to educate me-others just to stay distant and cool
I know of gangs,colors,codes and street lingo
but am of an age when none of these were born
and Mods and Rockers were the apartheid i grew up with
We are all strange species-here for menial offenses
Mine is the failure of my art form (to generate prosperity/credibility)
They are here for speaking ,disrupting,laughing or being inappropriate
A strange respect and solidarity -as temporary as detention-settle in
I do not have to threaten to know i cannot win

FOREIGN

2012-01-15T02:19:00.001-08:00

In Cleveland,we were invited by the Indian community
in to their homes for nourishment and support
They treasured poetry and music-and valued ours
as much as we were intrigued by their sitars and tablas

Family was important to them-and we were introduced to all
with great respect and NAMASTE bowing of heads
The music flowed from these kindnesses and such gentleness
engendered response from hidden recesses in our arts

Dr Hari Joshi ,bi-lingual author/poet from Bhopal
came and read @Ventana Del Sol one Sunday night
His family supportive and encouraging/he keeps in email contact
and continues to be published in Hindi and English

Worlds outside/worlds within/locked in languages
Smiles bridge a "foreign"language in to an opening friend

ZEN TALES OF A MORBID PREACHER

2012-01-15T02:17:00.000-08:00

ONCE UPON A TIME there were 60,000 Rumis
but they were lodged in Farsee/only one day
a Robert Bly stumbled upon gold translations
and sang them in to American.

ARTHUR WALEY took Chinese poetry
back 800 years/distilling all meditations
so we only heard the English

IDRIES SHAH took Mullah Nashrudin to Voltaire
Midwifed with Good Soldier Schweik and Yossarian

The first time i saw a mountain i was afraid
The first time i saw ocean same
The first time i committed to waves
i felt at home again

It is not an ill wind-not even illness
bad things are happening to good people
Are we accomplices?

i find your face on FACEBOOK
you left us time ago.You still look so alive
i send you this email.

How precious you are.How unique.
Sing! Speak!

ONCE there was this rainforest/waterfall/river/spring
until fracking.

VIGNETTES

2012-01-13T23:35:00.001-08:00

Marsha.You were married once-maybe children(grown,gone
Gypsy you and your guitar.Alone
You tune and smile and sing/thin voice in glass air
where there is only love .Now. Hear?

MORNING MEMORIES
White milk bottles clatter to attention
Cream to the top/white water beneath

FARMER WANTS TO FLOOD
for irrigation crops.River wants to run(without stop
(It has an appointment with the deep)
Farmer has a market to sell crops
River is a gift(it must be leaving
Dam and slop.Sticks and slow.Stagnant as rock
When river stops,we go.

CRICK CRACK CREEK
Creek crackle stone river run
Tree bend in to slip streaming
I am a rock with my toes watering
Sky so low the trees claw marks
Trees so stretch they rule all available space
Water so cold i freeze blue chill to dream within
Elements all meet.Only i am leaving.

LAST SAW HER/leaning towards a future
(as if it were already tomorrow.She was fine
as if those diamonds came/from her gold mine
And every living creature of creation/bowed down
and worshiped her ad infinitum
Now we see/how easy it will be/to live between these lines
we once called"poetry"/is now what we cal"footsteps of the free"

EVERY PARKING METER
talks when all the lights go down
They stand so solitary when you feed them your coins and then
you leave them/only coming back like a lover/when your money is exhausted

IN GHOST TOWN -stretch and yawn.Stand panhandling
for ghosts to pass/for new ghosts to follow.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF WORDS.(These are only some
If ever there is silence.Just call out!(More will come

EYE WILL WALK OUT OF MY DOOR
my house my home my past all that eye own
embrace unknowns like Donald Rumsfield

SMALL AS MIND(and Light/on this Winter Planet.
"History must have a start".Let it be now,and here
as if there would not be an end.

TONIGHT WILL TWINKLE LIGHTS ON FOREIGN SHORES
Passports exchanged like contraband.Clock pulse/heart home/midnight 2 dawn.
Dreams change guard like UFOs behind smiling clouds

FOREIGN

2012-01-13T21:23:00.001-08:00

SHOUPISTAS

2012-01-13T21:22:00.001-08:00

Holes in your city where cars rest cost the earth
Parking lots enforce collective irrationality
True solutions mean effective public transport
Solo cars nibble @the cheese w/mass transit lanes
yet each car moves little and demands much space and time
We cannot afford this .Irrational rules positing space for cars
have closed businesses and made profits for valet parkers.
Rich folk drop keys and cars and tip for gold space and time
Workers find no space they can afford for all day parking
and only car pool when parking costs exceed benefits
Pedestrian precincts as in villages are a start
Truck deliveries midnight to dawn
Bicycles and pedestrians positively welcomed
Free flow of traffic truncated by new priorities
The struggle for space is unresolved-in Austin,space is hard to find
Meters charge (if they are available) and prices rise
Until cities promote pedestrian access,expect to be charged more
To park on this planet is a luxury-never a right nor privilege
Ask any village.

ONE THING I AM PROUD OF

2012-01-13T21:21:00.001-08:00

are my silences.I use them at the end of every line
They were here before (and after )me
but these silences are MINE!
I also like the way i elide truth
cut around the messy personal bits
so people do not get too offended.
NOTHING PERSONAL HERE-just another poem
made up of evasions,elisions,avoidances
and forthcoming silences

CONDITIONAL LOVE

2012-01-13T21:17:00.000-08:00

Generally,we request that people remain clothed
unless in a clothing optional zone
And remain peaceful(unless in an authorized violence zone)
and respect the rights of others
(unless delegated by state to violate and abrogate these
(or if the status of folk deny them rights via age or civic responsibility
All rules of conduct are provisional ,exceptional and temporary
Modes and customs of the 60s have no place in 2012
STRANGER DANGER and JUST SAY NO! dictate responses
We allow forced entry and violence in many circumstances
and stress compounds in a complex and evolving society
There is no unconditional love.Every one asks something of others
It is an exchange of favors to include individuals within our societies
And we will deny them more than accept-unless and until they accept
our conditional love.

TEXT IN PROCESS

2012-01-13T21:16:00.000-08:00

Medium non-tedium Te Deum mortalis
Collaboring Orations still Text-Based
As InfoWars Armistice,a Temporary Fire
To Be In Process the Highest Desire
Isolation never true(even in Monasteries
Great Chain Of Being theses ad infinitem
Conversation with Peers adds stones to the soup
Voices mash-up hypertext re/mixes
rearticulation as temporary meditation
Visions change with mediums.Access everything!
Open mouth and mike every singular collective independent night!

you can not be a robot

2012-01-13T21:14:00.002-08:00

you can not be a clone
you can not be a Terminator
you can not be a drone
you can not be a program
you can not be a machine
you are something quite unique
you are a human being
you are perfect as you are
in all your imperfections
nothing is quite like you
you have no imitations

A GIGGLE OF PHILOSOPHERS

2012-01-13T21:14:00.000-08:00

Images of beards,solemn,slow
unkempt,untidy,ragtag bag of oddities
like some bad comedians left sans audiences
Who do philosophers talk to-if not each other(and themselves?
Why would an image of one reveal anything of their views?
How distinguish modern from ancient if not via clothing?
Ideas do not age/though some are dead as dodos
New philosophies are required for an age of technospeak
Our Age of Universal Surveillance/Insecurities
We need wisdom when it comes to anthrax and sarin,
C4 on airlines and weapons of mass distraction
not to mention artificial epidemics of bird flu and smallpox fostered
by funding of Foundations and fears older than Great Plagues and Incans
All philosophers are not poets-though both are unincomed
facing sanctions by fascists and censorship via fashion
Philosophers must become journalists,commentators,blog writers
or Wikileakers to gain attention to important issues.
Issues there are aplenty-philosophers few
And do not ask what Department they are axing at your next Faculty meeting.
It will be you.

BORN AGAIN(this morning

2012-01-13T21:06:00.000-08:00

My past life was yesterday
My future is today
As a new consciousness
i remember nothing
This helps the creative process
I dream of fresh new thoughts
like laundered white shirts
all tabula rasa and ready to wear out
every moment of this temporary existence
If i am wrong-see you next lifetime-
tomorrow!

THE EXECUTED RENAISSANCE

2012-01-13T21:03:00.001-08:00

Censorship becomes a fatal attraction to governments
Redacted files,false flag operations,propaganda,denial,scandals-
all reveal The Emperor Has No Clothes.When writers expose-or journalists
via Wikileaks or via Bradley Manning's release-reaction becomes reactionary.
Iran bans Al-Jazeera broadcasts,Syria censors the Internet and bans foreign journalists
Dictators torture and kill dissidents,poets,writers,journalists.Renaissance stillborn.
Survivors toe party lines of face prison or execution in China.
Buddhists burn themselves in protest in Tibet.
The loss of public imagination means more than genocide
It means we cannot dream alternatives-when our dreamers are being exterminated
Amnesty International saves some via letter writing petitions
More await execution-until you realize-this is not a prayer
This is a petition for your action!

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

2012-01-13T21:01:00.001-08:00

i do not know how
to delete my deceased friends from FACEBOOK
i tend to keep their email addresses
as i miss them to talk with

those elders with whom we shared adventures
remind me of their limits-
time,space,age,energies,memory-
all fail to bridge gaps between us

there is a blessing in physical presence
that is absent from cards,letters,email,virtual
relationships are like SECOND LIFE
(i prefer my FIRST,one and only)

so this one goes to those who read and respond
your positive presence animates this living poem

"BUYING THE BODY OF CHRIST"

2012-01-13T21:00:00.001-08:00

Belief meets business on altars of communion
where Cavanagh and Chasid Cup compete for market space
Theology meets Mammon even when Jesus chased the money changers..
Coelic disease meant spelt flour ingredients could dilute wheat gluten
Bread is just bread until it is blessed.Schisms result in mechanized businesses
Communion a concept of cannibalism="the body and blood of Christ"
even when folk know it is only wheat and water.They BELIEVE it is body and blood.
Such trust makes "knock-offs"from Poland a question of cost
Hand made wafers in religious communities like hand made bibles and books-
antiquaries in an Industrial Revolution.Nuns baking wafers by hand have lost
to huge machines that process thousands of wafers at much cheaper cost.
Just as vocations have become less,hand made is history.
Nuns themselves are old maid's stories.What they make most is prayer and service.
Wafers from factories pile up on altars.We cannot go back.
Bless the factory .Bless the whole wheat wafer.
God bless the body of Christ as it sells in the marketplace.

ENEMY FORGETTING

2012-01-13T20:58:00.001-08:00

PTSD and you want to forget war memories
Sounds of bombs/wounds/noise /death
The smell of facts too close to skin
Here forgetting is healing

Exams require rote repetition of irrelevant data
Here your Art Of Remembering aids
Names,places,histories,equations
All add up to a better grade

Age and the fog settles in -no plane can land
Whole geographies of personal histories fade
No choice when Al Zheimer comes to stay
Your life gets erased away

You do not know.You do not want to know
Don't ask,don't tell when it comes to love's mistakes
Here forgetting is a form of healing
to live,one must accept limits

And these lines.Today.All will fade
Far away a land where Nothing reigns
This is where all facts go to rest
They stay because there is nowhere else to play

I forget why.

HOW I BECAME A HOLOGRAM

2012-01-13T20:57:00.001-08:00

i actually started as a pen with a nib.i required a jar of ink.
i grew in to a fountain pen.Learned calligraphy.
Letters were nothing to me.Pensmanship came easily!
Next i was introduced to a typewriter.(Olivetti-very portable!
Years were spent in this relationship.We rarely parted.Together,letter by letter.
Ribbons i would replace for her!Erasers to hide my mistakes.
Soon i was lines,then poems,then little books.
Days of Letraset,blue ink mimeograph,then typeset.
I was becoming PROFESSIONAL!Years passed(as years do
the rest of the world moved on from page to TV tube.
I stayed a radio(community)-page bound and reading
(i could not see the writing on the walls)
Computers with valves and paper codes gave way to printed circuits
I avoided change as long as possible.Finally,friends compassionately tutored me
I became addicted to email.Now i have a blog and a website(see below!
GOOGLE tells me every thing i want to know.I watch YOUTUBE competitively
and exchange news items obsessively .Yes(you see)-this used to be a real man
Now i am -just a virtual online hologram.GOOGLE ME!

CALLING ALL CELESTIAL AGENCIES!

2012-01-13T20:56:00.001-08:00

To add more to this stone soup than hard arts
To turn all fists to flowers,all guns to guitars
To serenade sunrise with non-radio silence
or birdsong wilde as worlds without walls
To reclaim warzones from digital children
so they will not grow in to drones
Turn all bullies into victims/all victims forgive them
that sunshine and optimism be based upon action and results
That all advertising is personal,voluntary and permission-given
and all belief systems autonomous and self-supporting
Like learning-continuous,free,public,private ,universal and wise
enough to incorporate all dubious propositions and label them as such
censoring nothing,adding more to curricula as knowledge increases
Heal the hard of hearing-that they might admit angels in their auricles
Allow all vulnerable to express artistically,supported by foundation garments
Let language grow,so we might taste delights in foreign syllables
May borders fall,so refugees might make communities
Open cells to all of peace,so only the violent seek deferred release
Add to wealth of air and water a certain purity of recycled emotions
Let justice be judged,and juries be juried,and media mediated
So direct experience allows us less carp and complaint
more bright responses.May we be worthy of all celestial interventions
until none are necessary,and we can live quite well via our own responsibilities..

TERRORISING US

2012-01-13T20:48:00.001-08:00

The war on terror is endless and international
It has been extended into domestic terrorism via FBI and TSA
Confiscating cupcakes,patting down children and elderly
taking"terrorizing"to the extreme-against our own citizens
FBI tapping into emails and phone calls illegally
with an ineptitude and arrogance that likens them to the NKVD
Our blood and treasure has been wasted by Halliburton,Brown and Root
We no longer seek hearts and minds-just heads on coup sticks
Targeted assassinations and drones typify our offshoring of murder
It is always civilians who suffer-here and overseas
And why has not Guantanamo been closed down?
The public mood is peevish-not victorious
We know Iraqis and Afghanis do not want us
Why are we paying to disrupt countries overseas

LANDSCAPE FOR ONE

2012-01-13T20:47:00.002-08:00

Wilde wherever you are-observe
Camouflaged habitats .Homeless in Green Belt.
Smoke rises (need for fire)near water(need for)
warm earth needs blankets.We are within their landscape

Never lasts long.Walls,floor,cabin,fence
Animals seen as feral.Signs prohibit strangers
(we were strange once.Here!
Deer still processed road kill

Occasional snake.Frogs.Sounds at night
Each,all,every seeks to occupy a space
that is only transient and temporary
We are they who have no history

Milennia ago-Ice Ages killed,meteors felled
Devastation ad infinitem.
Seeds of then power our dinosaur cars
We live within hidden stories.Read them...

"how we go on"

2012-01-13T20:47:00.000-08:00

still traces of water /woods(pre-us
where old ghosts claim as their own
as Hopi chose bone rock desert home
we could not live there

track through wilderness to more of us
reinforce the core of us
village to town to city to metroplex
we do not wish to stay small

i ask the water-do you love chlorine/fluoride?
silly!added only because of us!
polluting apace,soon there will be no more space
for a junkmaking allegedly human race

selfish us will seek moon/Mars/planets
where we mythologize water pure/ancient
mirages ,moon walkers,even if Chinese
what will your space colonies pollute?

100% recycle me-dust to dust eternally
i am a creature of the city.

"THE MILKMAN IS DEAD(BUT WE STILL DRINK MORE MILK THAN EVER!"

2012-01-13T20:43:00.001-08:00

Welcome to GenFlux- where flexibility of tools means flexibility of options
As rates of change compound,"portfolio"careers expand
Darwin would be proud of Fast Company and R/GA
as business models are smashed and resurrected overnight
Failure as part of the learning-the death of BORDERS
the trashing of NETFLIX's QUIKSTER as GenFlux flips
from waterfall product development to agile marketing
The new alphabet of possibilities means more than FACEBOOK,GOOGLE and TWITTER
AirBnb,DropBox,FlipBoard,FourSquare,Spotify,Trulia,Zillow
In independent transport alone-Car2Go,ZipCar,Uber and Relayrides
In law-LegalZoom.In health-Healtimagination.In publishing-P.O.D.
New models are constantly being marketed,adapted,dropped,altered and reconstituted
Politically,this is a time post Velvet Revolutions-of Arab Springs and OCCUPY
Cash-strapped governments trapped by austerity consciousness
will turn to privitised security(Blackwater,DynX)
Privitised prisons(Wackenhut),privitised Charter Schools
Change and exchange are the beginning .The Information Revolution cannot be censored
Wikileaks and Wikipedia are front lines.Dictatorships against start-ups
Corruption against corporate venture capital.George Soros "gets"it
Bill Gates"gets"it.Issues await us,and the old answers fail.
The NEW "NOW" demands attention.GenFlux means all of us!

PERSONAL PRESSES(POD or COD?)

2012-01-13T19:37:00.001-08:00

This is where we all began-
with a personal printing press a la Gutenberg.
To have Expresso Book Machines in independent coffee houses
is an idea whose time has come!Demographics alone
dictate that a reading public becomes a writing Republic/
that small presses producing small works in small numbers
allow P .O.D to defeat C.O.D mainstream book marketing.
As large bookstores close,smaller versions of boutique presses
become more than vanity presses-they fill a huge need for art
that is accessible,instant and more than copy shop quality.
Small presses rarely go to STAPLES or OFFICE DEPOT
as the love of books is not a shared value in those printshops
One can produce one's own volume-it will be stapled(not perfect bound)
The "Trance of Insignificance" has been broken.MAKE YOUR OWN BOOKS NOW!
The machine of the future is waiting GO EXPRESSO!

Guantanamo: Ten Years and Counting

2012-01-13T19:36:00.001-08:00

decade in a cage
innocent,enraged
before you turn the page
RELEASE THEM

close down this travesty
deprivation of liberty
if you wish to be free
RELEASE THEM

may we return to our home
away from torture/alone
we do not need prisons like these
RELEASE US PLEASE!

"but eye do not have a god(to cover me

2012-01-13T19:35:00.001-08:00

"my wings a gift/come borrow me
"the only optimism is to be free
"if you want OUT,you only have to be
"the next train is too late-did you miss this one?
"if you want to worship Light-moon ,Stars -or sun?
"the supermarkets dictate choice like politics
"even mime artists have to use their voice
"obselete calendars,auguries,Almanacs stack
"the price of fresh knowledge?don't look black
"burned by mistakes,she was on the attack
"conflict always seeks to dominate all maps
"YOUTUBE and GOOGLE are censored
"Wikipedia a DIY,Wikileaks d e a d
"heart ,liver and kidneys always argue with head
"better alive than Red(Velvet Revolution said
"eye drink from Arab Springs in Palestine instead...

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"(JOAN DIDION)

2012-01-13T19:34:00.002-08:00

Morning myths -Old Sol,Ahuramazda,THE SUN ALSO RISES
Midday fables-HIGH NOON,DUEL IN THE SUN
Siesta stories-DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON(Fiesta!
Late afternoon sagas-TWILIGHT
Evening vampire/zombie/monster truck dream demolition derbies.
Every moment a raga/every movement a dance
Grandfather stories of creation and ancestor adventures
Grand mother epics of birth and brothers,sisterhood and sagas
Of ONCE UPON A TIME/THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Fairy Tales of siblings and magical thinking/where coincidence and synchronicities spark
and we are saved by events/as much as events are changed by our presence
Little miracles each hold as personal mojo/our private Temples
we share with few /and only intimates
How we are adventures,art unfinished/action paintings and 4D movies,5G phones
in a 6D existence where time,space,energy ,improv ,intuition and empathy
sharpen our alertness and aliveness so every moment is Illumination
Every Cave a Plato.

Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

2012-01-13T19:34:00.000-08:00

unless and until
the birds of freedom sing release
parts of us will be imprisoned
indefinitely

"innocent until proven guilty"
UNLESS accused (falsely)
kept in solitary
like PFC Bradley Manning

gentle souls all seek release
send these citizens
back to their home countries
where they can again live free

close Guantanamo!
before Nuremberg Trials accuse
us of complicity -these are war crimes,you see-
Peace and freedom over captivity!

i go out to find my face(CAMPBELL)

2012-01-13T19:33:00.000-08:00

6 leaders in 6 months

2012-01-09T12:52:00.000-08:00

Like WACK-A-MOLE,the media bash
leaves us with a boring man-
Mormon ,businessman
as presumptive Republican candidate

Whether the Presidency is an antiquated office
or selection procedures far too arduous
exposure of adulteries and scandals in finance
are far too rigorous for most of us

Let them all play President!
If they actually wish war-let them fight!
When they fight among themselves
We see them in their true light

Wisdom seems in deficit
Fantasies of politicians' promises
rely upon economics/while they
are living off our taxes

"Why can't we all just get along?"
"Don't TAZER me bro!"(our song)
OCCUPY every public office
with unpaid volunteers like us

Campaign finances not an issue
when there are no funds to argue
Democracy @local level
makes COMM/UNITY our National Anthem

"SILENT LANGUAGES OF TIME &SPACE"(for Edge.org)

2012-01-09T12:45:00.001-08:00

begin before zero was invented
what we see,hear,feel ,know,intuit-
more than sensory alphabets,almanacs
pre-us skills of indigenous now lost to us-
deep listening,empathic linking,telempathy
visual/verbal/aural soundscapes virgin to our auricles
Tools of our inherited/gifted bodies to begin
where we took it further than opposible thumbs-
cave,fire,spear,art,tribe-these persist/yet we
extend territoriality into heavens-space,moon,planets
study asteroids,meteors,make satellites,rockets,missiles
We were never tabula rasa-pre-thoughts still register as precognition
Certain elemental skills-divining,interpreting auguries/omens/signs as significant,
somewhere trace elements of ancient memories.Retrieve,rescue,renovate.
It is the remembering becomes re-learning.All mind is one.All time is now.
Intellectual enzymes and biological catalysts assist rebirth of wonder
Like opening closed coal mines-the territory may seem old
yet the results are new.New tools,new possibilities=new views.
ENJOY THE VIEW!

"NOWHERE MAN!"

2012-01-09T12:42:00.001-08:00

The Beatles sang
in 1967/nothing changed
except our listening

"The Hollow Men"(T S Eliot wrote
in 1939/nothing changed
except our reading him

"Monday NOTHING,Tuesday NOTHING..
sang the Fugs in 1969
Tuli Kufenberg was a poet
Music brings poetry alive

in 2012,you arrive at Nothing
It took you all your life to get here
Enjoy the ride-notice all the other passengers
who also got nowhere with nothing to share!

"SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVES"(George Harrison
Also gone...

GODPLEX

2012-01-09T12:41:00.001-08:00

Large Hadron Colliders searching for The God Particle
Opinionators (stand-up comedians) dispensing Disrupted Expectations
The Disappearing Mind Stream(of Consciousness) polluted
Discontinuity allows Jump Cuts in Edited Existences

String Theory Live! Allows Audiences to Be Buddha
Sky is not the sky of your childhood
To carry stories like water to the well to drink from
"Generations have trod,have trod,have trod.."

Diamond Days and Dreaming Knights
Connection always More than Virtual
To Create is God Consciousness
Why be a little god? Give more!(pot latch!

When Laurie Anderson danced with William Burroughs
I knew why it was called"Land of the Brave!"

ADDICTION,RELAPSE,RECOVERY

2012-01-09T12:38:00.000-08:00

Socrates was accused of "corrupting Athenian youth"
Hemlock administered via his own hands.
Plato wrote about this moral choice
thus all our Socratic wisdom is second-hand

If moral dilemmas are mere allegories
Questions of "good"and "evil"mere philosophy
Explain those civilians dead by their own hands
Suicide bombers/child soldiers/conscriptees

Questioning matters-lives are in our hands
Moral choices are the very food we eat-
e-numbers,junk diets,media soundbites
make us addicted to soporific simplicities

Verbal placebos conceal strapped bombs beneath
The cloak of cliches kills by contact
If "truth"can be apprehended only via belief
Best then to avoid all religions

Yet in our human "four score years and ten"
we can apprehend meaning as addiction
Philosophy may be revered as science
posing new dilemmas for our human condition

We are always @ Ground Zero."The terrorists are winning"
Knowledge is censored,inquiry forbidden
Until we can ask the hardest questions
No unredacted answers will be forthcoming

A response to this article

I AM RESIGNING! ....(FROM RESIGNING...

2012-01-09T12:33:00.001-08:00

and present myself for re-assignation!
Opposites are mirrors-embrace!
(Both sides have something to avoid)
Emotions are wild horses-they run away
Mustangs put down by jealous guns
(Embrace Emotions!-and where they ride!
a corral is a cage /a page is a sail
We adjust to fit the prevailing
Treasure is this measure
between all consenting conversationalists
To open our art /to hug horror
to ask only that every be heard and seen and known
enough so alienation cannot grow/connection affirms
(i speak only to people-never disincarnate entities-we
are those who have not yet surrendered(i surrender!
Our feet are Ever ready Energizer batteries
our art is a flag of skin.Our smiles horizons
All of our mist is mysticism.Comfort zone /mind food
We snack upon Mysteries as we feast upon Joy
It is what you create will be your only home.

WE BREATHE THE SAME AIR

2012-01-09T12:32:00.001-08:00

and you are welcome here
Peace is for angry people too)
Conflict is a conversation of fists
War is blowing up bad ideas
Grind of teeth or nervousness
makes us walls /makes us less
than giant statues of dead heroes
We do not have to agree.Open means OPEN to me
so every spirit may wing in-
weak,strong,rich,poor,wise,foolish
whatever variety of heterodolatry
sharpens the beak of one tiny sparrow's knowledge
Embrace all of us as we grow to know
dark sides are sides we all need
when Light is weak,and rare as hens teeth
Bite into the food for thought that feeds us
nourishing diversity as the only University we need
All of us.Bless us all! Every one!Breathe!Deep...

once they worshipped the sun

2012-01-09T12:30:00.001-08:00

God of Light(AhuraMazda
Ol Sol/Cock O The Walk
Every Morning Sun(Awakening
are we trapped in his orbit?
or alone?Sun burns to fire us
Solar flares to burn us.
Tanning machine or scorch?
Fire scars as well as warms
Now we live @a comfortable distance
when we get too close
ASHES R US!

THE PATH TO HEAVEN

2012-01-08T03:31:00.001-08:00

runs through Real Estate
A Bypass is planned
with a Toll Road
Parking is Valet
a Shopping Precinct
Houses for 2.5
w/adjoining garages
for bicycles&carts
Horses unstabled
graze on golf grass
like bison tanneries
Domestic Contra Dictions
Wide Screen Plasma TVs
Ritalin children w/black guns
Zombie Apocalypse Malls
There is nothing to Do or to Make
except watch CELEBRITOLOGY
A narrow View of the Church Cell Phone Tower
Restricts the SUVs and Hybrids
Only Little Japanese Haiku
Suburu,Mitsubishi,Sayonara
Gilbert &Sullivan Whole Fjord Markets
Smell Fishy Developments.Dig Me?
Archaeology =etymology
@Austin Titles Office.

JANUARY 8,2012

2012-01-08T03:30:00.001-08:00

it is less what we can do(have done
than what is possible/what with
limits/laws/lessons/littleness
in the face of Giants,antnests..
Goliath laughs @Michelangelo's David
FCC laughs at Pirate Radio
Our ears hijacked by illegal whispers
Across Borders-illegal Barnes&Noble
Books are being translated from silences
A native throws a spear @a mining company helicopter
Agendas are being imposed upon all of us
Personal Tragedies become Doomsday Emotions
A dog barking on the moon
Dalmation. Does he have a Dark Side?

golf on ice

2012-01-08T03:28:00.001-08:00

eye see no reason
why holes cannot be driven
into ice floes so golf clubs
might lose balls to seals
or maybe penguins
All wild life threatened
random clubs or small balls
less than predator stockbrokers
rampant on green surfaces
On ice,all their plans on ice
would slip into deferment
Stock prices frozen/clubs opening
Novelty value expanding
as holes enlarge due to global warnings
Soon it will be drifts and small islands
Surreal ice space stations/currents
shifting where the balls in orbit end up
Holes are obvious places to store waste
Let's dump in Texas!(no ice there!..Easy...

"IF YOU ARE NOT IN LOVE BY NOW"(MCK)

2012-01-08T03:26:00.001-08:00

no song,nor word,nor line,nor love
will stir that rock inside your art
that will not move for fear of being cast aside
Roll away the stone! Kidney stone/gallstone-
Rolling Stones gather no loss
when love activates triggers of cost
benefit analysis.Add this up-
investment in emotions plus interest(mutual
as funds)=viable commitment
but only if you are fully present
Are you there? Are you,love?

TAKE OFF YOUR SKIN!

2012-01-08T03:24:00.001-08:00

Eye want to see your insides!
Those animated movements in your bloodstream
pumped red via heart valves /pushed around
to circulate e/motions to all your furtherest limbs
send messages to your body's cavities and colonies-
mind does not rule ! Anarchist emotions rage /range
wolves hungry for a fix.They will not settle for emptiness!
Show them your insides out!Like Customs,tax,business-
they want their cut.What tithes Nothingness?

juices between humans

2012-01-08T03:23:00.001-08:00

Care keeps us alive-
it is the web we build upon
treehouse we play within
ladder to the moon and beyond
Without heart connection
No body runs.
Eye have seen people give their dreams away
to sacrifice time,money,energy
so that others may stay
Blood connection is no guarantee
when all we have is family
We rely upon goodwill as currency
We are rich in this.Life hangs
The balance we can cash in @any time
A hand outstretched is a life preserver
What lives is love.

"AUTOMOBILES ON STEROIDS"

2012-01-07T20:48:00.001-08:00

We live on borrowed air.Stolen water.Dinosaur gas
There are limits to all growth.We are they who age defines endings
Infernal combustion engines continue to reproduce
beyond the capacity of roads to absorb them
Unless and until 100% recycling occurs/ trash car yards planet
Punitive gas taxes do not work-UK/Australia tried /failed
Pedestrian zones work-expanded CBD areas of no-cars,
just bicycles,pedestrians,pedicabs,horses,carriages
Fuel efficiency is a minor theme-cars started with coal and steam
and are evolving into solar and hybrid diesel battery VOLT scenes
Space is an issue.Gridlocked cities.Valet parking garages.Economic apartheid
Multiple use vehicles (public transport)is a start.Every one of us travels.
What is required is zero casualties ,minimal environmental damages,100% recycling
As if this planet can live without us-with trees,hugs,greenery,gardens and clean air

Link to article

"i can't remember.I cannot recall"

2012-01-07T20:47:00.001-08:00

Hypnotize me so i follow your suggestions
Pharmacologically ,administer Propranolol
Mesmerize me,so pain is forgotten
"Cast your mind back to the source of the trauma"
Kings and Queens of your Memory Palace-ABDICATE!
"Memory is an unreliable mistress"(and a punishing lover
Trauma survivors define whole lives by TITANICS or Tsunamis
"Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Minds"/selective memories
Editing is the Art Form of our Chemical Age
PTSD,Alzheimers,Strokes-fade,fog,forget
"Therapeutic Forgetting" of Rwanda Massacres,Pogroms,rapes
Are our Akashic Records stored within our skin?
Does our body remember birth and before?
Are Past Lives and Future Lives accessible?
Fortune Tellers,Astrologers,Auguries,Diviners-
MATRIX cord or blue or red pill?
Do we really have a choice in what to forget?
Will you forget me when i am not gone?

GRIEF COMMANDS RESPECT

2012-01-07T20:46:00.001-08:00

Death is the first terrorist(after fear
Non-negotiable entreaties fail.Shock and loss
Auric echoes spin orbits out of control.
Silence(awe),tears(response),ritual
We light candles for those whose Light extinguishes
Prayer and supplication for powers greater than us(all of these
On our knees or standing to attention,we grieve
for emptiness when we cannot fill the space
where those we loved once vibrant as nodding flowers
now becomes a hollow point.Memory is thin soup.
Drink to life!Every shadow passing knew the Light
All you will remember claims their lives