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December 08, 2009 08:55 PM EST
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One
I am marked by time kaleidoscope glass, fragmented but beautiful able to catch and refract light, prisms of color if the moment is just . . .
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December 08, 2009 08:21 PM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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The moon had a ring around it
As I gazed up in the midnight sky
From all that I had learned in life
That meant that snow would fly
I drew the drapes to . . .
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December 08, 2009 07:56 PM EST
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I, a thief
Shades of a wrong lie on a still road.
November clouds; the smoke of evening
is a whisper you hears I scream,
I have come across a famine, a flood
and now . . .
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December 08, 2009 07:22 PM EST
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in a bed of withered roses
memories rain over me
reign over me
tattered books of emptiness
long stored within shadows
hidden in the light
bleed my day backwards
a leech of suculant hopes . . .
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December 08, 2009 07:11 PM EST
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Cast away the elegance of language
Cast away rules that blur
The differences between and women
Cast away the niceties in favor of the real
Gender is grammar, sex is biology
See . . .
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December 08, 2009 05:35 PM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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the sound of words / leaves
drift above dormant soil / land
........................... along oaken paths
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December 08, 2009 05:29 PM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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By self-imposed choices
She wrapped herself around you
I scoff at her pretense
Acting like a startled mare
Who forgets her own name
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December 08, 2009 05:07 PM EST
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Woman scaled a house on a song
its foundation shivered like a man who doesn't yet know it's love
a nightingale in her throat
a beauty behind a sun's veil
in ocher . . .
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December 08, 2009 04:48 PM EST
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On Spiritual Teachers
If you find a spiritual teacher
Who feels right for you
Respect him
Learn from him
But if you feel inclined
To turn your entire will to him . . .
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December 08, 2009 04:21 PM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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If you come to Spirituality
To forget your troubles
To have transcendent experiences
Better to turn to sex and booze
In the long run they are cheaper
12/8/2009 4:15 PM
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December 08, 2009 04:09 PM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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Many seek to learn Meditation
When the rules are mastered
They strive to go deeper and deeper
Some even desire deep trance
That depth of void, of no though
And of no remembering
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December 08, 2009 03:24 PM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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You gave me 10 stars for good behavior,
(but I really wasn't so good)
It didn't take long for me to learn
how to move,
how to cry,
how to smile,
how to fly
far away from my broken . . .
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December 08, 2009 12:35 PM EST
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Her hands swaddled my winter garb
Head to toe bare flesh fleeting
As streams of dew played with my locks
It was a trek to Auntie’s house
Over mounds of . . .
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December 08, 2009 02:56 AM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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The Lives of Abused and Battered Women reviewed by Irene Brautigam
Barbara
. . .
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December 08, 2009 02:04 AM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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Tip the glass and pour it down You join a thousand others Liquid salt circles lips in a crown Holding the hands of your brothers
You join a thousand others With delectation . . .
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December 08, 2009 01:24 AM EST
(shared with group: December 08, 2009)
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They can’t take that Away from me, said Emily, but they did, After a time with drugs And other dark therapy, And her laid out in a Room for the ETC. The strange thoughts, The deeper feelings . . .
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December 07, 2009 11:35 PM EST
(shared with group: December 07, 2009)
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You Are Present and Aware before the next thought Comes into Being.
You Are Present and Aware prior to any thought About Being That.
[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Zen Garden 40 (2002); You were Present . . .
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December 07, 2009 11:18 PM EST
(shared with group: December 07, 2009)
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We say things are real
When they take form in time and space
And we date their beginnings
But nothing ever came into existence
Took shape and form
That did not . . .
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December 07, 2009 09:11 PM EST
(shared with group: December 07, 2009)
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We can try to understand the pains that others have felt. We can say that we're sorry for the loss of someone's loved one. We can try to walk along the path that others have walked, but . . .
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December 07, 2009 07:59 PM EST
(shared with group: December 07, 2009)
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Abused
The tiny feet of a squirrel on a tin roof;
nothingness is a corrugated top.
You look up from there, a frightened life;
a squirrel, not playful; in search . . .
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