Poem

Kandinsky
Red, blue, yellow
Colors engage senses

Dust coffee rice
Home zone bamboo ice
Vocal chords
Language cultures

Eye-heart-hand shadow puppets
Music cleans ears

A professional stranger shows up
Among whisper smiles
Old man with bamboo staff coughs
Walks as voices decipher meaning’s intention

Plainclothes officer cleans glasses
With what they don’t know or understand
White paper

A girl loving geography
Lights four incense sticks with gratitude
Prays for good luck health and wealth
Dance now think later

Zen meditation
Line shading color
Burma, Laos, Cambodia - verbal and visual stories, imagination,
love, play, dreams, intuition, instinct, preparation,
luck and skill throw a party

Everyone is invited to the play

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Magic

Zen garden magic
Heart sutra
Swimming exercise movement breath
Tai-chi below blue surface

Float on back
upside down clouds
drink sky vision
calm water feels soft

yellow green leaves float
bird song wings light
hello blue sky

black butterflies
mating moths
blue water reflects spirit energies
pure clean radiant

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Mandalay, Burma

Banlung Poem

Her New World Order
t-shirt danced past...

a woman with basket of bread
a woman gently slicing then chopping bacon
a woman scaling silver fish

a woman dividing coconuts
an old woman negotiating passages with her begging bowl
a man carrying bananas on his thin back
a woman fingering REAL notes

lost humans inspecting hope despair laughter and song

girls doing a pedicure
a woman polishing red apples

shadows dancing with impermanence
spoons stabbing ice
glittering silver stars on a headscarf

reflecting elegant universe

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Feast

In the meadow Lao men
Slaughter a cow

Apocalypse Now
Tribal feast
Beast of burden
A sledgehammer on skull
Knife
Gut it clean simple
Light streaks sky with low murmurs
No songs or musical instruments
Men hack skin tendons muscles
Women stoke fires
Tribes gather for the feast

Shadow of white butterfly
Voices ebb and flow
Cuticles trimmed
Floating world’s river
Mercenary butterfly shadows
River language

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Grow Your Soul

Grow Your Soul, a new book of poems and esoteric magic is now on Amazon.

Paperback and Kindle editions. Transcribed from a journal Sept 2016- August 2017.

Live broadly, write boldly.

Enjoy the ride. You're on it once. 

Cambodia