across the yard
to the woods, in
total awareness…
then by listening to
most of the ‘spiritual-religious’
leaders of our time….
without making a donation
or bowing three times
towards the East….
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what are you going to do,
when it wont buy anything?not a loaf of bread,not a jug of water…not even a gallon of gas!when you’re left alonein the dark, with no oneto count on by yourself,with no friends,no instant gratification…what are you going to do?
if you listen at night,
there is a whisperingthat fills the cardboard boxes.the cans and bottles playan unearthly music.and vacant houses talk to god,or perhaps the demons of poverty.the wind stops blowing,and the stink hangs like a cloud…the evidence of blind excess!the bodies of the nameless ones,rise from the filth of forgotten.the rats join ranks with stray dogs,and testify against…
morals and convictions
turn to hard hungry action,feeding mouths with faces!the man whipped hardby profit’s demands,turns on the oppressor,with nothing to lose!the word justice ne’er spoken,the anger of the poor,turns men into wolves,that will be fed!the price of survival narrowed,to the sudden swift move,so long in coming…the storm without name!
Great Mother…
inside the fur of the wolf,the wings of the hawksmall ants on infinite journeys,turtles moving to earth time.water wrapping around rocks,old tree leaning with time.blood, sweat, passion’s fluids,the pulse of a cold mountain.thunder and lightning, clouds hang,the taste of flesh lingers…naked by the fire, shadowson the walls of the cave….chanting, humming, praying….with hands bruised and…
i dont know who or what
the fact of injustice,or the fact that i’ve allowed it!if we dont stand upto stop a wrong,we become part of it!
from a renegade Buddhist
we come to carry torches,over and over,again and again,till all the night sky be lit!