BuddhaPrayer Nr.2

Awakened One Perfect One Radiant One We are all doing what we think we ought 2 and We are all losing ground (losing faith) Tho’ we hold the mala Tho’ we recite the hallowed refrains Until their syllables, en our throats, quake [Aside.] Whatever it takes, mama / Whatever it takes 4 Nag 2 enflate […]

New Atlantis / Darkness

New Atlantis En this Age of Degeneration En this Age of Iron New Atlantis burns And its citizenry is under siege By vandals who have sworn 2 their liege, Stables and ramparts Of stained glass and carbon steel shall fall! New Atlantis burns And its barrister kings, Content w/ excessive posturing Content w/ feeding souls […]

MONKEY

From the quill of Sun Wukong From the ink well of his glorious past A slip of arrogance, A whit of swagger, & A bit of bombast Ev’ry inch a poet, a prophet, & a priest! W/ each swing of my cudgel Mountains fall, valleys form, & rivers once deep Run dry [A Choir Of […]

Confession, First & Last

A boy easily distracted By the tilt of a maiden’s bustle By falling locks, a pair of legs, and A stout pint B’fore the new trend B’fore the brass totem (Bear, Wolf, Raven!) {Trumpet Blast} There was a tyme (En the long ago) When eye wallow’d en shit w/ the best of them And darkness […]

Pow’rs & Principalities

They would have u believe ev’rything u see They would have u tremble b’fore ev’ry obstacle And bombastic beast They would have u believe u are just a bag of bones Waiting 4 the box Waiting 4 the worms 2 call Waiting 4 the worms 2 make a feast They would have u part ways […]

Still Point

“God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.” Mindful that God is an idea, a metaphor whose reference is The Transcendent; namely, that mystery which lies beyond ALL opposites and categories of thought, one considers the often parroted and reconstructed statement above and arrives at a remarkable conclusion. To […]

Vishnu Dreaming

Asleep He lies on the hip the gods favor least                     the hip Whereby forms breakdown And trumpet vines decay {Fingercymbals-Twice} Asleep He lies on his most radiant hip                     his back turned toward darkness, the uncreated Whereby AllThings come 2 be {Fingercymbals-Twice} Asleep He lies on his most merciful hip And all the while stars […]

Gestalt

The loses and regrets en this Life We bravely endure w/ the perfect poise of a paladin We do not mind the hard blows 2 the gut (even when they arrive en bunches) We do not mind the sword when it is driven, hilt-deep, ento the upper thigh We do not mind the occasional port-wine […]