Monday Poem

“Shu” is the single teaching of Confucius and “jen” it’s counterpart.  Shu means reciprocity; jen is love, kindness and goodness. T’ien is heaven.   –Confucius and the Teaching of Goodness Shu and Jen Goodness came as two hearts and sat beside me. “My name is Shu,” they said. At that moment two birds flew through…

Monday Poem

Given current conditions on Terra Firma, just needed some space— Fun in Space Call me nomad. Rootlessness is my routine. From where I stand space begs for exploration, not occupation —occupation of space requires a military state of mind, armies train for it, but individuals grow dull and lethargic just occupying space. There’s no substitute…

Monday Poem

Talking with my Guru ….. — Nothing and Emptiness Me: What is emptiness? G: What do you mean by emptiness? Me: I mean nothing. G: Then why are we discussing it? …. Take your tiny Tao shears …. and snip emptiness out of Webster’s …. and heave it into the void. It’s another …. self-serving tool like time …. and collateral damage…

Monday Poem

“lacrimae rerum, “ (the tears of things) …………………………………. —Virgil Everything Cries steel’s tears are rust, trees weep tears of falling leaves, clouds weep and mourn their loss sacrificing their billows to the earth as rain, the earth weeps its carbon into sky, the sun weeps its energy into earth and will die someday of the…

Monday Poem

“The Thwaites Glacier is the widest on Earth at about 80 miles in width. But as the planet continues to warm, its ice, like much of the sea ice around Earth’s poles, is melting. The rapidly changing state of the glacier has alarmed scientists for years because of the “spine–chilling” global implications of having so much additional water…

Monday Poem

“On Friday morning, the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as he stood onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York, where he was scheduled to give a lecture. The motivations of his attacker were not immediately clear, but Rushdie—one of the most celebrated contemporary writers—had lived under the threat of violence…

Monday Poem

Next a moment is a poet’s cliché of a singular blur tentative as an airborne bubble hard as hammer-blow to thumb moment: the smallest thing able to contain an unimaginable universe …………… a universe able to imagine the smallest thing as instantaneous as the passage of dust motes and Himalayas as ephemeral and solid as…

Monday Poem

“Many life forms are so hard to categorize that (scientists) call these organisms the ‘Problematica.’”—from: Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, by Annalee Newit Problematica Here we are, never still, casting lines upstream like fly fishers toward sources teeming with what came first hooking what we can, reeling it in…

Monday Poem

Book-banning is just one more tool used by demagogs to murder truth and hollow out God’s gift of intellect. ………………………. —St. Lingo Politics/Religion my brain’s a pouch in which I stash my loot if I keep its purse strings loose I might add to its load when new coin comes to town but if I tighten down the…