How much?

How much is more?
Compulsive revulsion
Sticker shock
Flat broke bore

Papers and news
Sacrificial wine
Filling the hole
Eaten by time

Panes of glass
Block what matters
Significant others
All that's vast

When the goods are dropped
Surrendered in fright
Left with no thing
Rendered pure flight

Loving You, Loving Me

It's bizarre, surreal
My ego, my mind
Reeling me in
To ideas it finds

The story it pedals
I buy hook n'line
Too willing each time
Unconscious, unsettled

Until I fall out drunk
Future-tripped up
In my head, in the zone
Like a bad hood I shouldn't visit alone.

Am I a drone like so many I see?
Their 9-to-5 won't let them be
I couldn't be that, though it's true
I'm human and act on cue

But for rigorous work
Breaths that intrude
I glimpse reality
Like a sexy muse

It strips my thoughts
The past and the plans
Like a godess touch
Light it lands

Planted firmly
It seems to say:
Just be here now
Be present and play

All is well in this
Finite space
Narrow and infinite
Nothing to chase

I love you
Loving me
Here for you always
Being what you see.

Relations

Relations get closer
To seek and enjoy
The warmth of the journey
To bask and employ

The power in all
Expressed in a call
To praise
And of pain

The strength that is
True and tame
Bring it further
Absent a name

Its space to bathe
For love and peace
That wants you too
To work and appease

A love devine

The sweet
My open handed love
Works miracles without me
Divinity

Talk and feel
Silence cut through
Beyond a smile
Servile

Although appearing separate
We're very much whole
Pieces of the magic
That zooms through the soul

Entwined and separate
Very much alive
My love is complete
For nothing more I strive

The Details

The details
The breath
The sounds
Bequeth

Alkaline thought
Form filled
Energy caught
In song

A harp
Picked sharp
Essence of grace
Present to face

Let it be
Let it be
Surrender
And be free

Leap of Faith

I gave you my card
Before you leapt
Not wanting more!
From high up on the
Fifth floor.

We spoke few words
Every now and then
I called you "min ven"
But it went unheard.

You sat and wrote
Early Tuesday
Your fourth step brooding
Your last note.

You're not the first
But it still matters
The time you put in
With us on earth.

Now

"The future never comes
Except as the present moment"

If I was to puke on the page
Be a pretender sage
Poseur supreme, reigning queen -
What then? Would you think?
Thoughts in your plastic mind.

I don't care for your world at play
I'll detach from impulse
Emotion, feeling, whatever you say...
Leave it be, leave nothing left,
But these ego shells
Feelings bereft.

Big Ocean

Playing in the kiddie pool
Warm and wet
Bet I can still drown

You better, you better, you bet
Can't do laps or a flip turn
Buying time, my eyes burn

Take a deep breath, give it space
These surface ripples
Tickle my face

It's power almighty
Deep, dark ocean
A fragment of spiritual motion

Waves crash out into the universe
And recede, breathing in
The eternal, divine verse