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trade off: a poem

trade off

so say I was this amazing tree
and nobody saw me fall
in the forest Jesus was listening
to the sparrows
and their repetitive call
so Van Gogh just enjoy
leave your ear in place
and chill
the morning ’s cool
and suffering passes

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“are there words…” : picture

are there words before and behind
twined in the grain of our lives
and do they meet?

see larger at art spring 2012

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the thing is:… take three

I’ve recorded my “Jesus” poem,  “The Thing Is…”

I  like this poem/lyric/song and I’m going to record it (with musicians, and magician) until I get it right and we turn it viral (if it takes forever… cause the thing is, love is an option….
So please send this to your friends, cause love is an option, love [...]

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Music as Buddhisatva

Ee’s as complex as any of us
but he spends his days
his life
playing music
which lends him some bliss
cause it spills him into wordlessness
highlights flux (the mirror of impermanence)
and makes emptiness easy
music: the void that dances
selflessly

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eye contact

of course I dodged her eye
because the only meaningful exchange
is a meaningful exchange
and who wants that sort of commitment
to these stranger

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the thing is… (poem)

the thing is

(I was puzzled that in my room,
where I am surrounded with Buddhas and hindu gods,
there is no Jesus…
I whirled around
and settled down
and realized
the thing is…)
the thing is
you don’t bow down to Jesus
you just open your heart
and say
love is an option
you don’t bow down to love
you don’t bow down to love
you open your [...]

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