Beyond the world of discovery that music has been for me, there was always the bigger world, the universe of questions about what we’re a part of, how it works, and how to best fit into the larger whole.
My love of words, a fascination with scientific, philosophical, and spiritual inquiry, and a quiet determination to learn how to be a better human (and a happier man) have led me on a path of shaping my experience, breath by breath, into poems.
Here are some of them.
August 2, 2014
The mind will try to understand
what it cannot do.
Simply being
can only be done.
It cannot be understood.
August 2, 2014
When ego loves,
it reaches for what isn’t.
When spirit loves,
It embraces what is.
July 11, 2014
I have everything I need.
All that slows me down
is lack of faith
in the universe
and in myself.
July 9, 2014
In the web of being,
There are more directions
Than we can ever know.
Our eyes see only up and down,
Left and right, front and back.
Our spirits see everywhere,
When we choose to look.
In the sea of our infinite souls,
All things that can happen DO happen.
When we shift our focus, we see them,
Just beyond where we usually look.
To earthbound eyes,
Point of view is everything.
Spirit shows us where to look.
June 9, 2014
The purest love
is like fresh air to the heart.
Breathing in,
it nurtures and enlivens,
but it cannot be held.
June 5, 2014
Being and playing,
We are perfect animals;
Drumming and dancing,
We are perfect animals;
Entwined in love,
We are perfect animals;
Our minds at peace,
We are perfect animals.
June 2, 2014
Face lit with glee,
A child hugs a ball to her chest,
Like a loved one.
How simple happiness is,
When the moment is enough,
And you want what you have.
June 1, 2014
Maybe the state of enlightenment
isn’t the constant experience
of being connected to universal spirit,
but just the awareness of that connection,
whether we’re experiencing it or not!
June 1, 2014
We strive after peak experiences,
forgetting that the perfection we’re looking for
is already with us, and in us, whether we feel it or not.
Simply remembering this can ease the pressure we put on ourselves,
so we can just relax into our own being, warts and all.
Maybe that’s as good as it gets!