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.
July 17, 2013
Every disappointment is a gift.
Each failed expectation is an opportunity,
To see, choose, and act differently,
To set sail in a new direction.
Accept your pain, and explore!
When everything looks shitty,
Try looking in a mirror.
If there’s shit on your eyes,
It’s probably yours - wipe it off!
July 11, 2013
Poised between regret and fear,
I look up,
Breathing,
Into a radiant sky.
I am alive.
July 1, 2013
To fly like the clouds,
amorphous, rootless,
sailing in the sun and wind,
drifting in and out of being.
I look down,
to catch this moment in words;
I look up,
and the bright magic has left the sky,
leaving a darker beauty,
painful to see,
a poem that does not want
to be written;
and still the clouds roll on,
like the sea,
like the earth,
like me.
May 19, 2013
Awash in my senses,
I let go of words.
Nailed to the moment,
I have no poetry.
Mind abandoned,
the moment is the poem.
Geese,
following each other’s wing,
write calligraphy,
adrift in the sky.
March 20, 2012
On the other side of emptiness,
Beyond what is expected,
Is a world of possibility,
The heart of creation.
October 24, 2005
My Gohonzon
is invisible.
It is my voice,
chanting,
resonating in my room,
bathing me in sound,
drawing me out of myself,
expanding outward,
my attention on the pregnant void
around me.