Posts from — November 2008

Men dressed as wolves

give each and every wolf

a bad name

each and every wolf is just a wolf

but a man can be both beast and another thing

formed from misunderstood intent

the black moon rises

on the silver seas

the tears of Aristotle, Socrates , Plutarch

melt the legacy of Thebes

there are wolves

and there are men

who howl like wolves

but can never be

the wolf

2021

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in the eleventh month

of 2021

you will

hear the ancient drums

beat slowly in the mist

that rises from land and sea

tranquility, refuge

and misunderstanding

mix,

satisfaction for the great turnaround

like a carpet been dusted down

the earth and sea

will roll and spin

2021

A man ended up in heaven but thought he should go to hell

everyone he asked had no idea of how he could go to hell

as they kept reminding him ,heaven is  a state of mind

after a long time of asking in a far flung edge of heaven

he asked an old man how to get to hell

‘Oh that’s easy,’ said the old man

….’ Just keeping on asking how to go to hell and in time you will

one day you’ll wake up and hey presto, you have arrived..a miracle!’

The man looked solemn… the older man looked at him..

‘So why do you want to go to hell?’

‘Its just the way I feel and now I ended up in heaven..must be some mistake..’

‘Well,’ said the old man, ‘it depends really on what you believe about who you truly are…

when you are free of doubt, heaven or hell are just resting points on the way..’

Three wise men went looking for God

they interrupted a shepherd who was sitting down for dinner

after looking after his flock of sheep and goats all day

‘Excuse me good man,’ said one of the wise men

‘we are looking for God and following that distant star…’

‘Hmmn..’ said the bemused shepherd…

‘ Plenty of stars to go following around here…’

‘If you want my advice…’

‘Yes!’ interupted the three wise men

‘Well you don’t need to go chasing after stars or traveling from foreign lands

to find God..you just need to look inside..personally I find God is always there

it saves me a lot of traveling expenses and looking where I don’t need too.’..

The Three Wise men rode off thinking themselves none the wiser

the drama of a life spent

in the search for meaning

is the same as that spent

in search of pleasure or for power

but when the time comes for life to expire

it is only meaning

that will carry you over

to a higher state

pleasure will send round and around again

and power will freeze you into static disbelief

as your ego becomes entrenched in fantasy

meaning searches for itself throughout our lifes

and dwells within the universe

there are two kinds of meaning

one, that you give to things and sense in things and people

the other, dwells inherently beneath everything

and if you have courage you can see it

and embrace as a rare treasure

in the world of rush

and brush off

on the world of instant

and ‘ASAP’

in the world of now

stop

and know

the breath

and the wisdom

that it holds

and points too

a world

where all things will be as they will be

and that there is a cycle

that supports us all

the credit crunch

is increasing

as

people

panic

and fear

attaches itself

to the diminished incomes of millions

fear

fear

fear

is the unconscious currency

Sky clad

the world

in blue

sky

clad

in

ancient

wonder

what people see as the future

is a memory

of once

what

was

made in the sky clad minds of our ancestors

in the world

before this world

in the earth

that gave birth to this earth

There is nothing sacred

in sacredness

but

sacredness

in sanctity

in holiness

in belief

or harmony

love

trust

all there is

is but itself

we obscure the experience

by the rapture

of our everyday mind

a larger than life opera

in which we play both tragic hero or heroine

and villain

The Politics of Change come from the hunger of people’s souls borne from creeping dissatisfaction and the fear

of losing what they have and what they might have had. The Politics of Change is aspirational a chance for a second chance, for a belief that the individual matters and that life is more than what is in front of you.The Politics of Change is the politics of time and desire, the time that says there must be more to this and the desire to have at least a better tomorrow than a painful today. The Politics of Change is a belief, an article of faith a shared opinion and a grasping attempt to rearrange the features on the face of reality.