And Consciousness Said

(to the tune of Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree)

Don't sit under the Bodhi tree
With anyone else but me

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Poem from a dream

Some people conquer through fear
Some overcome through greed
Perhaps in my burning desire
I'll come back as a seed.

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Video-Magic

Video-magic: come see my life,
There’s motion and meaning, the living is rife,
Video-magic, nothing comes close-
Moment to moment, the magic just flows..

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Forsake

Try to care, improvise concern,
Ad lib empathy, fake sympathy-
Win a thousand academy awards;
Compromise when moving forward.

All your tears no difference make-
Even the art of forsaking, forsake.

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The broken-faith father of night

The broken-faith father of night
Speaks through the day of the child,
His porcelain piercing the baby’s smiles;
Fishing deep in the blush of need
Where sun shattered promises
Make sharper mornings bleed.

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Poets set their hearts on fire

As a conflagration ever travels to find fuel,
And though the first fire starter could be thought of as a fool;
I would gladly step upon your hearts own smoking funeral-pyre,
For it is common knowledge, poets set their hearts on fire.

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Gadsden Rag

Hacking off heads
Killing the snake
Two sided hydra
Look what's at stake

Hacking off heads
Is the name of the game
Get your knives ready
We're circling the drain

Hacking off heads
No more eating cake
For the only good one's
A dismembered snake

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Dogma in My Hymn

Dogma in my hymn: I am God
Dog, as a devil deified; deified, lived as a dog
Dog sex, even if fine, vexes God.
Dog's a fool: aloof as God.

Senile felines-
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Stack cats;
Step on no pets
Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard.

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Too Beautiful

Too beautiful to be human
Your thoughts are not shades of gray
I say to you, you are a curious child
I say to you, you are a wise sage
Let the child kiss the sage
Let the sage instruct the child
And we will all benefit
When the wise child begins to speak.

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The world that owns your talents

The world that owns your talents,
The world that owns your breath-
The world will not make up its mind,
Till you have tasted death.

The world will hold your body,
The world cradle your bones;
The world which offers nothing
Might give your words a home.

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