Welcome–
To the moment
Where mind spasm
Births word.
Welcome–
To the moment
Where mind spasm
Births word.
Scatter your thoughts
Then collect the pieces.
Arrange them cleverly
Into a design that pleases.
Some people live with spice and sparkle,
Others more like mouthwash gargle.
In which group do you wish to belong?
Drifting down the drain or high on song?
Live life to its fullest, strive to create.
There’s a gift in you you must open to play.
Get to know yourself—your loves and joys.
These are things you can use
To
Make
Noise.
Shout out to the world—give us your words.
Without your voice …
There’s one less bird.
In the still air
Mind finds
Her hammock
At last.
Magic dances
Deftly around me,
As sprinkles of moondust
Fall from the shadows.
Your GLOOM,
Quite simply,
E v a p o r a t e s.
The mystery of NOW
Repeats itself.
Meanwhile…
Silence fishes
For fresh thoughts.
I ate toast for breakfast
Smeared with dreams
To code my life
With certain things–
Some make it simple,
Others make it hard
To exist as me
In life’s backyard.
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Are you willing to be weird if required?
Laugh about jokes that have already expired?
Endeavor to be zany at a time when it’s optional?
If yes, you’re at risk for a life that’s impossible!
Miracles will be had. Magical treasures, too.
With a Dreamer in your pocket, there’s nothing you can’t do!
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The spiral path
To your soul
Is guarded by
A lonely troll.
He endeavors to stop
All who enter–
Who try to grow
And find their center.
It’s not his fault.
He has forgotten
His real, true purpose
Is to show you the button—
The button to press
To open the chamber
That passageway to
Love’s container.
When you’ve mastered
The keys to life’s game
You are ready to pass
Into this flame:
The center of the heart,
The gateway to GOD…
Home is where it leads;
The troll is a fraud.
So, know that he’s there,
Nod when he tries
To keep out what simply
must pass on by.
Sooooo…..
In you are going,
In you must go.
Your destiny awaits you–
At the end of the rainbow.

I wrote this one in 2013, inspired by a spiritual retreat I did in Sedona in 2010, focused on getting into the “sacred chamber of the heart”. I felt it quite hard to get into the deepest spaces of my heart, as if there was a troll guarding the gate, limiting my access, demanding my growth. I didn’t know exactly how to appease him at the time, so I wrote this poem, which provided me with some museful insight. It has became one of my favorite poems that I’ve written. I made this little bit of graphic art to go with it a few years ago.