Song Through Songs

love and fun

in shade and sun

and health and wealth

to our dear ones

and everyone

Smooze Unalarmed

all I’ve tried to be


snooze for 

                   allowing to


      be



              un-trying me

24/7 Heaven

earth spirit

                   create

with us

               night

                             day

                                        blessings

                                          through

all we aim

                  do

                       say



may overjoying

                          flowing in

               through

                  us

echo

         make
          
                      community

Judgment Days Make Us O.K.

why god moved earth

sky

sun

seas

to birth us in muck mirth

we

forget till rainbows

remind

us to ease seethe

for humankind


judgments now may be just

kind

even though blocks in body-mind

feel like hell

when love invades

love breaks us

free

through judgment days

Earth Angels

our hearts can unlock

touching them

                        saying

open

            sesame

                             or hi



revealing love’s so

awe full

                divine’s

                                 audible

and/or visual

Springing Singing

friends tending our wounds

exhume tomb

                       wombing

                                        blooming

us through doom

                             illumed

Messiahs Required

freeing from life’s cross

comfort rejoicing self

all

reviving

to thrive



helping poor

captives

ill

enemies

strangers

all

loving selves

be one

Our God Do Not Forsake Us

a death sentence            might

                           be one of the best ways

                                                                    to

                                                                          get out of our way

Cross Fertilizing

forgiving for not

knowing what we do

marries

hate

love

births

tough love

Wind Dance Without Within

Wind Dance Without Within




no solid food

reveals through moods

all wind I breathe

dances in me

nourishing cells

guiding me well



I’d like to fly

even if I die

by diving in

to loving wind

but I’m a man

who walks on sand

.

when moved by greed

to rush seize squeeze

I want to scream

out of this dream

stone please be bread

or I’ll be dead



but freeze my greed

until you seed

desires to free

humanity

with loving care

that’s always there













divinity’s

here when I feel

we are all one

is truly real

while I adore

those near my door



dear hearts please bleed

for we who need

helping us all

unique ways called

to freely be

community

Baptize Us Wise

Under water he holds me down

till I feel I’m going to drown.

While I am breathless in John’s hands

I’ve made a friend who understands

desires we have to share and care

are as strong as our need for air.



My first gulp of air

feels breath’s a prayer

creating with love

peaceful as a dove

birth of an adult child

who’ll find how in the wild

earth water sun and sky

re-birth when’re we die.

Aware Air Cares

Every spring we travel to Jerusalem

where our Passover Seder

inspires us to create

new ways to be free.

When I am twelve,

while my parents are journeying home,

they are shocked I am missing.

After searching for three days

they are amazed to find me

teaching adults in the temple.

I tell my negligent parents

to join my new family

breathing in sacred air

a parent who always cares

Animal Love

When we return home

our neighbors call me a bastard,

but when my parents tell me the story

of shepherds adoring me

when I was born in a stable

I feel loved and able to love

like a domestic animal.

Freedom From Trauma

When the king hears

that a miraculous child is born

he murders all

infants in our neighborhood.

I escape to Egypt

with the trauma of knowing

that my existence

after conception

and again after birth

causes catastrophe.

In Egypt, singing songs on Passover,

inspired by the ancient Hebrew slaves

yearning to learn how to be free,

we have faith that we too will be

moved by life’s tragedies

to create miraculous strategies.

Unending Mending

Before I take a breath

my body and blood destroy love:

by swelling my mother Mary’s womb

I move her fiancé Joseph to divorce her.

Fortunately Joseph’s love for Mary

inspires him to hear in a dream

that a messenger from god is my father.

When Joseph and Mary marry

we move people who know us

when disconnected

to connect imaginatively.

Jail Bail

no need to punish

ourselves:

                  beloved

                    friends

                      foes

                        world

are relentless teachers

We’ll Be Family

may we discover

we love

              are loved

                               more than

                                                      we

know

              when

                         uncovered

To Be Not To Be To Be

more than physical

      spirit of all

                            creating

with

       through

                       for

                              us all

Presence Presents

embracing present

create presence

                            transforming
awareness

                     us

                            world

The Cat’s Meow

Sitting in my kitchen

after teaching philosophy

I discover the meaning of life:

we’re all like white blood cells

in the body of the universe

doing what we can to help

when we’re called

just like my father, a fireman, did

whenever there was a fire.

After this thought ends

from my rooftop I hear a meowing cry

I might have ignored another time

but since tonight answering calls

is the meaning of life

I walk onto the roof

where I see a skinny tabby.

I give it some milk.

In the morning, with my girlfriend’s help,

we pull the cat down the fire escape.

Since we are stronger than a seven pound cat

we break the cat’s many grips

on the railing

and succeed in putting the cat

on the sidewalk.

The cat immediately hides under a car.

My girlfriend says you now have a cat.

I name the cat Uni for Universe.

His name and meows sometimes remind me:

keep meowing for response;

keep responding to meows.

Desire’s Prayer

desires to bless

                            heal

move actions to radiate

                                         blessings

while healing

Gee’s Us

dare we see beyond



      blessed be



                               prayers reveal



how surreal



                        is real

Amorously Unarmored

bodies hidden in


our bodies



                   trembling



                                  be touched



by love



                                                          transforming

Warming Up

harmonizing parts


sensing



               loving



                            moving



wherever we’re moved




based in this holy



place



             pace



                        easily increase


accelerating grace

Family Functions

distorted



               me



                           you



become



                demons



                            battering



screaming



                    to find us



divine in me



                      thee



discover



                we’re really



happy



            family

Bon Fire

cells’ fire light



                           warming



inner



             and outer space



                                                              shine



in



      and



              out



                             of time

Dark Matters

avoiding being



with me



                                                                            you



               makes voids



                  sucking



                    us



      back to ourselves

Light Lights




silence

                create

                                                     space

shields                                   
                sieves

                              helping unite light

unseen

              with eye sight

Under Cover

Under Cover




saying how much I

love you

                                     might be hiding from

how much

                       I love you

Be Do Be Do Be Do

poems be prayers
that
        grow true



                          while understanding



we're these songs’



                                   blessing

Tender Be The Rite

Tender Be The Rite




may needing your touch

to live

                  kill me

                                tenderly

binding us

                    freely