Jan 5

I feel like I cut this one short tonight- I plan to come back to it tomorrow.

A Community of the Spirit

There is a community of the spirit.
join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes
to see with teh other eye.

Open your hands,
if you want to be held.

Sit down in this circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shephard's love filling you.

At night, your beloved wanders.
Don't accept consolations.

Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lovers' mouth in yours.

You moan, "She left me" "He left me."
Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

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There's a strange frenzy in my head,
of birds flying,
each particle circulating on its own.
Is the one I love everywhere?

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Drunks fear the police,
but the police are drunk too.

People in this town love them both
like different chess pieces.

Today's mantra: Be empty of worrying.