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Friday, July 26, 2013



Night is coming!
Can you hear dwellers dwelling?
Can you hear wakeful awakening?
Do you see mediators meditating?
Do you see morning stars surrendering?
Storm is coming!
Can you hear drummers drumming?
Can you hear mummers mumming?
Do you see hummers humming?
Do you see jackboots marching?
War is coming!
Can you see buyers buying?
Can you see players playing?
Do you hear bombers bombing?
Do you hear war planes droning?
Death is coming!
Can you hear spinners spinning?
Can you hear heartbeats beating?
Do you see preachers preaching?
Do you see farmers planting?
Rapture is coming!
Can you hear desires desiring?
Can you hear droplets dripping?
Do you see conquerors conquering?
Do you see reality reeling?
Buddha is coming!
Can you see dyers dying?
Can you see floaters floating?
Do you hear dashers dashing?
Do you hear thunder crashing?
Heaven is coming!
Can you see raged raging?
Can you see tempters tempting?
Do you hear trumpets trumpeting?
Do you hear worthy praying?
Nirvana is coming!
Can you see sleepers sleeping?
Can you see visionaries envisioning?
Do you hear enlightenment enlightening?
Do you hear blissful breathing?
New Day is coming!
Can you hear potters potting?
Can you hear reapers reaping?
Do you see seers seeing?
Do you see God's Blessed birds singing?
Life is coming!

Thursday, July 25, 2013




Snow paints the world white,
Revealing each and every lie,
Snow delivers death blows, an unforgiving fight,
So snow must die, yes snow must die.

Imprison snow in gulags, for all that honest truth,
Let snow be burned at the stake, bind snow in earthly chains,
Evil justice must prevail, no matter how uncouth,
Immure, impound, 'til none of snow's pure truth remains.

Snow must be found, let demons capture,
Engage that simple truth, dispatch to a Cubanesque realm,
Evil justice must prevail, destroy all rapture,
While evil reigns, demons still, at their earthly helm.

So snow must die,
Snow must be destroyed,
Snow cannot be allowed, revealing every lie,
Evil justice must be employed.

Forgive snow, never,
Close the door on snow,
No matter that snow is clever,
Honest truth cannot, allow the world to know.

Behold! That starry stripe,
Where freedom fails, false words lie,
Behold! Such evil worldly tripe,
So snow must die, snow must surely die.

Snow hidden in its earthly den,
Snow's truth ensnared, enslaved,
Snow denounced, rest only then,
For surely snow has misbehaved.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013




Violence! Product of the mind, 
Short of love, void of kind,
Good compassion left behind,
Cherished adoration undermined.

What draft? What current task?
Look beneath each prevalent mask,
Seek truth, pray, fail not to ask,
Which leaf to eat? Bread and wine? Which oaken cask?

Essence! Beauty inhabits every soul,
Nature's seed is never droll,
Imagine lotus, blooming, soaring tall from sandy shoal,
Awake! Arise! Create ascending, most perfect goal.

Buddha, prostrate, deep meditation,
Seeking light, revering God's perfection,
Dharma, generously given through good selection,
Free of hate, disengaged from violent infection.

Cosmic star, enlightened spirit,
Quiet one's busy mind, can you hear it?
Forge brave ahead, don faith, never fear it,
Practice Nirvana, in time you'll near it.

Heaven's tears, cleanse, like cool rain,
All life suffers, this earthly plane,
Eightfold path, sacred seed, holy grain,
Right thought, right action, nourish life, riding this blessed train.