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To The Open
07:35
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It is a beautiful crystalline star filled full moon night
There is us It is we Ever changing companions
Making our way thru a service door into a
Spacious aroma rich kitchen
A welcoming man with a quiet smile
is chopping vegetables for a stew
He is a holy man, unassuming, true
In an instant we find ourselves on a winding staircase
Leading us to a room on the top floor
Others already arrived receive us with a
warm and forgone acceptance
Humility prevails amid happy commotion
Conviviality and communion transpire
Before we are gently adjourned
Then four of us carry an elder in a wheelchair
back down the stairs into the outside
It’s a beautiful crystalline star filled full moon night
Everyone is tenderness and elation
A person of love laughingly lifts her skirt
Dancing playfully the stars and the moon so bright
Jade green beams flecked with gold
Pour down from the full moon light
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A Decent Lunch
06:17
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What you are wanting
it is not so much
A bit of affection
and a decent lunch
Just what is the bother?
Something impending
Peculiar old worry
of life’s pleasures ending
Nothing is the matter
The morning breeze is nice
This moment is enough
Dappled sunlight will suffice
What once you were drawn to
eventually annoyed
Too much of a good thing
was simply not enjoyed
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Romance
08:40
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Not so free of the story
“should be and supposed to”
I get the wrong idea frequently
Thanks for your every effort dismantling
Heavy uneasy longings I hold for you
I sleep, dream and wake and fall asleep again
Escape proves elusive consistently
Merely a murmur at first, an inspiration
Clarity dawning an opening door
Non hatred informing my occupations
Saying yes to more than I’ve ever said yes to before
“Nostalgia for samsara” Chögyam said “is full of shit”
The outhouse, the place for rumination
May I desire what is finally required
A deeper involvement, an engaged affair
Discerning with skill pleasant, unpleasant or neutral
under any condition anywhere
Saying yes to more than I’ve ever said yes to before
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Persistence is Fertile
07:47
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Let inclinations go astray
drop disappear fall away
Remind remember notice refrain
Return to a practice of investigating
Starting anew is what you do
Until you no longer have to
Immersed in webs fields fibers waves
Currents filaments vibrations roots
Networks channels avenues and streams of
mending tending nourishing unending
Journeys forever and never not
never not
never not
never not
So you try and make the effort
Show up daily as you are
Allow the time allow the mind
Allow friendliness and be kind
Starting anew is what you do
Until you no longer have to
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5. |
Vagabond Bag O' Bones
04:38
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Vagabond bag o’ bones
resting sleeplessly
in deserts and mountains
on floors of the seas
In time purified
altered and absorbed
In countless incarnations
of energetic forms
Endo and exo
skeletal structures
For swimmers and crawlers
flyers and walkers
Propelled into endless
wondrous perils
Best practices encoded
on cellular levels
Vagabond bag o’ bones
shell, tooth, tusk, and stone
Obdurate long lasting
hard to wear down
Slow decay feeds the roots
of great leafy trees
Cool vibrating sunlit
intricacies
Luminous myriad
song filled home
From where we come
From where we roam
We are changed
you and me
In ways we just don’t
figure out to be
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Playwright
05:16
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Appearances influence
thoughts I’m given to say
Reticence informs my take
on the ways of your play
You say as you rearrange the stage
“It’s ineffable, this show”
Attentive tones prompt time to slow
The air grows cool, the lights fall low
No moves are made
So much occurs
Breathing is heard
One’s heart is stirred
Drawn to dreams where I get caught
Ensnared by deeds I don’t start or stop
You wait it out this dumb turmoil
Noting what is and what is not
When menacing tales issue forth
aggressive, mean and unbenign
Your steadfast gaze continues sending
understated assuring signs
Oceans of air
Swirled with waves
Lightly struck bell
Sustained decay
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Tenuous
06:04
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Tenuous arrangements
discarded master plans
Salvaging commences
in an improvising land
Systems we rely on
human made and otherwise
Harmed and disrespected by
hubris, greed and lies
So it’s humble patchwork mending
for a long time now to come
A world of shiny futures
falls asunder and undone
Would be gods hide in their enclaves
from the riff raff that are us
They praise their death militias
well armed and murderous
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Remedies
07:43
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Pervasive notions that trouble awaits us
So many already deep in the muck of it
Misgivings abound in a world of wrong actions
Long and hard held views prove difficult to quit
There’s no escaping humbling remedies
Unreliable fixes are coming unglued
Toxic I me and mine oh oh I me and mine
The planet’s magic has a great deal to undo
May we engage in wholesome endeavors
Engendering patience from the start
A purposeful dance of spiraling cycles
Slowly unwrapping hidden healing arts
It’s time to compost the punitive empire
And cause to rot its nasty strategies
Increase by orders of magnitude, conditions
That encourage and grow equanimity
Atop ancient mounds of festering retribution
Fork on layers of music from our wounded hearts
Soak with compassion all terrified mind states
Provide shade in the glare offer light in the dark
Upon cruel and killing competitions
cast seed bombs, water, manure and clay
Drench thoroughly the heaps of wasted potential
With diverse concoctions mixing labor and play
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9. |
Precious Standing
09:54
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Tides of varied existence rise and fall
Hydrogen bonding floating it all
Dripping flowing vaporizing
Accompanied often with thunder and lightning
A scent of moisture faint in the air
On an edge of an oasis somewhere
A spring fed pool or a shallow stream
Sustaining phenomenal lives hidden and seen
Scanning a grey and muted sky
Precious standing before you fly
From grounded to groundless in the blink of an eye
Precious standing before you fly
Upright then upended shocked surprise
Precious standing before you fly
Springtime emergence thru winter demise
Precious standing before you fly
Beauty behind, beside and beyond you
An array of destinations maybe you get to
canyons and arroyos, mesas and plains
When storm clouds gather, voices welcome the rain
Migrating species have assembled and flown
You too set about leaving not quite alone
Abiding a path of harmless ways
Discarding enchantments, blame and praise
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Rattlemouth Richmond, Virginia
Rattlemouth is Richmond, Virginia's art school dance band. Featuring the saxophone and words of Danny Finney, the rhythm section of Robbie Kinter and Wayne O'Bryan, Eileen Edmonds on guitar, flute and vocals, and Richard Harvey on the guitar. Their spirited updates of classic tunes from around the world and similarly flavored originals, inspire audiences into vigorous and vibrant dancing. ... more
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