HOLDING OUR OWN
AND MOLDING A ZONE
INCLUSIVE OF LOVE
KEEPS US ABOVE
UNDOING

it is

it isn't whether it's good or bad
it isn't if I'm glad or sad
or about having or being had
it's living

relentless

this becoming is relentless
how can I not be coming ?
even in going I'm coming
..and if I hold the presence of BEing
I'm BEcoming as I'm going
...even being still
or perhaps more so then
irrespective of when
I'm becoming
relentless

permission IV

permission
from you
is accepted
to express me
.
permission
from me
is accepted
to express I
.

me includes all before
me includes my becoming
me is what created and creates
I
I gives permission
for I
to be me
I become

permission III

permission means I've given away the power
sometime past
or maybe present
maybe both
or in the moment
in the remembering in the moment
in the whom I am - now - and as
result of whom I've been
in all those moments
I become whom I am
....now
....and now
....and all the nows
lead up to this now
when permission is accepted from whom I am
and whom I've been
to become whom I am
and give myself permission
to change
to continue becoming
who
... ( I am )

permission II

when you give me permission
I receive it as request that I proceed with something
I give to it my best
and if my best includes giving permission to myself
....permission from a place within
I open a deep well.... of wider deeper resource
where greater grace resides supporting my life silently
a secret kept inside
a secret from the unpermitted self that's hesitant
protected by fear ....that failure's unacceptable
....so why even go there
expectation unachieved has left a chronic pain
keeping some parts from even trying going out again
but self permission says that it's all right to let it go
that I will be here holding self as creativity flows
I am enough to live in and express whatever comes
occasional beauty feeling even more beautiful when periodic

permission

permission isn't just a gift
but necessary part
of deeply felt expression in any form of art
you give me permission
and I'm allowed to be..and do as impulse guides
something coming free
and if the something coming free is permission from me
if your yes helps me take myself to a freer deeper place
there's a sort of quickening of my interior space
and I open to deeper freer more expressive space
your permission quickens me....but
when I permit myself
results expand and
chords result in keys not previously felt
the hue of inner canvas takes life behind the paint
as guidance comes " from nowhere "
as depth
and width
and grace
unreachable without permission
to
and from
myself

sally ann

my dog
15 year companion
delight
joy
persistence
fiercely loyal
all things dog
not cat
coon trapper
squirrel,chipmunk,coon,possum head eater
slug eater
dig dig digger
ball chaser-bouncer
fisherdog
alert in ageing
is quiet
she left tuesday
god bless her

THE BELLE

She was young...pretty...sweet
and sociopathic
they made her prom queen and basked
in her radiance
but she sought silent solace
and went off as if to fish.
Sitting astern her float
with her psychic line played out
she moved patiently upstream
waiting for ..
anticipating ..
listening for..
that sweet..
adulating..
susceptable..
easily hooked trophy to reel in...
a keeper !

Remember to be silent.
Ask not for whom the Belle trolls.
She trolls for thee.

perspective

We're all moving on.
Yesterday is gone.
And the day before
is now deja vu of yore,
as my mind compares what is
with what was before.
Balancing the was and is
and will be is a bore
unless I gain perspective
from this disembodied floor
as I walk and kneel and lay thru life
all in and from this place of strife.
Leaving nevermore and arriving once again
in time to see my self within.
I view and live the life I'm in.

STILL ALIVE

STILL ALIVE AND BREATHING
PULSATING AND SEETHING
FEARFULL SENSE IS LEAVING
SENSABILITY BEQUEATHING
WHAT LIFE HAS LEFT BEHIND
AS THOUGH THERE IS A RIND
ONE CAN DISCARD WITHIN A BLIND
THAT SEPARATES US FROM OUR KIND
WHEN WE MUST SPUTTER AND UNWIND
TO NOT IMPLODE